The way I see it, the image quality of the city is quite unstable and changes depending on the "time of day".
DAYTIME:
While the sunrises and sunsets (both green and pink ones) look absolutely gorgeous and breath-taking, the city graphics quality significantly decreases as the green tint fades. When it's actually gone at the climax of the day (apart from the green color of some textures and the sky) and the ground intensively reflects the sunshine, it starts looking quite dull or even bad. Especially (but not only) at days with pink sky, plazas like at Mara c, Camon c or Tabor w actually start looking disgusting in my opinion.
The only day perfect day type is the one with the rain.
Some textures are more affected by this, others less. The most critical one is undoubtedly the shabby yellow plaza texture Richland is filled with, or the pedestrian ways in Richland.
Summed up, light reflection on the ground and lack of tint (which includes every kind of tint from the standard green to the pink at certain times and the individual (most orange/yellow) tints in several neighborhoods) are both negative factors against the graphics quality. So while a blinding sun reflection with a tint is still an eye-candy and tintless but gloomy still looks quite accetable, the both combined are really not a joy.
My suggestions: Make the pink sky days the only colorless days for a better contrast and tone down (or best, remove) the ground reflections, and decrease the decrease (lol) of the green tint during the others.
NIGHTTIME:
The dark green tint seems to come and go frequently. While the green tint provides the night a breath-taking look, its absence makes it a little duller, but still quite acceptable. Although in some areas of Richland, it really looks dull, so maybe keeping the tint all the time wouldn't be a bad idea.
To me, a great-looking environment is absolutely imperative for a positive game experience. I could run dumb standards all the day without getting tired during sunrise or whatever, and use tp jack out whenever I see something less enjoyable coming.
I'd really love to discuss this issue and read other's opinions about it (and eventually find out that it's all just my crappy graphic card and I should stop whining"
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