Grass shadows are gone in the latest alpha update. And vegetation looks less detailed in general now. This is quite disappointing 
actually the vegetation looks better. even your screenshot shows that. not sure about grass shadow. but in the screenshot on the right, there are shadows. look at the road. i think they just changed how it’s rendered
Looks like the shadows are rendered in a different way. They are much smoother than before, but I’m not really sure if I like them better or not.
EDIT: checked again ingame, mr_F is right, they are not smoother, it’s more like most of them are gone.
There are shadows, but only from that grass right on the edge of the road. That “edge” grass seems to be a separate model, while all other grass is generic. Shadows are not smoother than before.
The game still looks quite good, but I’d rather enable shadows from grass for maximum settings. Btw, both screens are taken with maximum settings.
Maybe the old version had an excessive unneeded contrast and looked not totally great, but it definitely looked more volumetric. The new grass is quite flat and dull. I think it is possible to find a golden middle.
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I have grass shadows everywhere. Its weird.
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Hmm, I think I’ve found the problem. Shadows are in place on Very High preset, BUT they’re gone if I also go to advanvced settings and max all distances too. Original Very High doesn’t set all distances to max.
OMG, Dan responds to my thread!) You guys rule since Mafia 1! I wish you big luck finishing this game. I wish I could help you somehow, but you didn’t respond to my letter about job, not a big deal though, I can understand that.
Yeah, it’s a bug. We have just noticed it. Messing with advanced settings breaks shadows on some objects. We had it on trees previously but some more object are still affected it seems.
We’ll fix it, thanks for reporting it!
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