IMO, the Patch 7 illithid ship had an appropriately dank, bleak, alien vibe with the starker colours and pitch black shadows. Now it looks, to me at least, like a child’s plastic toy. I also liked the harshly oversaturated colours on the exterior – it really makes you feel like you’re in some kind of ‘other dimension’, with its own searing, hellish lighting system. Apparently the ship is supposed to be hurtling through a realm of hell, after all – not that I can take seriously an iota of the hyperactive plotline: at least not enough to give the narrative more than the scantest attention.
But then there does seem to be a case for ‘too dark’ being an accessibility problem – plus some people do apparently have a preference for Patch 8 lighting.
Toggle or slider, then, definitely seems to be the way to go. Right now it looks like someone took a big dirty slash against one of my favourite paintings, staining it into a muted mess of its former self.
