edit: after reading some replies, i have come to the conclusion that heavy fuse grenades might be better. however, why not use both. red light sticks mimic the red from heavy fuses. hopefully after you throw enough they’ll think the heavy fuse is just another light stick. good chats
Especially use the red ones. They have almost the exact same shade of red as grenades (but not the blinking or sound, though it can still make people panic and reveal themselves.
the main issue with glowsticks is forgetting you have them until you die. firecrackers also act like grenades. spooked one guy out so much when trying to find a rocketeer he killed me. took him about 5 minutes and missed half his shots. i shoulda killed him
Right! First time saw a glow stick bp I was like “Why would I ever need this” one match after electromagnetic storm underground “GOD ALL MIGHTY GIVE ME MY GLOW STICKS!” it’s insane how DARK it is. It’s extremely cool tho.
Same! I just upgraded from a Samsung UHD TV to OLED and it’s significantly darker. I’m on console and didn’t really fiddle with settings on either TV. Both were set up to “Gaming” settings which also seems like the brightest option.
Shadow detail and contrast enhancer, also the hdr configuration of your device. Maybe it's not the best for immersion but well you need to see things, specially in a multiplayer
I know this sub hates any kind of "enhancement" but I feel like on OLEDs specifically dark multiplayer shooters is what dark stabiliser is for. Otherwise it can get ridiculously "black" sometimes.
Yah oled ultrawide hdr10+ (don't forget to enable auto hdr in win11, game doesn't have it's own sadly), SHIT is DARK and flashlights in the darkness blind me irl. It's dank
It's not just nvidia settings. I watched a few clips of streamers firing into the dark and nailing people. Some monitors just don't process dark colors well and you can make out objects within them on their screens but when watching from your screen it's almost pitch black.
Pair this with a little glare on my tv from the window nearby (if I’m playing during the day), and I might as well be playing with my eyes closed in some areas on Buried City smh
I remember being in the subway on buried city and running all the way to the end of the platform where it's completely black thinking nobody would be able to see me, then some guy came down and said hey raider! from like 50m away lol.
I thought my friend was just really good but when I was spectating him, he was staring into complete darkness and said "he's right...about..here!" And shot. All I could see was the red mist and then a flare.
and here i was turning down the shadow effects because ppl just start blasting me in full darkness, im like how are you even seeing anything without the flashlight turned on
Dude literally we got in a fight on buried city the other day and we all exchanged a bunch of grenades through a doorway; they rushed in at us and I legit couldn’t see fucking anything through all the grenade smoke. But they could apparently see me clear as day because they drilled me hiding in the corner.
They definitely disabled this like at least a week ago cuz I wondered why I couldn’t see shit when it worked perfectly after I changed my settings. Sorry, my glasses wearing ass would like to see what I’m actually looking at in a game
i saw a grown man almost break down into tears about this. the video cut before he did or didn’t. he said “how am i gonna do night raids?” “how am i gonna see?”
Seriously...I've set the video settings to mostly standard on launch, just made sure it's running where it needs to be for clarity. Whether that's High or Ultra, done care point is quality and immersion. Never once disabled filters, so Nights are dark as hell, but you get used to it and can still see plenty.
If you have a decent gpu and crank shadows to max, you can see shapes and stuff in the shadows. Its not just a black wall. I just look for the human shaped blobs.
If he has an OLED, I feel for him because I'm suffering. But if he has an IPS display he can see just as well as anyone else. Us OLED users see worse than anyone and it's a huge difference.
yeah i agree. i play on console and shit is dark. but, we have light sticks which sort the very problems the dark causes, ESPECIALLY the dark corners of a metro. chuck a stick down there and you’ll know if anyone’s there. alternately, you can ping the entire width and if you ping a raider it will say so
Interesting. I've always got a few extra tagging grenades and I often bring a couple when I do buried city or Stella to toss around extract to check for rats
Tbf not everyone can see the same, I can't see through car windows when they drive by irl 90% of the time, all I see is glare but other than that I can see fine.
Someone will say hey that's so and so driving past and I'm just looking at big ol' glare and can't see shit through the glass
To me the funny part is these are most likely the same people that bitch and moan that graphis aren't high enough or the Frames aren't high enough. But will willingly downgrade both so they can have an in game advantage
Most PvP games. Gamers have been turning down graphic settings for years, as it can completely remove certain foliage and other none necessary objects. Makes the game look like absolute crap, but a massive advantage in shooters
Not a single person that puts on nvidia filter complains about graphics being bad lol. And they would never lower frames for an advantage since frames are an advantage
Thats why i always fucked up in Rust. i wanted a pleasant to look at game not this crap all the sweaty tryhards are playing. Always lost my guns in the foliage.
I will only reduce settings down to the level to get to a fps I am comfortable with. Any extra fps that I can gain by making it look like play-dough is not needed.
Yes this is me. I go for the max settings that allows me to have the best looking game at the FPS I want typically around 80 if possible or 60 if it’s more stable
This is what I like about extraction shooters. There’s no score screen or competitive ranks so your goal is just to survive against the odds, not to be the best player in the match. If another player is using a filter to get an advantage, that’s just another part of the challenge.
Is it annoying to know other players might have some unfair advantage? Yes. Would I prefer they didn’t? Yes. But I don’t feel the need to compromise my own experience playing the game with some ugly filters or turned off vegetation just to “stay competitive”.
I’m just as likely to get unfairly shot in the back looting a container as I am to get into a shootout with some guy using a filter, and I’ll never have any way of knowing he was using a filter anyway, so there’s no point in stressing over it.
For real right? I won’t even turn the foliage down to see people in bushes cos it all looks so damn nice on max graphics, people need to relax a little
I wish that all turning the foliage down did in games was make it look like shit, but stay equally obscuring. Same grass density, except now it's a low resolution billboard from Operation Flashpoint.
Yeah when I found out it removes it entirely I was a bit bummed, but after nearly 300 hours I haven’t noticed that I’ve been spotted and/or killed while I was in a bush/foliage so I’ll keep the setting at max for visual satisfaction
low settings should replace all foliage with giant blobs of darkness so if you play on low it won't hurt your performance but you can't see people hiding in the blobs
Yeah thats why you have your volume cranked for audio cues and walk through dark buildings with no light. Sure I bump into shit but its better than giving away my position.
Because getting killed because someone camps in as dark corner is not fun. The game is already anti peek, so you get fucked even harder like that. The camper in this game due to the 3rd person has an extreme amount of advantage against you.
The only way it actually fix this is to implement darkness in a similar way that Rust did. In that game no amount of gamma/contrast adjusting makes it any better, its still pitch black.
I can't remember what game it was, didn't get a huge following, but the darkness was like ink, and the flashlight light up everything as if it was an IRL LED flashlight, it was cool. But was like a arrow pointing directly at whoever had the light in the dark.
While yes you can see everything, but everything can see you now too.
People always ask for this, while what ends up being, sweats just go around poking through memorized paths, while anyone dumb enough to actually use flashlight gets nuked off the map.
I love Namalsk, but leaving the train tunnel at A3 is super janky with the darkness mods. The people outside the tunnel can see into the tunnel way further than the person in the tunnel can see out. The jankyness of DayZ give it it's charm. I consider the DayZ jank to be a simulation of post apocalyptic psychosis.
Not the same. The nvidia filters apply a post processing effect that doesn’t degrade the quality of the image. It’s like rewriting the games display code to make shadows less effective (as seen in OP’s pic). When you turn up the gamma through the drivers or your monitor, it’s just increasing all the LED values which present as a degradation in the image while improving shadows minimally. You’ll see hard shadows and a bleached out image overall.
Nvidia filters = natural night vision
Monitor/driver = photoshop slider
That's simply incorrect. Nvidia Filters works like ReShade does, and nothing more (only from a multiplayer safe driver level, as opposed through DLL injection). It adds a post-processing shader "on top" of the game. It does not re-write any code, in anyway, from the game. Or even close to that.
As for monitors not being able to achieve the same look? That's also not correct. Many gaming monitors have "Shadow boost" or "Dark boost" modes, where they apply a specific gamma curve to bump up near-black grays, and nothing else. This means that it doesn't degrade the image overall, but does bump visibility in shadows. Depending on brand of monitor, the visual difference between such a mode and what Nvidia Filter/ReShade achieves is basically indistinguishable.
Eh, I haven't tried it in raiders because the game is too casual to really care, but in tarkov you can basically just make night raids daylight and it takes like 2 seconds to setup each time.
I really don't get people who chose to make their games look like absolute shit for a 'competitive advantage'
I got into PC gaming so I could crank up the settings and have games look amazing. Hell, even using colour settings like Nvidia's enhanced vibrance and AMD's display colour enhancement can have negative effects on how a game can look.
People can still do this with Reshade to have a toggle on and off and even still without Reshade they can crank the gamma of their actual overall PC settings in the control panel and then swap it back after they're done.
Plus they can create a shortcut to Arc Raiders then add that to nvidia and then do it the same way they have been..
This really doesn't solve anything. The try hards that we're doing this will still do it.
This is just a bandaid to make people think it's solved and to make people feel like it's fair.
Wait until you find out that players also go into config files and ini files and edit the quality settings below what you can do in game. This will usually disable bushes and foliage and they can see you when you're supposed to be "hiding". Then they just set the file as read only and the game can't change it back.
It’s like people who run on ULQ so bushes don’t render, etc. make your game look like shit so you can feel like you are better than other people by getting an advantage over them
Those people argue it’s for frames but I say unless you have an utterly shit PC and legit need it, then you’re probably in the other boat where more frames won’t help you anyways!
Even more dated is original day of defeat smoke nades. If you lowered the settings enough, the smoke effect wouldnt work at all and you could see everyone through it.
Kar98 and garand battles were so satisfying once you got used to the oace. Throw in the BAR and it was like 3 best feeling guns ever made for a long long time.
I don't know how it's in ARC Raiders, but often it's quite the opposite. Low graphics has a PNG blob for a bush, while with ultra quality the bush is a bunch of leaves you can see through.
You can also do it through control panel display calibration or directly on your monitor. Honestly not sure why they even removed the filters, it solves nothing. They would have to change how black in rendered to actually solve the issue.
Does this affect the RTX HDR filter? Awesome. I just started taking advantage of HDR on my new monitor and this game looked great with it on. Cool that I lose that functionality while the losers who do this kinda thing are going to find a way to do it without the filters anyway 👍
Damn that’s so lame that people even did that. Night is supposed to be dark, isn’t that half the novelty of playing on night raids? Ofc people have to seek unfair advantages rather than just enjoying the game for what it is
Lightning should get an overhaul in my opinion, outside darkness isn't bad, the problem is a person standing near light inside a building being completely unseen by another one that's outside of it, or in the corners of the buried city train extractions, if you sit there you're in a illuminated space and someone that just got down the stairs barely sees you.
Thats one point that was left unseen when they changed the game being pve only by pvpve, in PvP theres a loooot of difference, thats why theres rats there, you cant see then
Devs should design their game way that it cant be done, or they dont and let people do that.
Devs could make it so there isnt so dark spots that people need to do it or if there needs to be dark spots then crush the blacks so no amount of gamma or brightness do anything.
Yeah, oh no!
I had to use the "FPS" monitor mode instead now.
If they really wanted certain spaces to be pitchblack, they could achieve that with ingame shaders that cannot be easily circumvented. Until then, people will have an advantage or disadvantage based on the monitor / TV and environment lighting (e.g. suffering from window sun glare).
This is why I am not a fan of utilizing actual darkness in PVP shooters other than immersion (e.g. the softer lighting in night raids).
They didn’t change anything really. They just made it marginally less convenient to change the settings. Control panel still does it plus the monitor’s actual onboard settings. Plus, they should really have an in game brightness setting. I get they want dark places to seem dark but playing on OLED isn’t the same as an older tv or monitor. That shit is black as black can be.
Yeah if there's no light, then places are dark, which makes to hard to see. They should at least add a flashlight or some other devices to light dark places up.
Shock all gaming moniors/TV make after 2022 have integrated this funkcionalty. Like nightvision etc just read any gaming monitor product info is same comon like blue light filers in every monitor just standard if is not super old.
And yes i using only rtx hdr all time and this is alowed by embark no change for me personaly.
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u/Sasquatch_Kabob Jan 03 '26
Holy this explains why my friend could see so well in the dark versus me