how to disable christmas theme

[stans]

I want to play with the default theme, without the Christmas and snow theme throughout the game, as it reduces the immersion for me... how can I do that?

[Accel]

Try change time on your PC

[RaTcHeT302]

WHY IS IT SNOWING INDOORS

[stans]

Well, now I know after joining their Discord in the middle of gameplay... and it was a very disappointing experience because it ruined the mood of the story... and now, after halfway through, I changed the date and started the game, but it made my game crash... I still don't understand what the developers were thinking when they added the Christmas theme without considering that many people haven't played the game yet and have only seen it on YouTube, and the developers thought, "Let's change everything to a Christmas theme without giving an option or informing how to turn it off for first-time players!" Then, when they buy the game, they get stuck with a theme that's completely different from the video they watched... and the horror atmosphere is diminished... For first-time players, they won't know about changing the date because it's only discussed on Steam and Discord... and even some streamers struggle asking how to turn off the snow because it's distracting... but since it's their first time, they just assume this is how the original game is. Little did they know, the snow actually isn't part of the original game

[Jerac]

I got annoyed and just refunded. Game is unplayable in that state for me, and I refuse to change PC time as this messes up plenty of stuff I use for work. Developers are sitting on millions of dollars and they can't add a single toggle in the menu? The code is there already, a time-based toggle is not any different than a menu toggle. Even most basic, not stored in settings between sessions would work. This also is not a corporation where processes are inherently slow.

But so many people complain about this and yet no action.

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

On linux it's quite easy to fake date and time for a specific program:

Set launch options
> faketime -f +15d %command%

I tested it, it does disable the Christmas theme.

On Windows, there seem to be similar programs such as run_as_date.

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

You'll need to adapt the syntax to work with it.

[Akameka]

it should go away tommorow or the next day according to what they said.

[Sneaky Hermit]

Originally posted by Gamall Wednesday Ida:

On Windows, there seem to be similar programs such as run_as_date.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

Doesn't seem to work, unfortunately.

[✞ KILLING☣☢☠MACHINE ✞]

Originally posted by Sneaky Hermit:

Originally posted by Gamall Wednesday Ida:

On Windows, there seem to be similar programs such as run_as_date.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

Doesn't seem to work, unfortunately.

What's working for me is changing the time and date in windows 3 months back

[Ash]

Hi everyone, I know the Christmas theme isn't in the game anymore, but I feel like I should share this.

I messed around in the developer thing, with the console and all that stuff, and I found something related to the Christmas and Halloween themes. If you press tilda (it's ` on your keyboard), you will see a console. Go into Redactor and find the "World" asset on the left. Expand it, and then you will see "EventDay", expand it. Then there will be either Christmas or Halloween. You can click on whatever one you don't want and deactivate it on the right.

Note, I didn't test it since I wasn't playing when the Christmas event was in the game, so I don't know if it really works. And I don't know if you can even bring up the console before completing the full story.
I just thought I should share this here in case anyone needs it in the future.

But honestly, I'm pretty sure they will add an option to disable it in settings, in the future.

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

@Ash.

I tested on Linux with

faketime -f -17d %command%
(so mer. 01 janv. 2025 11:36:24 CET)

and that activated the Christmas theme.

(For some reason faketime "2024-12-25 10:00" didn't work. I'm not sure of the exact trigger dates).

I found the EventDay, and deactivated both the Christmas entry and EventDay itself.

It had no effect on the world or the menu, and did not persist on reload.

Perhaps I should try deactivating it before loading the save, if the dev console is accessible from the menu...

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edit:

done; World does not exist from menu. The themes are not universal, for instance in the core there is Christmas but not Halloween. Deactivating both Christmas and EventDay and then loading a scene from the same session recreates / activates them.

Other things can clearly be toggled in real time from the console, like hair physics, but I think those objects just reflect "things that happened at loading time", and the toggles don't actually connect to anything.

Somebody who actually understands Unity might have more insight.

At any rate, it was fun to try :-)

[Terranaut]

Originally posted by Jerac:

Developers are sitting on millions of dollars and they can't add a single toggle in the menu?

Are those millions of dollars here, with us, in this thread?
You mean, zimbabwe dollars, right?

[Ash]

Originally posted by Gamall Wednesday Ida:

@Ash.

I tested on Linux with

faketime -f -17d %command%
(so mer. 01 janv. 2025 11:36:24 CET)

and that activated the Christmas theme.

(For some reason faketime "2024-12-25 10:00" didn't work. I'm not sure of the exact trigger dates).

I found the EventDay, and deactivated both the Christmas entry and EventDay itself.

It had no effect on the world or the menu, and did not persist on reload.

Perhaps I should try deactivating it before loading the save, if the dev console is accessible from the menu...

=============================================
edit:

done; World does not exist from menu. The themes are not universal, for instance in the core there is Christmas but not Halloween. Deactivating both Christmas and EventDay and then loading a scene from the same session recreates / activates them.

Other things can clearly be toggled in real time from the console, like hair physics, but I think those objects just reflect "things that happened at loading time", and the toggles don't actually connect to anything.

Somebody who actually understands Unity might have more insight.

At any rate, it was fun to try :-)

Hi! Thanks for testing it, didn't have time to do all that myself.
I guess the only option is to wait for an... option! In the settings.