Guild Wars 2

Except, as i have already indicated, that is NOT what this does in the game. Not as far as I can see anyway. The game already does what you describe, whether “Light Adaptation” is turned on or off. In fact, the effect is WORSE with LA turned ON in certain circumstances.

To go into more detail. I am standing in front of the entrance of “The Shattered Keep” in Sparkfly. With LA turned OFF the transition effect is exactly the same as with it ON when entering the keep. Except, with it OFF there is a heightened contrast between dark and light throughout the entire scene, meaning that the actual effect is slightly more pronounced to my eyes.

Thus, I am no closer to understanding what this is supposed to do.

You would think that is what it does by the tooltip, however I have tested it and it does that anyway, with the setting enabled or not. Makes no difference.

Is it possible for someone to explain what “Light Adaptation” actually does? I have played around with it, but from my point of view all it does is lessen the contrast, and then not even always.