Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Wind-Krysvein]

Whoa, we're getting a lot of new likes and replies. Just a while ago we were at less than 90!

Please remember to send a support ticket to the Square Enix Support Center detailing your eye strain issues with the game. If you want to be as thorough as possible, you can also send a copy of that support request to the accessibility team:
contact-accessibility@eu.square-enix.com

[mayochup]

Bump, just sent them an email (forgot to earlier). Hopefully something will get done soon, or at least a public acknowledgment.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Hopefully something will get done soon, or at least a public acknowledgment.

For what it's worth, this is something Yoshi-P said a while ago:

It has been a joy to watch you all play, each in your own unique way, but we’ve become aware of several issues that may have proven a hinderance to your overall experience. For that, I sincerely apologize. We’ve already announced on the Lodestone that a number of these issues are presently under investigation, but rest assured we will be doing everything in our power to address them as quickly as possible. You can expect a follow-up announcement as soon as fixes are ready for implementation.

At this point, I'm not gonna say it's even 25% likely that he was talking about the eye strain stuff here, but it's still something that could potentially explain their silence on the issue.

For ease of reference: so far, they've only addressed one of these "several issues." All hope is not yet lost.

[Erinellza]

For ease of reference: so far, they've only addressed one of these "several issues." All hope is not yet lost.

I'm still hopeful because of the Sage icon issue. Remember when it was changed because some people were afraid of dots/patterns or something like that? That thing probably affects less than 0,5% of the playerbase. But this eye strain issue is a significantly bigger problem.

[Daralii]

I'm still hopeful because of the Sage icon issue. Remember when it was changed because some people were afraid of dots/patterns or something like that? That thing probably affects less than 0,5% of the playerbase. But this eye strain issue is a significantly bigger problem.

I completely forgot about that. A few people complained that the original SGE icon triggered their trypophobia, so it got changed. That was obviously easier than fixing the number of issues with the graphics update, but I'd like to think they could at least bring back the bloom toggle in 7.05.

[Fiel_Tana]

For me it's the combat graphics, it was painful from ShB on but DT has been giving me migraines and making me feel like I'm going to throw up mid fight often. That's with the combat settings set to limited, I tried it on none but then I can't see where healing circles and things are. I've adjusted gamma and tried playing around with every setting in there, it's just too bright and flashy for my eyes no matter what I do.

Having to NOT look at the screen should never be a combat mechanic.

Edited to add:
The boss mechanics have no way to adjust brightness either, a setting to reduce lower flashing and brightness as well as an option for a further reduced player combat graphics setting where we see only what is required (and not at full flashbang!) would help immensely. Perhaps sliders for each setting as well?

[Erinellza]

Does anyone actually think this looks good? My eyes are melting out of my head, lol.

[Wind-Krysvein]

My foremost hope is that they allow us to reduce the sharpness of the textures.

Bump

[Wind-Krysvein]

Another bump on the road. And they don't stop coming...

[Platinumstorm]

Another bump on the road. And they don't stop coming...

and they don't stop coming