Let me just say - as someone with light sensitivities that cause horrible multiday migraines that leave me bedridden - you think we don't already know and do all of this? Your post comes across as advice we definitely didn't ask for and that we definitely don't need. It's like telling someone with chronic pain to try yoga or telling someone with chronic depression to just be happier. It's inconsiderate and rude. The problem is that with the lighting engine update that they did with beyond light, things have gotten significantly [i]brighter[/i] and [i]flashier[/i]. I've adjusted everything I can on my end, from settings in the game to settings on the monitors, etc., - to the point that sometimes you can't even tell my monitors are ON - and it is still enough in a lot of situations to trigger problems. There's some armor and shader combos that I refer to as "lens flare" and while I do think they are cool, they definitely need to be toned down for the sake of the players. This new update for the season of the splicer - where the lights violently die and come back in the tower and in helm means that I sit in orbit to handle anything I can with DIM and the Bungie companion app and only come to the tower when absolutely necessary b/c it hurts and it absolutely shouldn't.

True, but that person is legitimately trying to assist. You do have a point that anyone who suffers from a similar condition already has tried anything they can, but there is no need to bite their head off.

It falls back onto the notion that "[i]my five minutes of googling is better knowledge than this disabled person's lifelong lived experience so let me, the able bodied person, tell the disabled person how to live their life[/i]". [b]It's ableism in a nutshell and needs to stop.[/b] Don't offer advice to someone complaining of a medical issue unless they are outright asking for advice, otherwise you deserve to be lit up.

Then I have no other advice other than to either: 1. Play less. 2. Don't play at all.

That’s the thing, [i]you shouldn’t be offering advice because advice was not asked for[/i]. Because guess what - we’ve done as much as we can and now it falls to the developers to realize that they need to tone down some of the brightness/contrast or give us a photosensitive toggle and slider. I hope they give us a toggle that enables a slider. [quote]Mister Exotic It's like someone with diverticulitis that wants to continue eating popcorn. Unfortunately nothing can be done.[/quote] Except that the [i]bulk of the game[/i] didn't trigger our photosensitivities prior to beyond light and now it's almost 80-90% of the game, so your analogy doesn't work. That's like saying we're getting mad that our meal, which has only previously had risk of being cross-contaminated in the same kitchen because there was shrimp in the kitchen, now has shrimp actually in it.

What did the doctor say?

To file a comment about the fact the brightness slider doesn't work as well as it should given the updates to the lighting engine making pretty much everything in the game hostile to photosensitivity (and with the updates to the tower and HELM making them have violent lighting changes this season), and to always remember to use the blue light filter. Seeing as I never turn off the blue light filter and in fact have forgotten I use it and wonder why my S/O's PC monitors look weird; I've only got "file a comment" left, which by contributing to this thread and upvoting it, I've done.