Seasons: Snow Depth and Accumulation?

"rudy8292;c-16490945" wrote:

"jackjack_k;c-16490938" wrote:
Honestly, I’m happy for this reason:

Realism vs Gameplay

Basically, while it’s realistic for Snow to be thick, it meant it was harder to actually play the game because you would lose objects in the snow.
It also drained FPS heavily in both The Sims 2 and 3, when all it added was some minor realism with no real advantage.

What are the pros? More realistic snow.
What are the cons? Potential lag, annoyances and reduced user experience.

Nope, scrap it.

I will however be concerned if it’s on-screen effects rather than actual rain and snow. A rain or snow filter doesn’t fly with me in 2018, and is painfully obvious.

I get what you are saying about potential lag, I do, but there are also many people playing the Sims on a high end gaming rig, and personally I had enough of the ''performance'' excuses for lower end systems. Instead of upping the quality for higher end systems by even a setting or what not, gives people with decent systems more to play with and people with older systems can just experience the same but with slight differences.

also I am hoping there are also various intensities of rain and snow. I loved Seasons in Sims 3, I mean, the weather effects in Sims 3 were so good. I just hope they have the same weather system where it's slowly clearing up and the rain/snow slowly/gradually stops etc.

I know this is just a trailer and there are probably more things to talk about on this subject, but ugh. I just want to know what we're in for.

I agree however, I wish the game could scale up or scale down according to the specs of each machine like other games can. The game appears to be tailored for the lowest end systems. I basically gave up on Sims 4 pushing my systems to the max because EA/Maxis is playing it safe.