Complete Global Darkness

Complete Global Darkness

Down here, light is no longer a given. It's a resource, a boundary, sometimes your only protection. Where your torch dies, the submarine stops existing for your eyes, and whatever prowls the dark takes full advantage of that.

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The darkness is real

Hulls, wrecks, the world outside: no ambient light left anywhere. Without an active light source in your hands or on the wall, there is nothing to see. Nothing at all.

You're no longer a walking lantern

Your character no longer glows in the dark. No aura, no protective halo. In the dark, you're just another silhouette, as hard to spot as anything else lurking around you.

Ore and loot don't give you away anymore

Certain resources used to glow in the dark, revealing their position to anyone who knew where to look. Not anymore. What you find in the dark stays in the dark, until you light it up yourself.

A face in the dark stays a mystery

A name above someone's head only shows if that head is actually lit. A crewmate, a stranger, or worse, something wearing the shape of one: until light reveals them, you won't know who, or what, you're dealing with.

Objects stop announcing themselves

No more artificial glow on hover to point out something's there in the dark. You can still interact normally, the interaction wheel and tooltips work exactly as before, but nothing lights itself up to make things easy for you.

What hunts in the dark, hunts differently

Hostile creatures see far worse without light. Stay still in the dark and you become extremely hard to spot on sight. But don't get comfortable: silence doesn't excuse carelessness. Running, moving, making noise, all of it remains perfectly audible no matter how deep the dark around you.

What you can't see doesn't exist

No peeking through a wall or a closed door to guess what's waiting in an unlit room. Whatever lies outside your real line of sight stays invisible, and you won't know what's in there until you actually walk in.

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Keep your flashlight charged, stay close to your crew, and never forget: in the dark, you're not the only one watching.