Odyssey still very dark
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These give a good example of how Odyssey is darker in the dark parts (shadows) while the bright parts sort of still look the same (highlights).
The UI shows very strange behaviour now where the 3D elements are very dim and the 2D elements (pitch ladder) is bright and not uniform in colour or brightness with the other parts.
Planning to get more comparisons when the game loads properly tomorrow.
Source: https://i.imgur.com/oqTh1bH.gif
Source: https://i.imgur.com/p1qx5vu.gif
These give a good example of how Odyssey is darker in the dark parts (shadows) while the bright parts sort of still look the same (highlights).
The UI shows very strange behaviour now where the 3D elements are very dim and the 2D elements (pitch ladder) is bright and not uniform in colour or brightness with the other parts.
Planning to get more comparisons when the game loads properly tomorrow.
I have the gamma slider all the way right to max and can barely see the Elite icon. It's impossible to even see the area of a planet mapped on its dark side, especially in dimly lit systems. The Milky Way is just a dim orange blob for the most part. I hate this 
I will admit , its way too dark. However I just set a colour profile in the AMD control panel for the game and set the brightness slightly higher. Problem solved for now.
There are no longer any star colors for me in the skybox, either. They're all just white. How could this possibly have gotten past the Alpha?
Yeah, I've run into that doing planetary scans in a new system. Icy bodies are often completely blown out white when they appear in the discovery scanner zoom. I'm sure if I hadn't cranked the gamma slider all the way up to try and see anything else it would look better.
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I just started playing Odyssey and it is absolutely unusable in VR because of this too dark contrast/gamma issue. The colors are also completely wrong.. All sudden the Phantom interior is not burgundy but pink, the text is barely readable on most panels because it is too dark even with gamma set to max and HUD lights set to max. This is extremely disappointing, they clearly heard the issues during alpha and these are not rocket science items to fix... (attached pic of vette interior with max gamma while inside a well lit station)...
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I honestly dont believe Frontier has ever played their own game for long enough to even notice.
Indeed. This is insanely frustrating when its so clearly awful. Contrast and gamma are way off. Gamma does practically nothing. Forcing brightness to the point where dark areas resemble Horizons makes everything bright completely overblown. I did full manual colour calibration to make sure all my colour settings were perfect (they were, dabbling in graphics design, I've been a stickler for monitor colour representation for years) so this is how it was designed to look. At default settings, can't make out ships, carriers (except their lights), and planets are either very bright or very dark. Cranking up gamma, I can make out ships (just), etc, but now anything "bright" is far too bright. Space no longer has any texture - its either completely black everywhere, except an awful shade of dark brown when looking towards galactic centre. It's embarassing you let this get through alpha like this. Test your games, please.
Thank god I am not the only one with this issue. Just spent 2 hours trying all kinds of graphic setting changes both in game and in Nvidia control Panel. Using a 2080 Super so it's not my card.
This was reported by many people in the alpha but seemingly ignored. Almost liek they only left 2 weeks to fix things.
That Type-6 looks like the background is a negative of what it's supposed to be.
You just need to turn on your Night Vision's night vision.
You sure it wasn't a star?
I opened an issue on fdev site for this ... There was another opened during alpha but marked as expired. Feel free to add your experiences to it, I hope they do something about it: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/31324