Anyone notice the flowers grow (raise) and die (lower) as you approach and leave? Was this intended to be optimization? Also, why are railfans looking like they're holding cell phones when there's a classic camera stuck in their hands?
It’s how the games set up. I guess it’s part optimisation and part coding witchcraft in that things grow as you get closer and shrink as you disappear to save memory. I’m purely guessing here but most odd things you see are to optimise for consoles. Grass and weeds do it too