Could someone explain why the baked (darker areas) looks so different from the dynamic (lighter) areas in the picture? It’s the same material. The game generally looks a lot worse after disabling realtime and baking.
Are you using fully baked lights? Try switching to Mixed lights and see if the issue reproduces.
I have 1 directional mixed light in the scene. no other lights.
How is your settings for the skybox and environment? Please post a screenshot 
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You know what, never mind why baked and realtime have different results, why does baked cubes with the EXACT same settings and materials have this different results after a bake? Literally the exact same apart from scale and rotation (Image below).
They are all scale in lightmap = 1, same material, same lightmap parameters…
Something’s fishy going on. Are you able to reproduce the same issue in a small test scene? If so, it would be helpful if you could attach that scene so that we could investigate.
Im using 2018.2.2 so not sure its useful for u guys?
Upgrading is not an option since nested prefabs breaks my entire project for some reason,
2018.2.2 is a relatively old version. If possible, try upgrading to 2018.2.21f1 and see if the issue still reproduces.
Also, please try and verify that none of your meshes have inverted/negative scale transforms as that can cause issues. In addition, try baking the lighting without a skybox, and using a solid color only. If the issue no longer reproduces, there’s probably an issue with your skybox setup.
One last thing that’s worth trying is baking using higher indirect sample counts.