Too dark at night

[Raychul]

Most levels become unplayable at night. The game gets far too dark & you're so limited to what you can do while holding a torch. Would love a "perpetual daytime" option.

[Pyramid Games Community]

Hey Raychul,

The night is dark and full of terrors, thanks for the suggestion! As a temporary solution - perhaps adjusting brightness settings will help?

[barbayat]

It's not just that it is too dark at night, I literally can't see what I am doing at 3 in the afternoon and resetting the time just makes it so that after a few steps it starts to storm or get cloudy - not to mention the time passes too fast.

It's really annoying and makes me not want to play anymore.

[Pyramid Games Community]

Got it, thank you for the feedback.

[plutotama]

i wish we could either pause time, or adjust brightness. i cant find a setting ingame for it!

[Bethgael]

Originally posted by barbayat:

It's not just that it is too dark at night, I literally can't see what I am doing at 3 in the afternoon and resetting the time just makes it so that after a few steps it starts to storm or get cloudy - not to mention the time passes too fast.

It's really annoying and makes me not want to play anymore.

I am having the same issue. It was not a problem the last time I played (before 1.1). Changing shadows has no effect.

I have a nVidia card, in case that information is required.

[Bethgael]

I should add this: despite the images on the load screen not being darker in tone or colour, from this patch, all of the items in-game are darker in general. So it's not just the "light" that is darker, the whole game is.

[Jack Cheddar]

me want give feedback - darkness adds some reality to the game. It's a R/L thing a flipper would deal with. It takes the game a little ways from just being a clicker to having to plan your task. (like doing inside the bldgs while it's light and outside stuff in the moonlight)
It only slows me down until it gets scary dark, which really doesn't last that long.
Maybe what we need are tasks we can do at home, during nightfall or placeable lanterns.

@Pyramid - lightning struck the ship while I was on deck - most cool

[thelogicalghost]

Echoing the above. I think the issue is that in most sim games like this there's some kind of flashlight or other kind of light source that can be manipulated to allow us to work while it's dark. I don't mind the realism of having things get very dark, but I do mind when it's the middle of the night, the only thing I have left to do is clean some stains, and there's no light source nearby, so I have to aim myself with a torch in my hand, switch to cleaning mode, and wiggle my cursor over a pitch-black screen.

Reminds me of how one of the most popular mods for Skyrim were lanterns that could be equipped in a belt slot. There were a couple different ideas of how to fuel them, but it reflected the same desire of having a hands-free light source.

[Bethgael]

Originally posted by Jack Cheddar:

me want give feedback - darkness adds some reality to the game. It's a R/L thing a flipper would deal with. It takes the game a little ways from just being a clicker to having to plan your task. (like doing inside the bldgs while it's light and outside stuff in the moonlight)
It only slows me down until it gets scary dark, which really doesn't last that long.
Maybe what we need are tasks we can do at home, during nightfall or placeable lanterns.

@Pyramid - lightning struck the ship while I was on deck - most cool

"Darkness" is just fine.

Utter blackness--not so much.

[Oblivia]

I agree. It's much too dark. Turning up the gamma sort of works, but then you have horrible glare when you put in the lights, very faded colors during the day, and you might literally go blind if you have to tab out and look at something. A permanent fix to be able to frees time and/or disable day/night would be amazing! :)

[Pyramid Games]

Thanks for all the suggestions! We're working on a possible solution right now. :)

[Woozel]

How does sleep work?

[Pyramid Games]

Originally posted by Woozel:

How does sleep work?

Sleeping allows you to set the time you want. For example, if it it starts getting dark, you can go to the bed and set the time back to daytime. You can change weather as well.