Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[MiaBlaze-Cari]

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Yea I was also already wondering who in their right mind would move this report to working as intended when it is clear that the setting is not working. Like....It's working as intended that it doesn't work?
At this point I am considering translating bug reports to japanese and posting them there instead.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Bumpoween 5: The Revenge of Bumpael Myers

[LunaAldegar]

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This whole thing is really sad to see. I had no problems playing the game outside of the last Nier raid before this expansion, but now I end up with a headache and nausea all the time. How can they even say this is working as intended?

Good luck to all the people suffering from mount tilting, blurry effects, bloom, reflections, and the surprise change in the luminance gamma which is an underliying issue that makes the game base brightness higher as MagicPeanut complains in the quoted bit.

And this is especially disappointing; everything mentioned should be possible to disable completely. I personally don't mind reflections, but mount tilting and blur trigger motion sickness. Impossible to completely disable glare/bloom and things being much brighter than before give my astigmatism a very hard time. I don't understand how they find the lack of basic accessibility settings acceptable. No amount of tinkering with the settings fixes any of these problems that weren't there before.

[4clubbedace]

ive noticed that it ~feels~ less weird on fullscreen and windowed compared to borderless windowed, borderless feeeels off and has a harder time smooth frameraate in vsync

[mayochup]

I was really disappointed seeing my thread get moved to "duplicate" after they specifically ASKED us to make a bug report. I already tried sending a ticket beforehand (which they didn't even read) and blamed my internet connection so like what do they expect us to do? All I can do now is just, unsub and play a different game. Kinda feel scammed for buying Dawntrail since these changes came out of nowhere with 0 intention to fix them.

[Rueby]

I sympathize with this alot as someone who actually needs to look away whenever raidwide flashbangs happen. I felt like it got way worse in EW, the encounter design was basically to me flashbang fiesta. Red girl transition and other flashy/blinky transitions are abit painful to look at. I can't say it's severe, just unpleasant.

I didn't play DT, I don't know when I will. I think the grass and the water look nice, but everything else is bad. I don't know what's going on when I tilt my camera up to look at the sky and start moving and the stars in the sky start flickering/dimming. There's alot of things I can't really explain that hurts to look at.

Flashbang lava in Lab of the ancients, too much contrast/shadow on the stairs, spotlight effect on arena...

[Anarnee]

I was talking to one of my friends about the graphics making me ill, and she mentioned a few things she'd been trying because she gets ill even just running around in the city states.

What has been making me ill I think is the contrast of things, the shadows are darker and stuff that glows is brighter, my own spell effects make it hard to see, even stuff like Asylum is too bright now, I've never had this issue before with any game, so I was really at a loss of what to do, but she'd mentioned she tried sunglasses and it didn't help her.

I didn't think anything of it until I'd gotten ill in my alliance raid this morning and remembered her mentioning the sunglasses after the run while I was laid out trying to recover. Have been using sunglasses for the rest of my runs today, It helped immensely, not that I think I should have to wear sunglasses to play a game, but in case someone else is as perplexed as me, and trying to find a quick fix, give sunglasses a try maybe, made a huge difference for me.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Have been using sunglasses for the rest of my runs today, It helped immensely

You know something's seriously wrong with the game when this is something people report as a working solution.

I really hope they resolve most of these issues soon.

[gllt]

I hope this doesn't get swept under the rug.

[Erinellza]

I'm using a screen dimmer and several filters in Nvidia Freestyle, they reduce brightness but can't do much against glare/bloom and the blur when I move. I still get a headache and nausea after playing for 30-60 minutes, especially if I do instanced content or run around a lot to gather mats. Never had these issues before Dawntrail or in other games.