Way too dark at night

[Charles Entertainment Cheese]

When the sun goes down i cant even make it from the garage to the bathroom, this is not realistic and ruins process. What do?

[Reese]

Nothing do but turn up screen Gamma.

[karik_FIN_134]

Keep always couple lights on, like garage and kitchen (it will raise electricity bill slightly if u have them on constantly but...)

Maybe also have flashlight(in garage) and/or lantern(u can get it from the island cottage) available in specific spot(s), maybe somewhere on the yard and/or a in vehicle(in satsumas glovebox?) so if u for example then forget to pay electricity bill and not even garage+kitchen lights work u could find one of those to use it.

Of course if u find a vehicle u can use the headlights on that to light area. If u have Satsuma built it has dome light on by default after u open a door, so u should be able to see to turn ignition on for the headlights to work or to pick lantern/flashlight if u put one in satsuma.

Pitch black darkness happens in irl too so how can u say it's not realistic.

[Charles Entertainment Cheese]

Originally posted by karik_FIN_134:

Keep always couple lights on, like garage and kitchen (it will raise electricity bill slightly if u have them on constantly but...)

Maybe also have flashlight(in garage) and/or lantern(u can get it from the island cottage) available in specific spot(s), maybe somewhere on the yard and/or a in vehicle(in satsumas glovebox?) so if u for example then forget to pay electricity bill and not even garage+kitchen lights work u could find one of those to use it.

Of course if u find a vehicle u can use the headlights on that to light area. If u have Satsuma built it has dome light on by default after u open a door, so u should be able to see to turn ignition on for the headlights to work or to pick lantern/flashlight if u put one in satsuma.

Pitch black darkness happens in irl too so how can u say it's not realistic.

Realistically in your own house you could fumble your way around with muscle memory.

[karik_FIN_134]

or by touching walls to navigate or to find light switches. Yeah I forgot those things(touch+muscle memory) which games don't have.

Is it also that indoors there's no footstep noises either like outdoors+in garage so u can't tell if u are moving anywhere. If u could hear footsteps indoors u might be able to navigate using walk speed+time as referance to navigate.

U could drop food items on the floor to create paths to different places in the house, then after front/back door u just crouch and aim at floor to find the path. Maybe have different food item paths in different rooms so u can stop when it changes at the doorway and search for the light switch.

[Reese]

In game, you can typically see windows and posters on the walls. By walking towards them and figuring out which is the window, turn 180 degrees, walk out the door into the kitchen. Find the window in there > turn 180 degrees > look for the doorway into the hall > move cursor around the left side of the doorway. You can fumble around pretty easily in our simple rural home.

[SergeiH]

Originally posted by karik_FIN_134:

Pitch black darkness happens in irl too so how can u say it's not realistic.

Please point me to the area in Finland where summer nights are as dark as in the game, or dark at all for that matter.

The darkness is far from realistic, but just there for extra difficulty. Easy solution: Sleep at night.

[karik_FIN_134]

It's August 20th in the game, based on the sunset(around 10pm) and sunrise (around 5am) times in Ylivieska(in game Alivieska) municipality (located northern latitude 64.0713, longitude 24.5401).

If it was midsummer June 20th? when day is longest on northern hemisphere then in that Ylivieska location the sun would go still below horizon but only barely and there would be some light through the night, maybe like how much there's light around 11pm in the game.

U need to be located norther than polar/arctic circle(latitude 66.33) for sun to not go below horizon in/around midsummer/summer solstice. Ylivieska is over 200km south of the polar circle.

Now it's 2months to midsummer(in game two months after) and I live in finland 60km to north from polar circle(like 400km bird route norther from Ylivieska) so I could take a photo after midnight ->2am so u can see how dark it still is here (I checked that sunset and sunrise times here where I live are now about 9:00pm and 5:30am so around 1am is darkest period of day).
It could be clear weather so moon can give light+all street lights etc too but I try to find a darker spot to take that photo.

[SergeiH]

There's a radio ad for a gig on 15th of July, though, and I recall an interview hinting towards it being late June as well. I suppose the game's date is just generic summer.

Darkness (though not as exaggarated as in game) would make sense in August more south, yes.

No need for pictures, I lived most of my life in Finland :)

[karik_FIN_134]

I think it could be slightly too dark(being pitch black) between 1-3am even if it would be August 20th. But that probably is to get some proper night time to the game and use for high beam headlights etc.

It's easy to avoid that darkest period of day just by sleeping over it or pass time with saves. Only time it comes into play really is when u go and drive drunk guy home after 2am.

[bruh lightyear]

for anyone wanting midnight sun - it's not going to happen. elongated shadows ♥♥♥♥ frame rates up over long time frames according to toplessgun.

[durkhaz]

Here's what I did:
Drunk people always find home, so step one is to buy like 10 crates of beer.
I noticed that the beer bottles inside a beer crate actually glow in the dark because of their reflection. Praise alcohol. So I put crates next to doors and lightswitches to guide me at night like some kind of runway to alcoholism.
I haven't gotten lost ever since.

[Reese]

Originally posted by durkhaz:

Here's what I did:
Drunk people always find home, so step one is to buy like 10 crates of beer.
I noticed that the beer bottles inside a beer crate actually glow in the dark because of their reflection. Praise alcohol. So I put crates next to doors and lightswitches to guide me at night like some kind of runway to alcoholism.
I haven't gotten lost ever since.

That's genius.

[Marionette]

Just last night I was in the basement when the lights turned off, plunging me into pitch black darkness. You'd really think that finding your way around your own house would be easy, but it was just as annoying as pitch blackness in MSC. Your mental map does not work well at all without visual refferences. I ran into a chair, bumped into the litterbox, and tripped over the very stairs I was looking for. My better 3/4ths was very amused.

Darkness in MSC is perfectly fine.

It would be nice for there to be a moon at times, to give just a little bit of illumination while I'm trying to find the ignition switch in the dark. Perhaps though, I should just park my van closer to the driveway instead, where there is a light. Once i drive the drunk home a few more times, I'm not sure I'll even need to go out at night. I hate driving at night. I keep getting killed like I'm Sam Kinnison when I drive at night.

[Rick]

Originally posted by karik_FIN_134:

Pitch black darkness happens in irl too so how can u say it's not realistic.

Have you ever been in Finland or any Scandinavian country during summer? Even in Oslo, which is lower then the southern point of Finland it never goes past dusk the whole night.

[laracheur]

it reminds me the feelings of getting up at night in an unknown dark bedroom. so accurate !