Bring back the beta night!

Moin

Wow, that's how awesome a nightfight could be. Bring back the real nights pls. Add rain/snow/mist and create some fights where flashlights are actually useful. I'd love to see that, if only for a small part of an ingame day.

Grüße,
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the Toast

Then you need to change your settings... the way the game is set up (Even via live stream from SOE Devs) night is just twilight.

Back in beta flashlights and headlights were actually helpful, tracers lit the skies up like a movie scene, and there was a whole new gameplay aspect that outfits and platoons had to fight with.

This is current "night"

This is what night was in beta and should be again...

and

I love this idea as long as the Bio Dome doesnt become too dark. Leave the darkness outside and leave indoors where lightbulbs rule the ceilings.

Indoor lighting should still be bright enough for those who don't want to venture out into the night to have somewhere to go.

/signed

bump

Just a little bump because people may have missed this, and it really would make the game -awesome-.

Bump

NERF nightly sunlight!

Yes, on one condition - a destructible generator for the lights. Destructible as in blow it up to turn off the lights. No warning, just sudden blackness in the middle of your battle. Imagine it!

I remember the big problem with beta night was that plenty of people would just adjust their brightness settings and it wouldn't matter any more, I'd love darker nights- but it's just too easy to circumvent with hardware adjustment.

Someone suggested that we need the game to do this when you set the gamma high:
http://imgur.com/a/tPSpe#0

Well guys I can say I'm sorry now... I thought this would happen regardless of how many people we got in support.

This Forum Topic is now #1 on the suggestions and Ideas Thread.
This Topic has from what I can tell 98% support from everyone that has commented and liked.
This Topic has a lot of great posts about night mechanics; ie Dorito range at night, base lighting, flash light and head light range and power, etc

But from my suspicions as well as I am sure many of yours... SOE does not seem to use its "Official Forums" as their official forums.
It has become very apparent that Reddit, twitter, and even facebook get more SOE replies than this forum.
I.E. On the planetside 2 facebook I posted a bring back the beta night post and guess what? 2 hours later I had a planetside 2 reply asking why I want beta night back. I listsed a few reasons as well as this forum link... they replied thank you for your reply we will look into it, and that was it.

SO if we seriously want this back in the game we will have to go out in force now and spread the word on reddit, twitter and facebook!

It is very pathetic that we have to do this but it seems we have no choice.
By all means keep posting and liking this topic so that our numbers continue to grow as they have over this 1 week!

Stay strong my fellow PS2'rs we will not allow this topic to be brushed aside without a serious SOE DEV response.

Thank you!

Make a new post on reddit/copy the exisiting post. Then paste the link into this thread. I'd be more than happy to join in.

I've tried to turn my brightness DOWN. It's already as low as it'll go. Night, currently, is nothing more than a blue filter put over the day.


@SOE Troubles- oh yeah. Twitterbomb the devs. That'll get their attention.

i wouldnt mind darker nights since I play a lot of dayz and stalker games where the night is pitch black. But, they would have to give us night vision to wear all the time. I mean we are in the future right? Every soldier should have night vision by then lol.

Looks like I need to create a twitter, facebook, and reddit account just so we can get beta nights.

Do you have a link to that reddit discussion?

Maybe there could be a suit mod which allows for night vision at the cost of nanoweave or flak armor.

this + remove spotting = a chaotic, but amazing, night time fight experience.