Yeah, it uses EFX, most of our Projects do. But Getsfile doesnt like the bloom, so he turned these effects of.
You can use Normalmapping in every FPSC Version. (and a lot of additional shaders too)
We have to use EFX Mod, due to the Performance. I can have a fully lightmapped Forestscenery in EFX (The shadowfall sucked due to the Billboard plants) and it still runs with 50 FPS on my system.
The Screenshot added shows the bloom effect out of the efx (look at the lights)
The only visual enhancment I use
The older EFX Versions feature:
Water
Bloom
Refraction
Depht of Field
Motionblur
Field of View
and Parallax
Newer Version will add more effects.