Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Ainariel]

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Please add an on/off toggle for the new wind effects when flying! They're distracting and cause eye strain, especially during any other weather than clear skies.

Going to let my sub run out in a few days since I think it's not worth it to pay for a game where I can't play most of the content and classes without getting headaches and eye strain.

[Hyperia]

My mom gets ocular migraines from glare. She eventually went to an optometrist to get glasses to deal with it. She doesn’t play this game anymore but the glasses took care of outdoor and PC glare issues, which reduced her headaches.

[Jeuno]

Well I still can't play.
I have gone through every setting available in game, trying different things. But after about 15 minutes of play I can feel a migraine starting.

Please SE, at least give us the option to turn off things like bloom!

[-Kairi]

I thought I was going crazy or summed it up to the weather changing for my increase in minor headaches.
Maybe the graphics update is the reason why (came back recently after months of not playing). Interesting.

[TransgressorPterodactyl]

So, umm ...... Yeah. (bump)

[Anarnee]

Been playing Infinity Nikki for a week, forgot to even log in to do my weeklies. It doesn't give me motion sickness or eye strain and it's beautiful... And free. I don't much care for the F2P model but I am regretting reuping my sub at this point, even though a few things were fixed it's not enough.
Friend wants to come back and do the Starlight event but the game still makes her ill just walking around the cities (she has a free trial account.) Can't justify $15 to make her sick. Really wish we'd just get some acknowledgement or plan of action.

[MiaBlaze-Cari]

It seems they nerfed the flashbang bloom to some degree. At least its not that hard to look at the game anymore. Haven't checked much maps yet tho but it seems they did at least something.

[Rueby]

I was doing EW maps with friends few days ago and the bonus? golems that spawn are so painful to look at due to how bright yellow, neon pink, white they are...I don't even remember them being painful to look at. (I forgot to take a screenshot, maybe if I go again I will)

Also bump.

[MiaBlaze-Cari]

And bump I guess.

The level 97 dungeon is still hard to look at, especially the tunnel after the 2nd boss and still makes me dizzy. As for the Bloom: At least my christmas tree is no longer a mess, same with other furniture which is why I looked around a bit on other maps. Also some DT maps are easier to look at now (for me that is, ymmv). For EW Portals I can't say. I will need to get some maps first but given that the 97 dungeon is still an offender with bloom (especially after the 2nd boss) I can imagine that the golems are as "shiny" as before :c Also the ghosting from the heat effects in Tul..tu...thingy...uhm..the first DT city (I can't spell it q-q) as well as Amh Araeng is still there, tho it seems it's a little bit toned down (southern Thanalan could also have that problem).
I think they're at least somewhat working on it, despite keeping it secret for whatever reason. I'm afraid that it is only being worked on because of feedback from the japanese playerbase, given how long this topic here got ignored by Square. Only an assumption tho.
Overall I've been online for a longer period of time yesterday without much issues. I did however avoid most content but checked some dungeons with Explorer mode. I noticed that they toned down a lot of the flashbangery in the 2nd to last EW dungeon, no more eye-blinding snow but still some way to go to get these issues fully fixed. I have no clue about the "new" dungeon in DT, still haven't done any 7.1x content tbh.

[lunartears]

I've not been playing much of DT due to other reasons but today I experienced the worst migraine playing through Euphrosyne for the first time since EW. The start of the raid was fine, but when I got to the ice area and final arena my eyes began to hurt.



Fortunately I have some photos pre graphics update (just the last arena) as I absolutely loved the scenery in this alliance raid and have been able to make some comparisons. They're not exact, I found it difficult to replicate the camera angle but they will do.

Before on top, after on bottom:




More below, didn't want to clutter post:

I haven't had any trouble with eye strain in the graphics update until this point, all I've noticed is that long distance scenery, objects and metals have looked a lot more (for lack of a better term) "crispy" on my game than they did before.