Arachnophobia

Hi my friend had sunk about 20+ hours in this game and I had to party with them to get through the first area (im act 2) that had spiders spawning.

I basically had to clear the whole map before they could go through to get the ascendancy boss.

Seeing that this is one of the more popular phobias one can have, is there any way to toggle the spiders to look like other monsters?

When my friend tried to do the ascendancy trial they got into the same issue and couldn’t even continue because spiders were popping up. I had to help them with that too.

When they got to the valley of the giants and unlocked the heads, they saw spiders again and said they were gonna delete the game.

It’s a shame. If nothing can be done about this, you should at least give a warning that ppl with phobias for spiders or swarming should not buy this game.

Even something as simple as toggling the textures of the spiders off so they look like just colors would make them not look real and make it possible for my friend to play.

Hoping this isn’t too big of an ask as we’re new to the franchise and have been loving the game so far.

Spiders in a dungeon crawling game.
What a wild concept, surely one nobody could have foreseen.

......... are you.... I mean..... are you serious right now?

This is called, asking the tail to wag the dog.

I am sorry your parents didn't teach you this growing up, but sometimes, just sometimes, you will have to NOT participate in something because YOU are unable to.

That doesn't mean the rest of us don't do it, no, that just means YOU don't do it because YOU have the issue.

This is like kids coming to a Birthday party and saying "you can't have cake at YOUR party because I have a gluten intolerance."

Protip, don't eat the cake.


Go play Maplestory.

Nobody's asking for the game not to have spiders for the majority of people, they're asking for an arachnophobia filter to change it just for them.

It's obviously not going to be the top priority, but it'd be a nice-to-have for people who have this fear.

I don't think it'd happen, sadly. This isn't Barony, where reskinning spiders to crabs has no gameplay alterations because all they do is an attack. Spiders have a web throw ability, poison, they come in different variations, how they spawn on the map is based off of the fact that they can crawl out of the ground.

Adding an option to change it would basically be asking for an entire mob type to be removed from the game, changing the gameplay experience. Not to mention its taking up animation time and budge that could be spent on polishing a new skill or designing a new monster for the later acts.

I mean, it's not the most insane request. From a technical standpoint, it's doable.

You could replace the 3D models with something else. You take the game entity and attach a different model with its corresponding animations. Everything else would stay the same (behavior etc.).

I'd expect it to be modular enough to where you could do that quite easily.

I dont have Arachnophobia..but the Spiders are realy grows. They dont appear that often though.
A Filter with another model shouldnt be that hard to make.

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Soop#0082 wrote:

Spiders in a dungeon crawling game.
What a wild concept, surely one nobody could have foreseen.

Like I said, we are new to the franchise, we watched hours of footage before buying the game and loved the rpg coop pieces of the game.

I've played many souls like and rpg style games and this is the first time ive encountered so many spiders. I myself don't have the phobia, I am fine to play, I am just asking for a disclaimer to those new to the franchise, or a toggle (some games have done this before), and if it can't be done, it can't be done.

If it can be, then please do.

They didn't do it for Affliction league where it was a simple particle ground effect of bugs skittering away from the darkness as you explored the forest. They aren't gonna do it for this game where it would require them to replace entire models. When you have a good build you explode white mobs and oneshot them anyway so you'd be seeing those spiders for about half a second before they turn to dust.

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Verdonix#5948 wrote:

......... are you.... I mean..... are you serious right now?

This is called, asking the tail to wag the dog.

I am sorry your parents didn't teach you this growing up, but sometimes, just sometimes, you will have to NOT participate in something because YOU are unable to.

That doesn't mean the rest of us don't do it, no, that just means YOU don't do it because YOU have the issue.

This is like kids coming to a Birthday party and saying "you can't have cake at YOUR party because I have a gluten intolerance."

Protip, don't eat the cake.


Go play Maplestory.

1. We are new to the franchise, we can't be expected to know everything it might entail.

2. I don't have a phobia of spiders, I am fine with playing the game.

3. Adding a disclaimer for players new to the franchise and isometric ARPGs costs no money.

4. I am not requesting to change the game for anyone, simply a toggle or switch for one or 2 maps that allows people to see some alternative model that already exists, or a switch to just remove the textures from the spiders for those who can't handle it.

5. I loved maplestory lol, i used to play it all the time, I was actually thinking this game is a more mature version of that game as I've been playing. I like the different classes and play style options in this game.