Change the time of day! Not sure why it was changed to midday by default, everything looks a lot more... well, "plain", I guess. Uninteresting!
I like old Beam, very cool. But I would prefer (graphics and physics wise) the new BeamNG Better. It’s a lot more realistic. But with modding, old BeamNG For sure. About 1 month ago, I was trying to make the d-Series from the 2015 realese of BeamNG, but later gave up.
The graphics haven't changed all that much over the years. If anything, I actually liked the older graphics more just because we had proper particle effects. Wouldn't mind ditching some DOF, light rays, nice glass cracks and reflections to get those back
Wow, that's base game? Miss that. I believe the better sounds mod also includes a thing to make the amount of particles much higher.
But I started playing Beam since 2016 before I created my forum account though... I don't think I recognized it but it would be cool if we can have the old graphics back, they look a lot cooler.
I am rather confused... the graphics on my end look almost identical to the day BeamNG got released short of things like reflections, improved models, improved textures, and what not... Before when it used to be on CryEngine3 it looked very nice, but that was super alpha stage. Obviously now we can't make that switch back as we are far too deep into Torque3D. That being said though... those really nice pictures you posted above just look like one of the Graphics Enhancer mods floating about the forums. It looks almost identical to it anyways.