When the sky is clear, and I can see all the stars, and yet the only thing I can see is a bright flare in the middle of Electro something is wrong, I should at least be able to see the tip of my gun, see the contours of the ocean. We live on a planet with an atmosphere, even at night some of the light from the sun makes it to the other side of the planet. This is more a view I would expect on a planetoid a few AU from the Sun I mean, look at this picture: http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595846901703197090/62B88D9E1513248A67B1E45617EDF08CF8CB607B/ Even with gamma and brightness set way higher then I usually do I can't make out where my gun starts and begins. Anyone who calls this realistic must be living in another reality, but it's only this dark in the centre of the earth or on an planetoid in deep space. This kind of darkness only serves to empty server at night, and allows anyone with NVGs to just run around and loot everything since nobody will be bothering on night servers.