Epileptic Condition Demoman

[i-ghost]

It's a bug; none of the particles were updated.

[Mcfan2]

They annoy my eyes, and I don't even have epilepsy.
Very thoughtful Valve!

[Samel_the_Camel]

Seizure-inducing Sticky Launcher
Seizures Caused: 2423

[SammyQ]

Originally Posted by oolibokee

I agree. They look like they are strobing. Just take out the flicker and we can all sleep well.

This.

Lights LOOK nice but the constant flashing is kinda like "wat"
I mean they are bombs, after all.

[RJackson]

Originally Posted by aeoncleanse

I don't see why people are getting physical symptoms, nobody I know is, sounds like an excuse to me. If you are getting headaches, you probably shouldn't be playing video games at all, as it means you are likely to have a seizure at some point.

Regardless, a simple strobe-frequency change is all that is required. They probably won't get rid of the effect completely now it is here. They never got rid of the Enforcer after all...

Photosensitive epilepsy is a type of epilepsy where flickering or strobing lighting can induce seizures or less-dramatic physical problems (headaches). It's not some "excuse", it is a neurological disorder. It is also quite ignorant to state somebody "shouldn't play video games at all" because of that disorder; sure they should avoid certain types of games which has lighting effects that can induce their epilepsy, but there are lots of games that are fine for that somebody to play - TF2 being one of them until this (unintended?) addition, so there's a good reason to remove it.

[Incarnati0n]

The glow should be removed entirely, noone ever complained about crit stickies not being visible enough.

Now if you're making a sticky trap and get a crit sticky, you have to start all over again

[mista_bojjob]

to be honest, there should just be the option to have them on or off

[Darksider1972]

I am sure it was a mistake, they'll fix it in the next patch, same thing happened to the teleporter glow not too long ago after an update, they became bright and annoying until they were fixed in a later patch.

[Lythiium]

I like the trail following the pipes and stickies... but these insanely bright crits are too much of an eye-sore. It also affects Jarate and Mad Milk as well, in the off chance they "crit".

As a demo, setting up a trap.. I (for once) actually hope I don't set a crit, just because it ruins the whole point of it.

[Rounin]

Originally Posted by underwater17

I'm sure this is just another one of Valve's little mistakes, like how they broke the volcano fragment before the last patch. My question is, why in the world were they even messing with the auras in the first place? O.o

Probably hats.

[oolibokee]

Originally Posted by i-ghost

It's a bug; none of the particles were updated.

I hope you're right. You've been right before, so I expect you are right. Now, will it be fixed?

[The Bunny King]

It's obnoxious as hell. Hopefully it's fixed very soon.

edit: [Ah as someone mentioned it's a bug. And it makes sense since I've seen it before.]

[The Medic]

Originally Posted by Lollerskaterz

Aw, c'mon guys. They're great at rave parties and night clubs!

That is very true.

The effect shouldn't be removed, but should be placed as a separate option, or at least as an added effect for colour-blind mode.

That way, its the best of both worlds.

[The Abominator]

The crit glow isn't a bad idea but the OTTness of the effect is ridiculous at the moment.

The effect shouldn't be removed, but should be placed as a separate option, or at least as an added effect for colour-blind mode.

That way, its the best of both worlds.

I agree, having option to turn it off/on would satisfy everyone.

[Halfwrong]

Well, I've been finding it hard to see them recently, and never had a problem before which is making it rather irritating.

Particularly somebody airbursting them, I get distracted by the flash and look where the flash was as opposed to actually tracking the sticky...