🌖Fake night light, again

[hexaae]

Once again an AC with gorgeous maps and gfx, but with totally fake night light... totally immersion-breaking.

@Ubisoft
Why can't you add at least a configurable option (let players decide) to make night light darker and a bit more "realistic"?

It's a long sad story and Ubisoft unfortunately always ignored this problem, see for example these old threads

https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/comments/173u74v/no_darker_nights_again_also_for_mirage/

https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/comments/ywv5sc/darker_nights_for_creed_series_origins_odyssey/

CONCEPT

Night light correction concept (these were examples for Odyssey):
🖼️ https://imgsli.com/MTM0NzU4
🖼️ https://imgsli.com/MTM0NzYx

👉🏻 Best solution would be a nightlight slider option in graphics settings. This would please everyone.

EDIT: someone also suggested to implement the same "Neutral lighting" option of The Division 1/2... This could also work...

[sh3riff]

Sadly not many people cares about it and dont even see it or realize it

I have insane problem with this too .. and not just that.
The fake light on characters during cutscenes too
No shadows indoor
No shadows from outdoor light sources etc

[hexaae]

yeah... sigh
Nights in all these AC games should be definitely darker

[hexaae]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3453481630
Seriously broken.... again

[Kopejka]

I'm sure there are people who prefer to see what's happening on their screens.
Looking at the comparison screens from OP's link, the "dark night(concept)" ones look cool but a bit too dark.
You an always decrease the lighting or gamma to make the game more dark.

[hexaae]

The idea was to make it optional with a slider or so, dedicated to night light realism only.
So people who prefer to play at night like in full day light, just bluish, will be happy too...
Not to mention the interesting mechanics that can be introduced with reduced night vision related to torchlights, spots of light and things like that...

Daytime in these AC games is gorgeous since Origins, but these fake-nights in full bluish light are so immersion-breaking...

[HorzaEdeo]

a slider would definitely be the best way to do it. they'd have to give a lantern too, i think, which is oddly missing

[Nyx]

Originally posted by sh3riff:

Sadly not many people cares about it and dont even see it or realize it

I have insane problem with this too .. and not just that.
The fake light on characters during cutscenes too
No shadows indoor
No shadows from outdoor light sources etc

Are you perhaps playing with Ray Tracing off? There are absolutely shadows indoors and from outdoors light sources.

[hexaae]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3454130214

Jesus.... 🤮

[anaris]

mine is dark, this is your settings

[Moonwitch]

Just tell Ubisoft to add in neutral lighting then. Like in Division 1 and 2.

[Moonwitch]

Originally posted by hexaae:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3454130214

Jesus.... 🤮

This looks right to me. Maybe its your monitor settings.

[space]

Originally posted by hexaae:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3454130214

Jesus.... 🤮

what about it? or is feudal japan in the year 1579 supposed to look like modern tokyo at night time?

[hexaae]

The problem is with horrible fake brightness in the night, and that's an issue since Origins with the AC series.
See first msg, the CONCEPT correction examples. Vanilla night light is so horribly fake and unrealistic like no other game unfortunately (daylight is gorgeous instead).
It's always been an issue with the ACs, sigh...

[HorzaEdeo]

Originally posted by hexaae:

The problem is with horrible fake brightness in the night, and that's an issue since Origins with the AC series.
See first msg, the CONCEPT correction examples. Vanilla night light is so horribly fake and unrealistic like no other game unfortunately (daylight is gorgeous instead).
It's always been an issue with the ACs, sigh...

it is like any other game. go play a sniper elite level set at night, it's even brighter there

[hexaae]

Originally posted by Moonwitch:

Just tell Ubisoft to add in neutral lighting then. Like in Division 1 and 2.

Why not. Could finally fix fake bright nightlight in the AC series....