Human Night Vision

[Grozmok]

Originally Posted by Kika Maslyaka [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i agree, since they changed vision in the client back in 2002 or so, infra/ultra vision become useless ability.

/rant

They changed this? How fucking lame.

My very first character I made was a Human warrior out of Qeynos. Talk about white knuckle adventuring. I remember how happy I was when I got my first Greater Lightstone.

I can't believe SOE changed it, what a bunch of fuckers. That was part of the same retarded line of thought that exp penalty came from.

Now I'm 'U MAD BRO' because my TSK gets ass raped at a 168% exp penalty as part of racial balancing (lol), but humanoids like Humans/Erudites and Barbies don't have to stumble around in the dark for 45 minutes anymore?

Now I'm really on board with the exp changes in Velious.

/rant off

[maahes]

Agreed. If possible, bring this back!

[sbvera13]

Annoying as it was, it was cool that they tried to make the world matter to you. I think right now the only thing that matters in day/night is kithicor.

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by Kika Maslyaka [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i agree, since they changed vision in the client back in 2002 or so, infra/ultra vision become useless ability.

Remember that tunnel that goes from EverFrost to Black Burrow? It was IMPOSSIBLE to navigate it as human/barbarian even with candle or fire beetle eye even in day time. You had to have light stone to be able to determine where to turn.
Now days you can go through it without any light sources easily.

Qeynos Hills at night was like a Plane of Nightmares to me [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
I used to spend entire night time siting at Millers house waiting for sun to come up, too afraid to go out, as I would get lost very very quickly and run into a rabid grizzly or a skeleton [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

YES!

I'm very grateful that I started the game in 1999 as a Barbarian Shaman. Not having night vision made for the most spine-chilling gaming experience I've ever had. At any given moment during nighttime you felt like death was around the corner. Navigating that tunnel into Blackburrow was indeed a difficult task. It took some time, but eventually (after seeing it with a party who created enough light) you learned to "feel" your way through it if you didn't have a light source.

[Galaa]

The "night blindness" in P99 is no where even near the one from classic EQ back in 1999 (despite the server is said to be classic).

As a barbarian in P99, i can run around fine in everfrost and qeynos hills even at night.
Back in EQ live in 1999, a human or barbarian will not be able to see anything at night. I remembered the times when my human in eq classic needed to sit at qeynos gates at night, waiting for the sun to rise, because it's so dark that there's no way to move around.

[Boombha]

Might sound silly, but if I re-position the screen on my laptop my vision gets better, so while items are good, sometimes a change in the screens position can also help.

[Galaa]

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

YES!

I'm very grateful that I started the game in 1999 as a Barbarian Shaman. Not having night vision made for the most spine-chilling gaming experience I've ever had. At any given moment during nighttime you felt like death was around the corner. Navigating that tunnel into Blackburrow was indeed a difficult task. It took some time, but eventually (after seeing it with a party who created enough light) you learned to "feel" your way through it if you didn't have a light source.

The tunnel into Blackburrow lol. Memories.

I used to wait outside the tunnel and wait for some other players who carried a light source, and when they go down the tunnel I'll go in after them, following their light.

[Kika Maslyaka]

I also remember how some time later when I got a char into 20s who could cast Eyes of the Cat (druid version of infra-vision), when passing to/from BB, I was asked a number of times by young barbarians to escort them through the tunnel =)
And not just low level people. I once even escorted a lev 40 warrior who kept getting turned around in the tunnel for like 30 min before I showed up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Beastro]

Loved how the EF walls glowed whitish-blue while playing a Barb for a bit back in the day.

As much as the lack of night vision was a PITA, it still did offer some beautiful sights the other races couldn't see.

[Slave]

I would love to see the darkness returning to mankind on this server. As it is, the easy gamma makes this game approximately 100% easier for low level humans and about 50% as immersive. Let there be DARK!!