Lighting/Appearance changes between play mode and build

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Im running Unity 5.3.2f1 on Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite).
I have built a simple level with not much in it except a small river (using the water standard assets), a particle system (the fireworks, visible in the background of the pictures) a spotlight and a directional light.

When I start the level in Play Mode (using the Play Button in Unity) it looks like this:
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However, when I load the level from another Level (using SceneManager.LoadLevel) it looks like this:
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This happens regardless if in Editor, in a standalone debug build or in a standalone release build.
Can someone help me? Thanks in advance!

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Go to Windows → Lightning and scroll to the bottom. Uncheck Auto just before the Build button.

You can manually bake the scene tho, and use that baked data in a build.