Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[MiaBlaze-Cari]

Preliminary patch notes are out, not a single mention of eye strain issues. :^) Instead they're pushing the entire stuff onto the arr regions. The 2 bug reports I linked in an earlier post are also still marked as "confirmed/planning to address" so no changes on that part either it seems. Doubt there is even any point in doing the alliance raid given it will most likely have the same problems like M1-M4 with overtuned effects, blur and other bs.
Shouldn't have preordered DT and put the money into other games tbf...

[Erinellza]

I guess I'm just delusional at this point but I'll check the settings in 7.1 asap. They removed this in 7.0, then re-added it in 7.01 and it wasn't in the patch notes if I remember correctly. So I'm still sniffing that hopium, lol.

[Larirawiel]

Anisotropic filtering is not the problem. The problems are way too slow and incomplete camera jittering and propably missing motion vectors. Both causes a very blurry image and ghost effects.




Cheers

[MiaBlaze-Cari]

I guess I'm just delusional at this point but I'll check the settings in 7.1 asap. They removed this in 7.0, then re-added it in 7.01 and it wasn't in the patch notes if I remember correctly. So I'm still sniffing that hopium, lol.

We'll see, but I have given up hope tbh. They had months to fix it with enough feedback, yet nothing happened and some bug reports were instantly smashed as "working as intended", at least in the english section...
Maybe I am wrong and we will indeed see an improvement, but I am doubting it...

[Erinellza]

Anisotropic filtering is not the problem. The problems are way too slow and incomplete camera jittering and propably missing motion vectors. Both causes a very blurry image and ghost effects.

I never said it was the problem. I'm just saying they might bring back more settings they removed in 7.0 like bloom/glare and wet surface effects. Why did they remove them?? Sure, they wouldn't fix everything but turning off bloom would be a HUGE help, at least it would get rid of the freaking blinding lights and skill effects.

[JenSha]

I never said it was the problem. I'm just saying they might bring back more settings they removed in 7.0 like bloom/glare and wet surface effects. Why did they remove them?? Sure, they wouldn't fix everything but turning off bloom would be a HUGE help, at least it would get rid of the freaking blinding lights and skill effects.

This is what I don't understand either! Why would they remove accessibility settings instead of adding more? I don't understand SE's logic here.

[Anarnee]

We'll see, but I have given up hope tbh. They had months to fix it with enough feedback, yet nothing happened and some bug reports were instantly smashed as "working as intended", at least in the english section...
Maybe I am wrong and we will indeed see an improvement, but I am doubting it...

It was never going to get fixed before 7.1, I didn't think for a moment that it would be at least, but what worries me is they've just not acknowledged it at all so it just seems like their stance is everything is as intended.

[Birdbrain]

I've been struggling with adapting to the graphical update, it's caused a few bouts of eyestrain and even motion sickness. I'm unsure if it's been mentioned, but one example of how extreme the bloom effect is now is at the Fury's Gaze monument in Coerthas Central Highlands.


Pre-DT it looked like this:

Post-DT it looks like this:

I wish the development team would at the very least acknowledge the issues presented in this thread. Just looking at screenshots makes my eyes hurt.

The super-bloom in some areas is so ugly looking, I've been assuming the whole time it's a bug with the lighting updates.

It couldn't be intentional, right? Sure, the Gold Saucer is now more blurry and disorientating as if you were accurately drunk in Las Vegas, but I'd find it so strange if it was a purposeful choice.

[Ainariel]

Bump! Forced bloom/glare and increased brightness of player and enemies's effects still cause headaches and eye strain on PS4/PS5.

[Ainariel]

Checked the complete patch notes for 7.1, these issues weren't addressed. Sent another message to contact-accessibility@eu.square-enix.com - we shouldn't be ignored!