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11 The Photosensitive Mode is an accessibility option added in Patch 1.04.00 under Settings > Accessibility. It reduces high-frequency flashing, intense strobing, and other visual triggers in combat, status effects, and cutscenes for players who are photosensitive or who experience discomfort from rapid contrast shifts. It ships alongside the Colorblind Mode palette adjustment and the Chromatic Aberration toggle.
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33 What it Reduces
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55 Strobe-style attack telegraphs. Boss tells that previously used rapid red flashes are smoothed into longer, lower-contrast indicators.Skill activation flashes. Heavy whiteout effects on signature abilities are dampened.Lightning and arc-electric VFX. Frequency of repeated flicker frames is reduced without removing the underlying visual.Cutscene inserts that use rapid camera cuts paired with bright flashes. The mode mutes the brightness peaks while keeping the timing intact.
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77 How to Enable
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1010 Open Settings, navigate to Accessibility, and toggle Photosensitive Mode. The mode is independent of the other accessibility options, so it can be enabled by itself or stacked with Colorblind Mode and the Chromatic Aberration toggle.
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1212 What is Mitigated
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1414 EffectBehavior With Photosensitive Mode OnLightning strikesReduced flash intensity and shorter screen-fill duration in storm weather.Explosion VFXFire-bloom intensity capped; the orange-yellow saturation peak that triggers eye strain is reduced.Strobe-pattern boss attacksRapid-flicker sequences (some Crimson Nightmare and Ator phases) are dampened so the on/off frequency drops below the photosensitive trigger threshold.Camera shake on screen-shake eventsIndependent of the toggle; adjust under Camera settings if shake is the concern rather than flicker.
1515 How it Differs From Other Settings
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1717 Chromatic Aberration removes color fringing; Photosensitive Mode dampens flicker. Use both for the calmest possible image.Colorblind Mode adjusts the global color palette; Photosensitive Mode does not change colors, only the intensity and frequency of flashing effects.Photosensitive Mode applies on all platforms; the in-engine pipeline runs identically on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and macOS.
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1919 Photosensitive Mode is off by default. Players prone to migraines or photosensitive epilepsy should enable it before the prologue ends, since several early-game cutscenes contain flicker-heavy lighting.
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2121 See Also
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2323 Colorblind Mode - palette adjustment for color vision deficiency.
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2525 Chromatic Aberration - companion accessibility toggle.
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2727 Patch 1.04.00 - patch that introduced the mode.