Night Vision Idea

[BurnOtop]

As you know people want day and night but at the same time, they are bored at night because they can't see anything and it tires the eyes and in addition it lasts a long time.
The two previous night vision was clearly bad,
The first hurts the eyes, the second couldn't see at 1 meter

Here is my idea:

The principle would be to have a perimeter around your dinosaur where you normally see in color, beyond this perimeter, you always see the map correctly but in black and white,
however any dinosaur outside this perimeter cannot be seen, it can only be heard or sniffed.

this way no more headache, no more squinting to try to see
Something like that
https://www.noelshack.com/2021-17-2-1619528572-sans-titre.jpg
it will work for dino and human

What do you think ?

Another idea is added to this.
you might see your party members like a shadow outside of this perimeter, but not other players.

That way the night would be a good way to enforce group sizes restriction, without penalizing the teams

[Loken]

Looks great on that image :) worth a try IMO, see how people respond to it.

[chagadiel]

i just hope they dont do what they did last time half the time the game was unplayable unless you where a dilo. everyone should have night vision to an exstent but some should have reaaly good night vision. plus with the dinos with weak night vision they could make their night vision unable to be abused by gamma adjustments.

for example the first ten feet could be middling fading out to blackness and closest 3 feet realy good and a gamma adjustment would bleach out the good vision

[xXDruidXx]

This is a very interesting idea.
For the majority of time at night on Legacy I had to stay put, or very barely travel as I'd end up falling/breaking my leg far too often.

[Ouroboros]

Only day server i want

[chagadiel]

Originally posted by xXDruidXx:

This is a very interesting idea.
For the majority of time at night on Legacy I had to stay put, or very barely travel as I'd end up falling/breaking my leg far too often.

yep my semi adult giga was resting in a by a tree as hidden as could be the vision was about two feet infromt of you it was stupid humans can see so much at night but i digress a pack of dilos found me i imediatly broke my leg and was doomed.

[Gruffigummi]

I like the pitch dark night. Makes the game much more interesting for me

[Loken]

Originally posted by Gruffigummi:

I like the pitch dark night. Makes the game much more interesting for me

Originally posted by Gruffigummi:

I like the pitch dark night. Makes the game much more interesting for me

It does add a hide and survive tension for smaller dino's. Or sneak about and get the jump on someone vibe. A small view range which differs between Dino's would be interesting too. Instead of the NV outside the decent view range it could be dark as is now. I'm on the fence with this one tbh. Night does bring a different gameplay style to it as ambushes could be pulled off easier in a group especially.



If running off cliffs or into trouble is the issue then. slow down. Switch the playstyle when it gets dark. As a small group of herbivores hide and keep a lookout. Carnivores become more of a threat. Its interesting from both PoV. Plan the day so you dont have to venture out at to the local watering hole or starve. Adapt. Survive.

[xXDruidXx]

I enjoyed the tension at nighttime, particularly when I was a small or young dino.

I don't mind the darkness personally, but for some of the larger carnivores in particular, you could barely see beyond your own feet. Which essentially means you can't do anything for half of the time (when it's dark). A large amount of players straight up didn't like it so it definitely seems like something that's worth playing about with this time around.

It would be interesting to see a different take on darkness.

Edit: Also, the fall didn't have to be that high, you don't have to be jumping off of cliffs to have broken your leg in legacy, it would simply be a "step" down, but it would break your leg haha.

[Viktor]

Honestly I'm dreading when night vision gets added into EVRIMA.
I like being able to see at night; it can be dark in heavily wooded areas (as it should be!) but out on the plains you can see all around you. It's nice to be able to actually see color and take in how pretty night time IS, something I'd completely forgotten was a thing back in Legacy.

I've always been under the opinion that dinosaurs should be able to see normally at night and the only pure black night + nv should be a human thing, but that's just me personally...

[Kane]

Wow that pictures looks nice, i want that night vision

[rustyOkin]

Not a bad concept but I don't think a "fog of war" is the right thing for a survival game.

I think the biggest problem people had with the old night vision was the feeling that the perimeter was so small that they wouldn't be able to react to any kind of danger. You simply weren't able to check anything around you which is crucial in this game. So they just turned it off, increased their gamma and stayed in open fields.

What I'd like to see are really dark nights (which would punish mixpackers as you said, because you can still see group members) but also some solid night vision to deal with them. I hope night vision works like a small perimeter like in that picture but more importantly adds some sort of night vision cone. That way you can also see things that are further away but you actively have to look at it and check. Both the perimeter and the cone can be bigger or smaller depending on how good the animals night vision is.

[Hr0]

Fog of war that is unexploitable like gamma.
I am bored of being killed at night by gamma cheaters that see exactly the same at night that at day. Very good concept to literally remove the players or NPC if they are outside the range of vision of that dino.

[brownie689]

No matter what they do I'm just going to use gamma. Sorry but I refuse to play a game where I can't see anything. Especially an online PVP game. Games are supposed to be fun. Not stressful and annoying to play. Not being able to see for about half of the time you are playing a game does not sound like fun to me.

Either people will log out at night and log back in when it's daytime or they will use gamma to be able to see at night.

Either way they will find a way to play the game the way they want to play it. Making it super dark at night is just going to ruin the experience for everyone.

The devs need to find a different way to do night time without causing people to want to use gamma or just log out.

[brownie689]

Nah dude you were using gamma just like everyone else. There is no way you can see anything at all in legacy at night on a good monitor. It is pitch black. Literally unplayable.