Undocumented lighting change after 22.8, harsh and glaring.

[Cryssoberyl]

Before, a screen I happened to take yesterday: https://i.imgur.com/ViAs0gZ.jpg

A recreation of it after update 22.8: https://i.imgur.com/DCBj5NB.jpg

Both together: https://i.imgur.com/z67HOLp.jpg

(No graphics options adjustments were made between then and now, needless to say.)

And although this was taken in the arsenal, this change isn't limited to the arsenal, or the orbiter. All the tiles I've visited have had much harsher, more glaring lighting than before.

The patch notes don't say anything about this, so I'm not sure what to think. Maybe some people would like it, but I feel like the game looks a lot worse now.

[ShadowHvo]

I noticed this as well, my ship suddenly became glaringly bright, and its quite a bit sore on the eyes. I had to go in and recolour my entire ship black just to be able to walk around my Orbitor without blinding myself.

I wish I was joking, but its actually quite a severe change.

[Alcatraz]

Yep. Thought it was just my Zephyr until I realized it was the entire ship. Typically I run black ship colors anyway so it's not hugely bad, just the lighting system has been changed in the ship with this update. I assume it's because of the ship update for like the new room. But went unnoticed in the patch notes.

[MillbrookWest]

could be due to this. 

Doesn't seem like it's patch worthy since the goal should be to phase one out for the other - and have them both look the same at the end.

[AEP8FlyBoy]

Could be related to the above post, and it should be easily remedied by adjusting our contrast/brightness settings. But if not, the DEvs could adjust it a bit.

[-ZeroStar-]

Agreed!  Brightness, mine is normally at 50, temp fix is turning it down to 45 or 40, makes it not so hard on the eyes for the time being.  Can fiddle with the contrast too, but I left mine at 50.

[NightmareT12]

There was an issue in Orbiter's lighting too before, which I guess they took the chance to correct. They'll need to keep tuning this definitely. I'm a bit worried about how tilesets and such will look now though :/

[Shad0wWatcher]

I also noticed this, but on my end for some reason everything looks a fuzzy and i keep seeing flickering lights. It really f*cks with my eyes.

[NightmareT12]

Took this up to Steve on Twitter and he was confused, then linked the thread and he got back to me:

Looks like an unintended change. Which would explain why in the Plains earlier there was a sudden night-> Day swap.

[Cryssoberyl]

Ah, nice. Glad they know about it and are on the case.

[NightmareT12]

I want to bump this topic, since lighting stuff is talked here, because today I noticed my Chroma metallics look basically black on the Orbiter outside the Arsenal chamber:

This is how it's supposed to look and how more or less used to look throughout the Orbiter. It's also the only section where he looks normal right now.

 

On the front of the Orbiter, however, he looks like this now:

I don't know what's going on with the lighting since the half Khora update, but it's really sad to see knowing all the hard work that went into the PBR and new lighting models from DE's side :(