Nightvision nearly useless?

[Kamakura]

I don't know if I've seen a more useless pair of Nightvision goggles, is it a bug or do they require another part to be useful? In caves, I can barely see anything with them, making them worse than a flashlight and barely better than the lighter. Outside, in pitch black, TECHNICALLY its better than the flashlight, which doesn't reach too far, but it's so fuzzy and dark, along with being unable to see your map or item icons.

[VVaЯF0xу]

Agreed. Not bright enough in darkness. IDK is it a bug or what, but i also cant see a map, while using NVG.

[Debgobde]

They are heavily nerfed to lead players to use every other light mechanic in the game instead, but I agree that the nerfing is a little too heavy. The GPS screen produces light, so it is not visible on the night vision, which already makes it fairly useless, and the goggle overlay prevents you from seeing anything anyway. They should stay somewhat nerfed to not make everything else obsolete, but it definitely needs a little change.

[Kamakura]

Originally posted by Debgobde:

They are heavily nerfed to lead players to use every other light mechanic in the game instead, but I agree that the nerfing is a little too heavy. The GPS screen produces light, so it is not visible on the night vision, which already makes it fairly useless, and the goggle overlay prevents you from seeing anything anyway. They should stay somewhat nerfed to not make everything else obsolete, but it definitely needs a little change.

If they wanted people to use other light mechanics, they really shouldn't have added it to the game to begin with. They need to completely overhaul them, either move them to a later game thing you find, but gives full use as NV goggles should, or keep them where they are, make them fully usable, but you can't see your GPS, and maybe they burn through batteries twice as fast as the flashlight. That should be enough.

[Sililos]

I found them totally useless in caves. When i put them on all i see is a screen of green with maybe a minor outline of cave walls if i squint hard? They feel too bright and lacking detail when i used them basically.

I have not tried them out on the world though, just once or twice in caves hoping for the best.

[Kamakura]

Originally posted by Sililos:

I found them totally useless in caves. When i put them on all i see is a screen of green with maybe a minor outline of cave walls if i squint hard? They feel too bright and lacking detail when i used them basically.

I have not tried them out on the world though, just once or twice in caves hoping for the best.

The only use they have is outside, in the pitch black nights, you can KINDA see, it's better than a flashlight there, but if these were compared to a real pair of NV goggles, these are only working at like...15 to 20% capacity, it's super weird, it's some of the worst NV goggles I've seen so far in a game.

[TcT Goth98]

I mean. Every tool sucks in this game kind of. PMC's would have WAY better flashlights and gear with them that would survive the helicopter crash.

[Noctoculus]

They really don't want you to see the game for some reason. The rifle/gold armor cave is horrendous to navigate because none of the tools behave as they should. You can point the flashlight into darkness and be blinded by the beam but not see any cave walls.