Can anyone actually play at night?

[HateMeh 1]

Playing at night is easy.

especially if you are in one of the big city's

i usually grab some flares and throw them everywhere for light.

If you wanna travel between cities get some chemlights throw 1 and grab it, it gives just enough light to follow a road.

[maxim_malcon@yahoo.com 0]

Most people that say night is easy probably have their gamma turned up, or own night vision goggles, or play on a low populated server.

[wolfstriked 143]

I'll repost it...for gameplay reason they should make it so night has fog and looks like it does in this forums background pic light level wise.Would make playing at night actually a good thing.Artificially put full moon every night.

[integ3r 5]

If it's too hard, just bump up gamma and brightness.

ON SOME SERVERS it is actually 100% dark, so gamma and brightness doesn't help without a light-source.

However, playing at night is highly underrated. You might think that running around with chemlights simply is too big of a risk and that every other player except you is using NVGs but none of that is true.

The truth is that everyone is thinking like you are and so people avoid the night. This makes for less players and makes the night actually safer to play in. Chemlights DON'T light you up. Blue chemlights cannot be seen from beyond 40m. And I think Red have a range of 60m and green 75m. If you want to be careful, just use blue chemlights.

If someone has NVGs you can blind them with a flare and run away into the darkness.

It's harder to see zombies, but you are also more hidden from zombies and they are easier to avoid.

Just last night I repeatedly raided the airfield for spare parts in order to fix an ATV. Then I drove that ATV around and raided heli crashes. I could move totally freely with only up to 5 other players because everyone is so afraid of the night.

Head into the darkness and you'll reap the rewards.

[maccoy 0]

yes, have you ever used the flashlight and flares?...you should try them sometime...especially the flares.....you can light up a whole town with just 1...good enough for a lootrun...

[LumberBack 43]

I don't think that gamma/visual adjustments to see at night are exploits' date=' since this game doesn't properly model night vision. Seriously, a human with decent vision is NEVER in pitch blackness while outside - them rods do a good job of picking up even starlight. In fact, the gamma "exploit" is probably the closest thing you can get to what natural NV looks like.

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I'm guessing that you have never been out in the woods at night, you see absolutely nothing... And that is why they made it in the later patches so that you don't get any advantage by doing this anymore...

[jOB (DayZ) 0]

I think alot of people who are referencing real life nights and claims that 100% pitch black nights are unrealistic haven't been outside in a heavy overcast night in a desolate area without light-pollution. To be comparable to the enviroment in day z you guys need to check out the nights in some national park or travel to northern alaska to get an idea of what it'd look like.