Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Rueby]

I just finished the base MSQ, the last dungeon's 2nd and 3rd boss are honestly awful for the eyes.

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Plenty of times I found myself looking away from the screen because the lightning SFX was...painful...

I recall struggling with the Lv97 dungeon as well...

I..have a headache now...Why? Why is difficulty = blinding the player irl, I don't understand who is approving this VFX design...Maybe next time I'll take a screenshot, though a screenshot won't do it justice.

[faiarrow]

I just finished the base MSQ, the last dungeon's 2nd and 3rd boss are honestly awful for the eyes.

Purple on purple on purple in boss 2 is a nightmare but add in high-contrast white and it's even worse.

Last boss of that dungeon's mid-fight 'ult' attack I have to genuinely close my eyes and look away, and the annihilation laser aoe attack toward the end is a nightmare. I'm (non-epileptic/seizure) photosensitive and most things I'm OK with between my own monitor/TV settings but that just.. hurts on top of other eyestrain as it is.

You would've thought after the complaints about O11N's charging mechanic being an extreme seizure hazard back in SB even for non-sensitive players they'd of avoided that kind of high contrast strobe but nope

[Daralii]

Purple on purple on purple in boss 2 is a nightmare but add in high-contrast white and it's even worse.

Last boss of that dungeon's mid-fight 'ult' attack I have to genuinely close my eyes and look away, and the annihilation laser aoe attack toward the end is a nightmare. I'm (non-epileptic/seizure) photosensitive and most things I'm OK with between my own monitor/TV settings but that just.. hurts on top of other eyestrain as it is.

You would've thought after the complaints about O11N's charging mechanic being an extreme seizure hazard back in SB even for non-sensitive players they'd of avoided that kind of high contrast strobe but nope

It didn't stop them from creating the effects for Paradigm's Breach which actually caused seizures.

[Hikari_Kirameku]

It didn't stop them from creating the effects for Paradigm's Breach which actually caused seizures.

And the reason I didn't unlock have nor will ever play the Nier raids

Also, BUMP

[Anarnee]

I use to not get sick from the Nier raids, but the last two times I did Bunker since the update I felt like I might faint. It's a shame they never did anything about that to help people enjoy it, but knowing that they never did, it's no wonder they're ignoring us now.

[Doseki]

Here to bump the post. I'm not sure if I'll stay up to watch the LL tonight. Still have that sliver of hope (very faint sliver) that it might at least be mentioned, but if not...well. It is what it is. :\

[Iscah]

Here to bump the post. I'm not sure if I'll stay up to watch the LL tonight. Still have that sliver of hope (very faint sliver) that it might at least be mentioned, but if not...well. It is what it is. :\

Never stay up for a live letter, just read the notes afterwards.

Anyway it's being done at a public event and it's almost certainly going to be all glittery "look at the cool thing", not admitting the game's failings.

[MiaBlaze-Cari]

Given the screens they've shown so far they seem to continue with the exaggerated bloom. Not sure about the atrocious blur and ghosting tho but overall some of the screenshots were hard to look at and i dont even want to imagine how it feels during actual gameplay.

At this point I am considering just giving up my medium house and leave XIV for good despite all the memories tied to it. I had at least a slight sliver of hope that they at least say "we're aware and working on it" or some other kind of acknowledgement but meh :/ They mentioned that they're working on the character models tho so at least something i guess?

Overall i am losing hope that there will be done anything at all...

[Vesplume]

Given the screens they've shown so far they seem to continue with the exaggerated bloom. Not sure about the atrocious blur and ghosting tho but overall some of the screenshots were hard to look at and i dont even want to imagine how it feels during actual gameplay.

At this point I am considering just giving up my medium house and leave XIV for good despite all the memories tied to it. I had at least a slight sliver of hope that they at least say "we're aware and working on it" or some other kind of acknowledgement but meh :/ They mentioned that they're working on the character models tho so at least something i guess?

Overall i am losing hope that there will be done anything at all...

This is where I'm at. The new dungeon screenshots alone were painful to look at and they indicate it's going to lean into some of the worst offenders as far as the eye strain stuff. It's about as far from a "we're aware and working on it" as you can get. Since this was live from TGS I didn't expect them to dig into any of the elements of DT that were received negatively at all (even character graphics were reduced to a mention at the end) but this is bleak.

[Daralii]

This is where I'm at. The new dungeon screenshots alone were painful to look at and they indicate it's going to lean into some of the worst offenders as far as the eye strain stuff. It's about as far from a "we're aware and working on it" as you can get. Since this was live from TGS I didn't expect them to dig into any of the elements of DT that were received negatively at all (even character graphics were reduced to a mention at the end) but this is bleak.

In this case it's more "We're aware and don't care".