I get that Hossin is supposed to be a swamp, and there's fog or whatever, but there's a ton of weird lighting effects that don't seem like they're intentional. The shields at the base of biolabs, for example, are like a HUGE blur of light. The fog is just basically like a wall that turns everything a weird color a few feet in front of me. The moon is brighter than the sun should be sometimes, or maybe that was actually the sun? But it was greenish blue and it didn't have the moon texture on it. I have everything on ultra, fog shadows off, and I can barely see anything in front of me on Hossin. I also have high quality texture filtering on in my drivers. Is this normal? Hossin looks beautiful, when I get like 5 feet from a flower or something and I can actually see it!
Oh, I started a thread about that, the effect you call lighting is called "BLOOM". You can switch it totally off for now, I hope that they one day implement a slider that lets us tone down this effect instead of all or nothing..
Turn on fog shadows. Only the volume of fog that is illuminated by the sun or moon is supposed to be visible. They increased the glare effect on some lights for no reason. Yes the moon on Hossin glows very strong and the nights are bright because the eye damaged minority complained too much. Its day time or twilight time. No night time.
I don't know what you're talking about, but the nights aren't bright at all. Do you have the HDMI bug? https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2...re-so-bright-on-ps2-hdmi-nvidia-intel.158194/ If you have that problem, then you might think the nights are bright. I've played since launch and if anything the nights have gotten WAY too dark.
Agreed: The shields at the base of biolabs, for example, are like a HUGE blur of light. I dont know what was going on in their minds but this is just ludicrous the amount of brightness and blur the shields produce now. I was shocked at how bad it looks now and how annoying it is.
Perhaps unrelated, but does anyone know why my screen is darkened (all the tones are darker) when I switch to windowed mode to play the game? When I switch back to fullscreen mode, everything lightens up. I suppose it could be some application running on my computer that is adjusting the contrast so visibly... but it could also be the game itself - does anyone else notice this effect?
Aha, perhaps my issue with contrast is related after all? Thanks for this link I will read thru it. He uses the term "washed out" and that's exactly what I'm experiencing in full screen mode compared to windowed mode.
The brightness adjustment only works for fullsxreen mode and I aSume you dont play with default 0 value.
it's not graphics/driver related that I can tell. It's something up with PS2 itself. It did not happen when the bloom slider got added, it's more recent than that. I'm seeing spawn room shields that are strangely opaque.
