Game Contrast / Game Too Dark

Comments: 19

• 26 Feb, '21
  Nick

  I have a lot of problems seeing too, I had to turn up gamma in my video drivers.

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• 27 Feb, '21
  suit1337

  and if you pull out the torch, due to the 3rd-person-view you'll block your vision even more :(

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• 28 Feb, '21
  Bman

  This is a fairly common issue if you have a properly calibrated monitor. It’s one of the first 3 settings I have to adjust on most games as they are always too dark. This game definitely needs a brightness slider to make it easier to see in the dark. On my screen I can’t see other player characters or animals at all when it’s at night. (I can see the names and bars above their heads)

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• 03 Mar, '21
  Patrik

  I dissagree get a torch. I think its realistic, remove city lights and it can be pitch black outside in the real world. it also brings suspension to the game when you hear something but dont see it. great emerisive game

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• 12 Mar, '21
  Corwin

  In my experience this was a monitor settings problem as well. I had my black level set to 9/20 and could barely see anything at night. After changing it to 10/20 I can now see pretty much everything at night.

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• 15 Mar, '21
  John O'Donnell

  This is definitely a difficult one. On one hand, nighttime for me literally renders the game unplayable. I can't see anything whatsoever. Even slightly less dark so that you have some control while retaining the tension and the difficulty would be more pragmatic and sensible. On the other hand, it does push you to craft a torch but even this barely helps you do anything more than run around until something recognizable is extremely close to you.

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• 16 Mar, '21
  Scott

  A brightness slider would be nice but i want it darker, not brighter. The inside of the fist few dungeons you find are so bright you don't need a torch, likewise with forest areas at night.

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• 18 Mar, '21
  Chris

  this game definitely doesnt play well for someone with sight issues. Need to be considerate of all players who want to play. The brightness slider is a good idea.

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• 19 Mar, '21
  Rock Oh

  I have this issue on my laptop screen. External monitor is fine but built-in I can't see enough.

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• 20 Mar, '21
  John Rosser

  I agree, it seems very dark even when it rains.

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• 21 Mar, '21
  Lethmeran

  Contrast is very dark for me as well. I have to manually adjust my monitor when I play this game or I can't see anything, especially at night. Not like this for other games.

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• 21 Mar, '21
  Hasselblad

  It is actually refreshing to have a game where dark is actually requiring a light source.

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• 22 Mar, '21
  Beth Jackson-Bishop

  My monitor brightness is up as high as it can go and I still have trouble seeing anything at night. The game looks different on different screens and a brightness setting is really a necessity for some players.

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• 23 Mar, '21
  Richard

  The whole point of the dark is that it's supposed to be difficult to see...
  It wouldn't be challenging otherwise...

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• 25 Mar, '21
  a1fastyellowgto

  I wish there was a gamma slider, that way I would not need to recalibrate my monitor.

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• 29 Mar, '21
  Vincont

  Looks fine on the Oled, dark but visible, but the 4k monitor is too dark. Frustrates the eyes, and unhealthy for customers.

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• 15 May, '21
  Vladimir

  Just to clarify, I believe this is a bug, not a quality of life improvement.
  
  My wife is playing from Geforce Now on Chromebook with external monitor and her screen is considerably darker. To the point that barely anything can be seen at night, while I'm sitting nearby with similar monitor can see everything (also using Geforce Now, but from a PC).
  
  This issue also reported on Geforce Now:
  https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/gfn-tech-support/46/432625/valheim-too-dark-in-gfn/
  
  but I don't think it's Geforce Now specific (what it specific to it, is that you don't have access to driver setting and e.g. can not tune gamma in nVidia Control Panel).

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• 07 Jul, '21
  John O'Donnell

  I love this game and have virtually nothing to complain about but this. The game is just too dark at night. It's unplayable at times which counters the idea that it's a feature, not a bug. I just died twice in the plains and I'd consider myself a very competent player. I may as well have had my eyes closed as I literally stumbled blind into a Fuling village being chased by other fulings I couldn't even see. I wouldn't even have been there at night because of this issue but I got lost in fog.
  
  It's an extremely off-putting aspect of the game.

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• 18 Sept, '23
  MrJox

  +1 to this, game is too dark, I have to sit in the dark with windows closed and reshade / geforce experience filters for brightness enabled to be able to see anything. Not to mention it hurts my eyes physically because of the constant tension

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