Motion sickness friendly option?

[Coffee4All]

Hello!
I am so very excited to play this game and learn the story. It's why I got this game, however, I am unfortunately one of those people who get motion sick easily. Currently, as much as I want to play it, I can only play 30 minutes at a time before I start to feel nauseated and can't keep playing.

I would like to perhaps suggest some motion sick friendly options? I see you already have the little centre point in the screen so that's awesome, thank you for that. Usually what helps me with this in other games with other options are:
- Setting to take Chromatic Aberration off.
- Setting to remove Motion Blur.

These are the two options I would see being of great help against those who gets sick from motion. I'd like to add that if you add these as options in settings, those who don't get sick and want to enjoy the full experience, can. That way it is playable for all <3

Thanks so much,
Coffee4All

[Dyslexic Hands]

I agree, I too love the game so far but can only play in short burst due to motion sickness. I would also suggest a setting to adjust the FOV in addition to the above mentioned by Coffee4All.

[crapchronicles]

I agree with this! Also get motion sickness playing this game but love the game.

[Bandy]

It is not "motion sickness", but yes it feels the same. I never get motion sick or sea sick IRL, but I do get game induced nausea (GIN) from first person view games, so there is something different, how our brains are wired perhaps.

Devs including motion blur, head bobbing, etc... all those GIN triggers without offering an 'off' in settings is simply unconscionable. This problem known for decades.

Some people do slowly build up a tolerance if you can keep playing a little at a time over a few weeks to a month. At least you can try to persevere and hope, if the game means something to you.

That said, perhaps look in games folder for config file(s), usually a file with .ini extension, and make a copy of that file. Start scrolling through the active file (not the renamed copy) looking for 'motion blur' entry and set it = 0 same for chromatic aberation = 0 and save the file.

I do not own this game, just lurking here, but trying to be advocate for players who suffer, because devs need to pay more attention to GIN. Nobody knows how many are affected, and many devs basically do little to nothing to help us have a better experience of their game.

[Sorincha]

+1

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by Coffee4All:

Hello!
I am so very excited to play this game and learn the story. It's why I got this game, however, I am unfortunately one of those people who get motion sick easily. Currently, as much as I want to play it, I can only play 30 minutes at a time before I start to feel nauseated and can't keep playing.

I would like to perhaps suggest some motion sick friendly options? I see you already have the little centre point in the screen so that's awesome, thank you for that. Usually what helps me with this in other games with other options are:
- Setting to take Chromatic Aberration off.
- Setting to remove Motion Blur.

These are the two options I would see being of great help against those who gets sick from motion. I'd like to add that if you add these as options in settings, those who don't get sick and want to enjoy the full experience, can. That way it is playable for all <3

Thanks so much,
Coffee4All

Whoa, Joe Coffee meets Coffee4All.

I have not encountered any motion sickness in this game, the worst I ever get is when I tried Gorn (VR). Talk about some crippling nausea on my part. Although I hope that a developer is watching this area and can help with game settings and reduce motion blur and movement sensitivity.

It is said that maybe ginger can help. Don't know if you are a fan of ginger-based snacks or drinks but maybe some ginger ale can help, too.

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Bandy:

It is not "motion sickness", but yes it feels the same. I never get motion sick or sea sick IRL, but I do get game induced nausea (GIN) ....

[⫷ ᛞᚱᚨᚲᛁ ☾ 𓃩]

I'm usually not the type to get "motion sickness" or "GIN", but I (often) get a headache after 20-30 minutes in the game. Turning off motion blur usually helps, but it's currently not an option.

[Bandy]

Originally posted by 𝒟𝓇𝒶𝓀𝒾:

I'm usually not the type to get "motion sickness" or "GIN", but I (often) get a headache after 20-30 minutes in the game. ...

Yes, headache is indeed game induced nausea. I used to get that playing first person view (cockpit) flight sims when I bought Track IR. It took about 2-3 weeks of consistent occasional game play to get over that for me, and was well known in the flight sim community.

[Lecks]

I'm also running into this problem in REKA. It doesn't affect me in other games. FoV or motion blur settings might help combat it. Not sure what it is about REKA that's causing it :(

[uncrustable]

hoping the devs can add a switch to toggle off “motion blur” as others mentioned. just tried the game for the first time today and had to stop after only 10-15 minutes due to GIN. I’m so upset because i’ve really been looking forward to playing this game and then of course i encounter this issue. i guess i’ll have to hope and pray they add that option so i can enjoy the game i paid for. i tried playing with both controller and keyboard and mouse, with no resolution.

[ccrowles]

+1 as I sadly cannot play more than 15 minutes without feeling extremely sick.

[Malmally]

I am very sensitive to some games, mostly first-person, and get horribly motion sick. I have started with wearing motion sickness patches and a Dramamine/meclazine dose about an hour or so before playing. Helps immensely!

[ccrowles]

Yeah but some of us cannot take motion sickness meds due to other medical conditions and/or interactions with other meds. And that's even leaving aside the fact that it's not ideal having to take meds just to play a game...

[RyuKajiya]

Think it is not the motion blur and chroma but controls are directly wired to mouse movement.
Normaly games add a slight smoothing to camera movement, this game has nothing like that at all which results in very erratic movement that can cause motion sickness.
It needs a very brief acceleration and decelleration when moving the mouse, usually it is just a few milliseconds but it makes a huge difference to playability.

[ccrowles]

Originally posted by RyuKajiya:

Think it is not the motion blur and chroma but controls are directly wired to mouse movement.
Normaly games add a slight smoothing to camera movement, this game has nothing like that at all which results in very erratic movement that can cause motion sickness.
It needs a very brief acceleration and decelleration when moving the mouse, usually it is just a few milliseconds but it makes a huge difference to playability.

I'm guessing in the past 3 months since when you last wrote they didn't add the acceleration/deceleration, right? Cause I skimmed through their latest update notes and there was nothing mentioning adjusting stuff for motion sickness.