Quick epilepsy update

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Sturm_Williger

Great news that it can be disabled - it would have been a travesty if all the Maddox Games teams hard work to create realistic props, lighting etc. had been obscured by this.

We still don't know that the realistic details are going to be available long term, as we don't know if the team is still having to change it all and the effect that would have. The filter was only meant to be a short term solution anyway.

[Solnyshko]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

We still don't know that the realistic details are going to be available long term, as we don't know if the team is still having to change it all and the effect that would have. The filter was only meant to be a short term solution anyway.

Triggger I would have thought at this stage at least, the likelihood of having to recode to satisfy epilepsy protocols seems very unlikely; given Ilya has stated an amicable solution with Ubi in which a splash screen warning will be put in place. That, along with the optional filter (or its tweaked replacement) will cater for all, without degrading gaming experience en masse.

Originally Posted by luthier

The only difference between the versions are the language selection. Russians can only select Russian language, international customers can select all languages other than Russian.

Otherwise the game is exactly the same, stored in one place, so everything in this patch that is not text-related will go out to the entire world regardless of region.

Also Ilya's assurance ^ that there will be no difference other than language - this would also make sense regarding unified patches & updates - supports a single global game engine. There will be one game - the Russian release was never subject to epilepsy considerations, it would not make sense to now cripple it by (re)coding in line with a hobbled western release.

Here's hoping anyway!

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Solnyshko

Triggger I would have thought at this stage at least, the likelihood of having to recode to satisfy epilepsy protocols seems very unlikely; given Ilya has stated an amicable solution with Ubi in which a splash screen warning will be put in place. That, along with the optional filter (or its tweaked replacement) will cater for all, without degrading gaming experience en masse.

Also Ilya's assurance ^ that there will be no difference other than language - this would also make sense regarding unified patches & updates - supports a single global game engine. There will be one game - the Russian release was never subject to epilepsy considerations, it would not make sense to now cripple it by (re)coding in line with a hobbled western release.

Yes, good points, thanks.

It was only the other day Ilya posted about the fact that they were still working on the long term solution and that this filter was temporary, and the recent news that the filter was going to be optional didn't also state that the other plans had been scrapped, so I assumed they weren't. I hope you're right anyway.

Thank God/Luthier/(Ubi) for rethinking their first decision.

[MadTommy]

Just pressed 'buy'.

Spread the word and bring all the Pre-order-cancellors back.

Could we maybe get an ingame switch for this filter?

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Could we maybe get an ingame switch for this filter?

Good suggestion.