Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Klauth]

Here is a screenshot of my character comparing how bad it is with "Dawntrail Glare:Low" versus "Endwalker Glare: Off".

All light sources in Dawntrail have a very strong bright halo effect, now imagine it all over the screen in raids or towns (gold saucer comes to mind), no wonder i've been having headaches.

And no matter the ingame time of day the halo is allways present even if you don't immediately notice it.

Now put the motion blur of DLSS/FSR on top of it, i think i don't need to say more.

[Wind-Krysvein]

We're at 69 likes. Nice.

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people not to forcefully play the game despite their eye strain problems. Doing so may have permanent effects on your vision, and no game is worth that.

I'm personally really not in the mood to be playing other games, but seeing as SE has decided to resolve this issue with the speed of a particularly lazy hedgehog (not the blue kind), there's not really much of a choice. Yippee.

[gllt]

It feels like I walked in the back door of FFXIV and saw things I wasn't supposed to see

The glare the glare mage was glaring: glares at me

[HauntedLasagna]

Me after logging in to see if anything has changed:

(also bump cause I don't have anything to add to the subject but have major cope that SOMEONE from SE will see and respond)

[Wind-Krysvein]

The glare the glare mage was glaring: glares at me

Oh wow, who knew Glare was so sick for DPS? Based on this, it damages people's eyes in record time.

WHM green dps confirmed.

[FedoraTheExplorer]

The main issue for me is the bloom/glare, I have pretty sensitive eyes and they struggle with bright lights. Even on the low setting it's still especially egregious. I don't know why they've made it so you can't turn bloom off, or if it's genuinely a glitch... for me personally that's an especially bad glitch. Makes trying to do content like PvP for example especially "fun" when people use the Phoenix mount. That mount is actually like a flashbang now because of my sensitive eyes.

Anyways, being unable to turn off bloom is leading to a bit of a miserable time for me. I'm currently recovering from a migraine the game has caused. I want to hope they'll allow us to turn things like bloom off again but the pessimist in me says this is here to stay :/

[Klauth]

For some weird reason at first glance the "glare: off" option its not a glich because its stated in the patch notes that it was removed.

Now my question is, what the hell made them think it was a good idea w/o asking for feedback first, or even mentioning it during the graphic changes liveletters.

Anyway here goes another picture with the mentioned removal.:

[HauntedLasagna]

Holy moley, why would they ever think that is a good idea? I'm baffled.

[gllt]

That makes me want to backflip off the stage. Unbelievably ignorant.
Holy crap.

[FedoraTheExplorer]

Oh.

That's rextrmeely disappointing.