A lot of hype, but the new lighting…

[Sunyavadin]

I'm with you. I was all excited to go exploring with these new tools, but now that the "real" Milky Way looks like No Man's Sky, along with other graphics issues on the PS4, I've lost the desire to go out there. No Man's Sky does a better NMS than ED does, sigh.. The main reason I preferred ED over NMS is because it used to be at least somewhat realistic (I actually felt like I was exploring our galaxy).

Honestly, this is the biggest one for me when it comes to the new lighting.
I'd maybe also like less fog in stations, since it makes it feel like a 90s game where they needed to hide the poor draw distance, but the milky way is the one thing I want to see back to normal.
If it's a filter, they need to set some kind of opacity dropoff for it so that once you're away from the star (which look pretty nice up close now, I'll admit, but I don't spend that much time close to and looking at stars now we don't need to scan them, so don't get to appreciate that much) it fades out, and stuff looks normal again and if it's simply that starlight reflects off the skybox they need to set the skybox to not interact with light sources.

Pitch black planets with a sun filling half the sky have a certain charm, and make for... "different" screenshots, so they can get fixed when they get fixed. And we have NV as a temporary fudge for them.

 

[SpacialKatana]

I suspect there'll be some tweaking and tuning to come.

I thought that's what a 'beta test period' was for. Hey ho...

 

[Deebz__]

It may be better to voice our concerns in a sub-forum that Frontier is more likely to see. I have started a thread for this in the feedback forum, which you can find here. Please come voice your concern. Or hell, even start your own thread in that forum. Whatever is most likely to catch the attention of Frontier.

 

[Moe Melek]

I have to say I've noticed regarding HUD changing tint and intensity...

It appears the HUD dynamics is an attempt to increase readability in different light conditions. It doesn't always work 100% but that seems to be the intent.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Try turning down the in game gamma setting; under options -> graphics.
That worked wonders for me.

 

[Garris]

The HUD was fine before, Why fiddle with the thing that you see ALL THE TIME in the game.

 

[Kamiyoda]

I thought that's what a 'beta test period' was for. Hey ho...

When the beta ends, is when the beta truely begins.

 

[Avago Earo]

When the beta ends, is when the beta truely begins.

Testing (in many ways) since 16th December 2014

 

[Jo Bangles]

I am playing at 4k on a PC, and the new lighting is, for me at least, great. The added contrast has brought out details in my cockpit I had not even looked at before. The resolution really shows off how great this game looks. Maybe the effect is different to whatever you are using to play the game, with some versions/resolutions offering improvements, and some not.

Of course it could just be my eyes!