Objectively, it was a smart and cautious decision. Snow would have altered the gameplay heavily, for example altering dynamics of car chases. In missions, enemy car paths are rigid and node based, so the player wouldn't be able to follow on slippery snowy roads, etc. As a mod though, it's heaps of fun and I love it. Reminds me of snow mods for SA in the late 2000s.
@@dudoboi They could've made it so only a certain "chapter" of the story is snowy. Mafia 2 did it, GTA V technically did it with the Prologue and Bury the Hatchet.
It's weird that apparently in the US they changed the color of the street lamps to white (if I understood correctly from other comments) in my country when we switched to LEDs the change was barely noticeable since they're the same orange color as old sodium/halogen lamps.
@@AJ-po6up USA is not that complex or caring about anything. They bought LED lights from china because it was cheap and 90% of them burn out within months. The lights are not angled at the road or have any shielding on them so when you are driving its just this huge blinding light. They also overpower the car's headlights so you can't even tell if your lights are on or off. and it fucks up your night vision.
fun fact, the "light pollution" from sodium lamps is so much less of a problem for astronomy because the wavelength of light is so pure it can easily be filtered out at that specific wavelength. But led lights cover the spectrum so the light pollution is much much worse.
@@sentonbeeblo170 I dread the day my small humble town changes everything to LED. My mainroad was halogen for many many decades but they moved to LED last year and it's a blinding mess on foggy days. Atleast they are more road centric and don't blind into the living rooms anymore.
@@JauRan123 I live on a hill and they replaced the lights on the road down below, now they bounce a ton of white hospital light into my room at night. the actual amount of light pollution depends on a lot of things, but personally the orange is so much nicer to look at
The phosphor in the LEDs near me has burned out and a bunch of them have gone purple / blue. Give me the warm golden glow.of pressure sodium all day long.
Wait you guys have white LEDs for your streets? that's weird, in my country all sodium/halogen lamps were changed to orange LEDs, yeah they're brighter but they're basically the same color as before.
Cool, I will be only 7th time with this mod. If I hadn't any games I would be like you he he, after Frostpunk (the most beautiful winter related artstyle in all videogames history) I like winter even more.
GTA 4 feels like my safe space. There’s just something calming about roaming around Liberty City - it’s a feeling no other game matches. Have a great holiday season! :)
All GTA games are like that for me. Played the story hundreds of times. Just gives a feeling of comfort. Don't want to bother learning any new games, and they can't engage me in the same way.
I love mods and games with heavy snow. As someone who lives in a place where it doesn't snow and where it's actually summer during December, stuff like this lets me experience what living in place like this must feel like and the feeling of a snowy December/Christmas.
The funny thing is, this mod is definetively much more enjoyable on a controler and its probably possible to drive with 2WD cars, its the old saying that rockstar develops their games with console in mind, as somebody who played GTA's on a console I can say by driving on a controler you can control the throttle, being gentle on the throttle gives you more grip and prevents wheel spin, I used to climb mount chilliad with luxury cars that way XD
Thats what happens when cockstar has complete monopoly and zero competition. Yoh can thank all their simps buying shark cards and all the other fools that back in the day called every possible competitor "gta clone"..
@@RedneckRedemption1 I thought they were useless full stop, i lost interest in GTA IV: TLAD within minutes because how hard bikes were to control. Only game i've played that i've not completed.
2:41 ay yo, Badger's from the Chi like me? Let's gooooo! I agree the sodium vapor lamps look way better than the LEDs we currently have, though the broken ones that shine purple are kinda rad. There are still some sodium vapor lights dotted around the city if you look for 'em.
Wait, what? You uploaded this just one day ago? Man, we're completely aligned. Got some recommendations lately of "how to fix GTA IV" in my TH-cam feed. Haven't touched the game in a good while. Came back using FusionFix etc. Played a couple of missions and had this random craving of turning the game full wintery with Christmas songs on radio etc. This video was an absolute life saver. Just gotta find out why my snow is black and what mod conflicts with my graphic settings to produce a scanline overlay effect ☠
Black snow? Sounds pretty wild, and with the scanlines it almost like something from a horror game! Hope you're able to resolve it soon and enjoy the game for Christmas! Might be worth doing a fresh reinstall, then add the rest of the mods one by one to see what happens.
@@BadgerGoodger Aye, the fresh reinstall is something I'm dreading but I see no way around it. Anyway, thanks once more and for the heartfelt reply; merry Xmas dude! 🎄
@@Y0y0Jester thats what i was thinking, maybe the enhanced snow mod is not compatible with Fusionfix and the complete edition version of the game, ive tried installing and combining the original Jumbo0 and Flash version of the mod and it works fine but it looks worse than the enhanced version :/
God I would pay to have Badger read Creepy Pastas or something. His voice is so soothing to me. I love his videos. Thank you Badger for EVERYTHING you do!
Winter is the best part of the year. If you add snow + RWD, you get a lot of fun. I have a lightweight, RWD car with an LSD, and this is a recipe for so much fun. You get slip at low and high speeds, from 5 kph to 140 kph and higher; it just doesn't know where to find grip. It also should theoretically be a good base for a bad/casual driver to learn car control, but honestly, they couldn't learn to drive properly even on a racetrack for a week straight.
I live in a place where 45 C is the average. I've never seen snow in my life. I would love to experience snow, even if it's on GTA IV. BAAAAAAADDDDGGGGERRRRR GOOOOOOOODG ER
Great mods, man, thanks for bringing them for us through the video! I've noticed that when Niko breaks the glass from the car's window with his elbow, the glass reappears right after it's broken in the cut scene. lol I wonder if there's a mod fixing that detail. Have a good one, bro, merry christmas to you and to your loved ones!
As much as I wish I could play this, I've been having serious problems downgrading my game. I've tried several methods and none have worked. Just launching the game hasn't worked, let alone with mods installed. It's such a shame. Thanks for letting people know though. Merry Christmas everybody! ❤
The way LC looks when it's snowy reminds me a lot of the outside levels in NYC in Max Payne
GTA 4 looks sooo good with mod. Not having snow was a missed opportunity with this game
Fr especially since this is NYC
Objectively, it was a smart and cautious decision. Snow would have altered the gameplay heavily, for example altering dynamics of car chases. In missions, enemy car paths are rigid and node based, so the player wouldn't be able to follow on slippery snowy roads, etc.
As a mod though, it's heaps of fun and I love it. Reminds me of snow mods for SA in the late 2000s.
@@dudoboi wasn't a problem in North Yankton? They could've scripted around it anyways and kept car chases during non snow periods.
@@craigsampson3386 sure thing it's doable, but it'd definitely require adjustments and prolong the development, no?
@@dudoboi They could've made it so only a certain "chapter" of the story is snowy. Mafia 2 did it, GTA V technically did it with the Prologue and Bury the Hatchet.
That orange lighting reminds me of childhood and going the movies with friends coming out late at night. so cool
It's weird that apparently in the US they changed the color of the street lamps to white (if I understood correctly from other comments) in my country when we switched to LEDs the change was barely noticeable since they're the same orange color as old sodium/halogen lamps.
@@AJ-po6up USA is not that complex or caring about anything. They bought LED lights from china because it was cheap and 90% of them burn out within months. The lights are not angled at the road or have any shielding on them so when you are driving its just this huge blinding light. They also overpower the car's headlights so you can't even tell if your lights are on or off. and it fucks up your night vision.
personally I can't stand the led light but I can understand it needed to be replaced
@@OzytheGamer No it did not need to be replaced. They have worked fine for 50+ years.
fun fact, the "light pollution" from sodium lamps is so much less of a problem for astronomy because the wavelength of light is so pure it can easily be filtered out at that specific wavelength. But led lights cover the spectrum so the light pollution is much much worse.
It just seems like trading white light pollution for orange, and I think the orange looks better.
@@sentonbeeblo170 I dread the day my small humble town changes everything to LED.
My mainroad was halogen for many many decades but they moved to LED last year and it's a blinding mess on foggy days. Atleast they are more road centric and don't blind into the living rooms anymore.
@@JauRan123 I live on a hill and they replaced the lights on the road down below, now they bounce a ton of white hospital light into my room at night. the actual amount of light pollution depends on a lot of things, but personally the orange is so much nicer to look at
The phosphor in the LEDs near me has burned out and a bunch of them have gone purple / blue. Give me the warm golden glow.of pressure sodium all day long.
Wait you guys have white LEDs for your streets? that's weird, in my country all sodium/halogen lamps were changed to orange LEDs, yeah they're brighter but they're basically the same color as before.
Funny I currently replay gta 4 for the 50th time
I'm on 167th
I actually replay GTA IV every winter because my I only work during the summer lol
@@ogonbio8145 Modern games are crap
@@WhytMann88 cope
Cool, I will be only 7th time with this mod. If I hadn't any games I would be like you he he, after Frostpunk (the most beautiful winter related artstyle in all videogames history) I like winter even more.
3:00 I love how Niko is in appropriate attire while Dimitri is freezing his nuts off in a regular ass suit.
😂
He is so hatable not even the cold wants him
@notfreeman1776 🤣🤣🤣
hes russian, this is regular weather for him
@@cs.s7723 Lol
This game feels like it was meant to be played with snow. It fits the story and tone much more.
I agree
GTA 4 feels like my safe space. There’s just something calming about roaming around Liberty City - it’s a feeling no other game matches.
Have a great holiday season! :)
I like to imagine that you're saying this and relaxing while running over pedestrians and being chased by the FIB in GTA IV.
are you gay or something?
Agreed, GTA 5 was never able to replicate the atmosphere and lived in feeling of GTA 4.
Bully for me
All GTA games are like that for me. Played the story hundreds of times. Just gives a feeling of comfort. Don't want to bother learning any new games, and they can't engage me in the same way.
God I wish 4 had snow, most of Niko's clothes are winter clothes already, and like you said it suits the game's mood
I love mods and games with heavy snow. As someone who lives in a place where it doesn't snow and where it's actually summer during December, stuff like this lets me experience what living in place like this must feel like and the feeling of a snowy December/Christmas.
The funny thing is, this mod is definetively much more enjoyable on a controler and its probably possible to drive with 2WD cars, its the old saying that rockstar develops their games with console in mind, as somebody who played GTA's on a console I can say by driving on a controler you can control the throttle, being gentle on the throttle gives you more grip and prevents wheel spin, I used to climb mount chilliad with luxury cars that way XD
Remembering that this is game is 16 years old and was in development since November 2004 is mind blowing
Happy holidays Badger
It gives me strong Max Payne vibes
OMG NO WAY!!! Thank you for the mention Badger!!! 💗💗💗
Add more lights to Lady Liberty.
Nice work!
🌟
I'm late to the party but congrats on getting a shout out!
Now Liberty City is truly a blood city...
Happy Christmas Badger.
i appreciate you consistently showing this game love through the years
Absolutely insane how long rockstar has milked GTA 5… if you told me in 2008 that we would only get 1 more GTA until 2025 I wouldn’t have believed you
Thats what happens when cockstar has complete monopoly and zero competition. Yoh can thank all their simps buying shark cards and all the other fools that back in the day called every possible competitor "gta clone"..
Holy shit.. I never thought of it like that, it’s nearly 20 years 💀
imagine if GTA IV was released in 2016 and the only game released by rockstar in all that time was RDR1,that's what's happening now
@@marcowulliampopirers2216 RDR2 is great an all but real ones wanted GTA 6
I love GTA 4, always whished some Christmas decorations and snow, like in division 1 which is a perfect game for wintertime too.
GTA SA and GTA IV with snow mods is soooo comfy!
Niko's beta haircut is way better than his vanilla version.
The nighttime looks beautiful with this mod, it had this night comfy feeling
FusionFix just added Snow the same way GTA:O implements it by this time of the year. Looks incredible
Imagine driving in snow in gta 4 , my bike would spin at the same place for hours 🤣
Yeah bikes are officially useless during winter
Thats a bug.
@@RedneckRedemption1 I thought they were useless full stop, i lost interest in GTA IV: TLAD within minutes because how hard bikes were to control. Only game i've played that i've not completed.
Euphoria with snow is really incredible. No other game has this level of detail with characters slipping around.
4:17 Poor Niko got bodied
Love you badger!
it pretty much became the first chapters of mafia 2
Also reminds me of Max Payne
This was just what I was looking for on Saturday. Good looks Badger!
I'd love to see more GTA IV content like this, too many people sleep on IV, modded or not, plus your voice is silk to my ears
Bro casually wearing a suit in a blizzard
After Max Payne 1 and Frostpunk that's what I really needed winter-related, thanks a lot.
You add a few 1940s cars and boom you got Mafia II.
That atmospheric orange night looks so awesome. I feel like people who like gta4 already are gonna tend to love that kind of stuff.
Love you’re videos!
Looking real festive 🎅 Great video and happy holidays, Badger.
The orange shade from the lights really brought the notalgic feel to it and real life before LEDs.
You released this, then right on Christmas, BAM, new extensive Liberty City mod drops. Here's hoping to get around to checking it out.
2:41 ay yo, Badger's from the Chi like me? Let's gooooo! I agree the sodium vapor lamps look way better than the LEDs we currently have, though the broken ones that shine purple are kinda rad. There are still some sodium vapor lights dotted around the city if you look for 'em.
3:05 I know that Dimitri is a cold killer, but dayum, no jacket??
1:34 those windscreenwipers and how the windscreen is "cleaned up" in the opposite direction to actual wipers xD
It’s a Festivus miracle! 😂❤ Happy holidays Badger. 😊
IMO GTA IV would’ve been 10x times more fun if the game was only playable in winter
What
@ wdym what!? Cant you read u f ng r ard
I appreciate the love and passion you still continously show for this timeless classic of a game after all these years. Happy holidays ❤🎉
4:15 LMFAO brutal
I grew up on gtaiv. It’s such a Seinfeld vibe being in nyc
always loved the festive vibe, and it strangely fits gta iv??? I might give it a try!
You're my favorite gta TH-camr
My boy Goodger never fails, awesome video as always
badger droped
merry christmas
when I was playing GTA IV for the first time, it was snowing outside too. So I had installed a snow mod and a snow hat for Niko, it was amazing.
This is so lovely, nice video!
That shot at 4:36 was just perfect
I'll try this mods for sure, not only due to Christmas but also because I bet the story would hit different with everything looking like a horror game
Just made my Christmas that much better
Thanks badger, youre a real one. Merry Christmas to you too.
Wait, what? You uploaded this just one day ago? Man, we're completely aligned. Got some recommendations lately of "how to fix GTA IV" in my TH-cam feed. Haven't touched the game in a good while. Came back using FusionFix etc. Played a couple of missions and had this random craving of turning the game full wintery with Christmas songs on radio etc. This video was an absolute life saver. Just gotta find out why my snow is black and what mod conflicts with my graphic settings to produce a scanline overlay effect ☠
Black snow? Sounds pretty wild, and with the scanlines it almost like something from a horror game! Hope you're able to resolve it soon and enjoy the game for Christmas! Might be worth doing a fresh reinstall, then add the rest of the mods one by one to see what happens.
@@BadgerGoodger Aye, the fresh reinstall is something I'm dreading but I see no way around it. Anyway, thanks once more and for the heartfelt reply; merry Xmas dude! 🎄
@@Y0y0Jester Did you manage to fix it ?? Ive tried it multiple times with Fusionfix and it just doesnt work, snowflakes are always black :(
@@aleksandarsiljanovic1468 Not yet, I was going to try to do a clean downgrade to 1.0.8.0 and retry today but maybe FusionFix causes incompatabilities
@@Y0y0Jester thats what i was thinking, maybe the enhanced snow mod is not compatible with Fusionfix and the complete edition version of the game, ive tried installing and combining the original Jumbo0 and Flash version of the mod and it works fine but it looks worse than the enhanced version :/
Hello from the uk 🇬🇧
This man is a goddamn icon for his work on PMR in GTA V
Best gta channel hands down
GTA IV is oddly a relaxing game to play whenever I had a bad day in the office.
Sad that this game never got a proper remaster
Omg hey lamb🦋
Nah, it's rather good.
There’s something good about this badger
even after the cold is freezing my bones and I'm walking around with every single coat on me I still won't say I like summer
this is gonna be a fun mod to use when i get my pc christmas day and FINALLY be able to run GTA 4.
Nikos huge jacket clipping through the car is hilarious.
God I would pay to have Badger read Creepy Pastas or something. His voice is so soothing to me. I love his videos. Thank you Badger for EVERYTHING you do!
HOW IS UR CHANNEL SO GOOD...BRO...
PERFECT TIMING
What a great video to watch on the 24th December 😊
this made me want to replay my favotire GTA game again... 💙
I hate snow in real life but I like snow in games
Lol basically driving in new york simulator
It's almost 40°c here and I'm watching GTA IV with snow
Badger Goodger drops are the best
Winter is the best part of the year. If you add snow + RWD, you get a lot of fun. I have a lightweight, RWD car with an LSD, and this is a recipe for so much fun. You get slip at low and high speeds, from 5 kph to 140 kph and higher; it just doesn't know where to find grip. It also should theoretically be a good base for a bad/casual driver to learn car control, but honestly, they couldn't learn to drive properly even on a racetrack for a week straight.
Very cool Video bro!
I live in a place where 45 C is the average. I've never seen snow in my life. I would love to experience snow, even if it's on GTA IV. BAAAAAAADDDDGGGGERRRRR GOOOOOOOODG ER
ah yes, forget gta6.. gta 4 is best!
Niko: "Why don't you show me around the city?"
Roman: "Fucking blizzard!"
I love the nighttime visuals in this so much that im gonna try and just use the timecyc from this just to see if it works with the original game lol.
Great mods, man, thanks for bringing them for us through the video! I've noticed that when Niko breaks the glass from the car's window with his elbow, the glass reappears right after it's broken in the cut scene. lol I wonder if there's a mod fixing that detail. Have a good one, bro, merry christmas to you and to your loved ones!
damn niko pulling up with the Canada goose
Merry Christmas 🎄
You can also install Fusion Fix which automatically applies a winter-like "texture pack" (i think) around winter time.
if there’s ever a GTA4 remake or remaster, a winter setting or dlc would be sick!
Used the original one you mentioned but this updated one looks sick. It almost looks official.
This mod is more well thought out than some of my life choices 😅
No amount of mods can save Niko from his depressed life
Install Fusion Fix and call the cheat number (YT doesn't let me write it).
Arguably the best snow mod that doesn't ruin the rest of the gameplay.
theres no particles tho
@@peopleperson Yes there are, it uses the texture from Max Payne 3
Thanks I needed an excuse to replay the best GTA
Snow in gta 4 should of just been a no brainer doesn’t even look like it’s a mod because it looks so natural and fitting
The most depressing looking landscape on a game I have ever seen in my life. I love it!
A GTA 4 snow mod that gives it a similar draw distance and vibe to the Silent Hill games? Sign me up!
As much as I wish I could play this, I've been having serious problems downgrading my game. I've tried several methods and none have worked. Just launching the game hasn't worked, let alone with mods installed. It's such a shame. Thanks for letting people know though. Merry Christmas everybody! ❤
They picked the perfect coat for Niko
GTA 4 is the greatest game ever made
Holy crap I might just make a play through of gta IV with snow, I’ve always wanted to make a let’s play of gta iv but this makes it more fun!
Merry Christmas and happy new year 🎄🙏
Gotta say the older version of the mod looks way better