I'm sorry... but the darkness represented in the state the game is currently in is completely bogus. I was a FMF Corpsman with 3rd Battalion 5th Marines for 4 years. NEVER... even in a star/moonless night out in BFE was it THAT dark that you couldn't see where you were going. When you increase the gamma and brightness it brings the level of darkness to where it SHOULD be in the first place. Except when you do that it does make it a lot more washed out, which is not correct.

But anyone that has arguments with this... drive out to BFE someplace, where there are no lights, wait about 20 minutes without having any lights near you and then walk around. I can guarantee you that it doesn't look like DayZ's darkness.