Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Ainariel]

I didn't have a problem with it when I was doing the story, but after a day of grinding levels in dungeons, I've also had an issue with eye strain. I've never had this issue with the game before. I was wondering if might need to turn off my own spell effects or something, I have it set to only show mine, but with all the stuff going on in some fights, I feel like I might need to just have them all off.

I thought this was just me, but I'm relieved to read that someone else noticed that something about the player's own battle effects has changed. Before the graphics update I didn't mind setting my battle effects on e.g. BRD or SMN to "Full", but after the update I'm seriously considering keeping my own battle effects "Limited" all the time since the bright flashes give me headaches. All the effects are so bright now that even fiddling with gamma doesn't help.

[Klauth]

I thought this was just me, but I'm relieved to read that someone else noticed that something about the player's own battle effects has changed. Before the graphics update I didn't mind setting my battle effects on e.g. BRD or SMN to "Full", but after the update I'm seriously considering keeping my own battle effects "Limited" all the time since the bright flashes give me headaches. All the effects are so bright now that even fiddling with gamma doesn't help.

Setting the gamma to 0 doesn't even come close when i had it at 40 before dawntrail launch comparing it to old screenshots. They dialed the base brightness way above what they should have and eliminated the smooth transition between light and shadow, its a really heavy contrast taxing on the eyes.

This might not be the best example but, if you pick an aetheryte in the first Dawntrail main city and fiddle with the gamma from 0 to 100 you'll instantly see that the aetheryte doesn't change too much compared to the rest of the scenery, it remains near the same white intensity along the gamma.

This is resulting in everything looking brighter being it reflections, battle effects, glare, even the character skin or hair is reflecting way too much light. Or certain situations with heavy weather where there shouldnt be much light reflecting from the ground and yet its very bright.

Of course this is all theory but, it does look really off to me fiddling with these settings.