Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Myrany]

I do not generally have problems with lighting or motion or blur. Today after doing Castrum I had a headache from the spell effects of characters spells. One in particular kept putting a big white ball over and AOE pack. I didn't notice what class was tossing it out (Viper maybe?) That white ball was eye searing. Totally new thing for me. I don't remember ever seeing anything in game that hurt that much and I have been playing 5 years.

[Daralii]

I do not generally have problems with lighting or motion or blur. Today after doing Castrum I had a headache from the spell effects of characters spells. One in particular kept putting a big white ball over and AOE pack. I didn't notice what class was tossing it out (Viper maybe?) That white ball was eye searing. Totally new thing for me. I don't remember ever seeing anything in game that hurt that much and I have been playing 5 years.

Are you sure it wasn't just Holy? VPR gets some eye-searing effects, but it shouldn't have them at 50 and that description doesn't fit any of them.

[Myrany]

Are you sure it wasn't just Holy? VPR gets some eye-searing effects, but it shouldn't have them at 50 and that description doesn't fit any of them.

It wasn't holy I have played a healer with holy it wasn't that. Maybe it was a samurai as I said I wasn't sure of the class of the other DPS. It was painful whatever it was.

[Klauth]

It wasn't holy I have played a healer with holy it wasn't that. Maybe it was a samurai as I said I wasn't sure of the class of the other DPS. It was painful whatever it was.

The only healer that comes to mind with a placeable white orb aoe is Astrologian's Earthly Star.

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In reference to the post Yoshi P made about complaints over housing lighting issues, I find it interesting he said people are complaining about level 5 lighting being too dark. For me, since early release's launch, I've had the OPPOSITE problem. The default lighting is too bright/washed out.

Either Yoship is imagining things people say, or if players are actually saying that they have no clue what theyre talking about.

The housing lowest level of dark was pitch black before Dawntrail and now its really bright. No way in hell the level 5 is dark now

This was my house in the lowest level (Endwalker xpac).:




And the highest level (Shadowbringers xpac).:





Dont come saying to me that the game isnt overall way too bright now compared to previous xpacs

It was more muted in contrasts and softer in shadow and light transitions, even the glare/bloom isnt so harsh in the last picture as it is now in dawntrail. Maybe some people just got way too used to filters and such and are getting confused.

[Klauth]

I do not generally have problems with lighting or motion or blur. Today after doing Castrum I had a headache from the spell effects of characters spells. One in particular kept putting a big white ball over and AOE pack. I didn't notice what class was tossing it out (Viper maybe?) That white ball was eye searing. Totally new thing for me. I don't remember ever seeing anything in game that hurt that much and I have been playing 5 years.

I usually play samurai, and it had really toned down effects compared to the other jobs before dawntrail, but now they have a bright light behind them.
Im just hoping the lighting change they're making for housing also changes the rest of the game.

Quoting from the "Issues with Housing Brightness Settings" post in the main page of the FFXIV website.:
"When fine-tuning the lighting settings in our improved graphical environment, the newly added baked reflections were mistakenly set to "On" when determining the base lighting level for housing. Because of this, even with lighting set to 0, there is a persistent lighting effect that makes the environment appear brighter than intended."
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...19d46241037cb6

So what im getting from this is its just not only happening in housing, but also on the entire game. Strange they only approach it as an housing problem in the post they made because its noticeable everywhere.