Classic darkness is awesome

[Danth]

You can see tolerably well if you have a greater lightstone, well enough to be playable at least. Because of a glitch with respect to how light sources were implemented, increasing your far clip plane will also increase the effective radius of your lightsource. Human darkness during the darkest hours of the night (around 9 PM to 3 AM game time) was implemented in a non-classic manner using shaders so you can't bypass it using monitor gamma controls like you could in the original game. Ultravision is effectively classic because the old code was left in the client from years ago. Infravision is not; it's roughly similar brightness (ie, not very) but does not color MOBS red like it did in the original game because the code seems to have been removed.

Having lots of lightsources around or in zones that are light-colored to begin with it's still very bright and hard on the eyes. It gets bad at times in a place like Velketor's.

Danth

[Babittle]

Will-o-wisp group lfm

[Bardp1999]

WTS Greater Lightstone 20k

[elwing]

Dat velktor zone line pull!

Seriously, darkness is fine, lightsource stacking is not...

[kaev]

On live in 1999, you could run at night on a HUM/BAR/ERU with a GLS and never lose the path.

On p99 in 2020, you can run at night on a HUM/BAR/ERU with a GLS and have 0 chance of staying on the path unless you use the 100% :notclassic: scrollwheel 3rd person view at max distance behind your char, in which case you mostly can keep the path.

The lighting mechanism they use here on this bastardized client is not even close to the mechanics from the classic and velious clients back in the day.

[Jibartik]

If you wanted perfect lighting, you'd all still be waiting for EQ classic.

[charmcitysking]

sorry you didn't get ghoul assassin loot

[Fammaden]

The problem isn't the darkness, which is a pretty close approximation of classic, its the LIGHTS. The game is horrible with a bunch of geared players wearing light emitting stuff in one place. And Tunare help you if you are also in a bright zone light Highkeep, much less a pure white zone....which is anywhere with snow. You might hear a lot more complaints start coming out of green about this after Velious goes live.

[elwing]

The most ridiculous is a raid at velk zone in... Pull some spiders for added fun

[Gustoo]

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

The problem isn't the darkness, which is a pretty close approximation of classic, its the LIGHTS. The game is horrible with a bunch of geared players wearing light emitting stuff in one place. And Tunare help you if you are also in a bright zone light Highkeep, much less a pure white zone....which is anywhere with snow. You might hear a lot more complaints start coming out of green about this after Velious goes live.

Good point.

For me it just made my game look like really trashbag style like EQ is just a straight up terrible game with bad bloom FX. I really wish there was an alternative like maybe GM's could just randomly instagib human / barb / erudites throughout their play life but everyone gets to have decent lighting.