Darker and more gritty atmosphere

Imagine this game with a dark atmosphere like Call of Duty World at War and Red Orchestra 2.

Low brightness with a heavy atmosphere and whether effects like a snowstorm in Moscow, thunderstorm in berlin and Normandy, and a dust storm in Tunisia.

And add night battles, it be the first time a ww2 game has a night mode.

Also environments should be suffering from the war ruins, Berlin should be in flames and houses should be wrecked.

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in a game where lightning are an issue even to a point where sometimes you can’t even see a damn thing of the map, let alone someone in buildings, and you want to add night maps?

A, it’s not the first time games make ww2 at night.
B, no one would be able to see shit
C. it would be a bot fest since they are the only one being able to see stuff.

i don’t know…

it’s going to be an hard pass from me.
( if that still means something )

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I’d love some night maps. Dusk maps. Dawn maps. Anything atmospheric, because broad daylight gets boring.

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Fully agree with that. Also games do it wrong as normally light is reflected by nearly all surfaces but it doesn’t work in games so interiors are often pitch black and hard to see/hard to fight in.
I don’t know who finds it interesting to fight in conditions you are basically blind and cannot see things properly. Also it gives advantage to players with gaming screens that can adjust black so those people would dominate that match along bots who doesn’t care about visibility and can snipe you through dense forest day or night.

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No, please. For the same reasons Erika said above.

Normandy could actually use some random weather with occasional overcast/rainy battles. It should be tuned, though, to make sure that flying planes was always possible even with bad weather, despite being tougher.

Same with snow/sand storms respectively in Moscow and Tunisia, with the added difficulties that they could create problems with frame rate, and unlike rain, snow and sand are supposed to deposit on surfaces, so it would probably feel odd to see a snow/sand storm going on for 30 minutes, and yet the ground and houses are never covered.

Also, strong “cosmetic” wind would make ballistic look unnatural (since wins isn’t calculated).

Which campaigns do you play? Berlin IS in ruins and houses ARE wrecked. Normandy is a mix, some maps are heavily bombed while others are not; indeed Moscow and Tunisia feature mostly undamaged buildings tho.

A constant, giant scenographic fire would look cool, but it would probably kill frame rate on low spec machines (or look terribile if scaled down to minimum quality).

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Sure, I sometimes experience game nearly stalls - I have normally 80FPS but suddenly it drops down to 1 and I have total slide show for like 2-3s it happens usually once a match but if there are lots of arty spam, bombers, tanks, grenades, it is more often.

As long as the sun doesnt shine directly into the eyes of one team
It already happens sometimes and its as painful as it sounds

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is a recognized game lighting bug, needs to be fixed maybe in the next major update (7 days)

Ehm No.

The only way night maps could work is pacific campaign imo. The map can be lit by US star shells and flares, that would be part of the map like some shells in D-Day map. So you would have bright and dark parts of the map but nothing too extreme.

when the map lights up

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Doesn’t need to be night, could be very cloudy “about to rain” skies, would be great (and we would still see something) RO2 wasn’t gritty that much… But RO1 was, ALOT.

Ah. That Danzig map with overcast sky, setting was a small garrison of Germans had to sacrifice itself to buy enough time for the rest to flee the red army bulldozer. Ambiance was so great it made me look war in a new way and made me realize how horrible it is :laughing:

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Agreed,darker and more gritty atmosphere should be implemented in this game.Current Enlisted looks too colourful,if that makes any sense…

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I feel like Moscow has the best atmosphere - sometimes it’s clear day, sometimes it’s snowing. Normandy for me is the weirdest - the grass and trees almost look acid-green.