Snow: distant battle background would be epic. Like an animated thing. If someone would make a background movie with soldiers fighting hell yeah!

You know, I was thinking MM, not to over complicate things, but just as Soldat has “distant battle” sounds, because of the fact that L-D will be newer and more modern for a 2d game, you could have things happening in the distance in the background – both audibly and visually. Like the occasional hovercraft zooming by – searching the ground with a large spotlight, or a mech running after some people shooting at them. Just a thought anyway. If you want that sense of gritty post-apocalyptic reality and the player feel like they are in the middle of an ongoing war – what better way than to have some live elements in the background to represent that, rather than just layers of still images of destroyed buildings and landscapes. Yeah, that would give the game a pseudo-2.5d look, but done right would balance with the gameplay and atmosphere quite nicely.