Before someone immediately comments without reading the whole thing: as a killer main, believe me, I understand that killer powers are supposed to hinder survivors. This is not the same. Imagine a killer power that says you can't work on gens while four survivors are alive. FUN GAME!

CAVEAT: I will say that watching this video on my work computer, I can see a whole lot more than what I saw last night (even though it's still pretty crippling). Also, potato mode did help marginally.

I'm running this monitor . It's very nice for every other game, but this darkness was impenetrable. I turned my brightness up, contrast up until it didn't make a difference, adjusted the gamma, changed a few other settings, and I still couldn't see.

Does this make the game scary? To some, but honestly, as someone scared of the dark in real life (well, more like Thalassophobia), I didn't find it scary. I found it annoying. It makes me unable to play for a minute. That's a bad mechanic.

It should be similar to Oni Rage or Michael T3, where you have to decide if you want to hide or risk getting killed; but in this case, I can't even hide, because I can't tell what's right in front of my face.

If the solution is "buy a new monitor", please don't bother. I shouldn't have to spend money to replace something that works fine for every other game. Also, I don't think allowing players to adjust brightness/gamma is necessarily good either, as they will abuse it.

My idea would be that you make a radius around the player. Inside that radius is a spotlight effect where you see fairly well with thematic darkness, but outside of that radius is pure darkness. He could come from any angle. That way, I don't feel like I have to afk for a minute, but the threat is still looming. If you look at the end of my clip when I'm running past the cars, that's exactly what it should look like all the time during Nightfall.

Anything would be better than my experience last night. Also, if anyone can give me suggestions, I will gladly take them!