I can't picking up arrows because of sparkalaphobia and epilepsy.

This is not a joke and I'll hope to bring it up to anyone.

I've been an avid player since season 0 week 1 and this is the 1st season that I can't truly play. To explain sparkalaphobia, it's the fear of glitter, it may sound odd or laughable but it is uncomfortable to me.

The problem are the arrow fetching and the pulsing yellow highlight. Every time there are multiple arrows shimmering (especially in the firing range), I feel uneasy, the pulse gets under my skin and the more arrows there are, the more uncomfortable it becomes. Sometimes to the point I have to force close and cradling myself, because I can feel like an epileptic seizure coming

Can there be an accessibility option to turn ammo matte solid without the pulsing please? Maybe an alternative VFX where it doesn't pulse but a molten transitioning gradient like the gif here http://cdn.lowgif.com/full/241e57cdd954e3fd-.gif

Thank you for reading this.

gameplay discussion

EA_Mako
5 years ago
Hey @Moongrave,

I did see this pop up in the Apex subreddit earlier, which did receive a developer reply as well, if you hadn't seen that.

That's been passed along to be discussed by the team, so thanks for the feedback and letting us know!

11 Replies

Peri_Longbow_pl
5 years ago
@Moongrave I think a good solution for that is to bundle up the arrows which land on a certain area. With that I mean that arrows which land around another arrow within a 5 or 10 meter radius will apply to it as a stack. That would solve 3 issues at once: Reduced risk of lag, reduced chance to trigger discomfort and a better way to collect arrows.

A better way to highlight ammo on the ground like that could be via a small 'beam' of color. Similar to ammo pickups in Warframe
Pure_Funk_Nugge
5 years ago
@Moongrave I'm dead serious here when I say this. If you truly have these issues then video games might be dangerous for you to play. You should stop for your own health.

As nearly all video games have flashes of light and many particle effects. And warnings to not play if you are prone to seizures. It's up to you to heed that warning.

An incident I'll never forget in life is a classmate having a grand mal seizure in class one day. If video games can trigger this in you, please stop playing for your own safety.
EA_Mako
Community Manager
5 years ago
Hey @Moongrave,

I did see this pop up in the Apex subreddit earlier, which did receive a developer reply as well, if you hadn't seen that.

That's been passed along to be discussed by the team, so thanks for the feedback and letting us know!
Moongrave
5 years ago
I'm glad I could convey the message and I'll just find ways to mitigate it. It is up to Respawn if they want to tackle this issue anyway, they don't own me anything but it was nice to get noticed.
Thank you.
Pure_Funk_Nugge
5 years ago
@Moongrave I see you chose to ignore my comment.

After researching more at Epilepsy.com you are putting yourself in danger playing video games with flashing lights. The comment that you force close and cradle yourself from playing video games should be enough to alert you to this fact.

But here you are, not only playing and putting your life in danger. But asking for the video game itself to change so you can continue to put your life in danger....

See where the problem is?
EA_Mako
Community Manager
5 years ago
Definitely appreciate that you're trying to look out for fellow players, @Pure_Funk_Nugget.

It does sound like Moongrave is acutely aware of their specific situation and how various effects affect them, so I don't think we need to delve into their personal situation further here.

Since we did get some direct confirmation from developers this is being discussed with the team, we'll leave that feedback here and close up this thread for now, thanks everyone.
Lord_Scorpion34
Legend
5 years ago
https://www.dexerto.com/apex-legends/apex-legends-devs-respond-to-sparkalaphobia-concerns-over-season-9s-bocek-bow-1568766/
hayhor
Hero
5 years ago
@Lord_Scorpion34 Damn that sucks. Just remove it. 🤷‍♂️
Koochi-Q
5 years ago
@Lord_Scorpion34 ... just when I thought I knew alot of phobias this one pops up...
Lord_Scorpion34
Legend
5 years ago
@hayhor of course you'd want that lol. I think they just need to remove the flash from the arrows & put a glow around them instead. Or make them a different color.