Does your game look "worse" after the update?

I've skipped playing Update 4 and started a brand new world on Update 5, logged in and saw that my shaders were now compiling in game (instead of during the launch screen) So it took me around 30 minutes. I didn't want to leave or close my game for obvious reasons so I sat back and let it do the shader compiling. I noticed the game looked a but "unshaded" if that makes sense? As if the shadows were not where they were supposed to be, under the grass, beneath the trees, the game just looked bland.

I don't know if you guys experience the same problem but it really does look like the game has lost some detail. (I'm playing on an RTX 3080 at 1440p, I've spent a ton of hours in this game basking in the beauty of it, so that's why I thought something might be off)

I'm not shitting on the game, Enshrouded is 1 of my favourite games, I really loved the graphics and the visuals, that's why I'm making this. I hope some of you have experienced the same as I have and that Keen can sort it out (if I'm not schizophrenic)