[Standalone] @Rocket: Please don't do that "dark athmosphere" thing !!!

[ponc 100]

So, it seems as if Rocket creates some kind of visual "dark, depessing athmosphere" in the standalone version of DayZ.

This would mean the sky, the light, the weather, everything looks "depessive" or "spookier", more like a generic horror movie.

PLEASE NO!!!!!

Creating this kind of "horrormovie effect" just makes DayZ more "game-like".

DayZ was something special, because it felt so real, so immersive!!!

And that was especially in moments when you passed through a wide open field in beautiful daylight, sunshine, blue sky, flowers beneath your feet.

And still it felt real horror, not knowing if there is somebody in that treeline or that house on that hill.

Please don't change the feel of the world!!!

The SA could be THE best game ever, don't do such radical fundamental feeling-changes, that could destoy EVERYTHING!!!

[boneboys 7988]

Reference ?

[Guest]

Not true,

All you need to do is change the players view of an area in order to make it scary :)

[ImageCtrl 719]

We get real clouds...

PLEASE NO!!!!!

DayZ was something special, because it felt so real, ...

And that was especially in moments when you passed through a wide open field in beautiful daylight, sunshine, blue sky, flowers beneath your feet.

And still it felt real horror, not knowing if there is somebody in that treeline or that house on that hill.

Please don't change the feel of the world!!!

The SA could be THE best game ever, don't do such radical fundamental feeling-changes, that could destoy EVERYTHING!!!

[m.w. vindicator 880]

I personally would like some big, scary rain clouds every once in a while. Maybe some thunder and lightning

[Powell (DayZ) 734]

but...

but zambies, man.

[Hetstaine 10852]

I personally would like some big, scary rain clouds every once in a while. Maybe some thunder and lightning

thunder and lightning has been in since day dot :)

[DemonGroover 8836]

Considering it is the zombie apocalypse i would expect it to be a little 'dark'

The world has ended. Things would fall into disrepair, vegetation would start reclaiming the cities and there would be no light inside buildings.

I don't think Rocket will just make it cloudy and rainy the whole time though. I don't know where you get your information that there will be no bright sunshine in SA.

[Droidlife 11]

I think there could be a considerable amount of "artsy fartsy" injected into this project without going the silent hill route or whatever. But I DO hear you, and I think that great care has to be taken here. The chilly "just a normal day" ambiance accompanied by the steel hammers of doom ringing across the landscape was just BANG ON GENIUS. I think Rocket knows not to take it to far in any other direction. The key thing here is "desolate but normal world". I fully agree. Zombies should be running towards you all wailing and screaming as the sunlight beams down on a perfectly clear and frosty autumn day.

Edited February 1, 2013 by Droidlife

[guisho 258]

I think it's because zombies

[Jonsse 69]

So, it seems as if Rocket creates some kind of visual "dark, depessing athmosphere" in the standalone version of DayZ.

This would mean the sky, the light, the weather, everything looks "depessive" or "spookier", more like a generic horror movie.

PLEASE NO!!!!!

Creating this kind of "horrormovie effect" just makes DayZ more "game-like".

DayZ was something special, because it felt so real, so immersive!!!

And that was especially in moments when you passed through a wide open field in beautiful daylight, sunshine, blue sky, flowers beneath your feet.

And still it felt real horror, not knowing if there is somebody in that treeline or that house on that hill.

Please don't change the feel of the world!!!

The SA could be THE best game ever, don't do such radical fundamental feeling-changes, that could destoy EVERYTHING!!!

I agree with you that making the game constantly gloomy is completely opposite to the theme of a realistic zombie survival. But I've seen no indication that rocket wants to do it like that.

He's mentioned making the houses and the surroundings more apocalypse like, that doesn't mean left 4 dead style gloomy lighting. It means that floors aren't clean, walls may have dirt and blood on them and there's trash and filth everywhere as there's no-one to clean it anymore. But when it comes to atmosphere or weather I've seen no indication of change in that. When there's no clouds and the sun is up, it will be and should be bright and colorful.

Edited February 1, 2013 by Jonsse

[the LawsOfFire 20]

i do however hope that the night will be just a BIT brighter. not WoW bright. but so you can see without gamma-cheat or NVGs

[yorkie065 78]

Someone clearly hasn't read the updates to the standalone. It doesn't look anything like what your hoping for, and what "apocalyptic features" that are in already, make sense. Like another guy said before me, it comes through wear and tear of a disused/ desolate landscape. Any further changes will be player made, things like boarding up windows and setting fire to vehicles or tents and the like. Red through the updates that rocket has posted, and I guarantee it will put your mind at ease....then excite it like mad for the features that are hopefully coming :P

[BwobBwub 660]

Maybe weather in Chernarus is bad and looks grey and depressing. Like the UK.

[Hellfire1014 12]

I don't think most people got what he was talking about. He's talking about the engine modifications for the standalone.

http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/ The newest pictures that are at that link is what he's talking about. See how the enviorment uses a darker color pallete for the sky, and lighting.

I've never played this game before, so I can't really say anything on it. But I do see what he's saying it looks more overcast, the lighting is just in general darker. The best example is picture 5 in the standalone pictures. It's not overcast, or rainy, and it really looks darker than it should be. It looks like it should be brighter. I kind of agree with him it does look almot too dark in way. I don't know if that has to do with how they were optimizing the engine, but I do know in the first pic on that page it makes the game look more realistic. Still it looks just a bit too dark.

Edited February 2, 2013 by Hellfire1014

[Feral (DayZ) 622]

I think the OP is worried that the game will become unrealistically moody and darkly atmospheric, like a generic horror b-movie - like this perhaps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOMDlj2jwk

Edited February 2, 2013 by wabbit

[Josh225 129]

I couldn't play Namalsk for very long because it was so depressing to play. Seeing only white, dark green and the grey of most buildings bored the shit out of me.

[ImageCtrl 719]

I think the OP is worried that the game will become unrealistically moody and darkly atmospheric, like a generic horror b-movie - like this perhaps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOMDlj2jwk

B-movie? This Z-movie is gold. :P

Have it original on dvd. The remake is gold also.

Edited February 2, 2013 by NoCheats

[goleastro 22]

Yeah the recent screenshots look as if the camera is wearing sunglasses.

[Hellfire1014 12]

Alright op I should of known this, or checked. Go back to http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/ and scroll down. There's more screenshots of the standalone further down. Bright ones.

[Maxgor 2314]

Those pictures are hardly dark or prove that the standalone is going for anything remotely dark or depressing. Its still very bright and colorful. "Dark, depressing, atmosphere" is what you talk about with the likes of STALKER and Metro 2033, worlds destroyed by radiation, anomalies, and chaos. I highly doubt he's suddenly gonna do a 180 on the current art direction which looks absolutely fine.

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

A good range of weather will make it great, One of the things that drove me to the game was the ability to wander around. As long as I can still see where I am going no issues.

Because it is the apocalypse I don not see the need for a darker atmosphere weather wise, the world will still go on as normal without people, dilapidation will affect the look of the landscape, but vhe sky will do as it wishes.

tbh, Every little tweak to DayZ SA will mean a longer delay for us to get our grubby little mits on it

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

Maybe weather in Chernarus is bad and looks grey and depressing. Like the UK.

Coventry! Come up to Cleckheaton, green hills, white puffy clouds, and lots and lots of wind.

[sausagekingofchicago 4711]

To be honest, the most fun I've had recently was in the middle of the night, in pitch black darkness, in the middle of a storm on a BB server with nothing but flares and the occasional lightening strike to show me the way. Every time I felt lost I would sit still for a minute and let the lightening show me the way. It was so good that I felt it was scripted. Prior to this, the sound and light in the distance of an approaching storm was so fitting that I stayed up late just to shoot at zombies with a crossbow.

But the countryside should still be beautiful during the day but I don't think that's going to change. If anything I have a feeling that this will be enhanced. If you can look past the history of carnage. :)

Edited February 2, 2013 by SausageKingofChicago