opposite of waht?
That depends what you count as fun. I like challenge in combat (I play only with a friend on a private server and we literaly dont take thralls to many places so its more challenging ) or survival related, but subconcious stuff like lighting, depressive music and mood -these i dont find fun.
Siptah is too bright at any time, the lights in this map are the worst part of it and at nightime its just some kind of blue filter over the screenâŠ
Nights are kinda boring though, nothing different happens at night, all NPCs are doing the same things they do at day, animals do the same, there is no incentive to go out at night or anything dangerous other than no visibility, which is fine, i like my nights dark and let torches have an actual use.
Key word for me there is game. I am playing something for enjoyment. If you enjoy not being able to see the game you are playing, great, turn your screen off whenever you want. I donât play games to be abused and punished (or do I? seems abuse and punishment is all Funcrom gives us with patches).
I donât care about âsurvivalâ themed or âbrutal world of Conanâ. I care that itâs a really neat world to explore and has some fun things to do, thatâs why I play the game. Features that prevent me from playing (like not being able to see) are counter-productive to my aims.
My preference would be a client-side setting, because there are also people who want to be able to see. I donât know what your night time experience is (itâs clear to me this game has an unreasonably large range of different visual experiences based on your hardware and even on your video settings).
Believe me, I have tried to handle night time in Exiled Lands because I hate it and there is no good solution. In-game gamma settings, monitor settings - when the night is black, itâs black and it ticks me off to no end because it completely disrupts whatever I am doing and prevents me from playing the game.
As for the in-game âsolutionsâ to night? Terrible. The visual effect is like needles in my eyes. The dust from the pirates I didnât even know about for many months (nor the night potion). These are difficult to acquire items as well, so what is a new player to do? Also they donât stop when you want them to! If it turns to day while you still have night potion active youâre completely blinded. When I started the game I took it slow and easy, so I was a noob for quite a long time - a long time during which I suffered the blackness of night. When I discovered the Night Stalkerâs Mask I farmed incessantly until I got it - that took a lot of farming. Then I lost all my possessions thanks to the game being incredibly buggy and had to farm a week+ for it again.
So when I got to Siptah and found that night is just annoying rather than highly aggravating I was greatly relieved, and I would love to have that experience adopted in Exiled Lands as well.
I like it the way it is, Iâd hate it to be exactly like EL⊠half of you chumps only started playing cuz of the 2.3 update⊠you all wouldnât be saying it when the storm was actually plunging the island in darkness every time it came and youâd spend 80% of the time on the island in darkness pre 2.2 patch
It might be too bright with the realism of clouds reflecting light. The light cycle might be too dark without clouds. I would prefer it this way with clouds.
I honestly dont understand why funcom couldnt add a slider for darkness at night or even if its much easier a on/off switch for dark/light. It doesnt sound to complicated.
Btw i tired that âsever weatherâ mod. It is quite impressive and it does a lot , rain, thunder , dark night but-> Apart fromaing the night darker it also makes the days mostly grey and gloomy and depresive. I ended up uninstalling as I couldnt enjoy the game with the days being so sad.
This is the key point (and why we are odds). I donât want your preference ruining my gameplay, you donât want my preference impacting your gameplay. I say âruinâ vs âimpactâ because I really think this impacts me more than you. When night hits in Exiled Lands I canât do anything. I canât see. It absolutely ruins my gameplay. When night hits in Siptah you may not like the lack of darkness, but you can still play the game.
So yeah, itâs personal preference and it should be a client-side configuration.
My bad, you are right. They need to implement hardcore mode asap, because wtf??? coming back to life after you die is not realistic. Also people need to randomly die of dysentery.
Siptah:
Night
Day
Exiled lands:
Night
Day
On Siptah you can clearly see the textures on the ground, you know where you are even without torch
On the Exiled Lands hardly see the details in the texture, you really need light
The difference is huge.
I agree, it is way to brightâŠplease make it actually nightâŠthen people can adjust their gamma to brighten it upâŠnight should be night people shouldnât have to make it night themselvesâŠty
Itâs a survival game, if you donât find the genre fun, thatâs on you, but I like hard survival games, dark nights, hard enemies, idk, pretty much everything about exiled lands is okay, I donât want a survival game to be the sims. About the music, itâs a survival game, I wouldnt care if it doesnât have any music.
I call that a lie the night is perfect and the night vision works fine
realistic enviroment does not mean the game to be ârealisticâ its a fantasy game, but some things could be more, realistic.
there is nighttime, and again there are items to counter the night. so you can see. how did you do with exiles land and the night time?
A torch however the night time in the exiled lands is set at stupid levels. With all the thrall camps and structures not to meantion the moon and stars. EL should have more light at night and torches should only be needed in places you would expect to be pitch black at night like caves and dense forests.
I like it the way it is, Iâd hate it to be exactly like EL⊠half of you chumps only started playing cuz of the 2.3 update⊠you all wouldnât be saying it when the storm was actually plunging the island in darkness every time it came and youâd spend 80% of the time on the island in darkness pre 2.2 patch
what darkness⊠cause it never got dark before and still doesnât⊠if you think it was dark then you need a new graphics card or a monitor
and probley half of you all thats fine with the night time on siptah probley only play private servers, officials servers should be set as like they are for exiles lands⊠reason they give us torches and other things to use at night⊠but seems the cry babies canât handle a lil pvp during the night time or farm with a torch like the game was ment to be its a survival ⊠this isnât Minecraft ,
so i donât get how come many of you all that only play on private server come into the forums and try to speak for the real official players. i donât understand how their point of view matters when they can just get a modâŠ
The only thing that they need to do is lower the ambient light during nights
It can be an optional thing even
But the option should be on on official servers, it is how it was and should be.
Cause I canât remember that there was magical bright nights, story wise on SiptahâŠ
And I am not saying it needs to be Exiled Lands level of dark, just not look like itâs daytime.
I think, all of this may be very personal, and depending players preferences.
For my part, i love dark nights. Mostly used mods in games to make them darker. Itâs frightening at start, thatâs also the point when i play some kind of survival games. But i love also set-up torches, fires, and have the feel iâm realy in the night. I love the dark north, the pitch-black nights, wiht wolves hauling outside, and the wind. Again, thatâs me, and my preferences, and others may feel different.
For Siptah iâm ok with all, a twilight setting at night may also do it. Siptah has so many different spot, some are just pure beauty, some are dark fantasy like.