Bring Back the Beta Trees

[ocean musk]

The current foliage in HN2 looks incredibly ugly (aside from the grass blades and new grass texture on the ground introduced in patch 7). The leaves on the trees look very flat and move very jankily. That is why I believe the beta foliage should come back, as it has a much higher level of detail and the leaves don't look like crap. If making all the foliage on the map Betw foliage makes the game run worse, then make trees that are far away from the player (the distance from the mayor's house to the creek Otto lives on) 2D textures. Here are some images to compare the foliage:

(The images of the town and the mayor are from the beta, and the images of the barn and Otto's house are from the full game)

Feel free to add more images of foliage from the beta and/or full game if you'd like!

[vocal gate]

I agree because the new foliage is literally the grass in used hello neighbor 1

[ember inlet]

ah yes old HE foliage

I miss the alpha foliage

[ocean musk]

Here's some more images (the ones from the full game have the full game foliage, and the render of the giant neighbor uses beta foliage)

[stable hull]

please god no dont add back beta foliage it was so ugly

[ocean musk]

bro the full game foliage looks like shit

[stable hull]

and the beta foliage looks even worse

[ember inlet]

you have a bad opinion

[stable hull]

i have a valid opinion..

[safe rover]

they both don't look very good but at least the leaves on the beta foliage looked good

[lethal anchor]

Grass- Beta<Full Game
Flowers- Beta<Full Game
Trees- Beta>Full Game

[stable hull]

I hate the beta trees with a passion

[ember inlet]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/720318918165659779/1093235047169019965/attachment-5.gif

I dont like beta foliage but it does look better than what fg has

[safe rover]

not really

[stable hull]

Yeah not really

[ember inlet]

you just said the leaves are better

[safe rover]

yeah

the leaves

and not on all of the trees

[ember inlet]

I would rather take beta foliage than what fg has

I still miss the alpha foliage

that was nice

[lethal anchor]

Oh nah lol

[safe rover]

ugly textures especially
and the trunks of the trees had awful geometry
I mean the fg tree trunks are basically cylinder but at least they don't have really bad low poly badly shaded geometry

[lethal anchor]

If we complain about it enough I think they will actually change it because they love messing with the games detail, hence the new amazing grass

[ember inlet]

honestly I just want better foliage

and more of it

[lethal anchor]

only thing about the grass is i feel it needs more variety

there should just be more foliage assets imo

[ember inlet]

the grass is weird

I like how it looks but like

[lethal anchor]

they need to place it better lol

[ember inlet]

they put it in place where it should be

[lethal anchor]

yeah lol

[ember inlet]

and dont put enough of it where it does need to be

[stable hull]

tbh id agree with this post if it wasnt just "bring back the beta trees" but instead "improve the current trees"
because really the current trees are good but they could do with some additions like roots or sth at the bottom and the leaves could definitely be improved on a bit

[lethal anchor]

The current trees look nice at the top but the trunk is terrible lol

[safe rover]

naw man gotta have everything that's old
bring back hn1 style

[stable hull]

true bring back HN1 old art

[lethal anchor]

I would cry

[stable hull]

(the fact that was an actual feedback post hurts me)

[ember inlet]

I hate current trees with a passion

[safe rover]

then idk
you have a problem

they can do some improvement to it but I strongly doubt they would replace them especially not with beta trees because why would they

[lethal anchor]

yeah

[stable hull]

yeah

[lethal anchor]

Also would it hurt to add LODs for the trees

no matter how far away you are it does not change to 2d textures

like I get the beta looked bad because of it, but still, they need to have some form of optimization

no reason that tree should be as high poly as the one right in front of me

[ocean musk]

I didn't think of that

[lethal anchor]

The game would probably have a solid 5-15fps increase

[ocean musk]

L take

[lethal anchor]

I also think they should add more background trees cause the background looks SO empty

and maybe not have them dissapear, just turn 2d

[safe rover]

you like LNS

[stable hull]

TRUE !

[ocean musk]

there needs to be more trees in general

[fallow cove]

Freezing AI - Beta> Full Game - AGW

[lethal anchor]

Hello to you too

[fallow cove]

:troII:

[fallow cove]

"Hello neighbor"

[ocean musk]

because the devs don't lie to my face and the game looks very promising

[fallow cove]

Bros blinded by nostalgia

[safe rover]

we need hn1 neighbor model in hn2

it was better

[stable hull]

We need the early prototype Neighbor model

it was peak

[safe rover]

we need devgamm presentation untextured neighbor model

[stable hull]

they should just make the whole game styled after devgamm tbh

[safe rover]

peak artstyle

[ocean musk]

Imma change the title of the post to bring back the beta trees because some of the foliage I thought was in the beta actually came from FG

[fallow cove]

They should make the game look like roblox

[ocean musk]

Bring Back the Beta Trees

[stable hull]

Better idea: they should port it TO roblox

like theyre doing with SN

[safe rover]

HN2 should be taken off stores and put into roblox

[lethal anchor]

definitely lol

[safe rover]

and HNVR should be moved from unreal to unity

[ocean musk]

okay, after a bit more digging around, I have decided that the trees are the one that need to be changed back to the beta version

[stable hull]

This will be HN2 in 2031

[fallow cove]

Yes, they should also remake HN1 on roblox

[safe rover]

wait can roblox do vr? if it can do HNVR in roblox as well

[lethal anchor]

Am I the only one who would like the clouds to be clouds lol

make tree lods and make the clouds look good

[safe rover]

whar

[lethal anchor]

easy

the clouds look horrible

[ocean musk]

I agree

[stable hull]

wh

[lethal anchor]

Like Im not asking for ultra realistic clouds, but please just make them a bit higher quality and a bit less pointy lol

[stable hull]

what

[safe rover]

???

[ocean musk]

bring back clouds from beta

[lethal anchor]

ill send a screenshot

[safe rover]

actually insane right now

the beta and fg clouds look nearly exactly the same if not the same

[stable hull]

this community is descending more into madness with each day im telling you

[lethal anchor]

what did i say lol

[stable hull]

whoa buddy be careful what you say

continued use of this word is not advertised

[lethal anchor]

😿

Anyway, what the h e l l is this

[ocean musk]

you said something bad about HN2 and the bot took action

[stable hull]

its a cloud

[safe rover]

bro really said make the clouds less pointy when it's as round as it gets

[stable hull]

true

[fallow cove]

My shit

[fallow cove]

He said "make the AI not freeze!!!"

[lethal anchor]

ok what about this lol

[stable hull]

"make it less pointy"

[lethal anchor]

lmao look i didnt know how to word that lol

[ocean musk]

to be fair it does freeze

[lethal anchor]

what ahout that lol

[safe rover]

it's a cloud?

are you literally high

[stable hull]

its a cloud

bro has never seen clouds in his life

[lethal anchor]

Its hard to describe lol

[fallow cove]

Bro went from "make the AI freeze" to "make the clouds less good"

[lethal anchor]

see the aliasing

[safe rover]

because it's bullsh*t? yeah

[lethal anchor]

cant they just make it a bit higher quality

Alright ill stop talking about clouds, this is for foliage lol

[safe rover]

yeah it's a bit grainy

on smaller cloud edges

that's literally like the only problem and it's not even that noticeable

unless you just stare at clouds for the entire length of your playtime

[lethal anchor]

Its so grainy its kinda hard not to lol

[ocean musk]

I'm gonna do a bit more looking around at foliage in HN2 beta and FG to decide if this post should be redone or not

[lethal anchor]

but yea thats a better word I guess

i run the game at medium effects so i dont gotta see that lol

[safe rover]

💀
"uhm guys the game looks bad on very low settings please fix!!!!!"

[stable hull]

HN2 Fans when the game has very low graphics on very low settings

[lethal anchor]

when you lower the effects to medium it uses 2d clouds lol

[rain dirge]

this is honestly such a hello neighbor games moment

[stable hull]

true

[fallow cove]

This is such a not moment

[lethal anchor]

They made the graphics options amazing in the game in my opinion

[ocean musk]

closing this post and replacing it with another one

[ember inlet]

k

[misty oxide]

Ok but can we take a moment to appreciate how cool that giant Peterson render is?

[ember inlet]

no

[misty oxide]

Oh what argument do you have now?

[ember inlet]

no I simply dont wanna take a moment to appreciate it

[misty oxide]

Based

[ocean musk]

I thought I closed this chat

[iron star]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[fallow cove]

Skibidi trees

[fast glen]

broccoli trees

[reef needle]

ok i think

yeah i agree with agw

[sonic furnace]

Full game trees are better, sorry

I remember first seeing them and thinking: how did I ever live with the beta trees?

[slim fox]

You’re saying it like it’s a fact, while it’s up to preference

[sonic furnace]

Who cares, of course it's my opinion, feel free to disagree.

[sonic furnace]

I'm sorry, I'm just kind of put off that you have such a big problem just because I didn't say "I think"

Like, I hope you're not trying to instigate some kind of argument

[slim fox]

No just pointing it out

That’s all

So my b if it seem aggressive

[tight steeple]

Full game trees are indeed more high quality but I think they can totally add the beta trees back for more diversity. It would be cool to have many types of trees. They can just upgrade the beta trees so the trees will look more high quality.

[sonic furnace]

Bro used elementary school tactics to come up with something we can all agree with.