There are a number of visual effects in this fight that hurt and/or strain my eyes, and a few of my friends share this experience. In ascending order of severity, these effects are
-The floor effect during Aethertithe (Can be mitigated by angling the camera up)
-Absolute Authority's repeated party-wide attacks. The flashing waves of glitchy/distorted red light strain my eyes, but it's fortunately only a few seconds, once per run.
-The flashing static coming out of the elemental phases. This one's pretty major - if I don't fully close my eyes for a couple seconds the three or four times this plays throughout the fight, I'm liable to get a headache. Especially after a couple of runs.
Hopefully this can be addressed somehow? The third one is especially bad - the static effect on its own would be a slightly uncomfortable but fine - the fact that it pulses brightly a couple of times really makes it bad. If we get more fights with this glitchy aesthetic, I hope the visual effects aren't quite so extreme.
Also, while I'm here: Tower at Paradigm's Breach has a filter over the screen for like 2/3 of the raid, which, combined with the completely featureless white terrain in those sections, has been a source of eye strain for years.
An option to tone down or disable certain screen-covering effects would do a lot for accessibility!
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-The floor effect during Aethertithe (Can be mitigated by angling the camera up)
-Absolute Authority's repeated party-wide attacks. The flashing waves of glitchy/distorted red light strain my eyes, but it's fortunately only a few seconds, once per run.
-The flashing static coming out of the elemental phases. This one's pretty major - if I don't fully close my eyes for a couple seconds the three or four times this plays throughout the fight, I'm liable to get a headache. Especially after a couple of runs.
Hopefully this can be addressed somehow? The third one is especially bad - the static effect on its own would be a slightly uncomfortable but fine - the fact that it pulses brightly a couple of times really makes it bad. If we get more fights with this glitchy aesthetic, I hope the visual effects aren't quite so extreme.
Also, while I'm here: Tower at Paradigm's Breach has a filter over the screen for like 2/3 of the raid, which, combined with the completely featureless white terrain in those sections, has been a source of eye strain for years.
An option to tone down or disable certain screen-covering effects would do a lot for accessibility!
Continue reading...