Who has issues with Incarnate graphics?

This may seem strange, but would adding an option to remove certain buffs from your character be a possible option?

In WoW you can right click (I think it's a right click) on a buff that's on your characters status window, and remove it. Something like that would be extremely useful for situations like this.

I myself have not run into any issues, and did not with the old Sonic graphics either, but when I saw the Barrier effects during the Praetorean Invasion on Liberty I immediately thought of the old Sonic graphics and the issues that they caused. I was surprised to see something so similar.

I am grateful that I do not have any issues with the graphics because I do suffer from migraines (and tinnitus, great combo let me tell you). Nobody should have to go through a headache, or worse, a migraine, just because of a graphical effect.

I trust Paragon to get this fixed up quickly.

I seem to recall one of the devs commenting once before that the problem with this is that the game doesn't really differentiate between Buffs and Debuffs. Making an option to remove buffs without allowing people to remove debuffs would be a problem.

Details, please - they can't help without it.
Which graphics, what situation, what happens, etc. As best you can. Thanks.

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On my Mac, thanks to the horrid bugginess of the client, I have to play at minimum graphics settings. Barrier is barely noticeable under such conditions so my answer to the OP would be no issues.

On my Windows gaming rig, with high res settings for everything, Barrier gives me a headache running trials. I really hadn't noticed that until now because I already have a lot of lag issues on big trials and thought the jittery lag was causing my headaches. But since reading this, I am now going to start spamming my Barrier power in non trials on both machines and see if it's the culprit.

As for not playing videogames if something bothers you, I'd leave the game over this easily. Not worth the other pain of trying to get it fixed if it is deemed to need fixing. YMMV.

Maybe because of the thousands of other potential teammates to choose from also having access to said powers? Being an MMO and all... Just sayin'.

It's obvious you've never suffered from a full-on migraine, the kind where you bang your head against the counter/door frame in hopes of knocking yourself out, where you contemplate riding it out or just simply ending it all. I've had a hole carved into my foot the size of a quarter down to the tendon, torn off two toes in a bicycle accident, hit by a 45mph moving car and had a 1/2" nail through my foot (yeah, bad luck on the foot, all the same foot too! lol). The migraine tops them all.

I get a migraine at least 3 times a year, with the maximum being 12 in one year. I now have tinnitus, meaning my migraine feeds off of the ringing making it worse and lasting much, much longer.

I would gladly step on a dull nail and have it pierce completely through my foot, every single day of the rest of my life, if it guaranteed I'd never have another migraine.

So, please, think before you spout of something half thought out. And then pray you never have to suffer a migraine.

"Nailed it" (no pun intended) I've seriously uttered the words, "Just shoot me now, please, put me out of my misery? I cannot cope with this anymore" during a migraine and meant every word. I'm not suicidal (not saying I haven't EVER had moments where sure it seemed like a good idea, but I am saying it has never been more serious of a contemplation than when coping with a migraine). To those who have never felt the pain of a migraine or worse than a "ordinary headache" - I envy you.

See, I'm not just an occasional sufferer (as the poster above with only 3-12 migraines yearly) - I've had months where I could count the number of migraine free days on one hand with fingers left over. They were a few years ago and it isn't as bad these days, but believe me when I say - I KNOW migraines. Those months - I didn't play CoH, not because CoH was the cause but because opening my eyes to any amount of light was excruciating. That didn't mean life didn't go on - I still had to go to work and do my job or I'd have been living on the streets. But it did mean I took the advice of all those who say "don't take your health in your hands and play anyway", I took the advice of "if it causes a headache or worsens it, don't play".

But if I "didn't do" everything that MIGHT cause me a migraine I would have no choice but to lie in bed for the rest of my life with someone bringing me food and drink that was carefully vetted for possible triggery substances. I know what part of my triggers are these days - and most often, flashy lights and such aren't the issue but at certain frequencies, yeah, it can be a problem. I've played CoH for six and a half years and besides times when I didn't play due to my own reasons (like migraines caused by another source) - I haven't had so many issues with graphics, and now suddenly a number of the new graphics are problematic. I can avoid the little triggers that only trigger minor issues - sonic grenades for example - those I can try to keep my camera averted from them. Barrier though? I can't avoid it because there isn't always a warning someone else is going to hit it - it bothers me whether it is on me or on a teammate or a random player who wanders up to the market. Any level 50 can get barrier with some effort - it isn't merely one powerset on a couple of ATs that I would have to avoid, it is every potential teammate (because I play almost exclusively on my level 50s and have for quite a while now, this isn't a trial fad for me, if it isn't the trials I'll be doing level 50 TFs back to back).

I never took the power (Barrier) in the first place. The problem is having other people use it and getting caught in the large buff area. You can't choose not to have the buff on you if someone near you casts it.

Sounds like you suffer from prolonged migraines like I do. I was actually taken out of school in grade 12 because of how severe my migraines had become. I must have went through 40 different prescriptions that year trying to find something that would actually break the cycle, or dull the pain, and I cannot tell you how many times I had to go to ER to get a shot and rehydrated because the migraine was so intense that I couldn't eat or drink.

I don't have them like I did, but I still get them on a regular basis, thankfully I can work through them most of the time now.

It hasn't been diagnosed beyond "chronic migraine" but it wouldn't surprise me for hear them termed as prolonged migraines. The worst times have been along the lines of 10 days with the same migraine > ER visit to kick the cycle via heavy pain meds or something stronger than every "triptan" in the cabinet and hydrate like you mentioned > rebound headache the next day which isn't as bad > back to migraines the next day. My "lesser" migraines are anyplace from a few hours to a full 24 hour span but are usually more intense pain and nausea wise. And my "bigger" migraines range from 2-10 days but aren't usually quite as debilitating. On occasion they decide to play around and I'll get one of the longer lasting ones that are worse pain than the usual short but intense ones.

I also have what I didn't realize (before talking to a neurologist) were "migraines" - for those not aware, you can get a migraine without the headache. I would get them with aural and visual symptoms (auras and/or extreme to mild sensitivity), usually with nausea and sometimes dizziness. I just wrote those off as "almost a migraine, must have dodged it" until I knew that those episodes are also still migraines, just without the agony of the headache that is generally called the migraine. For me quite frequently the nausea is every bit as bad as the headache portion - so I really get the "can't eat or drink" thing.

I wish more bosses/companies/state disability/doctors/insurance companies realized just how bad migraines can be - I very seriously should have been able to collect disability the year they were so bad that I averaged 20-25 days a month of migraines. My neurologist told me that for my migraines to be classed as chronic migraine I "only" needed to suffer from them an average of about 5-10 days a month I think. That timeframe I finally figured out what my triggers were and have since tried to avoid them, but it's really hard to avoid my triggers when they are mostly sensitivity to flourescent lighting tubes (compact "bulb" flourescents aren't bad until they age a bit and start getting jittery) and high stress levels. Leaving that job "cured" my migraine frequency back to reasonable levels of about 2 days a week of migraine. The boss there claimed to have never suffered so much as a NORMAL headache in his life, let along migraines - he had no point of reference for the level of pain, it made for a very stressful environment as he always thought I was "faking" to get out of work on the days that getting out of bed the nausea was so bad that nothing but being utterly immobile would help. Nevermind that I worked through every single migraine I could.

Migraines suck. And I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy, let alone the people I like that play this game and can't when graphic issues like this cause them to suddenly get migraines more often or for the first time ever.

I know the feeling. Mine started to get bad during 8th grade and it took 10 years of switching meds regularly and seeing different doctors to get it regulated. I still have bills from that period of lab work/ER visits I'm working on paying off. Thankfully now I only get a couple a year now and old triggers don't affect me like they used to. These past 3 years have been a whole lot better than any of the previous.

Also Nomme speaks truth.

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