Begging for an arachnophobia filter

[RedLolly]

Don’t have that option at all. Not only is it funds since I can’t work due to health its space. Even for a gaming laptop it would be difficult to have a place to put it while not in use and if I wanted to use it I’m guessing it could be harder to having a clingy cat lol

"Use Mods" as the answer despite the storm barely a season ago is a little wild to me, and just not a good answer when the request is for an accessibility option, and ESPECIALLY not for a game that has console players. If she could play on a PC, she would, I'm sure.

(On another note, if you have any interest in other currently popular games, Hades 2 has the actual spider version of Arachne as a primary character. Her design is pretty cutesy, but just in case, she's in so many scenes.)

[Alicat]

"Use Mods" as the answer despite the storm barely a season ago is a little wild to me, and just not a good answer when the request is for an accessibility option, and ESPECIALLY not for a game that has console players. If she could play on a PC, she would, I'm sure.

(On another note, if you have any interest in other currently popular games, Hades 2 has the actual spider version of Arachne as a primary character. Her design is pretty cutesy, but just in case, she's in so many scenes.)

Thanks for the support and it’s good to know. I don’t play a lot of other games for these reasons and ofc cost of them at times. If a game is often brought up in my communities I’m in my first question is it safe for me. When XVI was released a friend immediately messaged to warn me of them.

Hopefully this and the other forum asking for the same will be seen and we can eventually get a filter that makes it less triggering for us especially on console to play.

[Alicat]

Bumping to keep this relevant and to keep ‘fighting’ not gonna let this go

[Reimmi]

There's spiders in the game?
I legit haven't even noticed any, is it just arr?

[Alicat]

There's spiders in the game?
I legit haven't even noticed any, is it just arr?

As I’ve mentioned several times there are loads. Weeping city’s first boss is the big one. There are similar style ones in Fell court of Toria (that 6.4 patch was awful for me) again similar ones behind the pixies in Il’Mheg, spinners and that type in places like the fringes and in dungeons like the level 95 dungeon, there’s one in the first walk, its in the mob between boss 1 and 2 but that one is the easiest to avoid.

[Kirutsuki]

If you give Arachnophobia filter, you better also give:

Arachnophilia filiter!

[KadajSynthesis]

In a world — and at a time — where games include all kinds of options for minorities, like vitiligo patterns, breast scars, or “body type A and B” instead of male and female, I’d say asking for such a simple filter is really not much to ask.
Sadly, I was wrong to expect more empathy from people on this forum.

This community is made up of hundreds of different kinds of people — many of them minorities themselves — who are always excited to see representation for their own group. Yet, somehow, there’s still plenty of hate in this thread. Add the usual “stop playing FFXIV” nonsense (yeah, sure, please tell even more players to quit — it’s not like the game hasn’t already lost a huge chunk of its base) and all you can do is shake your head at such ignorance.

Instead of telling someone with a phobia how to deal with it, why don’t you just keep your mouth shut and move on? Do you really get some kind of childish thrill from mocking someone who’s already struggling?
If so, go suck a lemon.

[Mikey_R]

It's just a toggle to switch models, right?

Not necessarily. If the enemy is using an animation to highlight where an attack is going to land, you would need to make sure the new model can account for that. If the new model doesn't have that limb, it will not show that tell. Depending on how the swap happens, it could cause issues in the code itself. Without knowing exactly how the game renders enemies, if the skeleton is embedded into the model, and you replace it the model and skeleton with one with less limbs, if the game calls for a limb to move and it doesn't exist, it could cause errors and all sorts of nonsense. If the model and skeleton are separate, it goes back to what I was saying before, where a tell might happen on a limb that doesn't and so you have no idea why you got hit.

It would mean you either need to make another model with the same characteristics so it can mimic all the same movements, which just puts you back to square one, or, you could have a special effect to mimic the 'phantom limb' to highlight what would otherwise be invisible, which is another special effect that needs to be made. Then there is, do you want the replacement model to follow the theming of the area still, or, do you not care that it sticks out like a sore thumb in most areas. Some people will not care, but others will.

I'm sure there are many other obstacles that might need to be considered and this isn't to say it shouldn't happen, but to say it is 'just a toggle to switch models', I feel, downplays that thought that is needed in the background before they even start to consider this as a possibility.

[Astronis]

why don’t you just keep your mouth shut and move on?

This is always an option for the morality tone police as well.

[AstreaLove]

You know they're just polygons on your monitor right? They're just a bunch of 0's and 1's with a hissing sound effect, they can't physically harm you, they can't touch you, and they can't jump out of the monitor and attack you.
You're aware that a fear is just an irrational mindtrick right?

Remember, you're several thousand times larger than ANY other spider species in the world, and it's probably more scared of you, than you of it.