U51 Feedback Thread for Visual Effect Intensity

ZOS_Kevin · August 3

This is the official feedback thread for the new VFX Intensity Setting. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

Did these new settings meet your needs?
If yes, please let us know how they met your needs.
If no, please let us know what did not meet your satisfaction.
Is there any other feedback on this setting?

Tannus15 · August 4

THIS IS SO GOOD

I'm so happy with this.

Whoever realised that self, friendly and enemy all need different intensities is the GOAT. I can set mine to normal so i can see if something runs out, friendlys to minimal because their hurricane just isn't important to me, and enemy to low so it still shows up but the entire area isn't just one big red blob.

It's so good.

Thank you so much.

I would be useful to be able to specify these for group members. Specifically support DD, healers and tanks. If that's asking too much, then at the least by role. Let me see tank and healer effects at normal, and DD's as minimal.

RagnarSw · August 4

There needs to be a choice for environmental too. Housing for instance has too many light furnishings that bleed through walls. Some mounts are also like mini supernovas.

Tannus15 · August 4

RagnarSw wrote: »

There needs to be a choice for environmental too. Housing for instance has too many light furnishings that bleed through walls. Some mounts are also like mini supernovas.

put it on the list for future suggestions.

Intensity slider for placed housing items.

YffresTrill · August 4

The addition of the customisable VFX settings is what finally convinced me to download the PTS, as I have wanted something like this for as long as I can remember.

I immediately found the settings and set all of them down to Minimal. It is a bit difficult to check how others' effects are affected since there are so few people on PTS, but I tested with equipping some glowy mounts and pets, as well as my own skills.

It is obviously working with skills and set effects, but I am not sure how effective this is at minimising the glow from mounts and pets. Here you can see the default setting versus the Minimal setting, with some sparkly animals equipped. They still feel very, very shiny. (You can also see the decreased intensity of the Pyrebrand class set glow.)

I would like the ability to turn off the glow completely. My non-mage characters' combat skills shouldn't be glowing at all, and I do not want to see any glow on other players, ever. I use a class set for difficult content on my main, and I would particularly like to disable the glow of this entirely, as I find it unsightly and distracting. As these settings are personal I cannot see why that would be a problem. Maybe just add a more clear explanation to the menu of what these settings do, so that no one turns them on by accident then complains that their skills aren't working.

Also, would it be at all possible to extend these settings to apply to teleport animations as well? Some of the recent ones... really take over the screen, to put it as mildly as I can.

That said, while I think this could use improvement, I can tell it will already be a massive quality of life improvement for me (and presumably a lot of other players). I find glowy stuff both visually overwhelming and aesthetically displeasing, so the ability to tone it down at all is already huge. Thank you for this, and I really hope it can be iterated upon in the future.

MattVH · August 4

I'm also really happy about this arriving. Some skills have aura's that are still very heavy, especially in contrast to some that are muted. I might find more and will update but i'd already like to point out:

Vigor is still way too prominent, especially in first person.

if there are 3 tiers i feel like it shouldn't be that prominent. Compared to the other aura's this is really too much, and i hope if there are more visuals that thick and high on the interface that they get adjusted, especially for that lowest tier. Ideally it would both become way thinner and less opaque.

Altyrann · August 4

Really good start on this with really clear impact for player effects. I hope that this will be further built out to include environmental effects and NPCs.

Kendaric · 7:36AM

It's a nice start, the minimal setting should be default for all three. At least it makes it somewhat bearable to look at the game again,

I'd prefer if we could disable the display of player non-combat pets entirely. It should be possible, since ESO hides other players' companions in towns.

ceruulean · 11:55AM

Is it possible to add a "transparent" or "none" option that completely turns off the effect?