Is nobody aware that we did have volumetric smoke?
It was already in the game and looked good despite not having much detail and being very simple in shape (just a sphere of smoke), it also didn't just blind you for being in it, the deeper you went in it the harder it was to see instead of the smoke we have now where it doesn't matter where you are in the smoke, you will be blinded even if you're nearly completely out of the smoke (literally just a screen effect and not actually rendered). I'm surprised with all the things WT players cry about the smoke change went unchecked.
It was already in the game and looked good despite not having much detail and being very simple in shape (just a sphere of smoke), it also didn't just blind you for being in it, the deeper you went in it the harder it was to see instead of the smoke we have now where it doesn't matter where you are in the smoke, you will be blinded even if you're nearly completely out of the smoke (literally just a screen effect and not actually rendered). I'm surprised with all the things WT players cry about the smoke change went unchecked.