What if Rimworld had security cameras, diplomats, and watchtowers? Surveillance Shift has released! A blockbuster sequel to Perspective Shift.

[u/misterferny]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3819508584

[u/DontShadowbanMeMate]

This new fog system looks fantastic. And FINALLY, actual raider scouts so it makes sense why they know about my colony and stuff.

[u/misterferny]

You can now have a lite more custom fog, if the hardcore blackout is not to your liking. Enjoy!

[u/Strong_Energy_4472 → u/misterferny]

Does it hide entities? A bit like fog of war in other games that shows only the terrain and nothing else after the first discovery?

[u/misterferny → u/Strong_Energy_4472]

It's a setting

[u/Tommy_Boy97 → u/misterferny]

Everytime Ferny cooks, I know we're eating good

[u/flourdilis → u/misterferny]

I dont see the custom fog setting anywhere for some reason. I have default public version and no dlc, also tried testing it without any other mods in my modlist

[u/Erandelax]

stares at binoculars

Any chance to get scopes for sniping rifles and similar long range guns?

[u/misterferny → u/Erandelax]

Will look into it, sure

[u/ret_ch_ard → u/misterferny]

I'll give you my firstborn for CE compatibility

[u/icecubeinanicecube → u/ret_ch_ard]

Omg if it's CE compatible I would use it for the watchtowers alone already. Finally vantage points for my snipers

[u/JessHorserage → u/misterferny]

In that case then, it would be interesting, others to code not you, if there was a detection system for a scoped weapon and apply binoculars function to it. Though that's definitely outside of scope.

[u/Pepeeee22]

Finally

Prison Architect

[u/hail_2_u → u/Pepeeee22]

Need guard dog to sniff trace

[u/Vivalas → u/Pepeeee22]

We went full circle

[u/DMercenary → u/Pepeeee22]

Rim Prison Architect.

Rimworld Architect.

... Gotta workshop it.

[u/Iambecomelegend → u/Pepeeee22]

Throw in some Anomoly and we've got Among Us in Rimworld.

[u/AMasonJar]

Love the scouting system, needed something like this for a looong time. 

The fog looks cool too but if there's no "previously explored" fog then it's gonna probably feel cramped and clumsy real fast... I remember in SC2 that's a whole ass modifier you could roll and it feels a bit like losing a limb or a part of your brain, lol. Makes planning defenses or building structures a big pain.

[u/misterferny → u/AMasonJar]

Wrapping on custom fog settings now (Edit: Out now)

[u/K4Unl → u/misterferny]

Amazing, i too wanted to see something like old Red Alert, where you had a fog of war completely black where you haven't discovered yet, and a darkened map when you have discovered, but the enemies(or animals) didn't render when you weren't looking at them. I think that would be the greatest here.

[u/Happy_Little_Fish → u/K4Unl]

there have been a few mods that do this already but they keep getting abandoned. I wish it was vanilla because it makes raids far more interesting.

[u/Miserable_Warthog_42 → u/Happy_Little_Fish]

Oh ya. Lone pawn walk out to get some berries then BANG is down with a headset and their part of the map greys out. Panic mode sets in!!!

[u/stonhinge → u/Happy_Little_Fish]

I would just like it for weather effects. Anything that reduces shooting accuracy should also decrease visibility. Sandstorms, blizzards, torrential/foggy rain, and others. All should reduce visibility.

[u/Pickolas_the_Man]

Excellent mod. If I could make a couple of suggestions

1. Proximity alarms that ping your walkie talkie or something to have a guard investigate or begin monitoring job if no one is currently monitoring
2. Review camera footage to reveal last known location. I dunno how that could be implemented but I feel like it could be extremely cool to have when camera angles are limited
3. Mood debuff for surveillance with ideological caveats. Otherwise I feel like your best bet is to absolutely flock camera it up
4. Limits on how many cameras a surveillance station can view
5. This is more of a question, how does this do with mental breaks and prison escapes? It would be cool to find something broken from a mental break and have to judge who was responsible if it wasn’t seen
6. Bionic implants for interfacing with surveillance feed and communication
7. Something psycast related. Cast all seeing eye and you can see through everyone’s eyes or something. Disturbance in the force when you’re meditating.

If any of these are actually already implemented I apologize, I’m only going off this graphic. Anyway in its current state this mode is complete so thank you once again Ferny for your service

Edit for one more: Mechanoids specifically for surveillance and alerts, or Mechanators get constant visual on what their mechanoids are seeing

[u/Desometrics → u/Pickolas_the_Man]

All incredible suggestions! I especially love the Psycaster one.

Alarm traps in general would be very cool. Trip wire bell alarms maybe?

[u/zdavolvayutstsa → u/Desometrics]

Tripflares do exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripflare  

IEDs could also reveal enemies. 

[u/RansomXenom]

Does fog of war also affect the AI too?

[u/Moonlight_0wl]

I genuinly love the patrol ideas. People who are just there around who only have a good fighting skill no longer become useless on my colony

[u/TASTE_OF_A_LIAR]

Oh my god. It's peak

[u/TheyAreTiredOfMe]

Wow a replacement for CAI's fog of war. I love you.

[u/Haknoes]

How does this impact mood events? If nobody saw a pawn butcher a human, will they be sad about it?

[u/StahlPanther]

This will be awesome in an anomaly or horror run

[u/AccomplishedBid8801]

It seems that mods for the fog of war have a significant impact on TPS.

[u/GethKGelior]

The Mechanoids act a bit quirky at night

[u/Formal_Overall]

I've been using CAI + Fog of War alongside Post Office to hide threat letters. I'd love it if instead I could have a fog of war, but have the threat letter only arrive when my colonists actually encounter the raid or infestation or whatever. So this sounds like exactly what I'd been hoping for!

It sounds like that aspect of things only works if you're using Perspective Shift, though? Am I misreading that?

[u/Temporary-Border9087]

Nice mod but does the binocular of your mod Will conflict with Combat extended binocular ? Or they Will do the same thing ?

[u/Sargent_Caboose]

Based

[u/Incorro]

All fun and games until you go out for some farming and come back to your whole colony killed in a drop pod raid.

[u/Oii2D]

Nice!

I have been using mod like back in 1.5, but now all fog of war mods are feel like heavily outdated and lacking of features and customization

Great job as always, would play around it in 1.7

[u/Kurnath]

Ferny is insane in the best possible way

[u/Itchy-Audience134]

Does it really works well without any other mods from Progression, and without perspective shift ?

As anyone tried?

[u/Occulply]

Now I can surveil my human centipede, as Michel Foucault intended.

[u/zdavolvayutstsa]

FoV could be expanded to represent people turning their heads. FoV could also change depending on job to represent people looking around or focusing. 

[u/Paracelsus125]

Will revealed tiles stay revealed / only getting updated when looked at or go fully dark when not looked at ?

[u/misterferny → u/Paracelsus125]

Customizable

[u/GrilledPortatoe]

Nice, it's basically the guard+patrol mod, real fog of war mod, and CAI5000's AI+fog of war mod all packed into 1 with some additional features. Probably gonna give this one a try.

[u/Charon260486]

Fog system seems neat but how its works without perspective shift? All this communications and so on

[u/K4Unl]

Well.. I know what i'm gonna do this weekend. Just checking, do i need perspective shift too?

[u/misterferny → u/K4Unl]

Nah

[u/DontShadowbanMeMate → u/K4Unl]

This mod is so peak with Perspective Shift though; highly recommend trying it out just to give it a taste!

[u/Stainless-Bacon]

If there is fog of war, there needs to be windows

[u/MrXuiryus]

Honey...come quick, they put flock in my murder simulator...

Seriously though this looks awesome and looks to have been a ton of work and had so much effort put into it. I'll gladly try this out next time I feel like binging Rimworld for awhile.

[u/Corporal_KOPS]

I love the patrol and guard ideas.

[u/Grand-Cauliflower488]

I used to have 5 different mods to achieve similar thing

[u/HaskelOneL]

as someone with a flare gun mod installed it would be really cool if those could be used as a way to alert threats too

[u/misterferny → u/HaskelOneL]

Hmm good idea

[u/Candid_Dingo_4233]

This sounds very interesting for a Metal Gear themed run. I wonder how it would play with World Domination 2.0

[u/im-just-here-to-nut]

Looks awesome,

[u/Wadaly]

Gonna try once 1.7 is out

[u/Unique-Egg-461]

this is cool. their is a fog of war mod i use but this is way more in depth.

Time to dust off naked brutality play through on a ferealisk infested jungle + this mod + no notifications mod.

cuz im a glutton for punishment

[u/siggelarss10]

i always wanted a fog of war mod but all the ones were kinda eh in my opinion, this is so good i love this thank you so so sosoososos much

[u/Kellbourne]

But, I play video games to escape reality...

[u/wasawho]

Now this is good mod without Ai

[u/Joltie]

I have thought multiple times about making this mod. Congrats!

Is there any change in default raid sizes?

[u/Smulpaapde2de]

So.... When do we get Palantir?

[u/BlitzingBerlin]

Interesting. So it works similarly to the old 1.5 watchtower mods?

Oh and 1.7 compatibility?