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Bellheim

Apr 25, 2020 @ 9:22am

More light, please.

I have played the game for more than 100 hours so far and many more hours will follow. That's for sure. The only thing that bothers me is... it is too dark. Especially the area around the player. The torch should be much brighter.

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Originally posted by Qiox:

The range of the light is a balance issue baked into the world design. If you could see farther then finding secrets would be trivial. They can't put a secret so far away that you can't jump to it. Therefore your light radius is limited by you max jump so that the ledges the secrets are on are not too easy to spot.

And I highly recommend spending the 2 points in Fire Magic that it takes to get the Light spell. It has no duration. You cast it once and that's it, it is on forever.

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Beast Mastese has Realms of Magic

Aug 1, 2022 @ 1:50pm

Originally posted by Shion:
I think the issue is not with the light radius but with its brightness. It is quite hard to see anything in dark caves if you do not put torches literally everywhere.
For example, try to find coal in earth in Wheatfall region. It is very easy to miss it with the current torch.

This, 100%. It's about the intensity, not the radius. The radius is perfectly fine. The problem is I can't see my hand in front of my face even with a torch.

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Requimatic has Realms of Magic

Aug 1, 2022 @ 2:15pm

Originally posted by Beast Mastese:
Originally posted by Shion:
I think the issue is not with the light radius but with its brightness. It is quite hard to see anything in dark caves if you do not put torches literally everywhere.
For example, try to find coal in earth in Wheatfall region. It is very easy to miss it with the current torch.
This, 100%. It's about the intensity, not the radius. The radius is perfectly fine. The problem is I can't see my hand in front of my face even with a torch.

I'm typically not one to complain about things like this, but I do agree here: the intensity could come up a bit and still be perfectly fine.

Maybe instead of just tweaking the current torch, add an upgrade at some point? Like a Bronze/Iron Torch, or perhaps even a Lantern?

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Locklave

Aug 1, 2022 @ 2:24pm

Necro from 2020. People, check dates.

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Sinatr

Aug 12, 2022 @ 8:10am

I can't find torch spell.

The game is VERY dark. The darkness is annoying as hell. The night doesn't serve a single purpose as to only annoy. I often can't skip the night when I am suddenly catch by it in protected areas. 10+ times already happens when I went to a new location, that I forgot to sleep, so I am forced to go back to my base to sleep.

Why there are nights????

-- end of rant ---

Exploring dark dungeons in the darkness is fun for some time. But it will quickly become annoying. It's not just darkness, it's inability to distinguish blocks, hell, it's not even possible to see a pit fall in time.

Maybe brightness setting (gamma?) will help, I don't know, but this game is way too dark, that's for sure.

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Requimatic has Realms of Magic

Aug 12, 2022 @ 2:05pm

Originally posted by Locklave:
Necro from 2020. People, check dates.

It might be from 2020, but it's still relevant.

Originally posted by Sinatr:
The night doesn't serve a single purpose as to only annoy.

I mean.. Dark Elves benefit greatly from night time and darkness in caves/dungeons.

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Traficante has Realms of Magic

Aug 12, 2022 @ 6:47pm

As much as I loved this game, I quit because of the issue of how dark it was. I understand the whole secret containers thing, but that's such a minor thing vs being able to see the majority of the time. It's cool to run into secret chests, but I really never even cared about them much.

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Qiox

Aug 12, 2022 @ 10:22pm

I find these comments baffling. How about showing screenshots of exactly what you consider to be a problem? I've never seen anything seem too dark. And that makes me wonder if the issue is simply a bunch of people who don't clean the dust of their monitors.

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Traficante has Realms of Magic

Aug 13, 2022 @ 8:22am

Originally posted by Qiox:
I find these comments baffling. How about showing screenshots of exactly what you consider to be a problem? I've never seen anything seem too dark. And that makes me wonder if the issue is simply a bunch of people who don't clean the dust of their monitors.

I've stated before I tried on 3 different monitors and my monitors aren't dusty. I've messed with all the brightness settings. Me personally I'd rather them just remove the secret chests if it meant you can brighten the whole area up. It wouldn't even matter if we posted screen shots, you're just gonna sit there and say "WHAT!! I CAN SEE THE ENTIRE SCREEN U NOOB R U BLIND". Clearly for the rest of us, we can't see.

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Qiox

Aug 13, 2022 @ 9:43am

Secret chests??? Secret chests are not hidden by darkness that you need to light up. None of them. They are hidden in places that you have to think to go. They have nothing to do with brightness.

You find them by thinking, not by lighting them up.

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Sinatr

Aug 13, 2022 @ 10:15am

Originally posted by Qiox:
How about showing screenshots of exactly what you consider to be a problem?

Go to any location, move underground. The ambient lights are just too little to do anything with overall dark and colorless game. Maybe it's a design, but then I just personally dislike it. Coupled with nights (realism into otherwise unrealistic game or just annoyance?). This game will stay in my mind as a poor version of Terraria, worse than "It lurks below" (style- and mechanics- wise), the skill system is worse than in Crea... I should stop here sorry =)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2848014835

#25

Qiox

Aug 13, 2022 @ 10:55am

Ok now I'm really confused. Why are you ignoring the torches and not lighting them? In sandbox areas, you can place as many as you want and this is obviously a non issue.

In non-sandbox zones the dev has put torches all over the place. Why are you not lighting them?

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Traficante has Realms of Magic

Aug 18, 2022 @ 6:42pm

Originally posted by Qiox:
Ok now I'm really confused. Why are you ignoring the torches and not lighting them? In sandbox areas, you can place as many as you want and this is obviously a non issue.

In non-sandbox zones the dev has put torches all over the place. Why are you not lighting them?

You're so stuck in your own little world. "It's obviously a non issue" when so many people have complained about it being too dark. Even lighting torches it hardly does a thing. This is like arguing with a flat earth believer.

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Qiox

Aug 18, 2022 @ 8:27pm

Originally posted by lilhouseph0ne:
Originally posted by Qiox:
Ok now I'm really confused. Why are you ignoring the torches and not lighting them? In sandbox areas, you can place as many as you want and this is obviously a non issue.

In non-sandbox zones the dev has put torches all over the place. Why are you not lighting them?

You're so stuck in your own little world. "It's obviously a non issue" when so many people have complained about it being too dark. Even lighting torches it hardly does a thing. This is like arguing with a flat earth believer.

Sure... I ask for a screenshot showing that it is too dark and they post one with all the torches turned off.

LOL

If nobody is willing, or able to show what they are actually talking about, why would anyone who sees no issue at all while they play, think that there is actually an issue?

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