Hi all,
I too dislike HDR. I didn't like it in HL2 and I don't like it here.
I find it irritating and unnatural the way the ambient lighting rapidly alters depending on where you're looking. imho that doesn't add "realism" to the game, quite the opposite. In real life your eyes adjust automatically without you having to be made continually aware of it. Which is why I think BI have "overblown" the effect because as it is, you are being made continually aware of it. Its just all too intrusive.
HDR *may* work better if it were considerably more subtle than it is at the moment.
Ideally, I'd like to see an option to "tone it down" or better still "turn it off" altogether. Then, it may just get my vote.
