Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[gllt]

Submitted my ticket. I feel like glare/bloom is where all my eye strain comes from but I wouldn't be surprised if other settings are affecting me too.

This is my favorite game and I've already made so many concessions over changes. But I can't even look at it now. They need to address this or I will truly have to move on to a game that respects me as a player more. This is a matter of accessibility.

[Kiet]

I made a forum account just to be able to comment in this thread. Please, please, let us turn off the motion blur! The game looks great right now otherwise, but when I'm running through a forest zone it literally makes me want to puke, I get motion sick. I fiddled a bit with the settings but the blur is always there, although with some settings it's a bit less noticeable because the game in general looks worse with those settings.

On a separate note, the new dungeons and trial (I've only played the one) are very, I don't know how to describe it, bright? My eyes got pretty tired during them. I haven't tested if this affects the old duties too, but this was never an issue before the update. It's only an issue during dungeons and trials, so I don't know what settings I should be looking at.

[Daralii]

I did the Paglth'an today and the vibrancy and bright oranges about seared out my retinas.

I wonder how bad something like P3 is. That fight was already blinding.

[angienessyo]

The only thing I’ve noticed is the game is just brighter, which will cause eye strain. If messing with the gamma doesn’t help I would mess with your monitor brightness settings. Also maybe look into something like Gunnar glasses to reduce your monitor’s effect on your eyes. I have a well calibrated monitor but keep the brightness pretty low because most games bother my eyes when it’s cranked to max.

[Luca_]

The environmental blurriness while running is super disorienting, I dunno that I'd say it causes eye strain for me personally but I really don't like it.

On the other hand, I did Prae a couple nights ago while leveling VPR and it's like a nuclear reactor in there. My eyes actually hurt after the magitek armor bit.

[gllt]

I messed with gamma, brightness, and tried different displays.
I have to wear prescription glasses in order to see.

The only solution, for me at least, is to have the option to turn off glare added back to the game. Why was it removed anyways? Makes zero sense to me. I can't understand why you would force a graphical option on by default. I turn off motion blur and bloom in every game I own. Screen shake as well. It's just the kind of stuff that's supposed to be optional. It's already sad that I have to get my eyes blown out by Holy or see no effects. But at least that was a singular move.

I can't imagine a change to the engine that would remove the ability to toggle bloom/glare. And if that did happen, who let it happen? That's absurd. It has to be an oversight or some other kind of poorly thought out decision.

Accessibility has always seemed like an afterthought in 14 but watching it slide into the gutter is painful.

[Wind-Krysvein]

The only thing I’ve noticed is the game is just brighter, which will cause eye strain. If messing with the gamma doesn’t help I would mess with your monitor brightness settings. Also maybe look into something like Gunnar glasses to reduce your monitor’s effect on your eyes. I have a well calibrated monitor but keep the brightness pretty low because most games bother my eyes when it’s cranked to max.

As a person who already has Gunnar gaming glasses and all of the TV settings played out in a way that reduces eye strain as much as possible, I can tell you straight off that it's almost certainly not going to be this easy.

I've said this before, but a game should most definitely not be causing this much eye strain for anyone, regardless of screen brightness. Something is definitely not right here, and it needs to be fixed and soon.

[MayMelon]

The saturation of the color became so high.
My eyes are tired and I can't play for long. I'm relieved I'm not the only one.

[Wind-Krysvein]

The saturation of the color became so high.
My eyes are tired and I can't play for long. I'm relieved I'm not the only one.

I made a forum account just to be able to comment in this thread.

Trust me, you're definitely not the only one. Each and every time I see someone new post here about their symptoms, I get a bit more hopeful about the future. We can do this!

[Luca_]

As a person who already has Gunnar gaming glasses and all of the TV settings played out in a way that reduces eye strain as much as possible, I can tell you straight off that it's almost certainly not going to be this easy.

I've said this before, but a game should most definitely not be causing this much eye strain for anyone, regardless of screen brightness. Something is definitely not right here, and it needs to be fixed and soon.

I agree. I always run a pretty heavy blue light filter on my PC and used customized shaders ingame to adjust the colors/brightness a bit for optimal comfort, but it's NOT normal for a game to require external accessibility aids and tweaks to make it playable for so many people. I appreciate all the folks chiming in with helpful suggestions, but I want to emphasize how insane it is that SE didn't even consider ingame accessibility options whatsoever in an update that was meant to bring the game closer to modern standards. This would be unacceptable in a modern game from any developer.