Anti-epilepsy filter?

[Masi67]

What can I say goddammit!
Still I won't cancel order, just won't play the game. I was waiting for user tested specs. Now we know there ain't hardware which runs this game smoothly.

This really should be an option, just disclaimer in box and user manual that if you turn antiepilepsy off...

Just like in car mirros: "Objects in mirror are closer than it seems".

Cannot understand UBISofts policy to this issue, warning and option should be enough.

I did not know that UBI has this policy until now, as it is, I will not buy any games from UBI anymore. No matter the title.

Sad new for CoD

-Masi

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by Insuber

Someone could simply ignore to be epileptic. One person in 4'000 can suffer from a seizure induced by light patterns. And also, someone can be an-alphabet. Or under 6 years old. Or not speaking the language of that version. Or ... you name it. A good lawyer can make a fortune out of this, in US but not only. More than that, Ubisoft wants to improve his public image after the Nintendo issue in UK, which caused a tabloid-galore.

Again, I blame only the very late action on this spec, maybe related with the late choice of the Western publisher.

Cheers,
6S.Insuber

PS: or, maybe, it's just an excuse for the low FPS ... just kidding !

While this is true what you say - isn't thew game rated at 16+? How hard would it have been to include SOMETHING in the installation process (e.g. "WARNING: continue at your own risk, we are not responsible etc..."), or something in the interface, preferably before each mission loads...? Or just make it OPTIONAL, and gradually implement/perfect this feature with patches/add-ons??

I am sorry but logic eludes me here. How does breaking a functional product for the masses helps the minority out there that suffers from epileptic seizures? Unless I am mistaken, not ever other human suffers from this (e.i. 1 in 2).

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Yeah but even so, the dev's dropped the ball big time on this one, blaming UBi is a bit lame.

For the first time I completely agree with you Tree. If this causes such a big FPS hit & hardware incompatibility, and devs have decided to not make it optional - why the hell wasn't CoD delayed???

Words can not describe my disappointment. I worked hard and saved enough money to build a high end rig just for this title. Now not only am I not going to purchase this (unless it gets fixed/removed), but I am having second thoughts about building a rig all together.

[julian265]

Originally Posted by luthier

I want to confirm that everything said here is true, we have implemented some drastic features for anti-epilepsy protection which are affecting FPS and killing SLI support.
SNIP

I am disgusted to hear it, and feel for you devs who have put so much work into the sim, only to have a large, unnecessary hurdle brought up.

Does the Russian version (not published by ubi?) have epileptic protection as well? Does the Russian version work outside Russia?

I dont buy the whole epilepsy thing, Oleg and Luthier, refused to show us any actual 'in game ' video or sound right up to release, well now we know why, the game runs bad, and yes i did tell you so, do you remember just how many times i kept asking for it . This Epilepsy thing is just a smoke screen to buy the dev's more time to get this game running, its never affected any other Ubisoft release and has been implemented since 2008. I dont buy it at all - oh Zapatrista eat your shorts son.

[z0ttel]

Does anyone know if this filter-thing has been introduced due to some laws and requlations or if it is 'just' an UBI-specific requirement?

Maybe it would be sufficient if the filter can be disabled only with some kind of 'special knowledge' like adding a certain registry key, adding a setting to a configuration file or something like that?

I know that those mechanisms are used to 'bypass' regulations on other products and as long as the solution is not obvious to the 'normal' user, I don't see a reason why this shouldn't be also a valid approach for this game. The filter will be enabled all the time, it can't be disabled by 'accident', but the user would still have the possibility to change this.

If it then would come to a law suit, UBI could argue that the game has been modified using 'special hacker experience' and so the case could be closed I guess you can't be sued if you deliver software with undocument features/parameters and then someone smart starts using them, right?



Btw, I'm still looking forward to my preordered CE which should arrive next week - although it will cost a small fortune here in Germany (about 70€). If this helps to support Oleg and his team (which made an amazing job) and to keep the IL2-series alive, that's a price I'm willing to pay

[gprr]

Dspite Steam, was willing to DL CoD but as an hardware minded flight simmer and 1920x1200 LCD owner, NO!
Delaying my buy till this filter becomes an option and not mandatory!
Than will see the real diffrence between filter usage and W/O it.

GP

[kendo65]

Gutted, absolutely. What total madness.

I honestly don't know what is the best option here - some of you (understandably) cancelling pre-orders. My only concern is that we express our anger at UBI and don't hurt any possible future for the sim too.

This may be clutching at straws, but it is very early days. The people trying it out on their systems have had next to no time to play around with settings, etc, so it may be a little hasty to judge.

Anyway, support to the devs. Down with UBI.

[gprr]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I dont buy the whole epilepsy thing, Oleg and Luthier, refused to show us any actual 'in game ' video or sound right up to release, well now we know why, the game runs bad, and yes i did tell you so, do you remember just how many times i kept asking for it . This Epilepsy thing is just a smoke screen to buy the dev's more time to get this game running, its never affected any other Ubisoft release and has been implemented since 2008. I dont buy it at all - oh Zapatrista eat your shorts son.

You may be very very right

No cheers today

GP

[merlin1]

Delayed ?

http://il2sturmovik.ubi.com/cliffs-o...aft/index.aspx

[Masi67]

Originally Posted by merlin1

Delayed ?

http://il2sturmovik.ubi.com/cliffs-o...aft/index.aspx

No, they just haven't updated their pages