Dizzines & Intense Nausea while playing Tower at Paradigm's Breach

[Vahlnir]

But this seems to be a failure of their QA who normally handle these things. Whether he took the wheel or not, the content still should have gone through the normal QA processes.

Agreed. I'm not saying that the dev team or even the QA people are always going to think of every single outcome humanly possible, because that is an almost impossible task, but for a game that prides itself on accessibility they kinda let this one slip through the cracks, which honestly does surprise me.

[LisSquid]

Agreed. I'm not saying that the dev team or even the QA people are always going to think of every single outcome humanly possible, because that is an almost impossible task, but for a game that prides itself on accessibility they kinda let this one slip through the cracks, which honestly does surprise me.

You would have thought that after Mt Gulg they might have considered their choice of design, but apparently not I've made peace with it at this point, though my problem is rare.

[TaleraRistain]

Agreed. I'm not saying that the dev team or even the QA people are always going to think of every single outcome humanly possible, because that is an almost impossible task, but for a game that prides itself on accessibility they kinda let this one slip through the cracks, which honestly does surprise me.

Makes me wonder how much input the team responsible was allowed to have. We use outside consultants at my company sometimes, but the QA process always goes through our established internal procedures and checks. Because we're ultimately responsible for the quality of the final release.

[Nighthawky2010]

May I recommend giving this a try:

If possible hook your laptop/pc up to a tv where you can sit a little farther away from the screen. This has helped me personally with motion effects like the elevator. Then as mentioned prior, the tinted gunner glasses or the identically functioning feature may help with the flashing colors.

Yoshi P and his team are generally pretty good about things like this but Yoko Taro did take the lead for the Nier Raids. I'm sure if this gets forwarded that they'll try to tone back some of the problematic effects.

I play on my ps4 so I'm several feet (approx 5-6 feet) from my tv screen plus I usually play during the daytime when there is alot of light, if i play in the evening, i have alot of lights on. I only played the Breach once but didnt have any sight or motion sickness issues with the exception of trying to read the mechanics 6 feet away. I usually just following everyone...lol.

[Bacent]

I know some people have had issues with certain intensities of colour in game. I always play games with my Nightlight mode on (Make everything a slightly amber tint to reduce strain on my eyes)

But if it does bother you, I'd suggest speaking with a doctor and possibly show them the fights on youtube to say why it's bothering you exactly and see what they say.

Also a lot of the effects used in the raid were also in Nier Automata, and many games usually have a warning and to speak with a doctor if something like this happens. My mom actually couldn't play tetris anymore due to her own epileptic issues

[Rosenoire]

Given how many people are reporting issues with this particular raid, is there a thread we could post on to bring it to the devs' attention?

[Stanelis]

When you try to imitate Wildstar's raids you also imitate the motion sickness that occured there x)

[Dzian]

Newer content can make you dizzy just because of how much stuff goes on outside the actual arena so your forever spinning ypur camera round to try and see everything. It's not exactly fun.

Simply being able to zoom out further would help reduce alot of that I feel. As it reduce the amount of camera spinning you need to do to try and see things

As for the color blindness thing someone mentioned. What exists in game is actually pretty good for the most part. And it does help a lot. However they could do more definitely. Sometimes I struggle in Castrum because the water ice and thunder orbs can all look the same color especially with all the other effects going off. It,d be cool if they were more distinctive.

Ironically theres a boss in one of the 50 dungeons. Might be wanderers hard I don't actually recall. But he does that sacred standard thing. And I find that mechanic is well designed because even if you can't identify the colours they're all still easily identifiable by shape.

It would be nice if more of the games mechanics followed that example. Make the orbs in castrum a different shape or put distinctive markings on them. A big water drop on the water one. A snow flake on the ice one, a thunderbolt on the lightning one.. make them more distinctive than just blue blue and blue.

They do admittedly have very faint auras but they can be hard to see when you have Doton circles healer bubbles, giant bahamuts and lots of explosions going off.

[Shibi]

Given how many people are reporting issues with this particular raid, is there a thread we could post on to bring it to the devs' attention?

This one. If it stays active with reports of different people feeling nausea/strain/dizziness/headache it should be noticed.

The only other way will be for a higher than normal number of people to drop and leave when they get it randomly - which shows up in metrics and causes an investigation.

[Riardon]

Too much white overall fatiques my eye.
There is deffinetely something that tires my eyes during this raid.