Arachnophobia solutions

[Kui the Kui]

I have friends who are looking forward to playing BG3 with me, but it's a lot more spider heavy than their previous game (which only had one whole spider encounter at all).

Two of my friends are pretty heavy on the arachnophobia, last time we played, I had to solo every spider encounter with their party members since they couldn't bring themselves to look at them. So I'm wondering if there's been talk about a solution available for arachnophobes, or alternatively, if people are planning to add mods to change the models and sound effects when needed.

(Had many people tell me to just "Suck it up and let them man up" on similar games about this topic, but it's not really fair on them. One ends up almost throwing up every time a detailed spider appears in media, let alone losing it completely when confronted irl so it's not really something I enjoy putting on them, especially when we enjoy playing TTRPGs together [where I always swap out arachnids to accomodate them]. I've not seen anything akin to arachnophobia mode mentioned from the devs so I thought I'd just ask if someone knows here.)

[Yojo0o]

Sympathy for your friends, but I don't think you're going to see some sort of "arachnophobia mode" from any game developers any time soon. Of the most common phobias, we'd also be looking at flying, closed spaces, open spaces, storm effects, needles, snakes, dogs, heights, and more things that show up commonly in games of this genre. Baldur's Gate games have a pretty long history of prominently featuring spiders in a variety of contexts.

If a solution does arise, it's much more likely to come in the form of a mod, rather than a toggle option from the devs.

[IRMcG]

There's one on Nexus that changes them to dogs, no idea how that works with the Spider Queen though :P

Might be a problem with us heading to the Underdark at some point, modswapping beasts is one thing but speaking characters (they showed Driders already) is less "easy" to do.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by lil bro:

Suck it up and let them man up

Or you can be less of an arse to people.

[Kui the Kui]

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Originally posted by lil bro:

Suck it up and let them man up

Or you cna be less of an arse to people.

Think they were referencing replies I've already had in the og post ^^;

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Kui:

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Or you cna be less of an arse to people.

Think they were referencing replies I've already had in the og post ^^;

Well, let's hope so. Satire and reality overlaps a lot these days. >.<

That said, your best hope will be mods to replace spiders and spider-like creatures in the full game.

[haasi]

Originally posted by Kui:

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Or you cna be less of an arse to people.

Think they were referencing replies I've already had in the og post ^^;

Most of the regular users here don't really have social interactions outside of these forums so for example understanding sarcasm isnt their strongest suit ^^

On the topic, I can't say ive ever seen a game take phobias in to consideration so would be interested to see a developers view on the subject.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Yeah, wait for mods.

I'm ok with spiders, but I'm a trypophobe. I still have nightmares about the crones in Witcher 3 (the one with the beehive for an eye).

[Kui the Kui]

Originally posted by haasi:

On the topic, I can't say ive ever seen a game take phobias in to consideration so would be interested to see a developers view on the subject.

Satisfactory is a fantastic example! All the crawlers in that game are replaced by glitchy 2D holograms of cats and the noise they make is also replaced by meowing. But Solasta, another great D&D based game, also used mods to solve this particular issue.

[a.out]

I have a blood phobia and cannot see organs. There needs to be an option to disable all that and Intellect Devours need to be replaced with cats, or optionally Flamingos for people with Ailurophobia.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Farsha:

Well nuclear holocaust in RL is as close as it could be atm.
So they should work on their arachnofobia.
Cause if by miracle they would survive, spiders and cockroaches would be only living things to talk to around most of the globe :D
So suck it up, use talk to animals and enjoy some of the best voice acting in this EA ;) (Goblin camp spiders and Grymforge ones too have really hilarious lines)

I wonder what your greatest fear is.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Farsha:

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

I wonder what your greatest fear is.

If your greatest fear is an insect, you are a spoiled brat.

Spiders arn't insects though. They are arachnids.

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by Farsha:

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

I wonder what your greatest fear is.

If your greatest fear is an insect, you are a spoiled brat.

It's not like phobias are rational. Jeez.

[Farsha]

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Spiders arn't insects though. They are arachnids.

Just tear off 2 of it's 8 legs and it will qualify as one ;)

[Dragonfly]

im phobic of people with phobias, my god people.. its a game

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

Originally posted by Farsha:

If your greatest fear is an insect, you are a spoiled brat.

It's not like phobias are rational. Jeez.

That is what a phobia is, after all: AN irrational fear. Most people are aware their phobias are irrational but it's not like they can control said fears because.. they are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ irrational fears.

Only a bully tells people to suck it up like it's something that is easy to deal with. It is not. Take it from someone who used to be irrationaly afraid of heights.