Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Mecia]

Might as well mention it here as well. The sharpening filter introduced desaturates and gives the overall image a black and white chromatic aberration like effect. Not an eye strain per se but it makes the game ugly. Needs a toggle.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Bumpoween 5: The Revenge of Bumpael Myers

[4clubbedace]

ive noticed that it ~feels~ less weird on fullscreen and windowed compared to borderless windowed, borderless feeeels off and has a harder time smooth frameraate in vsync

[Rueby]

I sympathize with this alot as someone who actually needs to look away whenever raidwide flashbangs happen. I felt like it got way worse in EW, the encounter design was basically to me flashbang fiesta. Red girl transition and other flashy/blinky transitions are abit painful to look at. I can't say it's severe, just unpleasant.

I didn't play DT, I don't know when I will. I think the grass and the water look nice, but everything else is bad. I don't know what's going on when I tilt my camera up to look at the sky and start moving and the stars in the sky start flickering/dimming. There's alot of things I can't really explain that hurts to look at.

Flashbang lava in Lab of the ancients, too much contrast/shadow on the stairs, spotlight effect on arena...

[Anarnee]

I was talking to one of my friends about the graphics making me ill, and she mentioned a few things she'd been trying because she gets ill even just running around in the city states.

What has been making me ill I think is the contrast of things, the shadows are darker and stuff that glows is brighter, my own spell effects make it hard to see, even stuff like Asylum is too bright now, I've never had this issue before with any game, so I was really at a loss of what to do, but she'd mentioned she tried sunglasses and it didn't help her.

I didn't think anything of it until I'd gotten ill in my alliance raid this morning and remembered her mentioning the sunglasses after the run while I was laid out trying to recover. Have been using sunglasses for the rest of my runs today, It helped immensely, not that I think I should have to wear sunglasses to play a game, but in case someone else is as perplexed as me, and trying to find a quick fix, give sunglasses a try maybe, made a huge difference for me.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Have been using sunglasses for the rest of my runs today, It helped immensely

You know something's seriously wrong with the game when this is something people report as a working solution.

I really hope they resolve most of these issues soon.

[gllt]

I hope this doesn't get swept under the rug.

[Erinellza]

I'm using a screen dimmer and several filters in Nvidia Freestyle, they reduce brightness but can't do much against glare/bloom and the blur when I move. I still get a headache and nausea after playing for 30-60 minutes, especially if I do instanced content or run around a lot to gather mats. Never had these issues before Dawntrail or in other games.

[Vesplume]

Sent in a ticket the day before yesterday and have yet to get a response. Nothing new on the Lodestone either acknowledging the issue beyond housing. If the current state is currently things working as intended I will be canceling my subscription. No other game has made me feel this bad just playing it. From a dev team that prides itself on openness and communication, the lack of response feels like a slap in the face.

[Wind-Krysvein]

From a dev team that prides itself on openness and communication, the lack of response feels like a slap in the face.

At the risk of sounding like a jaded old fart, that "openness and communication" has been a shell of its former self for quite a long while now. They stopped listening somewhere around Stormblood.

Anyway, if it wasn't up to me to keep this forum post alive, I'd cancel my subscription in an instant.