Filthius

I bet someone nukes the server.

I ignore region and look for any high pop server and pretty much any time of the day and I tend to have zero results. I have heard the same from others. There are almost always like 25 servers at 30+ even at odd hours, but none of them tend to ever be dark. Compared to a month ago, when I could find a dark server (with a population of over 10 people, generally 25-40) on my 2nd or 3rd try if I was lucky, its pretty obvious there has been a negative reaction to the lighting.

Apparently even people who like a challenge don't care for the current dark, since there is not a single populated dark server.

Because a lot of their primary subscribers are younger players' date=' and I don't care what anyone likes to claim, younger players whine a hell of a lot more. When they end up buying the game with their pocket money, paper round money, daddies credit card and start getting killed left right and center, not spawning with a weapon and generally finding it hard, they will come running to the forums and whining. The more than whine, the more it looks like it's what the general player base wants (and may even turn to be the general player base) thus in turn, the game has a chance (depending on how much Rocket can take of the whiny dribbling from the kids) to consume itself and head off into the same direction as all other mainstream games, catering to the casuals. This and the fact that I guarantee you that these children won't under stand what an Alpha is, nor will they understand what a Mod is and start demanding things, throwing their toys out the pram and jumping up and down on how they spent money on this game and deserve whatever shit they think they deserve. That's MY reason to being against it. I think that's a good enough reason and whether you do or not doesn't make your decision any more important. [/quote'] So absolutely nothing will change?

The pitch black is clearly a problem if the only people playing on any pitch black server are 3 people in a group looting the NW. Also, popularity is important when it comes to game features that make or break gameplay. Its not about hating the night, its about no one playing on night servers because of how the lighting works now. This wasn't always the case.

I see a lot of people saying they enjoy the dark and that it is perfectly realistic, but I am having troubles seeing this reflected in game. Since the mod came out I stuck to darker servers because it was much more exciting for me, but recently it has become painful to find a server that is dark without it having less than 5 players on it (who are all probably at NW farming because low pop). In real life even a little moonlight allows someone to see even the tiniest bit. Flashlights, flares and glowsticks were still useful even when there was some visibility to navigate inside of buildings or inspect from loot, but not being able to even walk down the street without using a light source is just silly. If the lighting at night was really okay why is it so damn hard to find any populated servers at night?

It's even better to camp at the places where good gear spawn, killing people like you before they get the gear. Problem? :D From the sounds of this thread you must not be doing a good enough job.

My experience since the mod first came out that a bandit skin was more of a mark of time played instead of how often you coldly murdered people. I got mine after 3 days and I was playing as friendly as possible. Survivor skin generally just meant you were a newbie who hadn't had to kill other newbies yet. lol