Make the nights brighter!!!

[Mr Waffle Bunny 2]

I agree that it can be far too dark on servers sometimes. I always turn up brightness and gamma if I don't have NVGs. I understand that night time adds atmosphere, but honestly.. I don't think on your average night you "can't see further than your hands", or whatever. I'm not saying that it should be as easy to see during night as it is at day, but I think it should be "difficult", not impossible, to see at night.

And who uses a flashlight? You might as well just shoot yourself in the face! ;)

[Penny Sue 77]

I don't mind it being so dark but the flashlight given to help isn't that useful. I would like to see them more useful or maybe better flashlights can be found?

I can't run and use a flashlight? Really? That's pretty silly. You can sprint and hold a flashlight steady enough to make it useful IRL. Ask any police officer or military person how to do it. I totally agree it should bounce and be less effective than walking but to just render it completely useless unrealistic.

Getting too close to a wall or object renders your flashlight useless. It's a real pain to open a door and navigate inside buildings. The diameter of the lighted area should stay large even when I come up to an object.

The line between where the light ends and the darkness begins is very sharp. That's just not how lights work. It's a gradient effect where the center of the lighted area is brightest and it slowly fades as goes away from the center. Replicating this more effectively in game would help a lot.

The gamma / brightness trick doesn't work for everyone. I tried it and it's still to dark to be of any use. Someone said it's the same as day? Not on my computer. All buildings, roads, people, zombies, and other objects are still completely black and there are no lines on them to separate the different objects so they all bleed together into one solid black mass. The sky and ocean turn silver and are easy to see but everything else is still completely black. Also I shouldn't have to exploit game engine mechanics like this.

[facet 66]

Why I have night, when I want watch sun 24h in real life???

so, in DayZ -> torch/flashlight, G17 with torch on, M4A3 with torch on, chemilight, road flare, NVG. What you need more????

[aksuduud 64]

If you are going to use the gamma exploit you might as well play on daytime servers.

[Departedx3 0]

Only way I'm not using the gamma settings is under one of 2 circumstances. 1. I have NVG's 2. They add a lantern that lights up in a 360 degree radius just so i can see if im going to walk into a bear trap or off a cliff... Also for those of you who say: FUCKING PLAY ON A DAYTIME SERVER!!!! I'm sorry but I don't want to leave my private hive server and ditch gear that took awhile to gather ditch my buds on the server and everything just to be able to see my hands. And who says that Cheranus is one of those PITCH black places hmm?

Edit: And those who say to use a flashlight this is for you, the flashlight is a death sentence and it doesn't even work properly. I mean you can't use it while running, you cant go close to walls, in some buildings it doesn't work period and one last point, it also doesn't have a wide enough spread to be useful at all.

Edited November 25, 2012 by Departedx3