new update made lighting not work, or only work infrequently. often in total darkness on the map.

[sarahbearbaby]

I know the new lighting engine is to make the game run smoother, but how well it runs doesn't matter when I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING ON THE MAP!

many probably have torches and other lighting set up all over their base for consistent lighting like me, but now it all seems to have been deemed unnecessary or something. the only lights that seem to "work" by producing glow are those located 8+ squares away from my character, and they only turn on intermittently. plus any personal glow I have from wearables seems to only work very infrequently, and I am often left in total darkness even though my personal glow should be +8.

I messed with my settings right when I came in the game because in order to do literally anything I HAD to turn my brightness all the way up, as well as reduce the awful bloom that the lights have now (but not turn it off because apparently that makes the lighting even worse) because the bloom hurt my eyes to try and look at for too long -- additionally on my screen the bloom effect only serves to make everything look fuzzy, and doesn't provide much real environmental lighting even at full strength. for reference, i also have object shadows on, reflections on, light quality high, ambient occlusion high; but i messed with all these to see if different settings would improve the lighting problems, but none did substantially.

and like I mentioned before, I should never be in darkness anyway regardless of other environmental lighting because on my character I am wearing the reinforced miner's helmet that provides +5 glow and the octarine bag that produces +3 blue glow, but still if I stand in the majority of spots on the map all that personal glow turns off and I can't see anything around me. it's not just difficult to see, where my character is located the screen is literally completely black as if I had no lighting at all.

it's a really disappointing update because before this I have been playing several hours a day, and it's hard to play the game when it has decided to basically make only 1 out of 10 torches work about half the time, and my glow only turn on like 20% of the time, and never turn on when I actually need it. I took a screen recording of it to report it if there is a way to do so, but I think I'll have to stop playing until they fix this terrible lighting engine, or I have to find some way to redownload the pre-update version without losing my newer save.

personally I don't care if the game crashes more or uses more RAM, at least the pre-update lighting actually worked.

[Alusola]

Oh i thought i was the only one with this problem, i hope they resolve this problem soon:(

[rie]

The same phenomenon is happening to my friend. I am sad that I can't play with him.

[Alusola]

Originally posted by wg.2.2a4:

The same phenomenon is happening to my friend. I am sad that I can't play with him.

it is a big bummer, what worked for me to make it more playable was to remove torchers nearby and use valentine candles instead of torches, for some reasons they work normally

[Kharn]

Same issue. Large parts of the screen just refuses to light up even though there's plenty of torches, lights, etc.

[Stellar Remnant]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1621690/eventcomments/3779119714747322035 seems this problem may have been fixed.