Mount tilt feature: motion sickness and a plea for an on/off toggle

[Staz117]

First, people complain about the game being stale and stagnant. Then, people complain endlessly about each and every change to the game. It didn't even occur to me that this could be a thing to complain about until I came here.

We don't deserve nice things.

Motion sickness is not something we can control my friend. We all would like to keep those animations, personally I like this addition a lot but unfortunatelly I have to hide my character with the map window cause it give me strong nausea. So a on/off toggle would be really nice. It's not about complaning, once again, I like this addition and would be happy to enjoy it. But I can't.

[Titor]

I'd like an on off toggle. I just don't really like it.

[Ainariel]

I like the mount tilt but I noticed motion sickness as well... I think it's more from the "radial blur" which I had deactivated and it's now activated again with the update... and also the overal detail in graphics, its makes me dizzy to have such a "grainy" background

I temporarily fixed a bit deactivating:
-OFF: radial blur
-OFF: camera pivot
-ON: low res background details

I strongly believe is not the tilt but the graphical change itself that makes flying really weird now

Have already tried turning off or down all the available graphical settings, but they don't help with the motion sickness. Since I don't have a problem with any of the new graphical updates, I think the new tilt animations themselves are what cause the motion sickness for me.

Motion sickness is not something we can control my friend. We all would like to keep those animations, personally I like this addition a lot but unfortunatelly I have to hide my character with the map window cause it give me strong nausea. So a on/off toggle would be really nice. It's not about complaning, once again, I like this addition and would be happy to enjoy it. But I can't.

This 100%. I'd really like to enjoy the new tilt animations, but unfortunately they just cause nausea and headaches for me. I'm genuinely happy for all the people who can enjoy them, and thus I wouldn't want to disable the tilt motions for everyone. I'd just like to have an on/off toggle so people can choose whether to have them or not.

[MerlinMerlinson]

+1 to this.

Would love to have a /off toggle. The tilt is very distracting when using ground mounts.

[Wilford111]

This is what it looks like whenever I start flying. Is this what the devs intended?


https://imgur.com/WdGjip4

[Seralif]

I've never really felt motion sick while playing a game but the mount tilting is really effecting me I hope a toggle will be implemented as I'm currently using a the jelly fish mount due to no visible tilting. Would love to ride other things again but at this moment I physically cant tolerate it.

[BeriP]

The effect is very strange on the ground. It's distracting and in some cases a little nauseating. It's worse when flying. It looks great when you're watching someone else move, but when it's your character it doesn't feel right.

I wonder if it was only tested with certain control / camera settings? If anyone else is experiencing issues, could you specify the circumstances and your controls?

I use the standard camera with mouse and keyboard. When moving in the field, I usually auto-walk forward and alter direction by camera rotation.

Here's an example of the Company Chocobo mount's behavior:

https://imgur.com/lQEjooc

The effect is heavily applied to mounts where it does not make sense, like the Allagan node mounts:

https://imgur.com/58FOckD

I hope the developers adjust this.

If anyone is looking for a mount where the effect is less extreme while grounded, these seem less bad:
- Antelope stag / doe (effect is present but their animation makes it less impactful)
- Ironfrog Mover
- Cavalry Elbst
- Big Shell

The effect is more extreme in flight and I don't have any suggestions for a mount to help with the motion sickness. If you're experiencing motion sickness from the effect and want to fly, I suggest zooming the camera out all the way and focusing your eyes on the terrain straight ahead, not on your character.
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[Sol_Seppy]

I suffer with quite bad motion sickness and have been feeling it as well during DT.

The worst offenders are some of my favourite mounts which I've had to just stop using: Fat Moogle Chair and Crescent Moon.

I'm glad to see it's not just me, and I hope that they add a toggle at the very least, but I think it's just way over-tuned in general.

[Sol_Seppy]

Jesus lord how does a mild tilt make anyone motion sick… it looks way better then just randomly snapping a direction… Jesus Christ I think the devs need a toggle just to deter everyone from the forums because they are damned if they do or don’t at this point.. this isn’t even feedback as it really makes no sense… I’m genuinely baffled by how one can get motion sick from a partial tilt and if you say it’s because you’re rapidly changing direction then… don’t XD

"Damned if they do, damned if they don't" - Nobody asked for mount tilt, so that's a completely moot point.

This is a genuine accessibility issue. It is making people feel unwell.
Games blunder in this way all the time, I've had to stop playing games entirely because their camera or graphics function as motion sickness simulators.

TL;DR "I don't understand how motion sickness works, and because I don't have it, it's not real"

[MAJRIS]

MOUNT TILT ON/OFF OPTIONS, PLEASE