Motion Sickness anyone?

[nuscheltier]

I really like the game. The atmosphere is cool, the music is sparse but suites the game and all in all it's kinda "fluffy". But there is one thing: After one hour of gaming i get Motion Sickness or so I think, because all of a sudden I'm getting nauseated and have to stop playing in order to recover.
Am I the only one around here having that problem?

[Sindar]

Me too, I normally get motion sickness from anything first person perspective. The camera angles are a bit all over the place so that could be it...?

[nuscheltier]

I don't think it's the camera angels that are causing the sickness. I guess it's more the speed with which you can run through the levels. It's perhaps just a tad to fast for the both of us.

[Lil Bro Peep]

This is a new one. Are there specific areas that are causing more motion sickness? 2D, 3D areas, etc? Honestly curious - motion sickness in gaming isn't something I know a lot about.

- Sam

[nuscheltier]

I can't particularly say it's the 3D or the 2D part because it doesn't happen at a specific place/part of the Game. It's more after about half an hour i get this strange feeling that i'm about to puke. If i had to guess, i'd say it's the speed of both parts, but the 2D Part is kind of less frequently than the 3D one.

[Lil Bro Peep]

Originally posted by nuscheltier:

I can't particularly say it's the 3D or the 2D part because it doesn't happen at a specific place/part of the Game. It's more after about half an hour i get this strange feeling that i'm about to puke. If i had to guess, i'd say it's the speed of both parts, but the 2D Part is kind of less frequently than the 3D one.

Interesting - thanks for letting us know. I don't think we can do anything about it on our side, unfortunately. I have some anecdotal feedback from friends that playing certain games causes this kind of feedback, but I didn't know ours did it too.

- Sam

[Ash]

Yea, I just played for 30 mins with KB/Mouse and I got this motion sickness feeling now as well. Bare in mind I play lots of games, some FPS could give me this, but rarely a 3rd person one. The last 3rd person that does this was Darksiders 2. One thing in common with Contrast and DS2 is that the camera is very 'stiff' and sensitive and when you move around it tilts and 'snaps' right back to behind the character. All this panning and fast camera movement without some sort of 'ease in' is what contribute to the motion sickness I guess.

Too bad I couldn't keep playing now, but I would suggest try play with a gamepad instead of mouse to see if it will help, since then you get to control the speed you turn/run, which hopefully will limit the wildness of the camera pans and tilts.

[nuscheltier]

Originally posted by Ash:

Yea, I just played for 30 mins with KB/Mouse and I got this motion sickness feeling now as well. Bare in mind I play lots of games, some FPS could give me this, but rarely a 3rd person one. The last 3rd person that does this was Darksiders 2. One thing in common with Contrast and DS2 is that the camera is very 'stiff' and sensitive and when you move around it tilts and 'snaps' right back to behind the character. All this panning and fast camera movement without some sort of 'ease in' is what contribute to the motion sickness I guess.

Too bad I couldn't keep playing now, but I would suggest try play with a gamepad instead of mouse to see if it will help, since then you get to control the speed you turn/run, which hopefully will limit the wildness of the camera pans and tilts.

Well I play with a gamepad. So sadly that doesn't help a bit.
But I concur with fast camera problem. I played Contrast in the last few days and Dawn running about, the world becoming kind of a blur while she runs, and the sensitivity of the camera, it was kind of like a drug induced dream. "D'you see these patches of colour? Wheeeee." Something like that.

I don't know if it would help, but perhaps an option to "slow down" the game a bit would help those with Motion Sickness, although I don't have a clue how it could be done.

[Lil Bro Peep]

Originally posted by nuscheltier:

Originally posted by Ash:

Yea, I just played for 30 mins with KB/Mouse and I got this motion sickness feeling now as well. Bare in mind I play lots of games, some FPS could give me this, but rarely a 3rd person one. The last 3rd person that does this was Darksiders 2. One thing in common with Contrast and DS2 is that the camera is very 'stiff' and sensitive and when you move around it tilts and 'snaps' right back to behind the character. All this panning and fast camera movement without some sort of 'ease in' is what contribute to the motion sickness I guess.

Too bad I couldn't keep playing now, but I would suggest try play with a gamepad instead of mouse to see if it will help, since then you get to control the speed you turn/run, which hopefully will limit the wildness of the camera pans and tilts.

Well I play with a gamepad. So sadly that doesn't help a bit.
But I concur with fast camera problem. I played Contrast in the last few days and Dawn running about, the world becoming kind of a blur while she runs, and the sensitivity of the camera, it was kind of like a drug induced dream. "D'you see these patches of colour? Wheeeee." Something like that.

I don't know if it would help, but perhaps an option to "slow down" the game a bit would help those with Motion Sickness, although I don't have a clue how it could be done.

Honestly, we won't be able to do that for Contrast. However, it'll be something we keep in mind for whatever we do next.

- Sam

[US National Gaming Team]

I don't know if it is considered bad form to reply to such an old post but I found it in a search. I just wanted to say that I too get motion sick playing this game which is something I can't every remember getting in a game that is third person.

I too think it is because of the speed of the character paired with the camera. It is a real shame because I feel like I can really get into this game but have to stop because I feel so sick unless I only make Dawn walk.

[bujablaster]

Sorry for bumping such old thread, but i had such issue too and couldn't find much about it anywhere over the net. I simply couldn't stay more than 20 minutes in game, even i tried lower mouse/look sensitivity. Issue was clearly such low camera FOV for me. I have no troubles with low FOV in FPS games, but here it felt like something tries to pull my eyes out throug back of my head ;).

So, if some one suffers from these issues too, here is my remedy (tested on human):

1) camera fast movement while playing on KB+M

Go into game menu, then Setting -> Camera. Adjust Mouse sensitivity to your needs.


2) too narrow camera FOV

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Contrast#Field_of_view_.28FOV.29

You just need to open your game .ini file in some txt editor and add those two lines. I found 110 value of FOV comfortable for me. This way gives you an option to switch camera FOV values between "right one" and your own during game at any moment by pressing certain keys. I ususally swith back to the original FOV only for cutscenes.

There is also another way (and i believe it is working way) to achieve same thing via Flawless Widescreen application, but i didn't test it as editing one .ini file was faster and it worked nice.


Hope it helps and thanx for nice game with nice atmosphere!

[Compulsion]

Originally posted by bujablaster UR-Brotherhood:

Sorry for bumping such old thread, but i had such issue too and couldn't find much about it anywhere over the net. I simply couldn't stay more than 20 minutes in game, even i tried lower mouse/look sensitivity. Issue was clearly such low camera FOV for me. I have no troubles with low FOV in FPS games, but here it felt like something tries to pull my eyes out throug back of my head ;).

So, if some one suffers from these issues too, here is my remedy (tested on human):

1) camera fast movement while playing on KB+M

Go into game menu, then Setting -> Camera. Adjust Mouse sensitivity to your needs.


2) too narrow camera FOV

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Contrast#Field_of_view_.28FOV.29

You just need to open your game .ini file in some txt editor and add those two lines. I found 110 value of FOV comfortable for me. This way gives you an option to switch camera FOV values between "right one" and your own during game at any moment by pressing certain keys. I ususally swith back to the original FOV only for cutscenes.

There is also another way (and i believe it is working way) to achieve same thing via Flawless Widescreen application, but i didn't test it as editing one .ini file was faster and it worked nice.


Hope it helps and thanx for nice game with nice atmosphere!

Thank you for such a helpful post :) While we can't do it for Contrast, I am planning to add a FoV slider for our next game, as well as make sure that the mouse sensitivity slider is more useful than it was in Contrast.

- Sam

[Seed Vault Pilgrim]

I feel lucky this hasn't happened to me yet, but I'll bear it in mind. I get terrible motion sickness from the games Master Reboot and Anti-Chamber. The more realistic games haven't caused me any issues just the abstract ones with a lot of flat colour textures.

[Ɲσcтυяηє ǀηɗιєη]

I was wondering what was giving me this disagreeable feeling when I was playing. It seemed that when moving, the environnement was flickering. I first thought that it was a graphic isuue, but my system is good, and I can run smoothly all games.

I think that what causes this issue, is the camera bumping along with the character's movements as she runs: so no wonder why one feel queasy.

Never played a game like that. Pity because otherwise it's fun and interesting.

Edit: problem solved: I 'm locking all games to 40 fps, most of them don't need more, and it reduces GPU usage and consomption, then I tried to raise it to 60 for Contrast and the change is huge: no more stuttering !
Sorry for blaming the game. :)

[Kittie Hearts]

This also happen to me. PC. i find that the turning of the actually mouse, not being able to adjust the speed may cause it. I had to stop playing after the cinema scene as i felt to sick to continue. Good game though!

[heatherericksonauthor]

Some people are more sensitive to this than others, I tend to get motions sickness easily from 1st person POV games. This one puts me on the edge. I just have to stop before it gets me feeling icky. SO it takes me a bit longer to finish a game, but at least I can play it.