This brings on the dizziness, cold sweat and sometimes vomiting.ĭying Light, like the oft-compared to Mirror's Edge before it, messes with players proprioception, or the way you sense your own body. Throwing one of these points off-kilter and out of sync with the other two will confuse the brain into thinking the body is poisoned and needs detoxification. We detect motion through signals coming from the inner ear, eyes and sensory nerve endings, or proprioceptors. I reached out to Techland after the event to ask if the studio had made any significant changes to the game's head bob or tracking systems, anything that would have tampered with my proprioception. It did not, so when I got the chance to play a new section of the game at Gamescom this summer, I was unconcerned.Īfter spending fifteen minutes running wildly through back allies away from a group of zombies, I became seriously ill. As someone prone to light motion sickness, I was worried that the game's jarring first-person visuals would affect me. In June, I was able to breeze through the game's 30-minute demo without incident. I enjoyed the way Dying Light strives to make players really consider their mortality under such circumstances and how Techland has managed to create enemies that are not only challenging and threatening, but genuinely horrifying. In the game, players take on the role of a young man tasked with doing supply runs and setting up security around a walled-off city populated by a handful of human survivors and massive hordes of infected undead. How serious of an issue it is varies from game to game and player to player, but some developers are doing everything in their power to make sure it's not a problem on their own table.ĭuring E3 earlier this year I played Techland's Dying Light, the studio's new free-running zombie IP that crosses the mad-dash parkouring of DICE's Mirror's Edge with the current zombie apocalypse trend. In an industry banking on the draw of realistic visuals and dizzingly-paced action sequences, motion sickness is not uncommon.
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