Topic on Talk:Dishonored 2
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Editing the FOV (or any of those settings, really) doesn't appear to work because there's rudimentary version checking done with the default.cfg file located in the Dishonored 2 game directory that seems to be explicitly trying to prevent the INI/cfg hacking possible in Dishonored 1.