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What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
This would re-add the falling snow that previously existed on surface and the old sky visuals, as well as would darken surface to an auraful level, back to how it was a few years ago~.
This is not requesting for any changes to the actual buildings / layout of surface at all.
Peruse the following clips. The first showing a beautiful and wonderful looking sky with fresh snow falling from it. I'm even sure how to explain this, it just looks absolutely wonderful and has so much more aura and visual personality than the current surface is. The sky is nicer when it is darker and (alongside the darker surface textures) looks much nicer.
https://medal.tv/games/garrys-mod/clips/nph7OjxMY4Cw0UtcG?invite=cr-MSxLSXYsMjYxNTU4Mzg
This second clip also shows a darker surface, although is missing the very nice sky visuals and falling snow. It is more so to show how combat has been done in the past with a slightly darkened surface.
https://medal.tv/games/garrys-mod/clips/nph3A2bSjVaGxzkrY?invite=cr-MSxOTEcsMjYxNTU4Mzg
Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
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Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Allow me to remind you what this suggestion is, if you have forgotten staring at the beauty of the snow:
To make sure this is as simple as possible - the dark, snow falling, starry night sky of the past (now multiple years back for some of it) looked very nice and I think bringing back such a visual would look equally as nice too.
Who doesn't like looking at wonderful things?
This would re-add the falling snow that previously existed on surface and the old sky visuals, as well as would darken surface to an auraful level, back to how it was a few years ago~.
This is not requesting for any changes to the actual buildings / layout of surface at all.
Peruse the following clips. The first showing a beautiful and wonderful looking sky with fresh snow falling from it. I'm even sure how to explain this, it just looks absolutely wonderful and has so much more aura and visual personality than the current surface is. The sky is nicer when it is darker and (alongside the darker surface textures) looks much nicer.
https://medal.tv/games/garrys-mod/clips/nph7OjxMY4Cw0UtcG?invite=cr-MSxLSXYsMjYxNTU4Mzg
This second clip also shows a darker surface, although is missing the very nice sky visuals and falling snow. It is more so to show how combat has been done in the past with a slightly darkened surface.
https://medal.tv/games/garrys-mod/clips/nph3A2bSjVaGxzkrY?invite=cr-MSxOTEcsMjYxNTU4Mzg
Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Unknown
Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
- It's just so... beautiful.
- Wow. The old falling snow and sky is genuinely just very nice to look at that whenever I see an old clip including it that it is one of the first things I notice and always go "I wish the surface still looked this nice."
- Surface RP Quality producer(hypothetical).
- Although we can never really predict these things, I think surface being light and vibrant is actually what made RPing there less interesting there, it made it just another random location rather than something that felt cool or unique.
- Surface Combat Change.
- Although something I'm unsure about, I think that a change in the visual nature of surface (even such as a simplistic one overall - without massively changing the map and formations) could re-invite people back onto surface for combat as well. We haven't had a surface that looked like this slightly older one in forever (at least after the warfund and LVS additions).
Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
- What could be a bunch of work for nothing?
- It's sad to say that this is, although very nice looking, just a visual update for surface rather than anything large such as new locations, buildings, base layouts, etc and therefore any amount of work put into this may not worth it.
- Lag?
- I have no clue how the past server performance with the snow was, at least not how it would affect the current modern server, but it's a possibility one must consider.
Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Allow me to remind you what this suggestion is, if you have forgotten staring at the beauty of the snow:
- Fresh snow falls down from the sky.
- Making the map just look nicer. The snow looked amazing and I'm not sure why it was ever removed in the first place.
- Altering the skybox? to make it into a starry night rather than a cloudy visual.
- Making it feel interesting to look up for again and fitting with the general themes of a snowing dark part of the world.
- Darkening surface slightly.
- It doesn't need to be massively darkened to where you cannot see anyone at all but just dark enough that it fits with the darkened sky and snow falling. A slightly nicer overall visual that matches itself.
To make sure this is as simple as possible - the dark, snow falling, starry night sky of the past (now multiple years back for some of it) looked very nice and I think bringing back such a visual would look equally as nice too.
Who doesn't like looking at wonderful things?
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