Steam Night Is Too Dark

Hi,
It is really a struggle to play any route at night. The darkness is too much. I cannot see almost anything.
Is this somehting normal for you guys as well?
Am I using some wrong settings?
I thought TSW4 would have volumetric fog etc etc, but it looks to me way wrong.
Here is a screenshot from the new Austrian S-bahn route:



Here it is how it looks from the inside looking on the windshield with the headlights ON:


Thanks.

 

So it looks the same for you?

 

Is high beams on?

 

The normal Headlights are on, I don't think that high beams are on, but it should not matter that much. The whole ambient lighting is quite almost inexisting, which is not even close to realistic.

 

Use GodMode console, enter "r.Color.Mid 1"

 

Have you tried adjusting your screen settings? I'm guessing you have already.

 

The night becomes even worse on some rolling stock which have darked windscreen glass, like Class 801. On outside camera you see some details on the ground in the headlights, from cab there is just nothing on the ground, only darkness.
I think the existing night is ok, pretty realistic. The problems in headlights and darked glases.

 

Have you tried my advice?

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r.Color.Mid 1 solves this problem on PC using God Mode mod. (default value is 0.5)

 

Spikee1975 Thanks for your suggestion! Will try when I figure out what GodMode is.
In the meantime I also filed a bug report, as I should not change advanced settings just to make the night look properly.

 

It's a must have for PC players, you can modify so much stuff on the fly like weather, have better zooming etc.

https://www.trainsimcommunity.com/mods/c3-train-sim-world/c75-utilities/i2703-tsw-god-mode-alpha-033

 

Thank you a lot! It works excellent. Will play with this one activated until I wait for an official answer from support.

 

One thing I noticed is that your Deafult is way more visible compared to my default. I wonder why?...

 

Depends on cloudiness and moon phase also.