Make things pitch black

[crisp wren]

So I enjoy barotrauma but after awhile you lose the horror effect and Adding new creatures can only be scary at the start and people will become more sanatized to it and it will no longer be scary in their eyes. Adding creatures wont keep the horror aspect we are only scared of new creatures like the new husk because we never have runned into one of them because People fear the unknown so what if everything was unknown. What if a option was added to make everything outside the sub was pure pitch black, no outlines in the dark when in caves where we can see things even in the dark just pure pitch black and it will make things unknown provoking the idea to bring a flashlight to actually see anything. Crawlers or even husk in wrecks will only be seen in light everything else pitch black until shined with light NOW THAT brings more unknown feeling to your surroundings keeping the constant horror effect that your in a pure pitch black ocean with creatures around you that you can't see.

[cursive valve]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3241041855&searchtext=darkness

[crisp wren]

Not everyone likes playing modded I think It should just be a vanilla option along side ironman so people can choose to still play vanilla and have that option.

[cursive valve]

what do people have against playing modded lmao

[crisp wren]

some people like sticking to vanilla there's no harm in having it as a vanilla option so you don't need to download a mod for whether you like to play vanilla or modded

[earnest cloud]

https://reshade.me/ +

[cursive valve]

looks lovely

[cursive valve]

also iirc it isn't really something they could really do

well not on player-made modules and subs at least

hulls have ambient lighting as default

the only things they could do is remove that from what they can

and also that lighting the player gives off a bit

[quasi cove]

So it's another checkbox added to the lobby menu, created for the slim slice of the Venn diagram which contains people who both want global darkness installed on their server and can't be arsed to click a button on the Workshop page.
I guess you can say that about any request which is already covered by a mod, it's just a question of how niche a request is and how many of them you can add to the vanilla experience as settings before the lobby turns into an unnavigable mess.

[sleek mist]

it is client-side mod

[viscid grail]

yeah... mods exist for a reason

[earnest yoke]

But think about the checkbox madness and people just jumping around the servers to find one for their liking

[mortal lantern]

literally one of the main reasons why mods exist...

[quasi cove]

I think mods which can be added to the base game as non-optional content and serve as noticeable improvements are worth looking at. Like the sound design of Soundproof Walls, which with some tweaks could serve as a great addition to vanilla.
Adding mods as settings is iffier, because they already serve as optional content.

[cursive valve]

If only soundproof walls worked without those bugs of everyone on local being muffled

Or when the water sound goes on forever

[mortal lantern]

i think you can tweak soundproof walls settings a bit to eliminate that issue

it is very customizable

[livid plover]

cl_reloadlua in console fixes that issue for the rest of the session

[livid plover]

and you can fix this one by changing your audio output device in the in-game settings then changing back