One crucial element missed by Rockstar and the developer of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy-Definitive Edition, Grove Street Games, was the fog that permeated the city of Los Santos. It added an ambiance that gave Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas personality and also helped cover up the map so things looked good even though the draw distance wasn't so great. As part of today's update for GTA Trilogy, an option to add "Ground Haze" has cropped up and the result has made many fans happy, even after some modders added the fog back in to GTA Trilogy themselves.

While it is difficult to say if the fog makes a difference while on the street, screenshots show players taking C.J. up onto building rooftops to check out the new fog effect Grove Street Games has implemented to lower areas of the map. The change is drastic and fans have noticed that this new fog layer not only looks better than the original game but many of the mods that have come after it. Mainly, the exclusion of the fog had created an increased draw distance problem making the map seem tiny and the game look worse overall. Many players were vocal about this change when GTA Trilogy released a couple weeks ago saying that Rockstar and Grove Street Games had butchered a crucial element of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

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The added "Ground Haze" option comes to GTA: Trilogy as part of a major update for all 3 titles in the package that fixes numerous bugs across the board. In addition to overhauling the rain across the collection, the update gives players stability improvements, fixed mispellings and improved resolution on small items, a plethora of general mission bugs (characters not responding or getting caught on environment objects, odd failed mission states, etc.),and much more. Grove Street Games even added a cinematic mode to further bring the collection up to modern GTA titles.

With over 100 fixed bugs in this update in just a couple weeks, Rockstar and Grove Street Games wasted no time in getting right to work on updates for the GTA Trilogy. Hopefully this will help garner more enthusiasm for the trilogy through word-of-mouth. However, it should be noted that this update does not include the Nintendo Switch version of the game.

Something like fog may seem trivial to some or even to the developers, but the fan outcry for its disappearance shows just how important effects like that can be in gaming. While an increased draw distance is normally a positive, here it made the game look ugly and smaller, failing to preserve what people loved about the original. That people still recall the fog's impact on them almost 20 years later is a testament to just how much an effect Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had not just on the industry as a whole but its fans as well.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy-Definitive Edition is available now on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch.

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