[2022] I'm not too impressed with the new lighting...

Got the news for you, then! Farm is being reworked and Dealership is getting a nice juicy overhaul too.

Something worth keeping in mind is that a lot of the dark levels were dark because we had to rush for an Early Access release. Didn't have time with the small team we had in December 2021 to apply art to all the levels we needed to. So night took over. Sometimes it was creatively driven, such as Farm being made night so players could have a "Sicario tunnels" level. That's now having its role filled with Coyote, coming in an update next year.

SWAT truck loading does need some love I'll agree. That said, it'll also likely be replaced with something else soon.

The suspect shadows is an odd one, it's because now we draw contact volumetric shadows for characters, which looks great when you're not right below them. This can be improved!

Ultimately the new lighting system allows for an easier time for us and great parity between levels that are built with the lighting. It's a much smaller pain in the ass to light new maps now. Existing ones however need to get a lot of extra love as a result (see port and the busted red dot sights). All in good time, we do these things with further goals in mind, but we aren't able to hold off on new lighting systems and release new maps, for example. They're married together.