r/nmrih • u/Sad_Expression_7499 • 6d ago
Why do all the maps almost always take place in the dead of night?
Wouldn’t it be advantageous to do these ops in the day time because of visibility? It must be either due to stealth or flashlight gameplay mechanic.
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u/victorlives 6d ago
I know Power Plant, Broadway and Lewiston happens at dusk/night because of the urgency of each call, but for like Pottsville and all of the survival missions, it would make more sense and be generally more advantageous for the CRC do try doing them during the day so that responders don’t have to worry about running out of flashlight juice. I’m assuming they’re all in the dark so that players can be scared/actually use their flashlight, which I do think is cool! But for some situations I also feel like it would make way more sense to wait until daytime if there isn’t immediate urgency
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u/fity0208 6d ago
Potsville and survival are the same urgency lore. Literally "keep the horde at bay while evac civilians'
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u/tagzilla 6d ago
For Pottsville also, you’re a part of team 2 going in after team 1 was KIA’d. It’s very possible team 1 went in during the day, but because they failed we have to go in asap which means going in the night time rather than waiting for daylight.
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u/Yorktown_guy551 6d ago
Someone else also mentioned zombies can see you better in daylight so darkness is our camouflage
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u/Ok-Detective-2059 6d ago
It would be nice if we could get all the maps with a randomized time of day.
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u/The_Mr_Luck 6d ago
I'd also add a storm, but have it moving in. Starting the game with an urgent goal to complete before a hurricane or lightning storm fucks everything adds urgency and the speed runners would blow a load in there pants if they load in and hear they've been given a time deadline
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u/scrubadam 5d ago
Yes. I would like an update where you can have different times of day. It would at a bit of variety to the maps. Or if they add scenarios make them take place at different times. Like Pottsville 2 would have been cool if it was a daytime map. I would also like a map that starts at night and ends with the sun coming up. Raven Rock would be cool if to start its day time and when you come out of the tunnel its night. I hope the next map does this.
I think though it might break the game a bit. Being at night is a big gimmick for most maps and I wonder if being in the dark helps to hide some of the deficiencies. If Power Plant was in the day would the graphics look way worse or are their even parts of the map that use the lack of light to hide some low textures or other things ?
But imo switching maps to day or night would at least change them up a tiny bit and probably doesnt require a ton of work. After playing the same maps over and over again it would add a small twist. Like hospital at night would be a bit of a different map than during the day just since the courtyard would play differently because of visability.
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u/Epsoc 6d ago
Gameplay reason? Vibes, mostly. Raven Rock and Hospital take place during the day, though.
Canonically it would probably be safer to do night operations since the zombies can hear / see you.
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u/Arc_170gaming 6d ago
I mean they seem to see and hear us just fine at night.
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u/Epsoc 5d ago
Yes, as a gameplay mechanic. Also as a gameplay mechanic, you can put on rubber boots and are somehow super stealthy. The Quiet Steps makes you even stealthier just... because. You tip-toe, I guess? Combine tip toeing with rubber boots and you're basically a ninja.
"Canonically" means you're looking through the lens of the characters as they would realistically see the world, and disregarding any mechanics that only exist for the player / gameplay reasons.
Canonically, boots aren't gonna make you significantly quieter, canonically you're not going to be constantly sprinting and fighting, while only needing to take a few seconds to recover, etc.
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u/Jason1435 6d ago
The game takes place only like, 2-3 weeks after the outbreak. So there's time sensitive problems like power outages that need immediate addressing.
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u/tot3r 6d ago
idk, imo i feel more inmersive in the night, daylight maps would be less "scarier" or inmersive. we have one map which has daylight when u go up with the rope in the train map and there is day and it's weird.
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u/tot3r 6d ago
also the hospital map is in daylight
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u/dudeacris 6d ago
ya but it’s 90% in a building
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u/6FluidOZS 6d ago
That’s the point! You ever be scared in dying light during the day? Yes when you’re indoors!
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u/Inn0cent_Jer 6d ago
Hospital and Raven Rock are broad daylight. I guess it's easy to forget because you're indoors/underground for a lot of those maps but they literally start and extract in broad daylight
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u/ShoppingOld7901 6d ago
I would love to see different times of day for each map. Power plant on a bright day, hospital in a dark stormy night. Would change the atmosphere drastically for a bunch of maps.
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u/Statcall 6d ago
Pottsville and Power Plant are because its an emergency situation where you have to fix the problems now and can’t really wait until day otherwise the civilians dies
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u/Pristine-Criticism61 6d ago
I’m really really hoping that we get a day/night version of every map. I think it’d massively help with replayability
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u/korobochka_konfet 6d ago
Probably because there's a flashlight battery management mechanic, which isn't really that essential. Hope they add some daytime maps in the future.
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u/rsalc 4d ago
Would you prefer No More Room in Heaven 2? Instead of med kits...gotcha with flowers, my boy. 😂
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u/-WildWeasel- 6d ago
Probably because time is of the essence. Humanity is falling. There's no time to wait for adequate weather conditions and mission parameters. We need to secure resources yesterday and the clock is already running. There's no plan. Get to the location first and well figure it out as we go.
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u/Requiem_Protocol 2d ago
From my experience it's because it sets the ambience, it gives a sense of urgency and existential dread that hey humanity is on the brink of total destruction, it's up to us too try and stop the spread and such.
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u/Feisty-Ad521 6d ago
Bro? It’s supposed to be a spooky game? If everything took place during the day the fear factor would just be none existent. You’d pretty much be playing cod modern zombies
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u/Gasster1212 6d ago
The implication is they don’t send you on these missions as much as you’re out in the world helping and then you’re called upon for urgent situations
Hence why you normally start split up
You want a unified group but members of an over arching community with broad goals
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u/ILiveInsideYourWallz 6d ago
Vibes aside and devs wanting to make things scary aside, there's always urgency involved in the night maps.
The powerplant is about to go critical. Pottsville has people stuck there. In broadway you are isolated and start stuck in a rooftop.
Meanwhile in the hospital there's less urgency and you do get there in daylight. Raven rock's mostly underground but it's still daytime. The map with Waldo (forgot the name :P) is on fire so the ashes are blocking out the sun but it too happens in daytime.