The world carries more colour while you simply watch it, and the family you follow no longer dresses like everyone else.
A resting tone for the land. The richer colour and depth that photo mode brought no longer waits for photo mode. The view you read for hours now carries a gentle grade of its own. Photo mode still lifts off from there exactly as far as it always did, and its vignette stays where it belongs — in a photograph.
The Followed stand apart. Following a household used to make its kin agree on a colour without standing out from anyone: roughly one household in seven wore the very same one. A followed family now draws from dyes of its own, so you can find them in a crowded street.
And the crowd yields while you watch. With “The Followed” open, the other households let their colour go quiet, so the ones you are watching carry it. Close the panel and the town takes its colour back.
Seven families of things stopped hiding in the ground. Plots, causeways, crops, rock, reeds, shrubs and wildflowers had never been given their place in the colour system, and some were painted almost the exact shade of the soil beneath them — a causeway's timber deck could vanish against dry ground. Every part in the game is now held to the same rule.
A full vigil now says so. Clicking to keep a vigil when you already keep as many as you may did nothing, and said nothing. It now answers: “Your vigil is full — release one to keep another.”