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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xZOMBIEx" data-source="post: 279044" data-attributes="member: 6699">This has been my biggest issue with the game. I spend more time tweaking the light sliders trying to find a good setting, but I just can't, sometimes tables will be ok, but then others won't be, so using the the setting that is set for all tables doesn't work...One of the ways i can explain it, is if you had 3 lights over the table and the middle one is turned off, it seems like that middle part of ther table is top dark, you can't see the art that good or the writing...The bulb brightness setting must doesn't work, you can turn it all the way down and they are still bright more or less and if you turn it all the way up then it's too bright and like glares or bleeds... It's hard to explain... I think the reason for this is because they don't look like they should, if you look at the PC version you can tell it looks like a colored bulb cover over a white bulb.... On PS4 it just looks weird and doesn't look like an actual bulb like it does on the PC... Even the last gen consoles have better lighting.. The lighting on last gen consoles may not be as dynamic, but you can see the full table..Personally I could careless about the background on the outside of the table... You can have that space on the sides that shows the room and wooden floor as completely black... I think if that's what it would take to free up memory, space, or whatever so the table and the lights on the table could look as good as it does on PC and mobile then I'm sure majority of the console players will accept that and sacrifice that outside for better table and bulb lighting....Also the lighting or reflection of the ball is still too dark... It's kind of like the tables lighting where on some tables it looks fine, but others or most it's not... The silver ball looks like a matte gray color...It doesn't have that shiney metal silver look to it that it should have... The ball on Stern PBA version is the worst as far as being to dark and no way to change it or use a different one... I would say the tables for the most part on Stern PBA is much better looking lighting wise than the regular PBA version, but the ball is too dark... There are still some that is kind of hard to get looking just right, but I spend a lot less time messing with the sliders on that version versus the regular PBA version... If only wer could transfer the PBA tables to Stern PBA as well as being able to use the custom ball's or the glow balls, then that would be perfect and i definitely would be satisfied.... Of course being able to have the same physics as they are on Stern PBA as well because those physics feel and play much much better and the ball doesn't feel like a bouncy rubber ball, but that is for another thread as this is for the lighting....I think one of the main issues is that the game or original developers and maybe some of the current ones, were trying to emulate a natural look to the lighting like if it was in a darkened bar and personally, I hate that type of lighting because it's hard to see... One thing I've noticed about the mobile version is that the full table is a nice bright vibrant color throughout and it doesn't have dark areas or bright areas, it's even all the way through and that's how it should be on the console version with the option to give people to lighten or darken the playfield and then able to lighten or darken the bulbs... The current settings or sliders seem like that do both, just one will do more than the other.... Like the bulb slider will adjust the lighting for the playfield or the table as well, just not as much as it does the bulb settings and vice versa...</blockquote>

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