Brightness / Gamma setting.

Being able to set brightness would be excellent. I'm on xbo and I rarely have to change game default, but with SoT the nights are too dark, I can't see anything without a lantern. Being able to nudge the brightness just a tiny bit would be great.

(local dimming etc. isn't enabled, regardless, brightness is nice to have in any game)

@hod-make-u-rage So you post here rather than taking advantage of the settings on your tv? You know what I do when it's dark...use my lantern. :-)

@solidsnakemig said in Brightness / Gamma setting.:

I don’t imagine this will go down well but when its nighttime at home and all the lights are off, do you go inside the settings of your eyeballs and tweak the gamma?

No, but my pupils do automatically dilate to take in as much of the available light as possible, I'd expect not to be able to see anything in TOTAL darkness but if I still couldn't see anything in a moonlit twilight then I'd be booking an appointment with my optician.

Surely darkness should be dark?

There is a difference between something being dark and something being totally indistinguishably black.

The problem, and one that a lot of the people saying that the brightness at night is fine as it is seem to be utterly oblivious to, is that not everyone has the same quality TV/monitor, some people might be playing on a screen that isn't capable of displaying the differences between very dark shades as well as others, that's why gamma correction sliders in videogames exist in the first place.

Sure I get that there are people who will exploit gamma correction to be able to easily see in the dark, but for some people not having the option of gamma correction may mean not being able to see in the dark AT ALL, even in circumstances where someone with a more expensive monitor might be able to see just fine even without a lantern.

@solidsnakemig How is having a feature like gamma correction ever a downgrade??

Even people with similar monitors won't necessarily have them calibrated the same, and the average player shouldn't be forced to mess with their monitor settings to make the game look good when it would be far easier to have those options in the game just like the vast majority of other so-called Triple-A games do.

The specific brightness/contrast/gamma/color settings needed to make the default game settings look good on a particular monitor might make that same monitor look horrible for general use like web browsing, so having to go into your monitors menus to mess with those settings every time you launch the game and then back into those menus to reverse those changes every time you finish is a stupid thing to expect people to do, especially when the game could instead apply those settings only to itself far easier, leaving your monitors settings calibrated for general use as they should be.

Put simply, not having a fundamental function like gamma correction is a downgrade to begin with on an established industry practise that it just basic decency to have.

@solidsnakemig No, lighting settings in games are there to account for the discrepancies that the developers have no control to over to begin with, just like the aforementioned limitations of individual user hardware...

You might not think it's worth their time, but supporting people on lower end computers as best as possible was one of the things they specifically said they wanted to strive for with their "No asterisk crossplay" pledge, which is why not having gamma correction to let people choose the setting that looks best for their own particular setup and environment makes no sense.

@solidsnakemig I have an og xbox and a non 4k tv...so you're saying I need to buy a new xbox and a 4k tv to have the game be playable at night? Because right now, even with lanterns, I can see literally nothing at night, while my crewmates can. There has to be a fix that doesn't include spending $900ish for a xbox one x and a 4k tv :(

I need my brightness and gamma changed for every game. I'm not going to change my PC setting just for 1 game, because the developer is lazy as hell. Even pong and Pac-Man have these settings.

Please show me a Rare game that does not have this setting, besides this one?

If I was forced to play Alien Isolation at the same darkness this game forces me to, I would instantly refund.

I gave this game too many chances and it's too late to refund. Now I just have to suffer through this half baked, early access, featureless, empty, unpolished, buggy, broken, repetitive, mind numbing and boring game and reach pirate legend because I want to hook up some newbies with voyages before I quit.

This game desperately needs a HDR calibration setting.

Not all HDR is equal, the HDR10 standard is implemented differently among displays.

I have an LG 2017 B7 OLED TV whose game mode preset has a poorly thought out tone mapping system were it treats all HDR content as 4000 nits meaning it is overly tone mapped which causes the darkness in HDR scenes with losing detail (that is not what HDR is meant to look like).

LG have the wrong setting forced in game mode were it should be mapped to 1000 nits instead. You can see this by activating dynamic contrast to low on the HDR Cinema preset, this forces tone mapping to 1000 nits and Sea of Thieves now looks correct (but HDR cinema is way too laggy for use).

Sadly this feature is not preset in game mode and the dynamic contrast setting that is in HDR game mode preset will not change the tone mapping, just making things a little brighter and not restoring detail lost in far too dark scenes.

So you have to calibrate the game to compensate for the bad HDR tone mapping which the game does not provide either.

Please Rare add this feature or consider adding support for Dolby Vision HDR which will display correctly on a DV display as it's designed that way, HDR10 has too many variances.

Thanks.

This thread is some of the most elitist and cringy responses I have ever seen on a claymation game. Thinking that a game has perfect setting and if you need to change it you suck is the saddest thing I have ever seen.