Classic Darkness bug reports & feedback

[LiQuid]

Originally Posted by BlankDiploma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Playing a low-vision race with no light source in the dead of night isn't supposed to be good. It's supposed to be bad. There are many spells and items available to you to help you see.

This is the equivalent of trying to play a melee character with no armor equipped and saying "I take too much damage, I don't like it"

Unless I misunderstand your feedback and you're talking about something other than the level of darkness.

Edit: On closer inspection of your screenshot, it looks like you might actually have a light source equipped - in which case, no, that is NOT how it's supposed to look.

Have you disabled dynamic lighting? It needs to be enabled.

The reason I don't like it isn't because "it's dark" it's because it's not just dark lighting, or even a lack of light, it just removed all the textures of everything in the game and made it a solid black color with no way of knowing what is near you. No amount of gamma raising makes any texture there that is black visible. It doesn't just make the game "bad" to play in that state, it makes it literally unplayable. Maybe the screenshot isn't doing it justice, but moving around with the lighting being like that feels quite literally broken, like the game world exists but completely invisible

edit: I just checked and dynamic lighting is enabled

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by LiQuid [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The reason I don't like it isn't because "it's dark" it's because it's not just dark lighting, or even a lack of light, it just removed all the textures of everything in the game and made it a solid black color with no way of knowing what is near you. No amount of gamma raising makes any texture there that is black visible. It doesn't just make the game "bad" to play in that state, it makes it literally unplayable. Maybe the screenshot isn't doing it justice, but moving around with the lighting being like that feels quite literally broken, like the game world exists but completely invisible

edit: I just checked and dynamic lighting is enabled

I hear what you're saying, but they had to wrestle with the Titanium client. I think for what they had to work with, it looks incredible!

Not to mention, the game was absolutely unplayable at night time if you were one of the unholy trilogy (Barbarian, Human, Erudite). I user to have to go AFK at night time because I couldn't see back in 1999 on my first character, which was a Human Paladin.

[LiQuid]

Originally Posted by Deathrydar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I hear what you're saying, but they had to wrestle with the Titanium client. I think for what they had to work with, it looks incredible!

Not to mention, the game was absolutely unplayable at night time if you were one of the unholy trilogy (Barbarian, Human, Erudite). I user to have to go AFK at night time because I couldn't see back in 1999 on my first character, which was a Human Paladin.

The reason why I think it's actually broken is because it doesn't always look flat black like that in the entire zone. I was on corpse run in FM and it was very VERY dark, but cranking the gamma up made everything look washed out and reddish brown and you could actually see textures on creatures and the ground.. In certain places (near the DL zone line in FM, and where that screenshot was taken on the bridge in FV) it was just flat, textureless black. I honestly don't think this is working as intended. Next time it happens I'll record some video and post it in here

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by LiQuid [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The reason why I think it's actually broken is because it doesn't always look flat black like that in the entire zone. I was on corpse run in FM and it was very VERY dark, but cranking the gamma up made everything look washed out and reddish brown and you could actually see textures on creatures and the ground.. In certain places (near the DL zone line in FM, and where that screenshot was taken on the bridge in FV) it was just flat, textureless black. I honestly don't think this is working as intended. Next time it happens I'll record some video and post it in here

FM is in Kunark, if you read the dev's responses in this thread, Kunark zones are not complete yet due to the fact that Kunark wasn't in green and it is green where the classic darkness was initially tested.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Deathrydar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I hear what you're saying, but they had to wrestle with the Titanium client. I think for what they had to work with, it looks incredible!

Not to mention, the game was absolutely unplayable at night time if you were one of the unholy trilogy (Barbarian, Human, Erudite). I user to have to go AFK at night time because I couldn't see back in 1999 on my first character, which was a Human Paladin.

True, but you had textures at least. You had the feel of something being around you in general, rather than just a washed out dark screen. I'd rather not have classic darkness if it just means you're going to get hit with a flat blackness for every texture.