Make the game more accassibile for people with arachnophobia

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RKxZlcLUUF#5704 wrote:

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TheAnniCake#0658 wrote:

Hey there,

I really like PoE2 so far. After some tweaks on the skill tree, the game is really fun!
The one thing that's bothering me though was playing through the Traitor's Passage map as someone with a huge fear of spiders. It was just so much for me and even while only looking at the health bars, I almost threw up while playing. This was during my first story play and I probably would have quit if my partner didn't push me through this.

Is there any way to make these spider-like enemies less realistic or just change the texture to something less triggering?

Thank you and have a nice day.

haha. i mean i hate spiders but this is ridiculous.

Amazing feedback to a player that has arachnophobia... that's not toxic at all bro(sarcasm) - you make fun of other disabilities too?

I used to have both claustrophobia acrophobia in my youth (fear of heights). Couldn't look down from the balcony of my friend that was living on the same floor with me. But I could look down from mine, because I got used with the view and the overall sense of space there. So I figured back then that getting used with any kind of heights could help.
And as such, I went climbing (mind you, as a kid, with no equipment on some rock in the nearby forest). Being 2 meters above the ground was making my heart run as if a bear was chasing me. From there, later on, I moved on to mountain hiking and pretty much any other activity that involved heights in a safe(r) manner. It took a while, but at least now I'm much more relaxed when standing next to a balcony's parapet somewhere.

What I'm getting at with this is that Dune's Mantra of Fear can help if you put a bit of effort into it. Mind you, if the only place you'd see spiders would be here, then yeah, maybe. But it ain't. Spiders exist outside of Wraeclast too.

So remember, fear is the mind-killer, fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration, etc. Let that fear pass through you and get stronger! :D