Too dark nights?

[SunDriedSheet]

The game is just not playable during nights.. All I can do is to wait, when my hut finally allows me to sleep. It´s so dark I can´t see a thing, even with full moon. And fighting the cannibals with their night visions on, just not fun. I mean, the dark caves are absolutely okay, but outside, I just don´t enjoy it

[Capt.Cliff™]

Theyres a good selection of color appearance in options which may help. Default is Original.

Adjust your monitors settings also.

[Porkie]

Real nights in real forests aren't even half this dark. You can see pretty well, just in different colors.
Especially when the moon is out, not even full, you don't really need any artificial lights at all to see well.
This game is clearly vastly exaggerating

[SunDriedSheet]

Originally posted by Huggles `:

Real nights in real forests aren't even half this dark. You can see pretty well, just in different colors.
Especially when the moon is out, not even full, you don't really need any artificial lights at all to see well.
This game is clearly vastly exaggerating

Yes I never noticed that option, setting from default to modern gives like double vision. I can actually see my own axe during nighttime, wonderful

[simon]

Try the "Texas" filter. It helped me a lot.

[JOHN30011887]

Dev said on here- We are working on implementing a contrast/gamma slider into the game

[jexxor]

I only find it too dark when the moon is down. Other than that, it's OK, but then I don't travel much at night.

[Smaisteri]

Originally posted by Huggles `:

Real nights in real forests aren't even half this dark. You can see pretty well, just in different colors.
Especially when the moon is out, not even full, you don't really need any artificial lights at all to see well.
This game is clearly vastly exaggerating

Umm, real nights in real forests are pretty much pitch black if you go far enough north at a certain time of year.

[eclipse]

Originally posted by Smaisteri:

Originally posted by Huggles `:

Real nights in real forests aren't even half this dark. You can see pretty well, just in different colors.
Especially when the moon is out, not even full, you don't really need any artificial lights at all to see well.
This game is clearly vastly exaggerating

Umm, real nights in real forests are pretty much pitch black if you go far enough north at a certain time of year.

Considering the game only

Its a full moon every single night, the forest is only really thick in a few areas which should always be nearly pitch black pretty much.
It should not get pitch black in like 90% of other areas until we get moon phases in the game.
The beach area will always be illuminated except for new moon range.

[Roadie]

My issue isn't that it's dark, but all of the light sources you can use don't do ♥♥♥♥. Flashlights used to be sufficiently bright so that you weren't stumbling around, but post release, it's like walking around with a torch that's perpetually at 2% battery no matter what charge level it's at.

I have to change the color grading to m151 at every cave and every nightfall because it's impossible to see anything, and then I have to change it back by daytime because m151 is blinding in daytime. It's a useful workaround but gamers shouldn't have to be going between color grades in the settings constantly just to play the game.

[eclipse]

I play in a dark room only and really never have problems seeing.

I use blockbuster pretty much 24/7.
In caves I meticulously re-lite my skull club+cloth. When I want to see up ahead or around a corner I will like a fire arrow and shoot it. The fire arrow stays lit a good while and also provides a decent amount of lighting wherever you need it so you have the option of putting light exactly where you want without alerting the enemy.

Never have any problems above ground at night even though the sight radius is only about 30 feet or so in some areas

[Kennizard]

Same here and the slider literally does nothing.

[Praxis]

use super filter for dark. if its too bright try blockbuster. but since the very begining super has always been the one for dark situations

[eclipse]

options > color grading
https://theforestmap.com/wiki/colorgrading/

super is brightest at night
blockbuster is best natural look

[Hamatula]

I switch to M131 at night or in caves.

[Crazyloon]

Consider changing settings on your monitor also.