Overcast sun disc is gone. Dusk/dawn color issue remains

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I don’t know if I should congratulate or not, but Asobo finally managed to remove the infamous overcast sun disc after two years of the release. I am happy, yes, but at the same time a bit concerned if it will take another two years to get rid of this martian or fantasy RPGish coloring at overcast dusk or dawn. In real life™ overcast weather is just dull gray, unless a bit blueish or completely dark (Ask britons, if you don’t believe).

A few times in my life I can see these colors under overcast conditions (when the cloud layer is thin enough I guess). Then I crab my camera (or nowadays a phone), go out and take a ton of pictures, that really cannot capture the magic of that moment, since cameras try to compensate it with auto balancing.

Please, Asobo, be brave and make your title, that even has a word ‘simulator’ in it’s name, a bit more realistic, and don’t let me see these magic moments on every bad weather morning/evening flights anymore. Just my humble wish. Hugs.

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In addition to my original post I must mention that the direction of the sun is very hard to estimate under overcast cloud layer. Clouds are quite evenly lit above and because only scattered light is coming through the clouds, there is no significantly brighter spot in the sky. (That does not apply to thin layers of course)

The whole overcast thingy looks just like a fog layer and nothing above it. Yet that fake layer seems to absorb too much light, rendering scene too dark. It may (or may not) be technically correct amount of absorption, but when taking human eye perception into account, it does not look right. Typical overcast condition at day time is now too dark, looking more like a heavy thunderstorm situation. I bet there’s just a wrong, fake formula behind of this.