Player Housing is way too bright now.

[NamazuFanatic]

I have my house at 0 lighting and it's just... super bright now. It kind of ruins the whole vibe I was going for.

Old: https://imgur.com/a/Gr1Kmnk

New: https://i.imgur.com/B09NTFb.png

[Talianore]

Yep, had a night-sky using flooring mats and hooboy, it looks terrible now.

[Batbrat]

Thank you for making this thread, because I noticed this too right away!!

The lighting in houses appears to be broken.
You cannot make it as dark as you could before, and at the very same time, you cannot make it as bright as you could before either. The overhead lamp is EXTREMLY harsh now! and if you block it, it throws your house into this weird semi-darkness! Both ways like this, we cannot get the feeling that we intended to have in our homes!

Please adjust the lighting in housing to fix this!
Let us adjust our lights back to making it 100% lights off like we could before. Remove how overly lit it is when you turn the lights off. Then also, adjust the brightest setting back to a level that full brightens the whole house in a softer still vivid way. Look at older housing pictures and compare to now. The lighting is very different and not as nice now! Currently, the difference between 1-5 is VERY minimal, when it used to be that each 1-5 setting was quite distinct! Please make it as it used to be again!

Thank you for reading.

[SeerValtial]

Was about to post about this, so thank you for doing so!

The graphics update has made apartment/housing lighting too bright.

For example, at lighting setting 0, an apartment should be almost pitch black (if it has no lights set up in it). Now, it's still bright enough to see things.

This is at any time of the day/night cycle.

This has taken away from the magic and fun of making creative and clever lighting decisions, and will affect the dark aesthetic of housing I'm sure many people have spent a long time designing.

Please revert! <3

[Talsol]

2nd this. Coming home to my 0 lighting house and being basically blinded. It's not it. Just hoping to give this post a bit more attention because It should be reverted.

[Darkstride]

Agreed. The lighting update is good where it's good, but it seems that really dark areas have been compromised.

[Tako-Takemi]

I'm having the same issues. Interior Lighting is way too bright. I already posted images for comparison of my house in another thread: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...raphics-update
I believe i've seen dark areas in the game since the engine upgrade, so maybe they just need to tweak the interior lighting settings for houses!

[Solowing]

Yea, it certainly sucked the darker vibe out of my rooms

[Solowing]

I ran into this lighting glitch in my Pvt here.

[unjourneyed]

I have to agree. I use lighting 0 so I can rely on other light sources like lamps for a more favorable ambiance, but after the update, it's as if lighting is set to a 2-3 when set to 0.
I do hope something can be done about this.