@Yoke, i think I do not get everything you said. You can by the way always increase your gamma and brightness ingame, everyone should be able to do that (screens differ much on what brightness they display). You know that you can use HD + TrueColor right?
Removing HDR removes some light effects but thats only important to the atmosphere not quality of textures. I kept the HDR in this version cause HD reduces the oversaturation/brightness of textures already. Like former versions it also deals with the weird shader R2 implemented so you should be fine without the noHDR mod at the moment but you are of course free to use it as I feature it. When Mech_Donald has time again I will ask him to maybe create a version that can only deal with the oversaturation.