Head to the countryside at night, away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, and you’ll experience a changed atmosphere.
In the new update, vivid moon rays now illuminate environments. NaturalVision’s improved sky is one feature helping keep GTA V in league with its open-world successors. “One of my goals,” Rashid says, “is to make GTA V hold up with other modern open-world games such as Red Dead Redemption 2, Watch Dogs 2, and Forza Horizon 4.” He and his three-person team do it purely out of passion. The 28-year-old Miami native has been working on NaturalVision’s latest update in his spare time for the past 12 months, having spent over three years on the project in total.
So who makes this mod, and where do they get off releasing it for free? To find out, I spoke with NaturalVision creator Razed, real name Jamal Rashid. We’re talking a remodelled sky, reworked shadows, enhanced textures, transformed lighting (both interior and exterior), and realistic window reflections, amongst plenty of other juicy additions. Scheduled to launch in December via, a massive update to the astounding (and free) NaturalVision mod will overhaul the game’s already age-defying looks. The next phase of Grand Theft Auto V’s PC glow-up is coming, like a beautiful high schooler in a teen movie taking their glasses off to reveal they were even more beautiful all along.
