Actually, I'm trying to get TO the core of the issue here. Some people don't like the lighting and feel it is unrealistic, others don't. Others like the unrealism. THAT is the core of the issue.
What refutes the core is the claim that the current system is "not realistic". THAT is the side issue. And it ain't me who keeps claiming that REAL realism is being destroyed here. Only those who don't like the feel of the current system.
The old system was less realistic than this one. Fact.
Graphical settings to put more or less realism is a standard in this game's option screen. Fact.
Most games allow some colour correction in their graphics settings. Fact.
Ask to put them in this game, then. Sorted.
But if it's the colour shift you think is all that needs changing (therefore a trivial change to put in and make under the users' control), you can do that via the control panel for the display.
So before crying on a forum thread, try finding the right colour balance for your preferences and pass that on to others, especially FD, so that they know what region of change people want, so that if they put such controls in, they don't leave people out of getting their preferecnces in the game.
When it comes right down to it, as far as colour correction is concerned, it's the lack of customisation of HUD for the colour blind, not the aesthetics of those who preferred what they got used to as "real" that needs more urgent work.
Oh, and if fiddling with the RGB curves of your monitor's output is insufficient, then you know it's more than just a colour shift problem, and so any solution that isn't informed by knowing that fact is going to fail to solve the problem.
None of which makes the current scheme unrealistic if you weren't already calling the old one unrealistic too.
Oh, and no, "extreme tinting" is your opinion, not an objective reality. Stop treating your feelings as reality. ESPECIALLY when you already complained about getting off the core.
