Motion Sickness

[tokamak]

the DB maps have many, many extreme bright areas/spots.

That’s something that really needs work. They’re just rough patches of bright stuff, it doesn’t look realistic or artistic and it’s really getting in the way fighting.

[FROST1]

2nd Part

Later, when I started DB again those extremely bright spots where gone… Then it dawned on me, that maybe some of the video changes would only take effect after restarting the map. Then I played around with the settings again, since I didn’t wanted everything to be turned off, just the extreme shiny stuff. and I think I found the three wich are responsible for most of the bright and shiny stuff. One is called ‘Dynamic Lights’, the other one ‘Composite Dynamic Lights’ and the other one ‘Directional Light maps’

Below are three example pics; the first has everything with the name light in it engaged, the second one has at least Directional Light maps on, and the later one has neither Dynamic Lights, nor Composite Dynamic Lights nor Directional Light maps engaged. Bloom is also turned off of course, but the rest of the light stuff is on.

And there’s another thing that I’ve changed too. I removed the scoreboard from the tab key and as a result I can’t reach it when I play(its now on the key, left from the #1 key). And I think that this was far more straining, than I could imagine. The moment you push it your eyes try desperately to focus on something they can’t focus on. And the sheer frequency(I’m a scoreboard-w…re, what can I say) of doing so is far more straining, than I thought.

Reload bob is not a problem anymore(at least I hope so) since I’ve reduced all the light stuff and disengaged the scoreboard; have to test this for a while now, cause maybe I’m just in good shape today.

I found it allready kind of strange, that view bobing gave me headaches. I was used to feeling severely sick from some games, due to the virtual camera and what it does, but I can’t remember that I got headaches. The whole bob thing effes up the info your brain gets from the equilibrium organ, but usually that should make you feel sick in the stomach area and not so much in the head. But I got a quite intense migraine and one or two minor headaches followed from general dizziness. That’s stuff that is more connected to your eye. Too much light in a wide open iris or a blurry vision on wich your eyes are trying to desperately get a focus on.

I really don’t know, if it’s really just ‘one big thing’ that makes it diffcult for me to play DB, but removing the scoreboard and reducing the brightness did quite much. I’ll see how well this will turn out over the next couple days and then I’ll post my resume.

[FROST1]

So, here I am again. Haven’t played any* PC game for the last 3 months. I randomly downloaded some of DB’s updates and tried them for a few minutes on empty servers, but I never joined a real match or played any other game because I feared to get hedeaches, or sick again.

*(I played A:CM for 3hrs or so when it came out, but didn’t felt very comfortable with it; in retrospect I think I just kinda “feared” that it would cause the issues above and therefore I couldn’t relax and just play it. The game was/is horrible anyways, so it wasn’t very hard for me to stop playing it entirely. And that’s it, 3hrs. of PC gaming for the last 3 months.)

Long story short, three days ago I thought I should really try to play DB again; just out of curiosity and because I have holidays and therefore the time to cure potential headaches. And, big surprise, I feel nothing; no sickness and no headaches. I don’t know if I just was in a bad constitution last December or if anything in the game had changed; I mean something beneath the conscious visible surface, but it’s working for me now .

I’ll go on playing DB on a regular basis(of course) and hope that It will stay the way it is.

PS: I like all the new stuff(that I’ve noticed so far) and I like to see how this game grows.

[MrEd]

Good news! Hopefully there’ll be a few more settings in the future that should also help. Welcome back.

[montheponies]

The only time I’ve ever had a problem with motion sickness was Far Cry 2 and that was simply down to the FOV being locked to the angle that would suit a console player sitting 6ft away from a TV, rather than me sitting 1ft away from a 22" monitor. Everytime you entered or exited a vehicle the whole screen would swoop up and down…apart from that the respawning enemies made it feel like a throwback to an arcade game from the 80s how that every scored high I’ll never know…