Gamma change: Roll it back?

[Velerin]

Thanks so much. Yes seems to be a lot of variability in machines. Too bad no way just to make display a bit darker for all without affecting systemwide changes.

[GnashingOfTeeth]

Classic is fine as long as the results are consistent for everyone, right now some people are fully blind with infravision etc.
We appreciate the work.

[Greengrocer]

And Haynar said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

[Took]

Yeah kinda sucks not being able to see anything.

[LulzSect]

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[Daldaen]

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Big fan of this.

[Took]

Tranix crown doesn't change anything.

Dark elf mask doesn't change anything.

[AnthonyHJ]

On my Win8 PC, my Wood elf can barely tell the difference and my human can see with Gamma set to 100 just like in Classic. The issue I am having is that it seems to ramp up the contrast, so shadows are full-on black and pools of light are washed out and nearly white.

Just a shame it breaks the game for other people...

[Rheon]

Yeah, rollback definitely required..its way too dark with my AMD 7970. My temp fix was to install wine-eq and lock gamma.

[douglas1999]

Changes on P99 usually require a high burden of proof that they are classic before they are implemented, so I'm just wondering where the evidence is that classic EQ ever looked this way.

I remember:

-Game was very dark as a human.
-Vision spells like serpent sight or ultravision helped immensely.
-Cranking gamma allowed you to see pretty well.

Now it's just always really dark, vision spells do almost nothing, and cranking the gamma to 100% in game is darker than 21% gamma was prior to the change. I'm all for classic darkness mechanics, but this change isn't close to how classic behaved and is causing more people problems than it's providing a better experience for.