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Anyone else feeling physically sick from the Witness?
- Thread starter chubigans
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I feel very lucky reading this thread, I've never had motion sickness with any game, and The Witness is no different. I seem to be immune to it.
It makes me wonder though, what makes someone susceptible to motion sickness. What physical characteristics or mental characteristics would cause people to have the issue, because clearly it is a large issue for some.
It makes me wonder though, what makes someone susceptible to motion sickness. What physical characteristics or mental characteristics would cause people to have the issue, because clearly it is a large issue for some.
Kinda felt odd within 20 minutes, and I *never* get motion sickness from games. Maybe it's the left stick sensitivity (seems to be virtually zero dead zone). I don't like the delayed speed-up when running either. I was looking forward to this, but I've put in my refund request with Steam.
It's sounds like it's a 54 vertical FoV and that's actually quite high. It translates to about 84 horizontal, and most console games are around the mid 70s. It could be that the FoV is actually too high.
Edit: Looking at the footage, yeah, there's no way that's 54 horizontal FoV, though honestly, I can't say for certain that it's 84 FoV either.
Wait.what.woah.
Unless your character is a horse with blinders this is a puke simulator.
Unfinished Swan was the worst so far for me. I never had to lay down after 5 min sessions in FPS game before. I mean, I get headache from time to time in FPS games but not to the point that it managed to incapacitate me and send me directly for a good night sleep.
Storm Raider
Banned
Inb4 placebo & more and more people start saying this
chrominance
Member
It's weird because I've played a ton of first-person games over the years, including many mentioned in this thread as ones that triggered nausea in others. The only games I remember ever causing anything like this are Fallout 4 (once or twice in 140 hours, so probably not the game), The Witness (about as severe as what I felt from Fallout 4, which wasn't that bad), and Singularity (definitely more severe than the first two games).
54 is the vertical FOV. Horizontal is adjusted based on ratio, presumably aspect ratio.
chrominance
Member
This may actually explain why some people are feeling a bit sick while others aren't. My monitor is 16:10, so a vertical FOV of 54 would translate into a lower horizontal FOV than on a 16:9 screen. It's not necessarily a huge difference, though, and obviously there are people feeling queasy on PS4 at 1080p as well.
CitizenCope
Member
I did mention earlier how I'm lucky I have no issues yet but I will say when I see my shadow it's like Shaggy from Scooby Doo running. Two steps take up a very unnatural distance. Quite jarring.
I will say that I adjusted my FOV to 60 and I felt much better.
But I suspect that it is more than the FOV that is causing issues.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
No but my brain keeps wanting to draw lines in the air after playing it so much xD
InsaneTiger
Member
So weird. First person games have never gotten me sick. I don't why but man, that sucks.
How does FOV fix this for people that are affected?
How does FOV fix this for people that are affected?
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is this real lmfao.
i played couple hours on pc and dint get nauseaus ( stopped the camera alot to drool over the art tho) and im susceptible to motion sickness. mostly to head bob/ boat cam or bad fov, overdone shaky cam as well. some glam cams like far cry loot animations or ledge climbing after awhile can give me a headache too.
The only game to ever give me motion sickness was/is the unfinished swan.. I play a lot of games also! It must be some kind is strange movement speed/bounce and the FOV but I have never experienced anything like it in my life while playing video games.
I wanted to play the witness but if others are saying this is like unfinished swan I wouldn't last 10 minutes.
I wanted to play the witness but if others are saying this is like unfinished swan I wouldn't last 10 minutes.
CitizenCope
Member
If you see my post Unfinished Swan nearly killed me yet I'm not having any issues here. Can't say it will be the same for you though.
Karak
Member
Since I am someone who normally CAN get it but normally Dramamine works and here it didn't I am wondering that myself. For example it feels like something is in and out of focus the entire time your playing and the movement attached to the camera always feels...off.
LOL 2 of our lan gamers are ex Alaskan fisherman and they got ill. So that can tell you something
Nah its a mock up of his tweet about the pee bottle. Just a joke.
clifftrapremover
Member
Couple hours into the Witness on PS4 and I had to stop twice due to motion sickness. This isn't a frequent issue for me, I play shooters all the time and played through Unfinished Swan just fine. I rather like the game but I'm not sure I can actually play it.
chrominance
Member
Just put in another hour without changing any settings, and didn't feel any worse than when I started. So maybe I'm just used to it now, or maybe it was just a random headache.
BluePigGanon
Member
It's your eyes and inner ear conflicted. So you feel motion but don't see it (reading in a car) or see motion but don't feel it (some movies and games).
The only game that ever made me sick was Flower. I'll be playing The Witness tomorrow, we shall see what happens I guess lol
Shrennin
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I watched the GB QL and then after I felt sick. Didn't chalk it up to motion sickness until now. I haven't gotten motion sickness from a game in years, but this must have been it. And I just bought the game... Ruh oh.
Hopefully it gets patched on PS4. I may try to play it and see if it's different when I'm actually controlling it.
Hopefully it gets patched on PS4. I may try to play it and see if it's different when I'm actually controlling it.
FOV is something that matters more depending on size of screen and your distance to it. When I bought a 32" PC monitor, for instance, I found that I had to increase the FOV greatly while playing on it. When moving back to the TV, though, I usually reduce it.
IchigoSharingan
Member
yeah same here.....
why not tape a piece of paper to the center of your monitors to keep your eyes focused?
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I can't play for much longer than half an hour even with adjusting the fov. It sucks because I have to stop for a few hours before playing again. First person games have this effect on me fairly frequently though.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
60FPS and no cursor in the middle strikes again. I haven't played Witness yet, but that can do it for a LOT of people - especially people watching someone playing the game. I think this scenario is some kind of visual overload for the brain, as it hardly ever happens to anyone watching a 30FPS game.
FOV in my experience has almost nothing do with this, and correcting FOV matters more with how far you sit from a screen of certain size.
FOV in my experience has almost nothing do with this, and correcting FOV matters more with how far you sit from a screen of certain size.
davidwhangchoi
Member
same issue playing portal up too close on PC on certain holes.
Interesting to see others mention Unfinished Swan. I've only encountered one other person (on another forum) who experienced the same nausea as me. God, it was AWFUL lol. I had to lie down for a couple hours afterward. Shame, too, because I really wanted to finish it
It's interesting that people reacted so strongly to Unfinished Swan, huh. I personally had issues with the first chapter, but for me it was more that the inability to erase any of the ink you shot made it really hard to tell what anything you put too much ink on was, and for some reason this become actively stressful to me.
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Deleted member 125677
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Yeah, I experienced this too. First time a game has done that to me, I thought it had to be fatigue or stress, but maybe it's actually something about the game itself.
Playing with vsync off on a 144hz g-sync monitor with +100fps
Playing with vsync off on a 144hz g-sync monitor with +100fps
Adam_Roman
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I haven't had problems, but I've played it in two sessions so far, which were 60 and 90 minutes.
GarciaHotspur
Member
Nothing.
panda-zebra
Member
Nothing here.
Played all day on and off yesterday, on ps4, felt perfectly fine. Did kind of notice some kind of fish-eye stretchiness to the screen edges at times, or maybe my brain was drunk from so much puzzle-solving. I sit a good distance from a fairly small TV, if that makes a difference.
Played all day on and off yesterday, on ps4, felt perfectly fine. Did kind of notice some kind of fish-eye stretchiness to the screen edges at times, or maybe my brain was drunk from so much puzzle-solving. I sit a good distance from a fairly small TV, if that makes a difference.
BlastProcessing
Member
Yeah, I had to set the game down because I was feeling nausea. On the PS4 as well. This sucks.
The droning sound wasn't helping either.
The droning sound wasn't helping either.
Dick Laurent
Member
Got motion sickness almost immediatly from watching the giant bomb quicklook. but I'm not getting it so bad in the game itself, can definitely feel it a little. Hopefully screwing around with the fov will help it.
Sometimes I start associating a game with getting motion sickness or something, and I almost get sick just thinking about that game, it's ridiculous. Hehe. Hopefully that hasn't happened with The Witness already. I'm only a couple of hours into it. I mostly never get motion sickness from first person games, only one I can recall is Marathon. But there are a few other terrible ones for me, like hammerfight, zombie driver.
Yeah, it also makes a huge different watching the game instead of playing it. The movement of the camera does it, so being in control of the camera you won't really be affected since you're anticipating the turning and movements. Same as getting car sick really, it's the passengers getting sick, not the driver.
Sometimes I start associating a game with getting motion sickness or something, and I almost get sick just thinking about that game, it's ridiculous. Hehe. Hopefully that hasn't happened with The Witness already. I'm only a couple of hours into it. I mostly never get motion sickness from first person games, only one I can recall is Marathon. But there are a few other terrible ones for me, like hammerfight, zombie driver.
Yeah, it also makes a huge different watching the game instead of playing it. The movement of the camera does it, so being in control of the camera you won't really be affected since you're anticipating the turning and movements. Same as getting car sick really, it's the passengers getting sick, not the driver.