Game is too dark at night

[SILENTBORDERS]

When I first login it always looks like night and for around 2 minutes it is bareable but then it
ll sudden render or something and drop to headache level darkness. Any fixes?

Also, 80 hours and never found brass knuckle.. tips?

[seven]

Brass knuckles are rare. I didn't find any for a long time, maybe a couple hundred hours. Then sometimes you get lucky, I found 3 in a few hours of gameplay. Sadly lost them with the last wipe. Can't help with the darkness, I think it should be even darker when the moon is down. Maybe some in-game video setting, or your monitor settings.

[MS. Green Label]

you can make a torch from the crafting menu

[AsianKenDoll69]

snowy places are quite bright during the night

[Scooty]

no it isnt

[Chronic213]

Originally posted by silentborders:

When I first login it always looks like night and for around 2 minutes it is bareable but then it
ll sudden render or something and drop to headache level darkness. Any fixes?

Also, 80 hours and never found brass knuckle.. tips?

Do you have the "-SM4" option added to your launch options for scum?
Or did you edit any .ini file to set PostProcessing=0?

Those 2 things do the same thing, and doing either one makes your game MUCH darker. My PC isn't all that great, so I did it to try and eek out a few more frames per second. Once I realized how dark it made the game (headache level, like you said) I removed the "-SM4" option and set Post Processing to anything directly from the in-game menu (I think the menu doesn't let you turn PP off). I literally couldn't even make out stars in the sky with that option.

[AsianKenDoll69]

snowy places are brighter during the night compared to grassy places, i dont even use a torch in snowy places during the night

[PrettyFunkedUp]

"Game is too dark at night"

xD
priceless
XD

[Mikfail]

Could you take some pics or maybe a video? Unsure if there is a problem with your game. There is actually a Full Moon every night ingame, it does cast a lot of light.

[Venomkraft]

lmao turn your monitor brightness up ffs "Lets NERF the darkness "

[Wolfram407]

Originally posted by PrettyFunkedUp:

"Game is too dark at night"

xD
priceless
XD

Originally posted by Venomkraft:

lmao turn your monitor brightness up ffs "Lets NERF the darkness "

You can snicker and guffaw, but it doesn't help game development nor the OP.

There is a bug that cause the screen to go black.
It usually happens around midnight when you focus on animal tracks or throw something.

The OP is probably referring to how the game loads into daylight and after a moment adjusts to the servers "time of day".
The level of darkness that "renders" is probably intentional.
Ways to deal with it have been mentioned. Adjust your brightness, craft a torch etc.
Changing contrast and saturation levels can also help. The most obvious solution and potentially most difficult is to find night vision goggles.

And yes brass knuckles are rare.

[ZerO CooL]

Originally posted by Wolfram407:

There is a bug that cause the screen to go black.
It usually happens around midnight when you focus on animal tracks or throw something.

The OP is probably referring to how the game loads into daylight and after a moment adjusts to the servers "time of day".

You can decrease the "darkening" effect when you focus on animals at night with a higher Awareness-Skill.

And yes. After logging into the game you need a few seconds that the server time will be synchronized.

[Doc Holliday]

Personally think it should be darker!

[Mikfail]

Originally posted by Wolfram407:

There is a bug that cause the screen to go black.
It usually happens around midnight when you focus on animal tracks or throw something.

Not a bug. This is an effect called "Eye Adaptation" (In UE4 "Auto-Exposure"). What you see is it's only real drawback. Otherwise, it can be a nice realistic effect at times.

Originally posted by ZerO CooL:

You can decrease the "darkening" effect when you focus on animals at night with a higher Awareness-Skill.

Wow, I had no clue about this. If that's correct, then that seems to be what scales the auto exposure values.


After reading over everything again, I assume the only real problem the OP is having is with the client & server sync when you login. The best quick fix I know of would for the devs to make the loading screen longer. This is the sorta thing loading screens are for. If there wasn't any, you would see the entire worldspace build & render before your eyes (everything popping in place).

If everything even at default is too dark for you silentborder, then I am very sorry. There is a load of threads in the hub requesting it to get even darker at times. You may even find me in some of them suggesting lighting at night to be influenced by realistic moon phases. What we have currently would be the brightest night of the cycle (full moon).

[SILENTBORDERS]

So much salt in these comments. Can someone not ask a question without being attacked with ad hominems. "NERF THE GAME" "CRAFT A TORCH". Yeah I get it, the point is I've compared my game with my friends and mine is noticeably darker. I enjoy dark games but this just becomes darker than silent hill and it is very hard to see at times and I find myself logging out during the night. I live in southern Spain so my country is very bright which is a factor I guess. I don't want to have to drop my shutters in order to see

[flitzpiepe0815]

Originally posted by silentborders:

darker than silent hill

Try "Escape from Tarkov", it's even darker.

Originally posted by silentborders:

I live in southern Spain so my country is very bright which is a factor I guess.

I know places around Huelva where you can't see ♥♥♥♥♥ at night. Especially on a new moon.