We need to compromise as a player base

[Bun_Vivant]

The only hope I have is that in shade (not complete darkness) the character seems self-lit. So, I really do think the lighting might be better in some ways (maybe a lot of ways) but I worry that when it's worse, it's going to be a (a lot) worse.

The benchmark doesn't have all the controls the current game has, or all the controls that were demonstrated in the LiveLetter.

In the current game, in System Configuration->Display Settings, there is a Character Lighting slider that applies an omnidirectional light just to your character so that your character is more brightly lit than other characters or the surroundings. I have that set to 84 out of 100. As far as I know, there is no such setting in the benchmark, so that may be why my characters are less brightly lit in the benchmark.

[EDIT: I just checked, and the Character lighting slider does apply to other characters, including NPCs.]]