Arachnophobia/Entomophobia Mode

[Khemeia]

Look, I've been enjoying my time with this game so far and even though I mostly play solo I still find it relatively fun (even though I die 99% of the time). My one problem? The spiders and insects. I know this game is meant to be scary and all but if you have a genuine phobia of spiders or other insects (which are relatively common phobias to have) it can be more distressing than it was intended to be and often won't be worth playing.

So how do I suggest improving this? Simple. Add an arachnophobia mode in settings, and when its turned on replace spiders and other insects with rats/bats. I'd really love to see this be added.

[FluFFy]

Sometimes you need to face your fear, or run away from it forever..

[randingo]

Spiders exist in real life, you should poke your eyes out so you don't have to see them

[Dollop of Mayo]

Sometimes I almost forget I'm on the internet until I see hordes of people who have absolutely zero empathy

[Terran]

If something in a game leaves you terrified, its not the game for you. I'd suggest to move on. Sorry that spiders scare you.

[Dollop of Mayo]

Here's the fun part: I'm not bothered by spiders in video games.

I just... think that it's a good feature for others to help them out.

This is called empathy. I am sorry you live in an environment that has taught you that it is a weakness.

[Lowbei]

My skeletonophobia is acting up again. Devs better get to work on a fix.

[Dollop of Mayo]

Originally posted by Lowbei:

My skeletonophobia is acting up again. Devs better get to work on a fix.

I'm glad I'm not afraid of clowns or else you'd have me screaming.

[M Δ J I M Δ]

Originally posted by you play garbage haha:

Originally posted by Shiya64:

Careful, this community is allergic to options.

not interested in this game, but watching people try to change a game to be what they require rather than enjoy someones vision/implementation is sickening. i don't like deep water but i don't go into subnautica forums and demand changes. it's beyond asinine. the devs/pubs who succeed will be the ones who carry out their vision. not the companies like AWS that remove pvp for extra $$ from the whiners.

these are side effects of the horrible kickstarter/everyone has a say trend from the past decade. boy am I glad VC money is drying up and rates won't be going down anytime soon.

i buy media to enjoy creators visions, not try to alter every detail to make me feel like a special snowflake. you are playing a dungeon crawler, there are spiders. get over it.

It would be literally an option, just like Satisfactory has. Why be a deluded ♥♥♥♥ about it

[Khemeia]

I did not realize that the Dark and Darker community hate people with phobias that they can’t control and certainly would never choose to have so much. Not everyone is gonna be exactly like you. Get over it.

[Lowbei]

Originally posted by TheNamelessTwo:

Get over it.

irony.

[Khemeia]

Originally posted by Lowbei:

Originally posted by TheNamelessTwo:

Get over it.

irony.

I’m not even asking for the game to be changed for everyone, i’m just asking for an option that swaps out some entity models so that the game can be more accessible and more people can enjoy it. If i was demanding a big change that would be a reasonable response but this could literally only help the game.

[GrinningRabbit]

Originally posted by Bill.N:

. As far as I know, there isn't a game that has an Arachnophobia mode in it.

Grounded does. I know there's more out there but sadly that is the only one that came to mind immediately.

[Khemeia]

Originally posted by Lowbei:

Originally posted by TheNamelessTwo:

I’m not even asking for the game to be changed for everyone, i’m just asking for an option that swaps out some entity models so that the game can be more accessible and more people can enjoy it. If i was demanding a big change that would be a reasonable response but this could literally only help the game.

No worries. My skeletonophobia requires the devs to make changes as well.

Does your skeletonophobia affect between ten and thirty percent of the population and occur up to twice as much in women?
Also, as someone who plans on going into game design and also knows a good amount about computer science, this isn’t as difficult of a change as you like making it seem. Sure, it’s not a minuscule change either, but the most difficult part of it would really just be adding it to UI since they wouldn’t even have to make a new model if they didn’t want to and the rest is just slightly modifying preexisting code and adding an if statement.

[Dollop of Mayo]

If you ask certain folks on this forum, any changes that they don't personally want would result in the game devs perishing from the effort

[randingo]

Originally posted by TheNamelessTwo:

Originally posted by Lowbei:

No worries. My skeletonophobia requires the devs to make changes as well.

Does your skeletonophobia affect between ten and thirty percent of the population and occur up to twice as much in women?

Yes.