It’s always pitch black and we have to light up the entire AO with flares on every map.
We’ve got a massive military spaceship with advanced technology, orbital reconnaissance, complete air superiority, and the ability to choose literally any time of day to deploy, and command consistently chooses to send us down in the middle of the fucking night every single time. Why? Who keeps approving this? “yeah let’s deploy the marines at 2AM local time when it’s pitch black and visibility is zero.”
The beacon calls! We do not wait!
Actually, we are undergoing the same operation, so this is a one-time occurrence.
Similarly, the distress beacon suggests that the colonists may require urgent assistance and may not survive until morning.
(bro, the win rate of xenomorphs will drop to 0)
new feature; at 4 hours it is bright morning and there is no more darkness outside, it gets incrementally brighter as it gets closer.
We used to have daylight 
I still can’t believe people actually complained about this.
Anyho my head cannon is that all the stars in the sector are red or orange dwarfs with frequent flares that force marines to only operate at night/the dark side of the planet as the effect on electronics if one was to occur would be lessened (Or at least what I remember from my high school science classes from ages ago).
I once asked this on discord years ago and iirc it was head main or someone on staff told me “Because it was that way in the movie”. So yea that’s your answer ig?
You just unlocked part of my memory about this PR
Also can someone remind me why it was denied?
If they didnt want to touch surv balance they could have just left an round end daylight witch is still super cool
Just imagine taking a walk after a long round and just watch on all these corpses, xenos and marine blood, spend bullet cassings and abadoned cades in a warm daylight. Isnt it cool?
Probably because it was a straight surv buff to rushing their items unhindered really. Darkness is a very key part of drone vs surv and it gave them five minutes of it round start. If it was just the first 60 seconds, nobody had any problems with it.
how I understand it is that the dev making it got bullied by bunch of assholes who saw the thing as balance for no fucking reason at all while just making a cool feature and left
a lot of surv comes down to the first few minutes where you can grab items before and immediately after drone evo, full daylight during this moment caused shitstorms from survplayers + xenoplayers and i think when it first came out it lagged the server during sunrise / sunset?
the end round was super nice though, it just vanished so i think it was denied or what @cuberound said