Skip to content

Environmental effects?

Entità Entità
in General Discussions

I propose to include environmental elements in the game mechanics. I'm not referring to heavy news, which require a robust rethinking of entire game maps, but to small gems that embellish the setting, placing tactical challenges, such as, for example:
1) in the open maps:
1A) rain (weak or beating, with or without lightnings and thunders);
1B) snowfall / hailstorm (not snow or ice on the ground, which I think will be the main theme of the new map coming for Christmas 2018, but flaky snowflakes or minute ice fragments that reduce visibility over long distances);
1C) wind (especially in the Coldwind realm);
2) in the closed maps:
2A) lifts (in future maps, which I trust will be developed on several levels);
2B) short blackouts (localized or general);
2C) random sparks of machinery and ruin of plaster from crumbling walls (I think of the Game and Crotus Prenn as ideal places).

Of course, new offerings related to these effects could be created, to give players a little power over the environment (like the Reagents about the Dark Mist).

Tagged: ACMMod

Comments

  • Blueberry Blueberry

    This please!

    Honestly the extra environmental factors could add SO much in terms of dynamic game play and immersion.

    I'd love some heavy rainfall/wind or snow/blizzard that can actually impact the killers/survivors vision or hearing. Heck there should be a lot of heavy fog as well at base.
    If we actually had a lot more sound/vision breakers that could even allow some of the pallets to be reduced since it could give survivors more chances at actually making jukes and losing the killers mid chase.

    Not having this stuff is definitely a missed opportunity.

  • PhantomMask20763 PhantomMask20763
    Yes please, let's make the trial that's supposed to feel like a nightmare....feel more like a nightmare 
  • Unit Unit
    Yes we need to differentiate each map besides jungle jims 
  • Entità Entità
    If the Community agrees, maybe the Devs will be glad to satisfy our desire! :)
  • Manta Manta
    I've always wanted something like this since the removal of the moonlight offerings
  • NMCKE NMCKE
    @Peanits Care to say what you think my amazing mod?
  • Peanits Peanits

    It would be neat. It's certainly possible, as we've seen in the Red Forest, although performance is always a concern. Too much flashy stuff going on at once is likely going to cause performance issues on lower end systems. Animating all the corn in a map so it reacts to the wind, for example, might be a little much.

    I do think it could add a bit of variety to the game though. A change of scenery can be refreshing.

  • NMCKE NMCKE
    Peanits said:

    It would be neat. It's certainly possible, as we've seen in the Red Forest, although performance is always a concern. Too much flashy stuff going on at once is likely going to cause performance issues on lower end systems. Animating all the corn in a map so it reacts to the wind, for example, might be a little much.

    I do think it could add a bit of variety to the game though. A change of scenery can be refreshing.

    I couldn't agree more, it would be nice to have some more sensory. However, the developers could introduce a render distance or have the effects take place on the client side to fix the problem.
  • Seanzu Seanzu

    @Nickenzie said:
    Peanits said:

    It would be neat. It's certainly possible, as we've seen in the Red Forest, although performance is always a concern. Too much flashy stuff going on at once is likely going to cause performance issues on lower end systems. Animating all the corn in a map so it reacts to the wind, for example, might be a little much.

    I do think it could add a bit of variety to the game though. A change of scenery can be refreshing.

    I couldn't agree more, it would be nice to have some more sensory. However, the developers could introduce a render distance or have the effects take place on the client side to fix the problem.

    Client side wouldn't help tbh, and considering how small everything is, forcing a render distance will make the game REALLY ugly and unfun, imagine a nurse coming from out of the render distance and trying to catch a survivor, she would never see them, and they would never see her, same goes for hillbilly.

  • NMCKE NMCKE
    SenzuDuck said:

    @Nickenzie said:
    Peanits said:

    It would be neat. It's certainly possible, as we've seen in the Red Forest, although performance is always a concern. Too much flashy stuff going on at once is likely going to cause performance issues on lower end systems. Animating all the corn in a map so it reacts to the wind, for example, might be a little much.

    I do think it could add a bit of variety to the game though. A change of scenery can be refreshing.

    I couldn't agree more, it would be nice to have some more sensory. However, the developers could introduce a render distance or have the effects take place on the client side to fix the problem.

    Client side wouldn't help tbh, and considering how small everything is, forcing a render distance will make the game REALLY ugly and unfun, imagine a nurse coming from out of the render distance and trying to catch a survivor, she would never see them, and they would never see her, same goes for hillbilly.

    It could also be proximity based, like you'll see all the environmental effects around you but you won't see them far far away. Again, this would be client side since everyone will be in different parts of the map.
  • Entità Entità
    @Peanits Oh, yes, let the weather be a "character" during the trial, like General Winter was during the Russia invasion. :)
  • Entità Entità
    The new graphic engine is simply divine: what better way to exploit its immense potential than to introduce random environmental effects in the various maps? These could be limited to the portion of the map visible to each player, to avoid frame rate drops.

  • ModernFable ModernFable
    I’d like it, I would.

    But anything that makes performance worse is a no go for me.
  • Entità Entità
    @ModernFable When they will release the optimization patch, the environmental effects won't cause any issue. :)
  • redsopine01 redsopine01
    Why not wait for the servers then the changes can be implemented to a system to monitor it and how it impacts the game and new offerings say killer uses a thunderstorm one or a creepy it offering for blood rain that amplifies the tr so you can't tell where they are and it negates the eyes as everything is blood red on open maps and red lights on closed ones
  • Bravo0413 Bravo0413
    redsopine01 said:
    Why not wait for the servers then the changes can be implemented to a system to monitor it and how it impacts the game and new offerings say killer uses a thunderstorm one or a creepy it offering for blood rain that amplifies the tr so you can't tell where they are and it negates the eyes as everything is blood red on open maps and red lights on closed ones
    This would dope AF tbh! 
  • redsopine01 redsopine01
    Bravo0413 said:
    redsopine01 said:
    Why not wait for the servers then the changes can be implemented to a system to monitor it and how it impacts the game and new offerings say killer uses a thunderstorm one or a creepy it offering for blood rain that amplifies the tr so you can't tell where they are and it negates the eyes as everything is blood red on open maps and red lights on closed ones
    This would dope AF tbh! 
    Ikr then add in mirror myres extra smol radius and fast stalk walking just change Halloween to jaws for the stalking power
  • Entità Entità

    @redsopine01 Blood rain?

  • redsopine01 redsopine01
    Entità said:

    @redsopine01 Blood rain?

    Yup it's a I'd because it hides your tr and the eyes and to clarify by hide I mean makes it half the range
  • Entità Entità

    @redsopine01 I accept both natural and supernatural environmental effects willingly. XD

Categories