LIghtining

[Jehan]

Its just a little to bright, and a little to often.

[smokey57]

You should try living in the midwest... you'd think it was pretty calm and peaceful then, in scum.

[Jehan]

I live in tornado alley I see some nasty storms. I am just saying it feels a bit bright at night time, the few storms I've had werre pretty crazy, I like the weather effects etc.. but I just wish there was an adjuster or something for that brightness.

[smokey57]

Must be referring to night play, which i don't do. So no comment on that. Surely isn't any issue in daytime.

[srmacpherson]

Lightning hurts my eyes a LOT.
Having the entire screen flash white isn't how lightning works unless its striking right by you.

[The Collector]

I agree totally here and I am glad someone else made a post about this. The lightning is indeed way too bright and I even told RayKit on one of his streams that the lightning nearly triggered my epilepsy, good thing my sister was watching me play that day. The bright white flashes is bit too intense even when you are in buildings and playing on a 52" tv makes the whole room look like areal life flashbang.

[Jehan]

Originally posted by srmacpherson:

Lightning hurts my eyes a LOT.
Having the entire screen flash white isn't how lightning works unless its striking right by you.

Yes 100%.

Originally posted by The Collector:

I agree totally here and I am glad someone else made a post about this. The lightning is indeed way too bright and I even told RayKit on one of his streams that the lightning nearly triggered my epilepsy, good thing my sister was watching me play that day. The bright white flashes is bit too intense even when you are in buildings and playing on a 52" tv makes the whole room look like areal life flashbang.

I am playing in a super dark room, and that bright flash was making my eyes hurt as well, had to turn the game off each time its night and raining.

[xKiCkx]

Hello, depending on what server you play on there is different night brightness settings. If you are playing on private server you might encounter slightly brighter or darker nights.

[The Collector]

Originally posted by xKiCkx:

Hello, depending on what server you play on there is different night brightness settings. If you are playing on private server you might encounter slightly brighter or darker nights.

Playing in SP to test out all the new locations but as soon as it rains I run for a bunker to avoid the lightning flashes or just alt+tab till weather changes.

[Jehan]

Yea I was playing on Official is all. I do enjoy the weather don't get me wrong, just those screen flashes are pretty brutal on a dark night. I went ahead and rented a server and turned the night time brightness all the way up. I have not ran into a storm yet, but as soon as I do I will update this post. Honestly though and I am not trying to make more work for you guys but maybe just adjust it a bit. Im telling you in my opinion and apparently other people feel the same way. Any time its night and stormy and dark, I have to close the game, because its simply is just to much for my eyes.

[xKiCkx]

Thanks for the feedback. :)

[Jehan]

Np have a good day! And thanks for the game. I have been enjoying it.

[BakedPotato]

another issue i noticed is the frequency of the lightning it just constant flashing every 2-3 seconds, no thunder to follow. it's like a strobe light.

[tanocapo]

I agree. I'm playing SP and if you can modify frequency and brightness would be great. It's impossible at night to play with those flashes. I feel them unnatural and the frequency doesn't match either.
Thank you¡¡

[Kraft51]

Originally posted by xKiCkx:

Hello, depending on what server you play on there is different night brightness settings. If you are playing on private server you might encounter slightly brighter or darker nights.

they are talking about the Lightning Strike effects, each time it flashes very brightly to the point where its actually a distraction, which could be the difference between death and survival. has nothing to do with how dark the night is, nights generally seem to vary quite a lot depending on the cloud cover and moon.

the storm effects are great except the lightning flashes, dial those down a little bit and all would be awesome :)

[oynlengeymer]

lightning is fine. its all the other lighting/weather setting that need work.

Its not "all" but.. Since 0.5 there are moments that look stunning, (misty fog with patches of sunlight thru passing clouds, or early sunrise) But there has just been something not balanced about the whole day/night cycle.

Nights become heavy in contrast looking bad (especially as this contrast increase begins in early evening while still mostly light) But at strange seemingly random times of the day the colours look washed out and under saturated.. or saturation is fine but brightness is washing out the contrast... These moments I have not been able to pinpoint like the nights. I guess its a certain weather transition..

And then there is that weird visual bug with the new sky against the trees as they move in particular weathers or dusk/dawn cycles.. It's nauseating at times.

So yeah, don't worry about the lightning. What I'm curious on is, could the weather/lighting system be rolled back to how it was in previous UE versions? Until you really have improved what you are doing in the 0.5 engine? Or it cant work like that?

Sure, some said the nights were too dark in the past but god, the game's look was much more consistent. Now it goes from looking beautiful one moment to ugly and broken the next.

Sry if it sounds harsh. I love the work you guys do. And I know the goal is to fix the game to look good using the latest UE, not roll backwards in any way.

I probably pay too much attention to environment stuff. But its what I look at the most.

I only noticed today, while asking myself why I look at these things more, that the character model, their clothing etc, all looks great no matter the environment type, time of day or weathers. And maybe that is the thing most people look at.