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[BERTANDERNY]

When in a vehicle, does it make a difference if one turns off the lights?
Other than making it darker of course 🙂
Do ai react differently to lights or is it a simply a case of "car" or "no car".
Same question with choppers? Granted you can nearly land on them in some situations anyway but, do the lights make a difference, in relation to the ai, and detection?

[Megalodon26]

I don't think it makes a difference, as far as the AI is concerned. I think it's more about your own vision, but personally, I kill the lights, and use nightvision. It just seems like the more tactically sound option, by not letting the enemy see you coming from a distance, while also allowing you to see a lot more of the surroundings, besides just what is directly in front of you.

[BERTANDERNY]

This is what I thought. I cant see a difference either. Nvm.
I tend to kill the lights aswell. I find its actually easier to see most of the time, its as if the light 'balances out' better. And of course night vision 🙂

[Kane_sg]

I think it's just a roleplay matter. And to 'alert' teammate as alternative to honking, which we can't.

[AI BLUEFOX]

Might have to test this. I'm pretty sure that when you drive into a base in an enemy vehicle at night it takes them longer to detect you.

Would need to work counter intuitively though. You're more likely to be identified as hostile if you don't have your lights on as the vehicle headlights make you harder to see.

[Frag_Maniac]

Might have to test this. I'm pretty sure that when you drive into a base in an enemy vehicle at night it takes them longer to detect you.

I've noticed that too, but I never did extensive testing on whether having the lights on or off made a difference. Sometimes I think it's better not to know or pay attention too much because it might be more immersive to assume it does, than to spend hours testing only to find it's an illusion.

I mean just drive in with lights off and NV on and feel safer. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There are much more immersion breaking things in the game than this anyway.

[AI BLUEFOX]

I've noticed that too, but I never did extensive testing on whether having the lights on or off made a difference. Sometimes I think it's better not to know or pay attention too much because it might be more immersive to assume it does, than to spend hours testing only to find it's an illusion.

I mean just drive in with lights off and NV on and feel safer. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There are much more immersion breaking things in the game than this anyway.

Yeah, but this stuff interests me, LoL. In real life I get stopped if I forget to turn my lights off!

[Frag_Maniac]

In real life I get stopped if I forget to turn my lights off!

Off or on? Where I live the clouds get so dark even in the day sometimes it's common to see people with their lights on in the middle of the day.

A few years ago I took a drive way up to a town north of the city I live in because they had a model of headphones I wanted to try. It was the time of year where daylight savings time had just ended so it's easy to forget to turn your lights on since it was barely even twilight yet. A couple cop cars drive up, one blaring his PA at me telling me to pull over. They pin me in from behind with both their cars, and one hops out with nitrile gloves on interrogating me. I hadn't even realized what it was for until he goes "People like you that drive around with your lights off cause accidents." I'm like "Really, so you know me personally now just because you saw me do it this one time at a time of year when it's common for people to forget since it's so light out?

I decided to drive way back up there to go to court to get the $100 ticket reduced. The locals I was talking to in the courtroom when I told them my story said they were pulling anyone over they could to pay for a new jail they were building. The judge finally comes out, some fat white guy with a swollen red nose with varicose all over it. I swear he looked like an alcoholic that drinks for breakfast. When I gave him my story he said, "All I can say is they (meaning the cops) don't work for me." He only reduced my ticket $20 though. With what I spent on gas driving way up there and back, I hardly saved anything. I'd been better off just avoiding the stress.

The cops in the city I live in may be hypocrites too, often times driving around in their patrol cars while eating a burger, but they merely tap their high beams at you if they see you with your lights off that time of year. Needless to say I don't go shopping in that town up north anymore, or even drive there period.

[AI BLUEFOX]

Specifically driving through a security point I meant, ; the headlights stop the guards checking you properly and it annoys them.