Graphics are pretty but hurt

[eCapter]

Hi, I really like the look of the game, but my eyes and brain somehow cant cope with it. I really get dizzy and headache and want to turn the game off, although I liked it.
Everything is so weirdly unfocusable and washed and blent into another. In dialogs the models are fine, but the moment the normal view starts they are weird. Im really not sure whether I can play the game like this. Am I the only one? Thats really sad because actually it looks great. I tried different settings

While Im at it. Why every item just says "F" and then I get a list of looted stuff after picking it up. I want to know what Im looking at, which is not seeable with that washed graphics. I didnt even recognized ore on bare wood planks. Just let the item name hover above it like in Gothic. Its just better and even more immersive than "F"

Also starting to walk feels annoyingly sluggish

Rest seems fine so far

[Harm's way]

i think youre playing on very on low graphic settings or very low resolution rendering scale
i had no such issue with "gothic" graphic setting and on 17" laptop display

[DeBelem]

I saw an option: Settings -> Game - > object outline. It didnt work for me as far as I can tell, or perhaps I have to start a new game to test it more. It didnt increase the distance though so you got to walk right to the object before you can see the prompt.

[Maximum997]

It is a combination of engine and art design with absurd ammount of visual noise. Only solution is "gothic" video setting or above.

[Shadow The Innkeep]

High and Gothic settings at 60 FPS absolutely are killing my eyes. I put my resolution to 100% as well. Vsync is on, frames are capped at 60. Yet when character turns around, despite smooth 60 fps there is certain... jittering in visuals that eyes can pick up and it really is hurting me. Game is very pretty and it has mu curiosity, but idk if its optimization or what, but it can def create uncomfortable ocular pressure. I'm playing on 2080, so Idk if going above Gothic would be a good idea

[eCapter]

hey, thx for replies. I am playing at very high settings. QHD, vsync off, motion blur off, 100% res, Alkimia overkill. I just turned some settings down to "Gothic" for performance. It was like reflections, shader, shadow.
I will try whether some motion blur can cover that up a little tomorrow.
"Nice" that Shadow has the same problems. So its not me^^ I really pray they will solve that for the release, because I really think I couldnt play it like that. It just "feels" aweful. I seriously feel the urge to not look at the screen :(

[Thomas D.]

I think its stuff like the bright / dark change when you look into bright / dark locations.

Additional there is some ghosting (for example have your character in front of a bright background, rotate the camera so that the background behind the character gets dark and you see some ghosting)

Then the game has plenty of motion blur (but I instantly set it to 0, before seeing how bad it is).

Blur can add to it (made it pretty low)

Then you should increase the resolution quality or something like that, its basically DLSS, make it the highest you can (which might even disable it and make your image better).

Then stuff like Frame Generation and so on can cause it, but I dont know if the game even uses it.

Increasing draw distance and details could also help.

But lowering some graphics (like shadows, reflection) which dont alter the quality that much but increase the framerate could help.

There are probably plenty of things that come together at once. But as for example mentioned with motion blur I changed some settings directly because I know how bad they are...

[T-Moor]

Please, try to play with different video and graphic settings. Im sure, you can set it up in the way you will like it,

Also, please, share more feedback here:

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[benai]

I have played this game for a few minutes and closed and deinstalled it.
The game seems to swim, as soon as i look at the game and want to play it I get eye pain and a headache.
Setting were to Gothic, Alki whatever and lower, its the same Radeon 7900 XTX, AMD 7800X3D.

[Magnvs]

I think the vignetting is what makes it hard to see. There is a lot of contrast between bright areas and dark, so if a bright cliff is in your centre of vision, the peripheral areas may be darkened excessively by the vignette. Maybe a HDR screen makes it better, or adjust auto exposure in UE settings

[eXectis. Niffer]

Originally posted by T-Moor | ТГ канал ↓:

Please, try to play with different video and graphic settings. Im sure, you can set it up in the way you will like it,

Also, please, share more feedback here:

• General feedback in this Google form[docs.google.com]
  
• Bug reports[bugreporting.thqnordic.com]
  
• Review on the Steam Page

This is called motion sickness. And its coming from the camera moving with the head (head bobbin). Since the Game is jumping up and down its creates the feeling like being on a ship.
I got the same issue. If you wont bring in an option that disables this and keeps the camera still. I wont buy it.

No detail setting will change this.

[btzmnn]

Originally posted by eCapter:

I really get dizzy and headache and want to turn the game off

I feel the same. It just hurts to play.

[Lithurge]

Originally posted by eXectis. Niffer:

This is called motion sickness. And its coming from the camera moving with the head (head bobbin). Since the Game is jumping up and down its creates the feeling like being on a ship.
I got the same issue. If you wont bring in an option that disables this and keeps the camera still. I wont buy it.

No detail setting will change this.

Strictly speaking it's not emulating head bobbing, because the camera doesn't move when walking on a flat surface even though in real life your head still 'bobs' in that situation.

It may not even be the cause, I've personally found it can be the weight of the camera movement (e.g. the way the camera moves when you move the mouse) with a third person view that can cause me to feel motion sickness. If it's set a certain way I feel it and can only play the game for short periods. The only time I've ever experienced it with a first person view was (funnily enough) playing a game set on a ship, where the ship was rolling in heavy seas.

But I agree any sort of bob should have an option to disable it.

[Lightman]

Yeah, same. Couldn't quite put my finger on whats wrong, but it really strains my eyes and makes my head hurt no matter what settings I change, and even if I lower the settings enough to get a stable 60fps everything is still sluggish and choppy. And on the top of that it's way too dark. Brightness setting doesn't seem to do anything, and even if I push gamma all the way up, it still feels like the game have some dark tint over it.

[Milamber]

I’m getting 35fps at max settings in 4K on a 5090. The demo looks fantastic, but it runs like a slideshow. It definitely needs serious optimisation—they clearly don’t test this game at max settings in 4K.

[Scavenger]

I actually had a similar impression.

The game looks great, and that's the Problem.
There is so much Contrast in Shadows and details that my brain is overloading.

I can only do one thing at a time:
Play the game and scan for Items, or Enjoy the world.

If i would have a wish as a feature:
Get a Slider where we can do all the contrast in the game more "flat" and remove the dynamic HDR thing.