I have migraines that are triggered by flashing light. The current season 14 lobby menu image flashes between the Rein presets and causes me to have a migraine, making it so I cant play. I know you guys don’t care about accessibility from the looks of things, so this probably wont go anywhere (see ALL other posts about opting out of lobby animations)
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why are you spending significant enough of time on the main menu to do that to yourself?
I wasnt even, i was watching a friend screenshare it, and we were watching the animations cause they looked cool, ya know, the reason the animation was made. All it takes is one good flash and a migraine starts for me. I don’t want to have to hurry and switch to another menu just to avoid triggers, just add a button to pause the background in accessibility settings, its not that hard. I hope you stay blessed enough to never deal with light sensitive migraines, theyre not easy 
Only kind of a permanent fix, but you can manually change your menu screen to a different menu if you’re on PC, and it’ll stay that way until that menu gets removed from the game’s files.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3099694051
Not sure about console logistics unfortunately
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They patched this out, didn’t they? I had the lesserafim one for a while.
thank you! this is probably going to be what I do for this season, just want to not have to mod the game to fix something I believe should be in the game by default. I literally only have problems with white screens, everything else is fine. And yeah, I would also like to see this fixed for my console friends as well. I appreciate the help!
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I sit there while in queue sometimes. Even if I’m playing with my phone or something, I have to swap to the hero gallery screen just to keep the screen at a minimal volume and non-distracting animation setting. I don’t want to mute the game, because I want to hear the queue pop.
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I heard it depends on if its on steam or battle.net, as steam only has a certain amount of them
They removed the le sserafim menu, but you can still do it with the ones still in the game’s files. I ran lifeguard lifeweaver until the other day when I decided to check out the new menus. That link maintains instructions and a running list of active and removed menus
I agree! More accessibility options are always something I’m in favor of. I’m glad this at least helps your issue in the meantime, though
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Awesome. I’m sick of the sound effects like the Soldier Mythic or the thunderclap from the new one every single time you return to the menu screen for even a second, or if you’re idling on it waiting for someone.
Yup. I liked the transformers menu for a few days then literally had to turn it off 
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Talking about more accessibility… Dark mode when blizz?
Tired of being flash banged every time I load up the game.
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I’m with you on this. It might seem silly to people who don’t get it since Overwatch is a bright and flashy game, but it really does make a huge difference.
FFXIV added a flashbang login animation for the latest expansion and it’s awful.
There’s a huge difference between flashy colourful effects, and just having pure white burned into your retinas every time you load a program… Especially when you have every screen and other program in dark mode
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YEP! I feel this on a deep spiritual level.
I can handle colorful effects and stuff, but a sudden bright white light can trigger a migraine for me.
I have everything on dark mode. I use Firefox extensions to make certain even websites are in dark mode.
insert ash baby image