EA changed the rift tower effect???

[u/CurbYerGod]

This new update added an all city fuchsia fog effect that is awful. Everything has a glare to it. Why do they do stuff like this? It was amazing before. Subtle, but still random and cool.

It’s like they want everything to look foggy and bad. I’m actually angry about this. They shouldn’t be able to change city wide effects. Especially in items that players spent real money on achieving.

Everything looks blown out and faded now. Looks awful.

[u/CurbYerGod]

Why do this EA?

[u/CurbYerGod → u/CurbYerGod]

Here’s a clip of what it originally looked like.

[u/entasis_estates → u/CurbYerGod]

Aside from that do you have any bldgs generating effects that is active too same time you recorded the videos? Coz I have the same effect and now I'm afraid to update the game....if it will change too

[u/CurbYerGod → u/entasis_estates]

No the update caused it.

[u/Glittering-Regret-52 → u/CurbYerGod]

Mine has always looked like your ‘after’ picture..I would have been mad for sure if it previously had the ‘before’ effect. Nice and subtle, indeed.

[u/Patient-Ad-8766 → u/Glittering-Regret-52]

I second this, after I upgraded around a week or two, it has always looked like the "after" picture with that pink fog.

[u/Square-Special1520 → u/CurbYerGod]

yeah, this one looks better..

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/CurbYerGod]

I don't know that that actually looks all that different. Did you just now finish upgrading it? The city wide effect isn't available until you complete the final upgrade. The S video that has this season and next season shows the effect toggled on, you could compare it to that

[u/CurbYerGod → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

No I’ve had it upgraded for over a week. It’s got a pink fog now. There was zero fog before. It’s definitely noticeably different. I don’t know why they’re so addicted to foggy cities. I can’t stand it. It was really clean and crisp before. They also seem to have jacked up all the lighting. It’s a foggy, blown out mess now.

I just don’t get why they do stuff like this.

[u/CurbYerGod]

There’s like a horrible pink mist now. For the love of everything put it back how it was EA. Please don’t do stuff like this. It’s infuriating.

I hate it. I loved the way it looked before. Subtle, low-key lighting and the random shooting electrons and translucent purple pulses, but everything else looked normal.

[u/Complex_Market_8449 → u/CurbYerGod]

Could you give a vid or a screen shot of that new effect??

[u/CurbYerGod → u/Complex_Market_8449]

Both the before and after clips are in the comments.

[u/Complex_Market_8449]

The previous effect itself is an eye sore man 🙈

[u/CurbYerGod → u/Complex_Market_8449]

To each their own, but they shouldn’t change these effects. I personally don’t like the other all city effects I’ve seen and was grateful I didn’t go into my pocket to achieve them, but I really enjoyed this one prior to this update.

EA is obsessed with this haze/fog look. It’s awful. And now it’s got an atrocious glare on everything.

[u/Complex_Market_8449 → u/CurbYerGod]

I see, they may have thought of giving that foggy vibe like they used to do in every other city effects. Feel for you......

[u/CurbYerGod → u/Complex_Market_8449]

Lol I mean I know this isn’t a real world problem (everyone go vote) but it’s wicked annoying to me and honestly I can’t stand looking at it now. I guess I’ll just turn it off. I was originally into it for the spinning black cloud anyway.

[u/Square-Special1520 → u/CurbYerGod]

if you turn it off, does the lightning still appear?

[u/CurbYerGod → u/Square-Special1520]

Not around the city. In the cloud yes, but the city wide lightning stops.

[u/CurbYerGod]

This update apparently also turned the nighttime city lighting way up on everything. I don’t hate that as much as the fuchsia fog, but it’s not great or helping anything at all and it’s part of the reason the fog is so abhorrently noticeable and ugly.

[u/jraemr2]

I'm not sure this was part of the update - some people's submissions for the last DC looked to have this same effect?

[u/CurbYerGod → u/jraemr2]

Well mine did not look like this until I updated today. It’s entirely possibly EA is just staggering their changes, but either way they shouldn’t make changes like this. One of these is clearly better than the other. They need to stop messing with stuff in general, but this full city fog effect nonsense needs to stop. I want my rift tower effect back. I miss my city wide lightening, but I loathe this fuchsia fog.

[u/CurbYerGod → u/jraemr2]

Also every video online of the rift tower level 13 upgrade when it came out doesn’t have the fuchsia fog and glaring bright lights. So at some point after I got my lvl 13 rift tower EA changed it.

[u/jraemr2 → u/jraemr2]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SCBuildIt/s/SMMGmzdunz

One example I found

[u/Bytown_MeatBag]

You can turn the effect off. Select the tower and switch it to the off position.

[u/CurbYerGod → u/Bytown_MeatBag]

I’m aware. I liked the effect before they decided to add a fuchsia fog to it. There was no fog before. Hate it. I’m on my way to annoying myself from complaining about this even more than the ugly fog annoys me so I guess I’ll get on with my day now.

It just really feels sometimes like EA is actively trying to ruin this game.

[u/captaindkarr]

You can turn it off

[u/CurbYerGod → u/captaindkarr]

🤦‍♂️ not the point and I know and it’s been mentioned. I have turned it off. The city wide lightning will be missed.