Gamma and Brightness - Super dark by design?

[ParadiseBurn]

Enjoying the game so far but was curious if the dark is supposed to be SOOOO dark. I started out with the default sliders at .5 - during the day, not too bad. At night and in caves its ULTRA dark. I turned sliders for gamma and brightness to max and that helps somewhat...

I played the first game a bit and if I recall it was kinda the same? Not sure if the darkness is artificially that way to increase the suspense of traveling or moving around at night, a display setting or even a graphics setting? I do have an OLED display which may account for it visually, but not sure if there's and in game setting that may be contributing to how it outputs - laptop btw.

i7-12800
3070ti
24GB Ram
240hz - 1440p
Graphics setting set to high/ultra

Default Brightness/Gamma

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2939259887

Max Brightness / Gamma

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2939259896

[OmnE Shield]

I don't know why it's so dark. I wouldn't mind it if the light sources did anything. Flares are nearly worthless, the lighter is a joke, the flashlight is good but not good enough, and if you're trying to run through the forest at night with the torch you might as well just put it away because it makes it worse imo.

[DevilMayCry]

these cowards

[jswarpaint]

This lighting situation infuriates me especially when one considers the capabilities of the cannibals and mutants.

I max out gamma and brightness this helps a lot compared to the default. If we only had the default the game would be a headache.

A torch works great in a cave, imo, problem is of course you don't have a weapon in your hand so I run around with the lighter and torch out ... press a hot key if get attacked and use the lighter to hopefully see enough to defend myself.

Sometimes I will put up a skull lamp for light or fight near a cave light.

There is a little lighting bump if your in the cave during the daytime but then time flies and you end up in there at night anyway.

What infuriates me is if you hide in the bushes and the eye icon is black they still know exactly where you are especially on harder difficulty levels. If you creep crouched through the bushes and the eye thing remains black they still know you are there.

Animals see you through the bushes and you hear them running away even though you cannot see them.

So because the cannibals and mutants have super powers when it comes to seeing in the dark I have zero problem with maxing out the stuff.

of course with The Forest we had about 15 or more lighting settings now with the latest game ... nope...

if ya get really fed up you can probably use cheatstick and some code for lighting if your mapping caves or something ...

Of course the enemy has cave lantern hats some of them ... a headlamp ..

and of course though this is modern day we don't even have a headlamp .. I have seen videos where some dude had night vision but I have not run across that maybe its a mod .. ???

[Begebum]

@jswarpaint:
The night vision device is not a mod, but can be found in the game - like so many interesting things.
But on the one hand the part seems to come from the technical Stone Age, and on the other hand the viewing radius is so limited that I don't have any fun with it and prefer to run around with the cheap lighter.

In my opinion, gamma & brightness are still implemented incorrectly - we have to live with that for now.

It can be very helpful to illuminate one or two dungeons or bunkers with wall torches - so take enough material with you. (unfortunately it doesn't work everywhere)
The pistol attachment with lighting is very nice and does NOT use batteries (Apr24)

[jswarpaint]

Originally posted by Begebum:

@jswarpaint:
The night vision device is not a mod, but can be found in the game - like so many interesting things.
But on the one hand the part seems to come from the technical Stone Age, and on the other hand the viewing radius is so limited that I don't have any fun with it and prefer to run around with the cheap lighter.

In my opinion, gamma & brightness are still implemented incorrectly - we have to live with that for now.

It can be very helpful to illuminate one or two dungeons or bunkers with wall torches - so take enough material with you. (unfortunately it doesn't work everywhere)
The pistol attachment with lighting is very nice and does NOT use batteries (Apr24)

oh yeah I need to use the pistol attachment thanks.. yeah ya can't use wall torches everywhere or even ground skull lights especially in the tiny caves that have rope..

I enjoy looking over every square inch of the map but a huge part I did a restart and that night vision is probably over there .. THIS IS AN EDIT -

I JUST FOUND THE NIGHT VISION so now I can check them out and get depressed woo hoo ..