Why is the snow so flat? :(

"BariSaxy;c-16493070" wrote:

"pepperjax1230;c-16492992" wrote:

"AspenSims;c-16492818" wrote:

"pepperjax1230;c-16492809" wrote:

"Moodbeamy;c-16492578" wrote:
It's not whining at all. If we're not happy with the product that's being advertised but we WANT to like it then are we not entitled to air that opinion? Don't try to shut people down for voicing their concerns. If we didn't complain then we wouldn't have toddlers and if we don't complain about this then the devs won't know how we feel about it. We want snow, ACTUAL snow; not decor. That's not asking much from a pack which is supposed to contain snow.

I don’t see this in feedback it’s in the EP section and the game isn’t out so why are you passing judgment on it when it comes out next month. Yes I consider it whining because you are never just satisfied with what EA gives you.

Yeah the pack hasn't come out yet but we're not flippin blind. We can see an important feature that has been cut from the visuals. So stop acting like we don't have a right to express our disappointment with a feature in a game we love very much. We expressed our thoughts about the ball pit and guess what? They improved it. So maybe this will help bring change. Unlike you who seems like the kind of person who takes everything someone gives them no questions asked.

The game hasn't come out so you can't judge the snow being flat over a trailer.

We totally can. It goes beyond the trailer, by the way. It's also evident in screenshots. In addition, as I have said before, the flat snow texture we've seen in the trailer and elsewhere has been the game's concept of deep snow, evidenced by snow shoveling, snowman making, snow angels, etc.

I really don't know what you have so much against people expressing concerned opinions. I might get it if there was 0% evidence over what we are saying, but actually, the evidence is overwhelmingly on our side. You telling people to not be worried/disappointed is just really off-base. What you see in the trailer is what you get. I have been a simmer for a very long time, and this has remained true all of the way through.

How delightful to see somebody who doesn't assume that there's more to come and everything will be fine.

Not that another trailer won't show us more about the pack or its gameplay - but by the time you get a trailer for an Expansion like this, it's Bug-Fixin' time and what you see is for the most part what you get. That snow is not getting any deeper. We don't even see footprints in the snow, or skate lines on the ice. They're standing on white, and that's it.

This is really a shame because the computers we're using now are so much more powerful.

I would really appreciate an explanation - was it budget or engine? I can see certain aspects about the engine of the closed world that might make it tough to simulate snow depth since you're only able to play one lot at a time, but there ought to be some way to fix it.

The ball pit was kind of a texture issue though... this would be a lot more complicated to change.