After two years of updates, lighting issues still exist from EDO day one. I love the update, even in VR, but the lighting is so broken that I'm amazed it still exists today. But still I can't stop playing, because for me, best experience around. I just deal with it, suspend my disbelief. Frontier doesn't care, but I just hold out hope that FDev may one day. Probably not, so I'll just continue to ignore...
1) Ship, ignore my cockpit seat and me reflected on cockpit without any consideration of ship back wall, show me floating in air on my seat as I'm flying from sun.
2) SRV, same as ship cockpit, sun casting shadow on ground of me and seat, but no SRV shadow (seen in VR when looking to side and amazed how I and seat float in the air).
3) Detailed planet surface scanning mid to distant planets, where scanners are dimmed as well as planet, can't see a thing! How can scanners, via computer, be effected by sun lighting? But EDO day one and beyond. that is the way it is. Use the cockpit control called "options - gamma" to set to MAXIMUM which helps a bit, but a major lighting headache.
4) Wonderful EDO planet detail update, great colors, surface details, just wonderful. But get beyond a certain distance from sun, lighting so bad you can't enjoy what is presented. Why update planets and then turn off/dim the light? Good god, this is so brain dead, it is laughable.
5) Finding anything (exo or bio) on a planet mid to far from sun is a mission of frustration, because it is SO DARK, on the lighted side of the planet!!! Geez, I love the darker look, but this gets ridiculous.
The lighting is very disappointing, and after two years of no adjustment to it, I feel it is hopeless to hope for an update. But I love EDO regardless, I ignore the warts, enjoy the jewels, and I'm still having a great time. I ignore FPS because of VR support, but love the exo and ship viewing from exterior. I ignore the end game Thargoid, but I love EDO. 600 hours in, only six ships owned, 350 M credits, and a lot more ships to buy, won't stop playing till the servers are turned off. But hell, they need to fix some of this lighting stuff, some day. I hope.
