Classic darkness is awesome

[Bardp1999]

WTS Greater Lightstone 20k

[elwing]

Dat velktor zone line pull!

Seriously, darkness is fine, lightsource stacking is not...

[kaev]

On live in 1999, you could run at night on a HUM/BAR/ERU with a GLS and never lose the path.

On p99 in 2020, you can run at night on a HUM/BAR/ERU with a GLS and have 0 chance of staying on the path unless you use the 100% :notclassic: scrollwheel 3rd person view at max distance behind your char, in which case you mostly can keep the path.

The lighting mechanism they use here on this bastardized client is not even close to the mechanics from the classic and velious clients back in the day.

[Jibartik]

If you wanted perfect lighting, you'd all still be waiting for EQ classic.

[charmcitysking]

sorry you didn't get ghoul assassin loot

[Izmael]

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

what race is the screenshot from?

Iksar.

The problem isn't that /dynlight is broken. They did what they could and it's really not bad, for a lot of people. Some people have issues with /dynlight because of their GPUs, OS, whatever.

The problem is that these people can no longer disable /dynlight and are stuck with a barely playable game, at least in certain zones.

The solution would be to enable /dynlight again.

[Fammaden]

The problem isn't the darkness, which is a pretty close approximation of classic, its the LIGHTS. The game is horrible with a bunch of geared players wearing light emitting stuff in one place. And Tunare help you if you are also in a bright zone light Highkeep, much less a pure white zone....which is anywhere with snow. You might hear a lot more complaints start coming out of green about this after Velious goes live.

[elwing]

The most ridiculous is a raid at velk zone in... Pull some spiders for added fun

[magnetaress]

Not really it should be optional. But I can deal with it.

[Gustoo]

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

The problem isn't the darkness, which is a pretty close approximation of classic, its the LIGHTS. The game is horrible with a bunch of geared players wearing light emitting stuff in one place. And Tunare help you if you are also in a bright zone light Highkeep, much less a pure white zone....which is anywhere with snow. You might hear a lot more complaints start coming out of green about this after Velious goes live.

Good point.

For me it just made my game look like really trashbag style like EQ is just a straight up terrible game with bad bloom FX. I really wish there was an alternative like maybe GM's could just randomly instagib human / barb / erudites throughout their play life but everyone gets to have decent lighting.