Hey guys,
Need some pieces of advice here. I d like to find a way to no longer have my screen white when flashbanged but darker. The white screen is just eyes-killing and a plain dumbass idea.
Has anyone of you found a way to do it, and give me some solutions here?
Also, no idea if this thread should be in the guide section since there is no solutions yet.
Thanks and cheers
Don’t think you can change it. That doesn’t seem like something you can change in a game like this.
I have heard some people managed to do smtg about it, at least having it greyer. And if not possible, then, that’s a call to Dev to do something a bit smarter. I wonder how many latent epileptic passed away this week with this merc rotation
The whole point of a flash bang is to produce a blinding flash of light and sound to stun the enemy.
You can probably play around with your monitors brightness and contrast if you want to dim the flash down so it’s easier on the eyes.
To get blind while gaming? not sure. The main point of flash is to prevent you to see. Now, that you see smtg white or black, that’s the same, except that black is less aggressive to your eyes.
I mean, anyway, you still see objectives and teammates, so that’s not really an effective flash anyway.
I tried the monitor brightness since quite long already, but I can only decrease it by 25% with is still not great. And the contrast with before and meanwhile being flashed is still there.
I do not enjoy hurting my eyes either, confused as to why anyone thinks this is fine. Loss of vision is enough, I don’t need to be physically flashed.
Tbh, I highly doubt this is possible in any way. Changing colours would mean you can make it transparent.
If im not msitaken it was possible at some point, but then they fixed it due to the fact that it can be exploited by making those effect invisible, eg no effect is produced. There will always be plenty of wannbepro losers who will exploit such loopholes.
if the white is killing your eyes, then you simply have your monitor brightness up too high, which isn’t a good idea.
when setting up a monitor it is always good to calibrate it while displaying something mainly white and adjusting it to a level that is easy on the eye.
I use an Asus PG278Q ROG Swift 27 gaming monitor, i have the brightness down to 50% some people even go down to 40%. but i can still clearly see a lot of depth in the colour and anything bright is still bright enough, while saving my eyes.
The flashbangs are no an issue for me, apart from the lack of in game visuals XD
Try playing in a lit room? Lower your monitors brightness and maybe get flux to make your screen a warmer color. Flashes are suppose to be blinding…come on balloon man merc only has one adbantage. Don’t take this away from balloon merc man 
When you play mostly at night, with just your monitor as the only source of light in your room, there is no monitor calibration that will make an instantly pure white whole screen hurt less your eyes.
Personally my monitor brightness is already at minimum.
Making it toward black instead of white, won’t change the concussion grenade purpose.
If they don’t make accessible the Alpha channel for the concussion grenade color, it can’t be transparent.
Flashes in a game, are suppose to blind in the game. I don’t like to be physically blinded that much.
The same happen with CSGO, but I do not play that game so I don’t know if it was ever asked there.
[quote=“flease;127028”]When you play mostly at night, with just your monitor as the only source of light in your room, there is no monitor calibration that will make an instantly pure white whole screen hurt less your eyes.
Personally my monitor brightness is already at minimum.
Making it toward black instead of white, won’t change the concussion grenade purpose.
If they don’t make accessible the Alpha channel for the concussion grenade color, it can’t be transparent.
Flashes in a game, are suppose to blind in the game. I don’t like to be physically blinded that much.
The same happen with CSGO, but I do not play that game so I don’t know if it was ever asked there.[/quote]
You know it’s pretty bad for your eyes to play without another light source at night.
Agreed with that last point with Jostabeere, but flash would definitely not lose it’s purpose if it made you unable to see with black / grey blur either. After all, idea is to block your vision and that would do just fine.
That Alpha channel locking sounds at the start completely doable and nice trick @flease ! Hope some devs see this, @stayfreshshoe @RazielWarmonic maybbeh? 
Or just two colors accessible, black and white, hardcoded. Nothing you can change via the config file except mentioning black or white.
An maybe, while you back out things, you could black out objectives marker and so on, that would be the real effect of a flashbang.
I’m trying to understand why people list every possible solution to a flashing white light on your monitor, from brightness to light sources, instead of “the screen can turn completely orange and achieve the same effect; no vision”.