NamelessCommander

Is anybody else experience eye strain? I think the lighting and bloom are a bit overtuned in Mock and Dice of the Gods. It's noticeable enough that I started using OS/Monitor in-built eye saving mode, especially when playing at night.

It drops an ugly yellowish filter all over the screen. So I'm looking for better ways to deal with the issue.

I was reading this excellent thread about features you intentionally avoid. And, it got me thinking about how I kept paring down my mod list along the years. My preferences evolved toward keeping colonies small-sized and avoiding minutiae. That resulted in plenty of mod casualties.

Another reason was RIMMSqol, the ability to make a turret shoot twice as fast on the fly means no more turret mods. It's just too damn useful and expedient to tweak values live than trudge through the workshop.

Finally, with the modlist get

And by that I mean, going out of the boundaries previously set by the trilogy maps. This manifested the most in Rostok and its adjacent area, the one with the downed helicopter where you rescued the scientist in SoC. The fact you could just follow the train tracks and leave the "map" behind, or skip the fire tunnel is somewhat mind-blowing. And by that I mean, there is a consistent primal voice in my head screaming that it should not be happening, that I was going to hit a level changer, or fall through the geometry, or that X-Ray was going to kindly send me to desktop yet again.

This is a brilliant weaponization of nostalgia and old reflexes. The new Zone is the best it's ever been; a pe