Invisible Red Reefbud Seeds / Overbearing Underwater Fog

[ripe osprey]

1. In the attached image, that 'empty' area actually has Red Reefbud Seeds planted in each square. They are next to impossible to see because the color of the seeds and the color of the ground are almost identical.

2. The intense underwater fog makes it difficult/impossible to see plants on the ground only a few squares above you (and then to the top of the screen) effectively hiding the top half of the screen. The fog is a bit too strong in this area. It works well enough while in smaller areas outside the farm, but it's just too intense while on the farm.

Steam Deck. Game version on screenshot.

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Thank you for notifying us about this, @ripe osprey!
Could you please share your current save or backup file from Winter 23 so the team can take a closer look?
Alternatively, feel free to zip your entire SaveGames folder like you did previously and share it with us.

We’ll look into it—thank you!

[ripe osprey]

The last time I did that, it screwed up my TV. When I went to the Steam desktop mode, my TV thought it was no longer a game console and started treating it like a PC. All of the Game Mode and Advanced settings are disabled. I tried everything to make it work again but I eventually had to give up and just change the Steam Deck to HDMI 2 and put my Switch on HDMI 1. Now my Switch looks bad because I can't enable Game Mode for it. I even reset the TV settings but it still thinks whatever is plugged into HDMI 1 is a PC and almost all options are disabled. I'm sorry but my TV is stupid and I really don't want to go through that again. I only have 1 more HDMI channel to use and my xbox is on that one.

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Oh no—I'm really sorry for the trouble you had while trying to find the save file.

I’ll pass this along to the team so we can try to replicate the issue on our end.
We’ll reach out if we need any more details or have updates to share.

Thanks so much for your help!

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Hello @ripe osprey! The team has looked into both points you mentioned and confirmed that they are part of the intended design for now.

You're more than welcome to leave those points in our https://discord.com/channels/623097219628662784/623123701952544797 if you'd like to share your thoughts with the team. Thank you so much for your support!

[ripe osprey]

Honest question. Am I colorblind? Can you easily see those seeds? Maybe there is something wrong with how I see color. Or maybe it's something in my TV settings. Can you see them?

[ripe osprey]

At this point I'm convinced that you can't easily see them either and I no longer think there may be something wrong with my eyes or my screen. I shared the above zoomed-in screenshot with the community and several other gamers can't see them and others say they have a difficult time seeing them unless they zoom-in even further. Those seeds are almost invisible, especially when compared to all of the other seeds in the game. Gamers can't see the seeds. I feel like I am reporting a problem with the game, not giving general feedback. I feel that it is actually a problem, not a suggestion. It is strange that the desire of the development team was to make them so hard to see. But I guess that is the actual intention. I won't say anything else about it. Sorry to bother anyone. I'll see myself out.