Flashlights are too bright

[Mythril115]

They light up an entire city like the sun oof, makes my eyes hurt

[Jare]

Only if youre wearing NVG which is actually realistic.

[Mythril115]

Originally posted by PJ Jare:

Only if youre wearing NVG which is actually realistic.

I mean yea but im talking just normal vision. Somehow I feel like the flashlight es less a hand torch and more like a flood light

[Go_Coup]

Originally posted by PJ Jare:

Only if youre wearing NVG which is actually realistic.

It's not realistic for gen 3s or 4s.

[Shadeball]

Originally posted by Go_Coup:

Originally posted by PJ Jare:

Only if youre wearing NVG which is actually realistic.

It's not realistic for gen 3s or 4s.

exactly. I just don't play night maps anymore. It's not worth it. I can either use a silly flashlight myself or get blown away because I'm blinded by an enemy 100 meters away using one even though that's completely unrealistic for better nvg

[Jare]

Originally posted by Go_Coup:

Originally posted by PJ Jare:

Only if youre wearing NVG which is actually realistic.

It's not realistic for gen 3s or 4s.

Maybe for gen 4 but not for gen 3 since I own one. It can handle lights like simple lightbulbs and street lights but not a military/tactical flashlights directly to your eyeballs.

Oh yeah forgot to mention @Mythril, Military/Tactical Flashlights are made to be ultra bright, its indeed almost blinding even in couple meters you still get blind by it with just normal vision. Thats why in the game enemy bots panic and says that they got blinded when you point them with your flashlight.

[Mythril115]

Originally posted by PJ Jare:

Originally posted by Go_Coup:

It's not realistic for gen 3s or 4s.

Maybe for gen 4 but not for gen 3 since I own one. It can handle lights like simple lightbulbs and street lights but not a military/tactical flashlights directly to your eyeballs.

Oh yeah forgot to mention @Mythril, Military/Tactical Flashlights are made to be ultra bright, its indeed almost blinding even in couple meters you still get blind by it with just normal vision. Thats why in the game enemy bots panic and says that they got blinded when you point them with your flashlight.

I mean sure but I feel like im blinded while using them, just plain eyes. Of course I understand being blinded when wearing NVG for balance purposes.
But i have my gamma set to 2.5 and my monitor on standard 50/100 brightness. If I lower the gamma I stop being blinded but at the same time it leaves the game too dark. And same if I up the brightness, flashlights become hell but I can see without them. It just seems to me that flashlights are too bright while maps are too dark, or the other way around
Ive seen these ultrabright torches in real life a few times and I just think flashlights in game give off a white screen that overlays instead of properly iluminating. I feel like Irl they illuminate anything nearby too well, and further away it seems tolerable. In game the brightnes feels too powerful even at long range, which is my complaint earlier about them acting like flood lights.

[Go_Coup]

Originally posted by PJ Jare:

Maybe for gen 4 but not for gen 3 since I own one. It can handle lights like simple lightbulbs and street lights but not a military/tactical flashlights directly to your eyeballs.

Oh yeah forgot to mention @Mythril, Military/Tactical Flashlights are made to be ultra bright, its indeed almost blinding even in couple meters you still get blind by it with just normal vision. Thats why in the game enemy bots panic and says that they got blinded when you point them with your flashlight.

I was assuming that this post is about the bounce lighting and far flashlights, not flashlights aimed directly at the NOD or eye from close. Considering the OP also compared it to a flood light, I think I'm right.

[Mythril115]

Originally posted by Go_Coup:

Originally posted by PJ Jare:

Maybe for gen 4 but not for gen 3 since I own one. It can handle lights like simple lightbulbs and street lights but not a military/tactical flashlights directly to your eyeballs.

Oh yeah forgot to mention @Mythril, Military/Tactical Flashlights are made to be ultra bright, its indeed almost blinding even in couple meters you still get blind by it with just normal vision. Thats why in the game enemy bots panic and says that they got blinded when you point them with your flashlight.

I was assuming that this post is about the bounce lighting and far flashlights, not flashlights aimed directly at the NOD or eye from close. Considering the OP also compared it to a flood light, I think I'm right.

ye, environmental lights

[1v4n94]

Flashlights are so bright (too much), that they ironically make it difficult to see things where light is being summoned: https://youtu.be/kVTjsbGb3cM

[1v4n94]

Too much gamma = unrealistic.

This is how it should look: https://youtu.be/9K_NhS8HLpM