• • New option: Brighter nights. Lets the camera brighten dark scenes further, so nights are no longer pitch black. Daylight stays the same.
• • Lingering gas and spore clouds (gas mines, gas grenades, spore spewers) don't show while No fog is ticked. The game draws them together with the fog, so they can't be kept apart. Untick No fog if you need to see them.

• • Rain and snow falling right around you are now hidden for everyone. Before, the game's own settings file could switch them back on.
• • No rain and snow now also hides the small drifting mist particles near you and in the distance.