Are there any white Has-Res left

I have spent many hours in Has-Res bounty hunting mostly enjoying flying in white areas now after the update the one I go to is now very dark.
This makes very little since to me because in full view of the star the asteroid fields are dark, and the local space station are overly bright, all the detail and color blown out.
I don’t mind the big cloudy mass as much as all the darkness. I used to drop into a station and just be in awe of the amazing station and just sit and stare at the station a couple of minutes before landing now it just looks like something Disney did in the 50’s

This new lighting configuration of ED reminds me of when I first started using Photoshop like 20 years ago. trying to improve photos I would crank up the saturation and brightness, then after printing them I quickly noticed how actually unrealistic and hideous these photos became. Now I stay away from Saturation and Brightness like the plague and focuses on color correction and attention to detail in the shadows and bight areas. Elite Dangerous was such a Beautiful Universe I use to love to fly meters over a white asteroid field or just stare at Space Stations with all the depth of detail now just gone. Using VR and looking at some of these blown out views is just painful now.
I would purchase a reset old lighting button (game full price) in a heartbeat.

On the bright side Fdevs addition of the Codex is just brilliant, bringing in so much to find and do along with the voice acting lore, this to me is the biggest improvement to the game. I believe this Codex will bring in old and new players and grow to an amazing feature of the game.

Who New!
 
yea Ice rings.
The White rings in Ross 775 went from Pure white to dark gray and in dark shadow.
Are there any white ice rings left. all the planters I have gone to with white rings are now dark.
in search for White Rings
like trying to find a White Rhino
 
I am also in vr and all rings, rocky & icy, are like they are perpetually in darkness. Even planets are dull.

I just don't get how they can be in perpetually in darkness in full view of the star and the station 60ls away so bright it hurts the eye.

dev magic I guess
 
I like the new lighting system, I'm sure FD will tweak it for greater realism as time goes by. Despite the fact that i couldn't log in for the first three days after the patch dropped and I lost my first mapped tag I do nevertheless have a lot of goodwill for the devs at the moment. Overall it's been a good update that makes elite feel like a grown up game. The future feels bright which is a nice alternative to the usual posts I've been making about FD for at least three years.
 
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Aleumoxii is the system you seek. Head to Ferguson City and you will find the Haz Res nearby.

The new lighting model has destroyed the vibe of the vast majority of my former haunts and this is one of the few rare places that isn't affected too much.
 
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I am also in vr and all rings, rocky & icy, are like they are perpetually in darkness. Even planets are dull.

You are right on about the Planets. just flew over to my Has-Res the Gas Giant their use to be a pretty green striped now very dark mostly just brown and gray, all color is gone.

Also, the bright Space Stations have terrible screen door because of the brightness
 
Aleumoxii is the system you seek. Head to Ferguson City and you will find the Haz Res nearby.

The new lighting model has destroyed the vibe of the vast majority of my former haunts and this is one of the few rare places that isn't affected too much.

Thanks for info I will fly over and ck out.
may be new hot spot for bounty hunting
 
Alcor A 4 used to be my fave, it was foggier than a bay-area evening and the planet was molten. 2.X lighting updates took all the fog away and I've never been back, so I know how you feel.
 
Why it gotta be white?

1) We have had White Ice Rings for as long as I can remember

2) the Visibility is great and you can see the detail and color of the ships better

3) Every time I wing up for bounty hunting everyone wants to go to the white ice rings not to the dark rock rings.

4) white rings around Gas Giants just look cool
 
I like the new lighting system, I'm sure FD will tweak it for greater realism as time goes by. Despite the fact that i couldn't log in for the first three days after the patch dropped and I lost my first mapped tag I do nevertheless have a lot of goodwill for the devs at the moment. Overall it's been a good update that makes elite feel like a grown up game. The future feels bright which is a nice alternative to the usual posts I've been making about FD for at least three years.

Before the lighting update I don’t remember anyone complaining how bad the graphics looked. If fact ever comment I heard or read was how beautiful Elite Dangerous WAS.
That it WAS the most realistic Beautiful space game available, so why such a dramatic over the top grossly blown out lighting change.

I mean we spend hundreds of hours in ED and looking at these new lighting effect will be very hard to live with in the long term.
I just laugh at how cartoonish the stations look now, so sad. I fell my eye balls struggling to see things in the dark or melting in the brightness.
 
Below are some examples of gas giants with ice rings before lighting up date.
Star light on planet showing its beautiful colors and highlighting the ice rings


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Below are pics of gas giant in Ross 775 after lighting update as you would see it today.
The planet use to be full of color lit from the star and the rings all a bright white
Now so dark and color gone

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This is just wrong flying up to a gas giant in full star light and seeing this dark mass just makes no since.
Fdev is randomly changing the look of the universe without any realism involved. I thought that the Stellar Forge was kind of based on realism.
They are throwing the baby out with the wash water with all these random lighting changes to what ? compete with No Man Sky
 
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