Accommodation for someone who cant see in the dark

[Dragon Protector]

Can we please get a mode that makes everything bright? I cant see in the dark and have a vision disability but would like to play this game with my girlfriend.

[Myth Alric]

You can try turning the brightness up, which helps a bit. The game is designed assuming you will use the flashlights and stuff though. I don't have any vision problems and I literally can't see anything without a flashlight in game. The night vision headcam is pretty good though.

[Dragon Protector]

Originally posted by Myth Alric:

You can try turning the brightness up, which helps a bit. The game is designed assuming you will use the flashlights and stuff though. I don't have any vision problems and I literally can't see anything without a flashlight in game. The night vision headcam is pretty good though.

Thanks for the reply. I will look into that. Currently can family share play it so might see how it goes

[Hox]

Just admit you're scared of the dark.

[GooseDog]

Originally posted by Dragon Protector:

Can we please get a mode that makes everything bright? I cant see in the dark and have a vision disability but would like to play this game with my girlfriend.

I suffered with brightness difficulties in this game due to poor vision. Even at max brightness settings (which makes the truck interior and clipboard stupidly bright) its still too dark for some of us. A couple of ideas for you:
-Depending on your graphics, you might be able to adjust some settings
-Same for your monitor. Mine has a GAMMA setting that helps me with this game. I do have to reset it afterwards because it makes all other games too bright.
-Force yourself to explore the maps with no flashlight, at least once. You will find areas of natural and ambient light on every map that can be genuinely useful. Turn on friendly ghost setting for this if you want; thats what this setting is for.
-Lastly is just, time. The more you play the maps, the more familiar they become. Trust me.

[KnightlyKestrel]

Originally posted by Dragon Protector:

Can we please get a mode that makes everything bright? I cant see in the dark and have a vision disability but would like to play this game with my girlfriend.

As others have said, the game is designed so that you cannot see in the buildings (or the campsites) without the use of a light source, be it hand-held lights or building lights.

The only exeption to this is a *very* small circle of light directly around your player, probably meant to represent what your player can 'feel' directly around them. this is rather dim, the best way to check is when entering a building and crouching, can you see the floor directly below you dimly? if yes, you should have decent settings for you. if no, then the settings definitely need adjusted.

Additionaly, the torches (A.K.A flashlights) have different effective ranges. the T1, IIRC, cannot reach the end of tanglewoods first hallway, and emits this somewhat dim yellow-ish light. T2 is better, in both range, colour (its a nice white-ish) and range. as for T3, Have not reached there yet.

and on the subject of building lights - each map has an electrical breaker box, which must be turned on before the building has power *(1). no power = no lights, so if the light-switch does not work, try the breaker.

(1) except easy, this difficulty has it set to 'on' at the start

TL;DR: game is not designed for the dark areas to be seen, requires use of tools/objects to light up. and good luck on your ghost hunting adventures!

[Kroogur]

Hi Dragon! Another impaired vision person checkin in! Knighty and Goose gave some awesome tips in their post but I can add a few things the Tier 1 glow stick is a pretty good light source when crouch walking.
When you hit Tier 3 on the headwear it has built in night vision which is awesome it really helps me!
The Tier 3 flashlight/torch helps a lot!
And the house maps will usually have candles around on tables,nightstands,etc. Just check you'll find them and they help a little.

[Anfraxx_]

so to give a different answer but hopefully something you can look into - if on PC and using a NVIDIA GPU, you have access to the Nvidia filters. Normally accessed in game originally by pressing alt+F3. From there you can apply brightness, contrast, gamma etc filters. If you swing over to twitch, check out a streamer called Meik, who all the credit goes to, and he will show you how it looks in game, and even explain to you the settings he uses.

Link to streamer[www.twitch.tv]