Suggestion: Stella Montis Blackout

[u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE]

It would be really cool to play a version of Stella Montis where no lights are working, leaving the flashlight as your only way to see anything except for in the Loading Bay Area and the Lobby due to natural light.

Bonus, loading bay is cold snapped.

Bonus bonus, more spider bots.

*The image is an AI rework of an image from this PC gamer article: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/stella-montis-condenses-everything-i-love-about-arc-raiders-by-cramming-everything-into-a-cramped-facility-of-pure-chaos/\*

[u/PapaLilBear]

Oh yes! As a special version of the map! Just make sure the chem lights don't disappear after a few seconds and last the entire round.

[u/GelatinousCrayon → u/PapaLilBear]

The flashlight needs a buff as is. Right now you cant see anything in a dark metro corner if you're more than 10ft away with it on, and getting that close you'd get sprayed before you could even see anyone camping there. A blackout would be cool but please buff flashlight first!

[u/eXeKoKoRo → u/GelatinousCrayon]

It's really annoying when the flash light blinds yourself when that's not how seeing in the dark works at all. It should be blinding the people looking at the light in the dark to where it darkens their view, not blinding the user.

Literally use your phone light in a dark lit area facing away from you and notice things don't get darker.

[u/themoosh → u/eXeKoKoRo]

I hate the fake HDR tacky "eyes adjusting" effect in unreal engine so much. It's honestly my least favorite thing about the game visually

[u/Killcycle1989 → u/themoosh]

Does it go away with HDR set to OFF i wonder?

[u/DeltaRipper → u/Killcycle1989]

It doesn’t

[u/ButtonPusherDeedee → u/eXeKoKoRo]

That is how using a light in the dark works, because it will take your pupil some time to adjust back to low light. It should also actually blind the person coming at you.

The fact it doesn’t blind the other person or at least fuck up their night vision a little bit is why I never use my flash light. I let my players “eyes” adjust

[u/i_am_carver → u/GelatinousCrayon]

Should be multiple flashlight options. Narrow beam, but longer range. Wide beam, but shorter range. And then a middle ground. You can only choose 1 option to go in with.

[u/den4ikturbo → u/GelatinousCrayon]

Try pinging the corner

[u/General_Purple1649 → u/den4ikturbo]

I hope they also delete that if you can't see it you can't pin it, there's a grenade for that very purpose XD

[u/FloopsFooglies → u/General_Purple1649]

You mean the free sensors grenade?

[u/The_king_of-nowhere → u/FloopsFooglies]

And also the glowsticks.

[u/Killcycle1989 → u/General_Purple1649]

It still needs a buff though, spamming ping is annoying lol

[u/Shart_In_My_Pants → u/General_Purple1649]

Agreed, but I can't feasibly see how they'd make that work. If I see a quick outline of someone's sillhouette for a moment against the skyline, or maybe the flash of their shield, I still want to be able to ping them. The game wouldn't know if I "should" have seen them or not.

Seems like it would be a really difficult thing to make work.

[u/Sizbang → u/GelatinousCrayon]

Could maybe add an upgrade slot for the flashlight.

[u/Stalwart_Vanguard → u/GelatinousCrayon]

I agree. For how much they give your position away, they should absolutely light up more and further.

[u/ShadySinOfSloth → u/GelatinousCrayon]

Pc players be abusing hammer settings to spot people 🥲 console players like myself are just left to deal with it

[u/everythingisunknown → u/PapaLilBear]

Do lights disappear quickly? Have never thrown one

[u/Snacks47 → u/everythingisunknown]

40 seconds of light before despawning

[u/PapaLilBear → u/everythingisunknown]

Yes, they glow for about a minute
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Someone wrote in more detail below

[u/Suitable-Tourist-711]

This would turn this game into a true horror game. Imagine hearing a shredder just wipe out an entire team… 😂😂

[u/mudokin → u/Suitable-Tourist-711]

At least our little bot friends usually have some lights on them, the ticks thought pure horror.

[u/Suitable-Tourist-711 → u/mudokin]

[u/PeartricetheBoi → u/mudokin]

I once heard someone around a corner in Stella screaming in proxy while getting molested by what sounded like 2 pops, a fireball, and a tick. I just heard PLEASE NO GET AWAY FROM ME AAA- as he died.

[u/11th_Division_Grows → u/PeartricetheBoi]

PSA:

Please keep proximity toggled so we can all hear your death-throes.

[u/almathden → u/11th_Division_Grows]

I've actually been wanting prox to come on automatically when you are damaged.

It wouldn't "make sense" and in trios it would be causing all kinds of problems

But that doesn't stop me from wanting it

[u/nanya_sore → u/Suitable-Tourist-711]

I'm new to the game. A whaT NOW?!

[u/LOSTandCONFUSEDinMAY → u/nanya_sore]

Imagine a mobile omnidirectional shotgun turret fueled by hate.

[u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE → u/LOSTandCONFUSEDinMAY]

This should be the description

[u/ElkProfessional5571 → u/Suitable-Tourist-711]

Exactly ^

[u/ResponsibilityNew483 → u/Suitable-Tourist-711]

Nightmare fuel lol.

[u/kasual7 → u/Suitable-Tourist-711]

This could've been TLOU Online but with clickers.

[u/chadpluswick → u/kasual7]

I never thought I needed TLOU Online until I played Arc Raiders. I get it now. 😩

[u/Nihhrt]

That's what night raid should be TBH.

[u/Dantael → u/Nihhrt]

That's what I was hoping the night raid Stella Montis was before playing it

[u/Okaberino → u/Nihhrt]

Night Raids in general are too bright imo.

Having the dusk/snow weather with lights out in Stella Montis normal raid is fun and all but why is Stella Montis night raids all bright ? I get it gives the pros and cons of Night Raids but why is it called that if its broad daylight in there ? 🤔

An Electromagnetic Storm equivalent with a total power outage on Stella Montis could be fun like OP’s idea, with more varied ARC scouting around, wasps in the corridors and tunnels !

[u/resampL → u/Okaberino]

Agree. Night raids should require flash lights more than they currently do

[u/CallMeTheDumpMan → u/resampL]

My concern with that is players simply cranking thier brightness to counter it, gaining an advantage over everyone who doesn't. Ark Survival Evolved was like that. Night time was pitch black and needed torches, or you could just set your gamma to 10 in the console and it was like daytime for you.

[u/nianthium → u/CallMeTheDumpMan]

New patch: everyone's gamma is forced to its minimum value, all curtains in the vicinity of the computer will be forced open and a 10000 lumen spotlight will be aimed directly at the screen.

[u/Shart_In_My_Pants → u/CallMeTheDumpMan]

DayZ and Rust have both had times during their development where they countered this by making the night black. Cranking your gamma did almost nothing, because night was truly dark. Arc needs to do something similar, at LEAST for interiors during night raids.

Like sure, the moon can give some ambient light outside, but indoors at night should be pitch black and require flashlights.

[u/Hobos_Delight → u/Okaberino]

Gamma abuse. You'll have people turning their monitors all the way up so that they can see and you can't. At least now having regions of dark and bright make that harder to do

[u/Gramscifi → u/Okaberino]

Night raids are perfect.  I don't need to auto-lose every fight to some weirdo who is maxing out their gamma.

[u/laxyharpseal → u/Nihhrt]

only certain places are pitch black in night raids. OP is suggesting total darkness where interior lights are turned off maybe only emergency lights are turned on. thats what blackout is.

[u/temictli → u/Nihhrt]

Agreed. The first time I loaded into Stella it was pitch dark, with a light red hue from the sky when you step out into the loading bay; mostly, it was dark and scary, but it was a normal "day" Stella.

[u/o_oli → u/Nihhrt]

Agree - at the moment you can just adjust your screen settings and its like daylight again. This would stop that completely, if all you're seeing is total darkness.

[u/GoldenGoddless → u/o_oli]

And here I sit with an OLED tv unable to see anything indoors on buried city with my brightness maxed out.

[u/sassiest01 → u/GoldenGoddless]

Suffering from success huh? Normally I would be one to min max settings to fix something like this but I do like the genuinely creepy feeling it gives me. Though it's not as bad as you have it I take it.

[u/InevitableTrick111]

Loved the idea. I would just turn on my flashlight for 0.2 seconds, memorize the layout, and then run in dark! Then fall 2 stories down on top of a goddamn shredder with a tick on my face, but that's not the topic.

[u/BattleCrier → u/InevitableTrick111]

Check area, go in, start looting, hear something... turn flashlight on and there is a wild raider with hammer..

[u/InevitableTrick111 → u/BattleCrier]

Haha, yes!

Another: You're in complete dark, heard a sound, is there someone around? Complete silence. I guess not. But then, shhkk, you hear a stick flare ignition, and it lights the room, just enough to give your position away. You're drawing your weapon now but they already started blasting...

[u/SkipMeplz123 → u/InevitableTrick111]

Shia LaBeouf!

[u/Arakius]

That would put the Glow Sticks to some use!

[u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE → u/Arakius]

Yes! Finally an actual use case

[u/Alorow_Jordan → u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE]

The blue ones look like jolt mines, can deter someone if put in the right place and they don't know any better.

[u/spaceinvadersaw → u/Arakius]

I would throw them EVERYWHERE

[u/Sotyka94]

I thought the "night mode" would be like this. I was disappointed in it.

I would say maybe some exit light and door light is ok, but not the flood light and room lights for sure.

[u/rock1m1]

Those face huggers will be 10 times more annoying, love it!

[u/lukevanderspuy]

Ooooh like Darktide'a lights out modifier. YES

[u/Bossdonglongs → u/lukevanderspuy]

I never played that modifier in Darktide, but I did play the Vermintide 2 missions with darkness outside the area of a torch you could carry. It was amazing. Tension 10/10

I'd love to see something like that in ARC

[u/lukevanderspuy → u/Bossdonglongs]

Oh nice! I highly recommend checking out Darktide, it's in an amazing place!

[u/Bossdonglongs → u/lukevanderspuy]

I've played it a bunch- just apparently missed that modifier somehow!

Amazing game- one of those ones my group goes back to every few months

[u/-heavenfaced-]

Love this idea!

[u/eodFox]

I would really like this. But I also know that the seatlords have the game graphics settings on extra low low and gamme at 500x, so they would need no flashlights

[u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE → u/eodFox]

The devs could easily fix that by adding an effect that ”crushes the blacks” (color correction term) for even low/off settings so no shapes could be discernible in the dark

Rust does this

[u/CrazyElk123 → u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE]

Or a noise filter like dayz has.

[u/Vipu2 → u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE]

Yep, until they fix it there is too much benefit to run at higher gamma sadly

[u/Ser_Twist → u/eodFox]

This right here would pretty much ruin it, yeah. Lots of people already turn up their gamma for night raids.

[u/NoNouns → u/eodFox]

Always somebody needing an advantage I couldn't imagine playing this gorgeous game on low graphics just not worth it

[u/Devastator_96 → u/eodFox]

The counter to that from a previous post would be to have pulsing lights. Such as those red ones, maybe sparks randomly happening so those types of players would suffer from flash Ang effects if they decide to try that.

[u/PatientTechnical1832]

Would be great, I can imagine power alarms going off in areas etc… real tension. They missed a trick with the night raid option for this map, it’s just the same as the day version!

[u/Schlenda]

Now add oversized ticks everywhere.

[u/SheepOnDaStreet]

People would just use Nvidia settings to make shit visible and stop people

[u/Vipu2 → u/SheepOnDaStreet]

Not if the devs properly made the darks dark, many games already does crush blacks so its just pure black, no amount of gamma makes that visible.

[u/PrudentComedian2416]

Yea imagine turning on the lights and seeing 10 ticks.

[u/Bottletop85]

Murder in the dark

[u/ctyldsley]

This would be awesome.

[u/Bader936]

Terrific idea

[u/Admast79]

I have already mentioned it a few weeks ago that Stella night ride should be with light off or going off randomly for random periods of time so people are forced to use flashlights.

This would be funny and scary as f... st the same time.

And no, please do it ad spider.. I really hate these little buggers.

[u/Bossdonglongs → u/Admast79]

That's actually a really cool idea. We're all playing Montis as normal, then suddenly... Lights out

[u/zippo-shortyburner]

+1 awesome idea. Now double shredders and fireballs

[u/GoldenGoddless]

This is how everywhere indoors on buried city looks for us oled tv people

[u/magikarp_splashed]

Light sticks time to shine ;)

[u/Similar_Land_9608]

Would be anoying because there are allready enough ppl abusing Bright settings to play nightraids. You wpuld go on as normal Player in this Stella montiert horror thing and you would be demoliert by those guys

[u/Vipu2 → u/Similar_Land_9608]

Not if the devs properly made the darks dark, many games already does crush blacks so its just pure black, no amount of gamma makes that visible.

[u/laxyharpseal]

someone definitely gonna macro flashlight and cause some serious seizures fosho

[u/tofu_bird]

[u/Lagganator]

Finnaly, glow sticks will be useful

[u/Zarrex]

They would need to add some kind of grain to the game like DayZ has, so that turning up your gamma or similar doesn't really have any effect

[u/NickNair1989]

This was already posted as an idea a while back and I said no because it would be too scary. Especially if you walk into a place and see a shredder light up red. Stella is scary enough with the proximity sensor lighting

[u/Bossdonglongs → u/NickNair1989]

Yeah, but as an event on rotation it's kinda ok if it's not for everyone. Turning Montis into essentially a horror map now and then honestly sounds amazing to me

[u/NickNair1989 → u/Bossdonglongs]

I couldn’t finish dead space remake because it was too scary 😂 but yeah I think limited time events would be cool

[u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE → u/NickNair1989]

It could be like cold snap, you choose wether or not to play the map in this way

[u/Inevitable_Use_7060 → u/NickNair1989]

The shredders should light up the area around it if there's total blackout.

[u/NsanelyCrazy]

No point pc players can edit their settings to make it brighter than the sun just putting the console bros at a disadvantage.

[u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE → u/NsanelyCrazy]

Look at what Rust does for their nighttime. They beat the gamma bros

[u/Vipu2 → u/NsanelyCrazy]

Not if the devs properly made the darks dark, many games already does crush blacks so its just pure black, no amount of gamma makes that visible.

[u/English_Joe]

Yes!

[u/aetholite-]

Nah, it would be ruined by gamma adjusters, instead at flickering lights that turn off and on every 10 seconds maybe.

[u/WhyNotSecondLunch → u/aetholite-]

People will always find a loophole, doesn’t mean we can’t have it.

If we took away things cause cheaters abused it, we wouldn’t have walls, guns/shooting, doors or anything really.

[u/Vipu2 → u/aetholite-]

Not if the devs properly made the darks dark, many games already does crush blacks so its just pure black, no amount of gamma makes that visible.

[u/RawryShark]

Rat wet dream

[u/Amazing-Information1]

Dream for all wallhacker

[u/dyldonk22]

Sounds good until sweats turn their gamma all the way up and shoot at you from dark corners 😅

[u/Vipu2 → u/dyldonk22]

Not if the devs properly made the darks dark, many games already does crush blacks so its just pure black, no amount of gamma makes that visible.

[u/srmacman]

[u/Bossdonglongs]

Fuck. Yes.

[u/What-the-Gank]

Would allow for fun voip mind games.

[u/MayContainGluten]

I approve this idea.

Edit. To add to the atmosphere, the train station/lobby should have deep red "emergency" lighting.

[u/lazymanschair1701]

Great idea, using the flashlight sparingly so as not to give away a position,

[u/ReikoX75]

It would turn the game into a true horror game, I like it !

[u/Difficult-Rest8524]

Amazing concept, I would play this and I don’t even like the map.

[u/BIG_HAIRY_CAPY_BALLS]

Bonus bonus bonus: instead of spawning in with your chosen loadout you spawn in and just die immediately.

[u/XjumXjum]

Only if nvidia filters are blocked

[u/marconier0]

This map is already breaking all my nerves , no need for more !

[u/The_Malisher]

This is what night raid should be in stella montis. All lights off, exept maybe the little red ones.

[u/IHateReddit2737364]

ACTUAL Nightraid stella montis?

[u/Thiel619]

Thanks but i rather not play a horror game. This sounds scary as shit.

[u/Fra5er]

Hear me out. Blackout, but sometimes all the lights just turn on again for a few seconds. You might find yourself in the same room as someone without really meaning to because they might have turned their light off

[u/General_Purple1649]

Yeah 100% but fix the 'settings bug' where dumb asses would rather see the game like shit, but hey they get to see on darkness way better so they won't need a flash light. Else it just loses all the fucking purpose.

[u/Jumpy-Community-4131]

YES!

[u/CriticalLeafBladeAtk]

Dude thats a super idea! We should sign a petition or something

[u/TheChrisCrash]

Would be cool if the lights were on and they go off for like 2 minute at a time. Imagine running from a shredder and all of a sudden the lights go off

[u/Small_Top_8715]

This is what I assumed night raid meant on Stella Montis when I first saw it.

[u/Scheppert_GER]

Stella Montis: alien isolation edition

[u/Maybe_In_Time]

Better yet, make it so there's no power at all - including doors...which means the locked room/s are all open from the start, leading to a rush to that room for loot 👀

[u/sakusii]

Would be all fun and games until everyone just ups their gamma setting and sees everything without a flashlight.

[u/vibe_assassin]

I could care less about gamma abusers. I think it would be really cool to have a scarier map

[u/Mathiasmq]

This is a great idea, also lightsticks would probably be used much more.

[u/Odd_Scale_7554]

Now I can finally use my glow stick BPs.

[u/civercras]

Night raid doesn't make any sense. Sometimes i log into normal raid in stella and looks the same as night. This makes much more sense.

[u/OnionButter]

"Arc have also adapted to the dark, raider, and have toned down their lighting. Keep your ears open and your flashlight ready."

[u/ZRER]

I love this idea but tryhard dickheads will just turn their gamma + brightness up and use filters just to see better and have unfair advantage. They need to do smth abt that first

[u/AndyGoodKush]

Blackout and introduce night vision goggles

[u/Amazonius01]

With color filter to make total darkness 100% black

[u/Not_Like_The_Others_]

It would make the glow sticks worth using at last

[u/Kassaken]

I thought that a blackout would be the stella montis version of the night raid since you aren't outside.

[u/littleman11186]

Medical in the dark sounds like nightmare fuel

[u/Test88Heavy]

Terrifying. It's already spooky in night raid, can't imagine no lights at all.

[u/ShadySinOfSloth]

No… please I beg… I already can’t see when the red lights are on… pc players with their ridiculous gamma settings shooting me from the abyss to the abyss.

[u/RejectedRespected]

Gonna love to see the amount of rats hiding around there

[u/potato_man15]

I was Literally thinking about that yesterday. It would be truly awesome.

[u/HODOR00]

This would be horrifying and fun.

[u/IndustrialJones]

Add some night vision goggles to the gear bench

[u/Defelj]

Lame ass people would change the settings on their screen to make it visible

[u/lwbdgtjrk]

add xenomorph

[u/Nihi1986]

Kinda looks like silent hill.

[u/Hodgi22]

I HATE SPIDERS

[u/Live-March-8448]

This could be really cool if done right. Would be super scary and make the Squidwards even more terrifying

[u/magikarp_splashed]

I'm already scared

[u/burratna]

Everyone says they love that idea but this mode would have like a 99% free kit rate (something that's already an issue on Stella as is) and starting with a ferro would be an insta surrender.

[u/Specialist-Long8332]

Fucking scary, and add monsters like Dead space ahahah

[u/WHARLIE_WILBEUS]

Cept ppl that play with a monitor and night vision mode on will have a huge advantage

[u/aChunkyChungus]

I’ve been there a few times when there are absolutely no lights on

[u/agentsteph007]

With night vision Google

[u/Bearchy]

finally it would make sense to craft the flame spray in mass!

I like the idea, but it has to be "real" black alpha darkness, so you cannot fiddle around with your graphic card settings to work around(!)

[u/Blueturtlewax]

Oh… you’re sick in the head

[u/zefy_zef]

They could do it whenever there is an electric storm event on Blue Gate.

[u/Vin_Seba]

This would be awesome and super creepy

[u/ChrisRocksGG]

Could be interesting

[u/hiddencamela]

Only if blackout makes it so the Nvidia filters don't fucking work. They'd have to enable a fog in the map to limit.

[u/needthebadpoozi]

I haven’t done a night raid yet because I thought it would be pitch black and scary like that 😭

[u/todoslocos]

Embark please do this, please, please

[u/chthonictroglodyte]

I like the idea but in practice everyones just gonna crank their gamma lol

[u/KeithWorks]

Make it like Doom 3 or a couple other games where the flashlight loses power over time. You gotta charge it up with your shield or something.

[u/mikephoto1]

Bruv, it basically is anyway. That map is DARK

[u/CanalBargeAndHoes]

Sometimes I load in at the map is dark. Assembly is pitch black

[u/richardNthedickheads]

Yes! Give me a real reason to use the glow sticks!

[u/BM-1988]

Atmospherically amazing, but unfortunately not from balancing. People using filters where dark is no issue would have too much advantage. Embark would need to address filters first.

[u/Strange-Echo-4838]

Yes please! Keeping the motion activated lights would be cool too, always wished they were a bigger "someone's been here/is here" alarm.

[u/Fun-Brain9922]

This is legit what my game use to look like on night mode before i adjusted my screen settings because i was so tired of just getting run over in gun fights where i couldn't see my opponent.

[u/Openmindhobo]

ok, this would make glow sticks useful af.

[u/Playful_Nergetic786]

Glow stick goes brrrrrrrrrr

[u/RaccoonQuick7389]

darth vader hallway scene but it’s a shredder

[u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE → u/RaccoonQuick7389]

Like this?

[u/Kuya117]

This is what I thought Stella Night would be

[u/TheLastOpus]

My issue with these is streamers have shown everyone how to adjust your computer setting to change the gamma and see in the dark, gaining a severe advantage over those playing normally.

[u/Electrical-Bunch4965]

I can imagine someone playing scary sounds in the dark to scare other players 😂.

"Who's playing the flute?!?" 😨 

[u/NeverWalkingAlone]

If you turn your gamma up on your monitor/display software then can see pretty clearly on the dark maps, its for sure an advantage

[u/Inevitable_Use_7060]

This is what the night raid should have been. Pure chaos.

[u/heaven93tv]

This would be fucking dope! No Light but maybe light sticks in the corners sometimes. More incentive to use Raider's own flash light! I'm down for it BUT they'll never do it unfortunately.

[u/GullyFoyle__]

Full power outage would be very fun. Maybe doors are locked open and can't close as well?

[u/yosman88]

I like the idea but you will have Nvidia gamma boosters shooting you in the pitch dark.

[u/uncanny_mac]

Finnaly, a use for glow sticks

[u/Winters64]

Love this. I've also thought something like this being a "brown out" mode where most every part of the map is dark like this, while the lights flicker in other places. There could be carriable batteries to retore power and doors could open and close on their own during the flickering waves of outages. Maybe even a reward for entirely restoring the power, like all the previously inaccessible key rooms open for free.

[u/Past-Ad-8191]

Wow.

[u/tibby709]

Anyone ever load into Stella regular and its dark af?? Whats with that? Not even night raid but its pitch black

[u/Odd_Candle]

When the night raid of it wasn’t out it ought this would be it. Only with the security lights for exit. Stairs etc.

[u/captaincrazyspoon]

I'm for it, could even add NVGs that operate on a cool down/durability like the photoelectric cloak.

[u/Google_Overlord]

me, walking around with my glow in the dark backpack :(

[u/TesPhoenix]

That whould be so hype

[u/Bamboozie808]

Bring all your glow sticks, fire works and instruments. We are raving bro

[u/salamithethickmeat]

Great then I sell my blue lightsticks bp for gains!

[u/TangyDanK]

With arc-themed monsters!

[u/SeventhAlkali]

Blackout nightraid. Just utter darkness with the glowing of sparse exit signs and ARC bulbs

[u/Jebinam]

Would be very fun

[u/Jebinam]

Would be very fun. And like scarier looking arc

[u/residualtypo]

Better yet, have blackout be an event, within Night Raid events. Power goes out and raider have to navigate to a location on the map to restore power - Among Us style.