17 days ago - Roland - Direct link
Originally posted by CatPerson: What is the reasoning for this? Atmosphere? Performance?

....I can appreciated an atmosphere type of reason (some players might like that) but not my thing. Seems like every version reduces light-distance or view distance on something.
....hopefully it's not hard-coded so I can change it back.

It's a rebalance for those who will be turning their brightness down below 50%. If you keep your brightness high and like the current level of light at night then the change won't matter to you at all since you don't even need a head lamp with default brightness.

But they fixed the game to be darker for those who want to turn their brightness down. There's no need to mod anything back to the way it was, just don't turn down your brightness settings below 50%.

Same with the range on the moon brightness. For people who keep the default brightness it won't matter a bit.