John Malcolm Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Is anyone else finding this frustrating? I'm onto the third battle of the Panzer Marsch campaign, and wishing really hopefully that dawn will come soon. It's a pity we don't get parachute flares or illumination rounds. In my spare time I'm a freelance digital illustrator, and my monitor is calibrated regularly using a hardware calibration device (spyder2) - so I'm not prepared to mess about with the brightess controls. The only way I've found of getting a halfway decent idea of the layout of the roads, trails, hedgerows and gaps is by assigning a massive 360 covered arc to a couple of units. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailApe Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I'm with you on this one - where are the burning Shermans when you need them. Quite accurate though, I'd love to be able to hear what the pixeltruppen are really bitching on about down there, not much fun tripping over a lenth of briar and coming crashing down with you NCO just behind you! Ahh the venomous hissing and mutinous muttering that will be going on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzermartin Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Well I really wanted to play a german campaign but this dark first mission put me off. I'd prefer the classic dark blue/grey tones that other games pick for night environments. Sometimes CM takes realism too seriously 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLM2 Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I had this same problem on this campaign seeing as how at least the first 1/3rd of it is before dawn. It would definitely help to have some sort of tool to highlight your troops at night. This in conjunction with a disappearing contact icon bug can have you losing the location of troops in the dark. And forget about retrieving casualties unless you're gonna do a meticulous search of the ground level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 It has to do with the gamma setting of your display/card combination. With my previous video-card dark was really dark, while with my current card I can see everything quite good. Maybe you can adjust the brightness of your screen? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroCat Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 In-game gamma controls would be nice for sure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argie Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 He said he can't touch his monitor adjustments, because he has it calibrated for his work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Yes a gamma selection in options would fix this. I'd go for it since my eyes ain't what they used to be either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 He said he can't touch his monitor adjustments, because he has it calibrated for his work. I should read a bit better before I reply. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Childress Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 My vision is fine but I'm discovering that the night battles are playable only in a darkened room. If then. I though the earlier games had a gamma adjustment option. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Yeah, this is an issue that really ought to be moved to the top of BFC's infamous List. Playing a night battle during the daytime is a complete no-go for and are an uncomfortable eye-straining exercise even when it is properly dark in the room. Gamma adjustments would be a start but some non gameplay related light source option would be even better. Some big light over the battlefield that you can switch on without it impacting spotting rules. Or if you want to make a certain someone really happy, make it look like parachute flares. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 My monitor is against a full glass wall, with skylights above. Therefore I vote for in-game gamma controls. I've actually started setting up a dawn game, minimised the game and come back so I can see the units (the game clock doesn't stop in setup). Wish I didn't have to use a bug for this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Malcolm Posted June 16, 2011 Author Share Posted June 16, 2011 Thanks for all the replies and input. As I said, my monitors (two 22") are both calibrated using hardware calibration devices. I ain't going to mess around with their physical controls to make this game brighter. Having said that: Maybe it's just that I was too keen to play a German campaign, and too disppointed that the first three missions take place basically at night. What WERE the advantages of attcking at night during WW2? If they can hear you coming then they know to stand to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiram Sedai Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 i thought night ops occured because of the allies air advantage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LemuelG Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 There are good and bad about fighting at night. Freedom from tactical air is a pretty good reasons; areas under enemy observation become livable again, allowing movements not otherwise possible/feasible during the daytime. If we have night battles, we should have hand-to-hand fighting as well, noise security for infiltrators. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAEZ Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 + 1 on this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rampantone Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I ain't going to mess around with their physical controls to make this game brighter. Not much of a gamer huh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glukx Ouglouk Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Not much of a gamer huh? Errr... Most games have a gamma setting in their preference screen, so I don't really see why a gamer would be used to changing the brightness of his screen? Or maybe I just didn't get what you meant... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hukka Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I am totally with the OP with this one. I have also calibrated my monitor for graphic design work, so I am not going to touch my monitor settings for any game. There should be in-game settings and/or the night battles should be lighter, maybe with some blue tone in them. But I do undestand that in-game gamma settings would require some work. "But it's realistic!" is not a valid point here. Achtung Panzer: Kharkov also had this very same problem. What's with the wargame developers and the pitch black night? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Malcolm Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Not much of a gamer huh? I've been playing computer games for 29 years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailApe Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Not much of a gamer huh? I think he was being ironic. As in Python's Four Yorkshiremen's sketch. ie a real game would do something REALLY drastic to get around the dark screen problem eg pay £1,000,000 for 'One-Use-Only' infra red eyes or something equally ridiculous and lose health, house and family for a 2 hour session - and think that it was worth it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky_Strike Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 How about trying different display profiles - this will go some way to helping. Most video card drivers for PCs will allow quite a lot of tweaking in their control panels, and setting up custom profiles for individual apps and games is quite easy usually. This will enable you to keep your calibrated display profile and have custom CMBN profiles for day and/or night play. I have a custom profile to dial down the (IMHO) over-satuartion of in-game graphics for instance. If you are on a Mac just use the Colour tab in the Displays System Preference panel. Your hardware calibrator will have already created a profile here for you in all likelihood. HTH LS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 I must say I started this campaign last night and I'm not much of a fan either! It really surprised me to be honest. I'm more than a little disappointed with the first two missions, and have just given up It just isn't that much fun in my honest opinion. I've spent all my time so far, and you don't get much at that, trying to find a clearing in a hedgeway that I can get my vehicles through! But then I couldn't find one, and I struggle to make the clearings out anyway and it's even harder at night. So I decided to blast my way through with pioneer, which I'm guessing you are supposed to do hence there availability - only to find the gaps weren't large enough for my tanks lol.. Talk about frustrating. That's all it is about at the moment. Judging gaps and running out of time. Not a well designed campaign judging by the first two missions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De Savage Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 So I decided to blast my way through with pioneer, which I'm guessing you are supposed to do hence there availability - only to find the gaps weren't large enough for my tanks lol.. Talk about frustrating. I found out that you can create larger gap blasting same place twice. It will not work everytime, but that way you can make gap large enough for vehicles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidcactus Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Oh dear ! im on the 2nd mission of this campaign and i was hoping for sure that daybreak would would take place on the next map it is hard to seee ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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