I really looked for a topic about this issue here, and i finally found it x)
Indeed, i got this problem too, even in game it's really dark with HDR. And i wonder about the HDR settings, as much the contrast we see the difference (even if the game is still too dark), as the brightness does not change anything. Is it normal ?
Yeah the same thing is happing to me.I'm on Xbox one X with a LG 4k tv and the game darkens up like crazy and it doesn't need to be in a cut scene.I can be just standing there in a room. It could be bright and you see things clearly and all i have to do is turn the camera a little bit and everything gets darker.
Yes gameplay IS affected as well in ME2 and ME3 to a lesser extent. I play on PC in SDR and the blacks are crushed in many areas with lots of lost details. The issue comes from the DephtOfField shader which has a too low black entry point.
It could be an easy tweak but we cannot modify the shader files ourselves because that makes the game crash. Even adding single a character to a comment line and saving does it (probably because of copy protection). And reshade is inefficient because the problem comes directly from the engine.
The only workaround at the moment is disabling depth of field. But you loose so much of the color grading and art direction that its not worth it.
Please Bioware, do something or at least give us the possibility to do it ourselves.
