Lighting problem outside.
uknortherner:
You'll be waiting a VERY long time. EA don't seem to give a shit, especially when there's substandard Store-crap to push. I mean, why bother fixing the very thing they boasted about (the lighting) in the original previews when they can churn out TVs that show incorrect broken graphics when they break (one-tiled noise on a two-tiled screen), or clothes and hair that clip like fuck?
This lighting problem was introduced in one of the earlier patches when EA thought that everything would look so much better if they took on a creepy radioactive glow. I tried looking around the different files to see if I could isolate the lighting issue because it's pissing me off too. I even tried replacing the shaders file with the original from the disc but it made no difference, not that I thought it would, but you never know. Incidentally, I'm running the base game only.
Where's Gunmod when you need him? He worked wonders with the crappy TS2 lighting.
wizard_merlin:
I suspect if EAxis try to fix the lighting issue, they will more than likely break it the other way, with everything being too dark. Any patch, or attempted patch fix is more than likely going to be included with the next EP, or the one after that, or maybe even when TS4 comes out, but don't hold your breath waiting.
uknortherner:
Well, this is the thing. When EA released some promo screenshots for HELS, there was one shot in particular that clearly showed the lighting working as it should, with light sources casting light on multiple floors, and I thought at the time that they had fixed the issue and would be releasing it as part of an upcoming patch. The patch came, and the light fix didn't.
I'll see if I can find a link to that screenshot.
EDIT: Actually, there were three, courtesy of SimPrograms:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4310957403/in/set-72157622468798168/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4311693710/in/set-72157622468798168/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4270888095/in/set-72157622468798168/
wizard_merlin:
EAxis are pretty good at releasing screenshots and other details that make things appear to be either working right, or actually better than what they really are.
lordrichter:
To me, those screen shots do not represent lighting "working as it should". The third picture is particularly bad.
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