HARD FREAKING AGREE.

Reminder to folks that when you report this issue--and you should!--do it through the elderscrollsonline.com support portal, not in-game. In-game reports tend to get overlooked. Make sure you reply as soon as possible to the auto-reply email you'll get, even if you see a notice saying you don't have to, or your ticket will be dropped. I recommend doing what I did in the report I just submitted and including screenshots of the screen going totally glowing white (and, you know, warn for it). Maybe if enough support reps get blinded just reviewing tickets, someone will get on fixing this problem people have been complaining about for months. :P Probably not in time for Lost Treasures of Skyrim, sadly, but it would be nice in the long run.

I don't suffer from migraines or other issues that can be exacerbated by visual gameplay...I play in a well-lit room sitting back from the monitor...and even I start getting eyestrain headaches after about 20 minutes of scrying despite closing my eyes and turning away each time the flash is coming up. Which happens TWICE per scry! It's so excessively bright that it pierces through my closed eyelids. It's so excessively bright that the first time my partner started a scry in our fully lit living room when Greymoor initially launched, I (sitting across the room on the other side of the monitor) thought lightning was striking outside.

As soon as the Lost Treasures event was announced and they mentioned Antiquities would be involved, my first thought was, "Oh, no, I am going to be in agony trying to get that house unlocked."

This is a real issue for me, too, but it's not just scrying that does this. A lot of quests end with a flash of bright white light, which I find painful. I actually have to cover my eyes and turn away. I requested they stop this shortly after ESO launched. As you see, they haven't.

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

But to some of us, that could be something we would miss.. hard to please both parties, unless it can be fixed via options.. tried glasses?

I was going to reply to this but anything I'd say would probably be snipped out.

I just think if we're about to have a whole event around antiquities where people are being encouraged to scry in order to earn some really great rewards (I mean we all are going to want to work together for the house and house guest I'm sure) then I wanted to be sure that Zos are aware of how uncomfortable many players find it and request they tone it down for the event. I have reported it through various channels both in and out of the game since the end of June. It may seem unimportant to you Daemons_Bane but there are endless threads on the Forum on things I have no interest in and I don't complain they are taking up space, I just skip past them to ones that interest me.

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

...I just objected about the "for ages" part, and said that it was not something that had really been that visible on the forum..

I posted about the flashing bright lights with some quests shortly after ESO launched. It may not be posted about frequently, but it's been a reported issue all along.

I've also been seeing multiple people complain about the flashing light issue ever since Antiquities became a thing, and not just on these forums.

The white flash of light happens at both the beginning and end of each scry, so you can't just "escape" out of it every time. (Exiting a scry too early destroys all your progress anyway. You'd just end up having to do it again, and dealing with the bright flashes once more!)

Here's the screenshot I took of the flash that I included with a report I submitted (I'm not embedding it because of the glare). It's very difficult to get a shot of it at maximum brightness because it's so fast--which heavily contributes to eyestrain headache/migraine issues--but I did my best. This was the brightest out of about 15 screenshots I took from various scries, until my head hurt too much to scry anymore. It doesn't look like much as a still shot, but just imagine that full-screen dark-to-bright flashing in front of your eyes, over and again, whenever you're grinding out Antiquities. There are going to be a LOT of headaches when Lost Treasures starts, I'm guessing. One of my friends today says this effect triggered a seizure in her at one point, which I didn't know about, and would have included in my support ticket if I had known. I hope she files her own ticket.

https://imgur.com/ptrmpHQ

16BitForestCat wrote: »

As soon as the Lost Treasures event was announced and they mentioned Antiquities would be involved, my first thought was, "Oh, no, I am going to be in agony trying to get that house unlocked."

If all else fails, don't worry about scrying if it's that bad for you. It's a community event and not everyone has to participate to unlock it for everyone who meets the conditions (owning Greymoor and logging in within a certain period)

I promise to do some extra scrying to make up for people who have issues with it if ZOS doesn't make adjustments.

We'll get that house!

Please ZOS at least give us an option in the gameplay tab to turn that bright flash off! I don't usually have issues with flashing things but that Antiquarian's eye hurts to look at.

I keep wondering why nobody has modified the LCD electronic welding glasses to assist people with this kind of sensitivity. The contraption I speak of is a pair of glasses fitted with LCD panels that darken in a few milliseconds when it detects a bright flash of light from a nearby welding arc. It should be an easy thing to modify it to sudden changes at much lower contrast levels to block out, or at least significantly reduce, any sudden bright flashes from a computer or TV screen. I'm not suffering from photosensitivity myself, so I wouldn't know if it would help, but it seems like something that could be useful.

I agree, they are annoying. And while we're on it, I would also like to be able to remove that white flash when you activate hardmode in a dungeon. A simple message on screen (like in trials) would be better imo.

Temporary solution
Turn your head for a sec or 2
Not optimal but it may work in the mean time

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

I keep wondering why nobody has modified the LCD electronic welding glasses to assist people with this kind of sensitivity... I'm not suffering from photosensitivity myself, so I wouldn't know if it would help, but it seems like something that could be useful.

It's not photosensitivity. It's not good for anyone to have bright lights flashed in their face. But don't you think wearing welding glasses is a bit extreme? If something is causing this many people this much discomfort, and is not an any way necessary for gameplay, why do it?

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

I would also like to be able to remove that white flash when you activate hardmode in a dungeon.

And the flashes of bright white light that happen during a lot of quests.

Heady wrote: »

go to monitor settings turn down contrast ez fix

No. We shouldn't have to compromise how every other thing looks on our computers to accommodate something that has no purpose in the first place.

I never even noticed the bright flashes, much less thought about how they could be hard on the eyes for others. I hope it can be helped