A question regarding the gamma/brightness trick...

[Imafighter 236]

Adjusting a setting in game is a trick? lol ok then. I just look at it as my pupils dilating. But whatever you need to help you say alive. If it is pitch blackness just shut your PC off and your guy will live forever and your screen will look just like DayZ at night.

Or, you could, y'know, use flares, and chemlights, and flashlights. They have a purpose, you know?

[Cap'n (DayZ) 1827]

Who needs gamma & brightness? Then again, who needs chemlights, flashlights, and NVG's? All I need is road flares.

[Joe Freedom 34]

Little story happened to me on a DayZ 2017 server.

I was running while carrying a green chemlight when suddenly a little buttlesized hole opens up next to my right foot acompanied with the thunderlike sound of a Lee Enfield. I didn't stop, I went on running, but I droped the chemlight instantly. About 5 meters away from my light, I circled around the light, went about 20 meters north, up the hill and proned. There I was lying for about ten minutes without a shot fired or a shot fired at me until I saw a shadow move. I had to turn my character around and in the 1 second this took me, the shadow once again melted with the black of the night. I lied there for another ten minutes until I finally had to accept the truth. I had my chance of winning, but I missed it. This battle ended in a tie. I left the place heading north to the woods, still crawling and escaped through the woods.

If I or the other guy tempered the brightness, that would have been the decision in this fight. But apparently, we both hadn't. Why didn't I? Well, easy, it's an exploit. The game has lights in it, so you can use them for these situations of darkness. Carrying a light source is always a risk, but one you need to take in the dark or you are going to break your legs. Quite literally in this game. Adjusting brightness and gamma simply renders chemlights useless. This eviscerates a whole part of the game mechanics.

But on the other hand, what should we do? We can't fight something unarmed and if there is no mean to prevent it, we can't do anything about it. So basically, I hope they will integrate something to prevent gamma and brightness adjustment in the stand alone, but so far, I don't see any changes for the mod coming soon.

Also, there is another problem. This neat little hive idea is a problem. People aren't playing at night. The are simply jumping servers. So hives don't work out. I guess we have to safe our characters server side so that people would only have two options if a server says it's night. Don't play with that character for 12 hours or play at night.