Hi everyone! Been a while. [Mod related question]

dashyr · 11-07-22, 02:40 PM

Okay, I investigated a bit and it seems the mod just makes it VERY dark during the middle of the night. Probably because "realism" except realism comes with a price when there is no actual reflection of anything including moon/starlight making it pretty much pitch black. Increasing brightness does make things better but the problem seems to come from the Skybox that becomes pretty much all black at that time of the night.

While I can appreciate this dedication to realism. I still want to play and I find no joy in barely seeing anything during night. Especially when nighttime is when you are encouraged to attack to preserve stealth as much as possible.

What I did is I installed the Ocean Madness mod V2. It sure makes nights unrealistically bright. Like, clearly it's brighter than it should be but not to the point where you wouldn't need to be attentive. You still need to lookout for warships approaching as they are still hard to spot from a distance.

If anybody else feels like this is waaaaaaaaaay too dark. I'd recommend giving this mod a try. Does cut a bit on the whole realism thing but that level of realism is not for everyone when it does interfere with gameplay.

I compared it with vanilla and it's about the same level of visibility but a bit nicer looking.

I'm probably too used to SH4/SH5 where that kind of graphical limitations have less impact. =/

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11-07-22, 02:40 PM	#4
dashyr Electrician's Mate Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 133 Downloads: 183 Uploads: 0	Okay, I investigated a bit and it seems the mod just makes it VERY dark during the middle of the night. Probably because "realism" except realism comes with a price when there is no actual reflection of anything including moon/starlight making it pretty much pitch black. Increasing brightness does make things better but the problem seems to come from the Skybox that becomes pretty much all black at that time of the night. While I can appreciate this dedication to realism. I still want to play and I find no joy in barely seeing anything during night. Especially when nighttime is when you are encouraged to attack to preserve stealth as much as possible. What I did is I installed the Ocean Madness mod V2. It sure makes nights unrealistically bright. Like, clearly it's brighter than it should be but not to the point where you wouldn't need to be attentive. You still need to lookout for warships approaching as they are still hard to spot from a distance. If anybody else feels like this is waaaaaaaaaay too dark. I'd recommend giving this mod a try. Does cut a bit on the whole realism thing but that level of realism is not for everyone when it does interfere with gameplay. I compared it with vanilla and it's about the same level of visibility but a bit nicer looking. I'm probably too used to SH4/SH5 where that kind of graphical limitations have less impact. =/