Seeing at night

[karlkurtz32 59]

Besides the gamma exploit, is there a way for people to see at night?

 

I was just in a fire station in the middle of the night, in the NE by the new city.  I couldn't see a single thing, only pitch black everywhere.  I was more or less "feeling around" for loot.  Next thing I know I'm being shot. 3 or 4 rounds go off and I'm unconscious.  Have no idea where they are coming from because I see nothing but black.  Then 2 more shots and I'm dead.  Any explanation as to why he could see me but I couldn't see him?

[Kaboki 62]

Maybe he shoot you by listening to your footsteps to tell the direction and then took a shoot in the dark and got lucky:p. Or maybe he used brightness and gamma cheating...you'll never know....Since he took 3 or 4 rounds too kill you I suspect your footsteps revealed your position..

 

Speaking of night, what happend to the night in exp? Haven't seen darkness for a week. Night is also hard to find on stable, atleast servers with people on it. I want to play at night on loaded servers but most servers seems to run daytime and people also seem to like to play only at daytime, why can't all servers have night and days, and why does everyone only play at day. Right now the most popular ones seem to reset to daylight as soon as the night sets in....sorry for my hijack/rant...just miss lurking in the darkness :( .

Edited June 9, 2014 by Kaboki

[solodude23 649]

Even when there's no moon, the gamma glitch works better when HDR is set to "Low" rather than "Very Low". Hell, it makes night vision better in general even without the gamma glitch. Make sure you keep this setting on "Low" at nighttime. 

 

Other than that it could *possibly* be a ESP type cheat or something, though less likely.

Edited June 9, 2014 by solodude23

[karlkurtz32 59]

Thanks for the replies.  That kill will confuse me for a while. I still don't see how it could be done just by listening.  Once I heard the first shot I danced around moving left and right and he still killed me. I turned my gamma and brightness up to see if I could spot loot any better and I may as well have been blindfolded, thats how dark it was.  

[Estevacio 62]

There is a desyinc with the client and the server that sometimes to you is night time and to another player is still daytime, might have been that(do not know if this problem still in the game) might have been that

[karlkurtz32 59]

There is a desyinc with the client and the server that sometimes to you is night time and to another player is still daytime, might have been that(do not know if this problem still in the game) might have been that

Oh wow, I had no idea about this.  That guy probably watched me the whole time thinking, "What the hell is this dude doing?"

[frozenjaws 69]

Maybe he shoot you by listening to your footsteps to tell the direction and then took a shoot in the dark and got lucky:p. Or maybe he used brightness and gamma cheating...you'll never know....Since he took 3 or 4 rounds too kill you I suspect your footsteps revealed your position..

 

Speaking of night, what happend to the night in exp? Haven't seen darkness for a week. Night is also hard to find on stable, atleast servers with people on it. I want to play at night on loaded servers but most servers seems to run daytime and people also seem to like to play only at daytime, why can't all servers have night and days, and why does everyone only play at day. Right now the most popular ones seem to reset to daylight as soon as the night sets in....sorry for my hijack/rant...just miss lurking in the darkness :( .

the SE and DE servers on experimental have night time for a reasonable amount of time because they have 3 hour restarts instead of the "dumb" imo 1 hour restarts the rest of the servers seem to have :/ But they are bugged or something right now and have been for a while, you cant join them :/ they show they have ppl on when you check "favorites" or "history" but are empty on "internet"

[Munson_fry (DayZ) 312]

latly me ad my pal where on our way to stary he was using his head torch and i was using the weaponflashlight on my fnx. 

i could clearly see him but he couldnt see me ( his torch out and my flashlight on ) so that could be an explanation. 

 

he was scared like crap btw because i could sneek up on him that way.

 

 

  :D

[Kaboki 62]

latly me ad my pal where on our way to stary he was using his head torch and i was using the weaponflashlight on my fnx. 

i could clearly see him but he couldnt see me ( his torch out and my flashlight on ) so that could be an explanation. 

 

 

Yeah, I have seen this bug when playing with a friend too, could also explain OP's question...

 

 

the SE and DE servers on experimental have night time for a reasonable amount of time because they have 3 hour restarts instead of the "dumb" imo 1 hour restarts the rest of the servers seem to have :/ But they are bugged or something right now and have been for a while, you cant join them :/ they show they have ppl on when you check "favorites" or "history" but are empty on "internet"

 

Ah, that explains it, thanks for the info :)

Edited June 9, 2014 by Kaboki

[karlkurtz32 59]

latly me ad my pal where on our way to stary he was using his head torch and i was using the weaponflashlight on my fnx. 

i could clearly see him but he couldnt see me ( his torch out and my flashlight on ) so that could be an explanation. 

 

he was scared like crap btw because i could sneek up on him that way.

 

 

  :D

Man, another bug I didnt' know about.  I may have to use that one.

[Kaboki 62]

Man, another bug I didnt' know about.  I may have to use that one.

 

How do you use it? The bug just happen randomly, so you would never know if the player your approuching doesn't see your flashlight..... unless he's your friend and you communicate. And BTW, just because there's are alot off hacks, bugs and stuff doesn't mean we have to 'cheat' because some people do. I never exploit wall gliching, gamma or any other hacks. Doesn't get killed to often either and I like to think 'most' people play fair and they do. Script kiddies will always be there and thank god not everyone is cheating just because they can....

 

Also, many times people claim to be killed by hackers using aimbot, but really they sucked and just met a better skilled player...My friend is really skilled with weapons in Arma engines and always gets blamed for using aimbot. And I played the Arma 2 Dayz MOD, Life MOD alot and I rarelay come by any hackers so the problem isn't as big as some people want it too be...In dayz SA I have never encountered hackers. In GTA5 Online I see them every time I play..

Edited June 10, 2014 by Kaboki

[Hetstaine 10852]

Can depend on your card as well. My partner has a hd6770 and even with gamma and brightness cranked she only gets about half the advantage i get on nvidia, mod and sa. Her pitch black is blacker than Riddick. 

[RedGuard 40]

_{I've personally given up on night time gameplay. Played without abusing the gamma trick and been massacred.}

_{Also, trying to force my way through by banging my forehead on a dark wall was funny a couple of times. Got tired of it since then. :|}  

Edited June 10, 2014 by RedGuard

[Kaboki 62]

_{I've personally given up on night time gameplay. Played without abusing the gamma trick and been massacred.}

_{Also, trying to force my way through by banging my forehead on a dark wall was funny a couple of times. Got tired of it since then. :|}  

 

Hmm, have yet not expirienced being killed at night, but had a few close ones and Im not using the gamma trick either, just makes the graphics look like crap and ruins the immersion. I do the opposite, I turn the gamma settings down a little just to make things even darker. Have been killed plenty of times in daylight...

Somehow I feel more safe in the cover of darkness, even if I know there are a few gamma cheaters out there, but have yet to encounter them... I have had alot of fun sneaking up on people around campfires and eavesdropped on their conversations without even killing them and sometimes made contact and chatted alittle, and then moved on into the darkness. Only times I encountered people try to kill me is when I use the flashlight or set up a campfire.. About banging in a wall you cant see, that's what you got the flaslight for, being able to 'see' in the dark:p

 

They way I put up with gamma cheaters is just 'pretend' they have night vision googles like people had in the mod. So there was always a chance to bee seen in darkness using the mod too, that extra risk even makes it more scary... So just move about just as you would in daylight, avoid open spaces as much as possible and be sneaky. Nothing feels more rewarding than being able to see the sunrise and be glad you just survived another night in the apocalypse:D.

Edited June 10, 2014 by Kaboki

[karlkurtz32 59]

How do you use it? The bug just happen randomly, so you would never know if the player your approuching doesn't see your flashlight..... unless he's your friend and you communicate. And BTW, just because there's are alot off hacks, bugs and stuff doesn't mean we have to 'cheat' because some people do. I never exploit wall gliching, gamma or any other hacks. Doesn't get killed to often either and I like to think 'most' people play fair and they do. Script kiddies will always be there and thank god not everyone is cheating just because they can....

 

Also, many times people claim to be killed by hackers using aimbot, but really they sucked and just met a better skilled player...My friend is really skilled with weapons in Arma engines and always gets blamed for using aimbot. And I played the Arma 2 Dayz MOD, Life MOD alot and I rarelay come by any hackers so the problem isn't as big as some people want it too be...In dayz SA I have never encountered hackers. In GTA5 Online I see them every time I play..

Good talk. I didn't say I want to use it to kill people. Just to see at night. Geez.

[karlkurtz32 59]

Can depend on your card as well. My partner has a hd6770 and even with gamma and brightness cranked she only gets about half the advantage i get on nvidia, mod and sa. Her pitch black is blacker than Riddick.

I'm running a GTX 770 OC. Night time is brutal. I thought I was going to just walk off a cliff at any given moment.

[Kaboki 62]

Good talk. I didn't say I want to use it to kill people. Just to see at night. Geez.

 

Well maybe you should have phrased yourself better because, "Man, another bug I didnt' know about. I may have to use that one" sure sounds like you would use it for abuse if it was possible... But I actually think you miunderstood how the bug works,,,and I misunderstood what you ment:p.

 

It's like this, you turn on your flashlight you can see the person infront of you, but he's got the bug where he can't see your flashlight so for that person you would be impossible to see but you see him just as it should be...So you could(im not saying you would) just use your flashlight but there isn't any garauntee that everyones got the bug, most people will see your flashlight:p. Offcourse if you have a friend with you, you will know if one of you got the bug, so you could use that to 'cheat' knowing that one of you is invisible to other players even with he's flaslight on...Im not saying you cheat, but that one sentence made me think you would "use that one" too your own advantage:p Sorry for misunderstanding you

Edited June 10, 2014 by Kaboki

[Munson_fry (DayZ) 312]

Can depend on your card as well. My partner has a hd6770 and even with gamma and brightness cranked she only gets about half the advantage i get on nvidia, mod and sa. Her pitch black is blacker than Riddick. 

and that was the mother of all blackness  :lol:

[Mos1ey 6301]

With clouds on "very high" and HDR on "low" I can see well enough to navigate at night. I think I probably miss the odd piece of loot and it's not ideal for PvP type play, but I can just about see.

 

I think your monitor also plays a big role in how well you can see at night.

[Kaboki 62]

 I think I probably miss the odd piece of loot and it's not ideal for PvP type play,

 

Are you kidding, the best PVP type play happens at night.... :D