Does anyone else get bummed out at night?

First of all, let me say I'm not making any demands or asking for anything, or wanting nighttime removed, just looking for discussion because I'm bored.

When it's nighttime in game, I can't stand going around questing, mining, whatever. I can't really see what I'm doing. Maybe my settings are somehow too dark, I don't know. I also hate caves, though that I can recall there aren't many that require me to be in them very often.

I also can't stand the way my character looks in lamplight. The shadows are all off and awful.

It's especially annoying personally to me when it's broad daylight outside, but night in game. I almost wish there were personal settings that allowed my game to move in real time vs game time. On that note, night time when it's night IRL doesn't bother me as much.

When it's daytime, my favorite place to be is somewhere in La Noscea, and if I'm just hanging out waiting in queue, I like to chill in Limsa and people watch.

When I'm in a dungeon, say, for example, Brayflox, or Cutters Cry, even the Vault, and it's day time? The dungeon is just so much more enjoyable. When it's so dark I can't even enjoy the dungeons aesthetics it's just totally boring.

Anyone else feel like this? Or if you don't feel like this, comment as well!

Maybe it's your PC that isn't good. At last on heavensward areas the weather it's fantastic.

I like that there are various weather bits, but that said I feel like it's nighttime too much. It feels that for every hour of daylight we have, there are 6 hours of night. I first noticed this when I woke up at like 3-am for Early Access of Heavensward, and played for 20 hours straight. I went through all these beautiful new zones in the dark, it really sucked.

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Originally Posted by The_Greatest_Evil

Maybe it's your PC that isn't good.

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It's my boyfriends PC so I'm not too sure what the specs are, but I'm able to play absolutely any game on max settings with no problem, so I don't think it's that. Honestly I feel it's like no matter what room I put the PC in during the day there's just too much light and it makes the screen dimmer.

I live in a basement Suit. My wife works in IT. SUNLIGHT IS EVIL!!!

Sorry I love sunlight and being out there in the day. but really it doesn't effect us at all. Good or bad. Only thing which is nice is better at night is the night sky.

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

I like that there are various weather bits, but that said I feel like it's nighttime too much. It feels that for every hour of daylight we have, there are 6 hours of night. I first noticed this when I woke up at like 3-am for Early Access of Heavensward, and played for 20 hours straight. I went through all these beautiful new zones in the dark, it really sucked.

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This! I love the weather, bring on the weather (although some places seem to always be gloomy and raining!). One of my favorite places is Sea of Clouds, beautiful during the day. Gorgeous when you're watching the sunset down into the clouds. At night time? YUCK!

If it's too dark, adjust the gamma and/or brightness settings in game, in your GPU settings or on your monitor or TV. Personally I tweak gamma first as it tends to not make things appear "washed out" like brightness can.

You may also need to tinker with the contrast settings too if you adjust the gamma and brightness so that the mid-range is made brighter but you still keep deep darks.

As far as how I feel about night in the game, I'm perfectly fine with it and there are many environments that look beautiful at night. This of course will be preference based, for example you think Sea of Clouds is ugly at night where I think it is beautiful. Flying through the sky with a field of stars as my backdrop is wonderful to me.

I agree, there's way too much night time in this game, and there are lighting situations, such as in Gridania in the building with the vendors and market board, in which characters look terrible.

I would much prefer to spend more time in daylight for sure, even though I do love the night sky.

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Originally Posted by TouchandFeel

If it's too dark, adjust the gamma and/or brightness settings in game, in your GPU settings or on your monitor or TV. Personally I tweak gamma first as it tends to not make things appear "washed out" like brightness can.

You may also need to tinker with the contrast settings too if you adjust the gamma and brightness so that the mid-range is made brighter but you still keep deep darks.

As far as how I feel about night in the game, I'm perfectly fine with it and there are many environments that look beautiful at night.

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Honestly, I did this to make things more dark. I find the colours look too washed out alternatively.

I've set in the Nvidia Control Panel to have Brightness 50, Contrast 80, Colour Vibrance 75 (I think ish), with gama slightly reduced in game. It makes 90% of the game look so much better, though some areas are a bit too dark.

Game looks fantastic in both day and night. I'm pretty sure its either your monitor or GPU settings to make things seem too dark to enjoy.

My only issue with nighttime is when I want to take a screenshot.

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

I like that there are various weather bits, but that said I feel like it's nighttime too much. It feels that for every hour of daylight we have, there are 6 hours of night. I first noticed this when I woke up at like 3-am for Early Access of Heavensward, and played for 20 hours straight. I went through all these beautiful new zones in the dark, it really sucked.

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I've been noticing this for a while, too >.> Feels like daytime is too brief

I enjoy the night sky a lot more than that pesky sun.
The moon phases and the stars and constellations are much nicer to look at.

Yes I feel like almost ALL my time playing is night. The day passes so quickly then its night and that drags on and on. I wish they'd shorten the night or make the days longer. It's really annoying.

Check your settings. I was the same way. Are you on PC? If so, check your gamma output on both your monitor and your game's settings. It was like that for me on FFXIV and even FFXI. If you are on PS4 (I don't have one yet, so I'm not sure of the settings), check your PS4's settings for output for your TV. Also check your TV's settings for gamma as well as brightness.

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No. I love how beautiful and glowy and mysterious everything is at night. :3

I keep my brightness waaaaaaaaaaay to low cause i want night to be dark like it is irl

I actually love fighting as a mage at night. Maybe I just like bright lights or something..or maybe it's because I just generally love the night.

Night and day are both like.. thirty-six minutes I think? Something like that. My fav time is twilight/dusk...that time right before and right after the sun sets. Just like IRL.

Only time I don't like night is when I want a shot of my character...then I just pull out my Sun or go inside or something.

This is just my observation, but I think the idea that night is longer than day within the game is because different times of the day have a differing amount of illumination while night time's lighting is consistently the same. Since the phases of the moon play no part in night-time illumination, it remains the same for it's entire duration.

I lose some enthusiasm at night. In Second Life, you can actually adjust the time of day that you see (without altering anyone else's). I LOVE that feature. However, I know it's not appropriate in an MMORPG setting. Time passes. Night happens. But, yeah. I totally get what you are saying.

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Can't complain enough with dark landscape. Even Astrologian hyped up looking those star alignment.

In general, I love nighttime just as much as daytime ^-^
The starry sky is incredibly beautiful, and I love just sitting in Central La Noscea or Hinterlands and watch the moon and stars move and find the constellations I learned as AST :o
Especially during events, the towns and housing areas become so beautiful at night as well. Warm, colorful sparkles in the dark. I love it!
One dungeon that is also just way more bautiful at night is the Saint Mocianne Arboretum.

But, as someone who loves to glamour and take screenshots and the like, I often feel like the night is too long ._.
It sucks to find out if something looks good on you, especially with colors, and the artificial light just isn't the same as sunlight. My nights are also very dark, so no nice pictures of landscapes in the dark either.
Where is Eorzea located anyway?! xD Sun rises early (at around 6 am) but goes down already at 5-6 pm. It's like it is summer in the morning and winter in the evening. Doesn't make sense. I'd be fine with the night if it lasted from 11 pm to 6 am like in real summer._.

In general though, rain bums me out more. Makes me feel negative and makes everything dark even though it's finally daytime for once!

I love the fact that the game has a more apparent night time, really. I never liked that in WoW, they made the night essentially non-existent graphically.

It's honestly still fairly subdued here compared to what it could be, though.

I love all the weather and day/night style in the game. I guess the only thing we're missing is seasons which could be interesting if cycled not too long term. Graphically FF is pretty awesome in my view.

I don't like to be in Coerthas/Ishgard because it feels like it's always nighttime there.

I really dont mind nighttime in most of the heavensward regions. I prefer some of the nighttime music over the daytime.

Playing when it's nighttime in game makes me really tired and I hate getting into dungeons when it's night because of that.. start to fall asleep!

I think nighttime is pretty though, love the stars and sky and I don't think it's too dark, just hate how long it lasts.. always feel like daytime is over so quickly and I've always wished it was twice as long

What is this thread /facepalm

Dude have you seen the detail on the night sky? Gives the atmosphere some good feels.

Night and day is split evenly by Eorzean time every time at 6pm/am. I honestly am backwards i think the moon is way too bright but now that i see this thread it might just be my settings cause honestly i like the night i mean come on wheres your sense of adventure :D

A little.

I wish there was more ambient lighting at night so that it could be dark without feeling so dark. I also wish the day/night cycle was a 24 hour one, that operated off the server time.

I also wish i could change the weather so it's not raining literally wherever i go. It's starting to bum me out.

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Originally Posted by Demeos

This is just my observation, but I think the idea that night is longer than day within the game is because different times of the day have a differing amount of illumination while night time's lighting is consistently the same. Since the phases of the moon play no part in night-time illumination, it remains the same for it's entire duration.

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yeah daytime + rain = less illumination , same goes for fog or any other climatic effect , even cloudy

It's the exact opposite for me. I love the night more than the day, the music is also way better at night and the stars in the sky are super pretty.

Daytime makes me super lazy though...

My only issue with nighttime is that it has to go to daytime. I love the nights in this game.

Arboretum is beautiful at night time/nighttime.