Night lighting. Wow.

[Pizzicato]

I rarely ever fly at night, but I figured I'd give it a go after hearing mutterings about the improved night lighting in the latest 2.5.6 beta.

 

Wow.

 

I took the Hornet up over the Caucasus and was blown away. Even starting up on the ramp, taxiing out after a couple of other Hornets, and then taking off and gently climbing out over Tbilisi was absolutely stunning. Night and day (no pun intended) from the previous nighttime implementations in DCS.

 

Things ramped up even further when my wingman and I got into a dogfight with a pair of Fulcrums. The glow of the aircraft afterburners and missile exhausts was really immersive, and the burning of falling aircraft and their burning remains on the ground was pretty damn amazing.

 

I'm not a fan of the current super-hazy, washed out daytime lighting, but the nighttime lighting is stunning. It's all going to look pretty damn good when everything's all dialed in.

 

Great job on this ED. :thumbup:

[Mr_sukebe]

+ lots

 

I was flying over Abu Dhabi and Dubai last night with my squadron. Looked amazing

[Eldur]

The night lighting became absolutely stunning - too bad it came at cost of daytime visibility, but I'm sure that's being tweaked.

[twistking]

as i'm not on open beta, could someone tell me, if all airplanes have their nav/formation/strobe light visibility greatly increased?

i've already seen in videos that hornet ext lights are visible over greater distances now.

is this the case with all flyable modules and all ai aircraft?

 

external light not really bein "usable" was one of my pet pieves since i started with dcs many years ago.

[spec10]

Yeah pretty. And utterly broken. I can see every ground unit from miles away without NVG because they're all brightly illuminated.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Indeed, up until recently I avoided flying at night because of the lack of proper lighting. Quite a lot has changed, for the better :-)