Headache and nausea...

[Master Tang]

Anyone getting headaches and nausea from playing this game? I have never experienced anything like this before in 30 years of gaming.

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

Take breaks

[Rupan]

There's a mod that removes the headbob, if that's the source of the problem.

[Seamus]

Increasing field of view can also be helpful in reducing motion sickness issues.

Some games also provide an option for a static dot in the screen that can help, but, already have that in the form of the crosshair.

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

30 years of gaming means you are nearing an age where your body may be unable to tolerate staring into a glowing 3d maze for hours at a time, if you are playing for long stretches.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

30 years of gaming means you are nearing an age where your body may be unable to tolerate staring into a glowing 3d maze for hours at a time, if you are playing for long stretches.

Honestly, this. Turned 45 earlier this month and over the last few years i noticed that my tolerance for fast paced 3D enviroments with sudden camera movements has gone WAY down.
Getting motion sickness way more often then 20 years ago in games.

[Master Tang]

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

Take breaks

I played 36 mins before it became unbearable.

I've been playing Diablo 4 and Holtgun for hours upon end the recent weeks. There's something about this game.

[Master Tang]

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

30 years of gaming means you are nearing an age where your body may be unable to tolerate staring into a glowing 3d maze for hours at a time, if you are playing for long stretches.

I played 36 mins before it became unbearable.

I've been playing Diablo 4 and Holtgun for hours upon end the recent weeks. There's something about this game.

[Master Tang]

Originally posted by Rupan:

There's a mod that removes the headbob, if that's the source of the problem.

I will probably try that, have never experienced anything anywhere close to this before.

[Torham]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

30 years of gaming means you are nearing an age where your body may be unable to tolerate staring into a glowing 3d maze for hours at a time, if you are playing for long stretches.

Honestly, this. Turned 45 earlier this month and over the last few years i noticed that my tolerance for fast paced 3D enviroments with sudden camera movements has gone WAY down.
Getting motion sickness way more often then 20 years ago in games.

So much. I have fired up Ye olde Doom the other day, and my head started spinning. I absolutely detest shaky cam, and I cant look at the TV/Screen when its shaking.

Pushing 43 here.

[bl_4u]

Headbob, motion blur, screen flash, depth of field effects - I turn them all off.

I'm 34 and I have epilepsy. I can play pretty well for a couple hours at a time, but no healthy person is actually meant to be looking at a computer screen, even for office work, for more than an hour without taking a 10 minute break.

The eye strain and mental exhaustion catch up on you eventually, and it takes away from quality of sleep. Be safe!

[StrangelyEroticSoda]

As others have mentioned, some settings help, but I'd also add that tinkering with the brightness, contrast and sharpness settings on your monitor *could* help. For me, it's mostly about brightness and how "blocky" the graphics in a given game are. Turning on some light could also help. Sometimes changing Field of View (Display settings) help a lot, too - usually lower if you're very far from your monitor, higher if you're close.

[wavinautomaticguns@nuns]

On top of adjusting settings, a feature to walk slowly would make a huge QoL difference here. The base movement speed is far too high and accelerates rapidly. Trying to focus on the finer detail of your surroundings while moving feels unnaturally difficult. It causes an immense amount of strain if you attempt to visually take in fine detail during movement.

For a game based indoors, I'm surprised it wasn't included here as it's practically a necessity. Having to stop moving every few steps while searching feels unnatural. Being able to walk into a room as the detail slowly reveals itself in a natural progression is missing in a game filled with interesting environments. You get a decent picture running into a room and see the bigger threats and details, but you cannot see much else unless you come to a dead stop.

[DustyCruz]

Cyberspace gives me vertigo and I feel dizzy sometimes when I get to those sections of the game.

[The Renderer]

System Shock isn't Doom where you run around like crazy all the time, so I doubt it's the "fast movement" part.

Turn up the FoV, that always helps. 105-110 at least. And turn off motion blur.

Same goes for the Cyberspace. There is a separate FoV setting for that. Set both to the same value so you don't get the "reset view when aiming" bug, also it's only logical to set them both to the same value.

Finally try this mod to reduce/remove head bob, but FoV is THE issue #1, all the rest is minor:

https://www.nexusmods.com/systemshock2023/mods/24

(some more things that might help, but again, minor compared to FoV: turn HUD curvature to zero and remove chromatic aberration from the HUD using this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/systemshock2023/mods/20 )

[ParasiteX]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

30 years of gaming means you are nearing an age where your body may be unable to tolerate staring into a glowing 3d maze for hours at a time, if you are playing for long stretches.

Honestly, this. Turned 45 earlier this month and over the last few years i noticed that my tolerance for fast paced 3D enviroments with sudden camera movements has gone WAY down.
Getting motion sickness way more often then 20 years ago in games.

Pushing 42 myself (time sure flies) But I've never had any motion sickness issues myself. I guess I've always been more resistant. Having played many space sims where i'm constantly rolling around and other fast paced games. Heh, even just recently ordered a new set of expensive flight sticks for use in various sims.. Hopefully I'm able to play em for a few more years to come without issues.
If anything i feel like I'm better at most games than i was 20 years ago. But i probably chalk that up to better experience. As i most assuredly should have worse reflexes now.

Altough, doing a reaction test here https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime
I still get a pretty decent score of 195ms. Note i do have an OLED screen which has extremely low input lag.
Altough i was getting these type of scores even with my older VA panel. hmm 🤔