PC Brightness is OP. Make it unavailable at night.

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RyanX

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"Just don't turn it up" you say?

I say "Helps the streamers, hurts the players."  Corporate like that.

If I played only single player, that would be fine.  But I don't.  Everyone and their mother turns it up so nighttime looks like daytime.  We go do a quest or run around at night, my buddies (and other players) can see fine, getting the kills before I do.  They don't need lights, and I can't see to them to stay in the group at the (more reasonable) settings I prefer.  On PvP?  No way you can be on equal footing.  But I know PvP is not the focus, before you plan on saying anything about that.  So I am talking about MP as a whole...PvE included.

What happened to the scary zombie game I was playing in A15-ish?  If you had raw meat, the zombies could smell it and came at you...or when they could smell your dysentery (eww).  I mean, fine, take that out if you want, but turning off the darkness....really?  If I'm in a dark house at night, NO WAY should I be able to see without light.  NO WAY!  And I don't want to be hanging back behind my party because I think nighttime should be dark.

Best solution imo is to make Brightness unavailable at night.  Make the nights shorter if you want.  This way the streamers could show everything for most of the day (turning brightness up if needed) and then at night...well, they have to use a light of course.  But the night is short.  Streamers still get good visuals, and players get the scary night time.

 
Seems like making it a server setting would be a better option. Just a check box in the set up menu so streamers could turn it up, and people who don't want bright nights could play on servers where it's not allowed.

 
For one, i dont like oversaturated colors in a19, so turn gamma up to make them look less like "" hello kitty"" theme ..

 
Fenris said:
Seems like making it a server setting would be a better option. Just a check box in the set up menu so streamers could turn it up, and people who don't want bright nights could play on servers where it's not allowed.
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That's one possible solution.

Bashtiks said:
For one, i dont like oversaturated colors in a19, so turn gamma up to make them look less like "" hello kitty"" theme ..
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I agree on the colors.  That's why I like the "adjustable during the day, default at night" approach.

 
RyanX said:
Not if you're into cheesing.
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Play how you want and let others do the same. I can imagine a flashlight mod for your helm or weapon would be the simplest solution without the devs or server managers forcing something on everybody for the sake of the few.

 
Teal said:
Play how you want and let others do the same. I can imagine a flashlight mod for your helm or weapon would be the simplest solution without the devs or server managers forcing something on everybody for the sake of the few.
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You can only say that because that's the default setting.  The old "play how you want" is an argument that only assumes that the current setup is optimal.  How about we remove the cheese...then those who complain that it's not cheesy enough can listen to you say "if you don't like it, you don't have to play" because that's what the current settings are?  The point is that I CAN'T play how I want because everyone else is running around at max brightness, seeing things I can see even with a light on a realistic darkness setting, and night vision goggles are only a late game item, so by that time, the map is almost played out.  So to keep up, my brightness goes up and the immersion drops.

 
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I think having the brightness setting have a reduced effect or no effect at night would be a good change. I hadn't even realized what the issue was here until I checked it for myself, if you turn Brightness up to 100% the game basically becomes fullbright. You can see perfectly fine in literally all cases, even in pitch black basements and New Moon nights.

 
Teacyn said:
I think having the brightness setting have a reduced effect or no effect at night would be a good change. I hadn't even realized what the issue was here until I checked it for myself, if you turn Brightness up to 100% the game basically becomes fullbright. You can see perfectly fine in literally all cases, even in pitch black basements and New Moon nights.
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Crazy isn't it?  I'm not sure why you would need anything brighter than what could be seen on a stream in the daytime.

 
If they remove brightness, your friends will just turn up their monitor's gamma / brightness... The real solution is to get friends that want to play in your style.

 
Telric said:
If they remove brightness, your friends will just turn up their monitor's gamma / brightness... The real solution is to get friends that want to play in your style.
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The difference is that the in-game brightness setting actually physically increases the brightness. It seems to amplify the intensity + range of light sources, including natural light. Turning up your gamma/monitor brightness would not have anywhere near the same effect, as it would just wash things out in exchange for maybe making it slightly easier to see.

 
Telric said:
If they remove brightness, your friends will just turn up their monitor's gamma / brightness... The real solution is to get friends that want to play in your style.
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Tell that to folks on a PvP server.  They are usually large groups of nice people who will do what you say, right?

Teacyn said:
The difference is that the in-game brightness setting actually physically increases the brightness. It seems to amplify the intensity + range of light sources, including natural light. Turning up your gamma/monitor brightness would not have anywhere near the same effect, as it would just wash things out in exchange for maybe making it slightly easier to see.
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Exactly this.

 
RyanX said:
Tell that to folks on a PvP server.  They are usually large groups of nice people who will do what you say, right?

Exactly this.
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It sounds like your only option at this point is to adjust your brightness to whatever suits your situation. The fact that the option there is pretty great.

Now I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice if everybody could get what they want, but it's just not possible if something one sided is forced on everybody. If your playstyle is so important, would *not* following your friends around during the night not be in your best interest?

 
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Teal said:
It sounds like your only option at this point is to adjust your brightness to whatever suits your situation. The fact that the option there is pretty great.
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That's an interesting take.  So having an option for the server moderator to disable the brightness is not ok, but having an option to adjust brightness is?  Some options are ok but others are not?  Sounds like you are into all the options...except that one?

 
RyanX said:
That's an interesting take.  So having an option for the server moderator to disable the brightness is not ok, but having an option to adjust brightness is?  Some options are ok but others are not?  Sounds like you are into all the options...except that one?
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Huh? It's totally fine for the mods to do whatever, it'd still be your choice whether to join that server or not. But you're assuming in this argument that it's already a thing.

So, you can't control the way your friends play.

You can't control how the mods or even if the mods can keep brightness locked to a certain value on your server.

What does this leave?

 
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