Looks like a storm is rolling in...

[The Desert Fox]

It may just be me, but I for one really miss the weather movements of the original Planet side. I know it had little to know effect on the game play itself, but the immersion level was higher to look at the map and see rolling storms throughout the continents. I enjoyed flying through them simply because it mixed up the scenery and made a base attack during a thunderstorm bad ass IMO. Anyone agree/even remember what I am talking about?

[Tikuto]

I know exactly what you mean. Exactly the visualization and immersion. That was something I liked to see perk-up a lot more in the original PlanetSide but it didn't...

[Raymac]

I thought the weather was cool too, but I sacrificed it for years in order to improve performance. Now, even though the sound and visuals could be labeled a distraction, I still think the cool factor outweighes that. My only concern for Next is the amount of lag the weather will create.

[MooK]

Agree. A million times agree. I just posted about this in the wishlist thread.

[CutterJohn]

Rainstomrs, lightningstorms, blizzards, meteor storms, fog.. i want it all.

[Bags]

Weather would be boss.

[DviddLeff]

Respawned to a base on the other side of Ish today and walked out the door into a sandstorm; was pretty sweet.

Weather adds immensely to the atmosphere (pun?) of the game. Night combat will really mix things up as well.

[Rbstr]

They definitely need to make weather have an effect on draw distances. That and make plants impossible to remove.

[wildcat140679]

I really enjoyed those weather effects. It took some time before I realised you could turn them off. Beside gaining a minor performance boost, it also removed the limited vision range some storms caused you to have, it was also then when I put one and one together why I got snipped with out me being able to see a single enemy unit through the storm.

This always made me wonder if they where removed because of performance issues (what I doubt) or because the imbalance it created over those who had it turned on versus those who had it turned off.

[Hamma]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

They definitely need to make weather have an effect on draw distances. That and make plants impossible to remove.

Signed x100

I think this is really important, having others gain advantages because they play the game in lowest detail is an unfair advantage and kind of lame imo.

[KayOneElRoy]

Originally Posted by 0Shadow0

Would you guys want weather to have an effect on gameplay other than draw distance? Say aircraft can't enter a sand storm without crashing or land vehicles have are slowed during a heavy rain storm if they aren't on a road.

I don't know whether I would like this or not but it would certainly make players have to change their tactics in certain situations.

Yes I do. Especially sandstorms wrecking aircraft. It would be like dune.

Originally Posted by Hamma

Signed x100

I think this is really important, having others gain advantages because they play the game in lowest detail is an unfair advantage and kind of lame imo.

Agreed.

[Jonny]

Need a weather reporter class now

[Robert089]

Would you guys want weather to have an effect on gameplay other than draw distance? Say aircraft can't enter a sand storm without crashing or land vehicles have are slowed during a heavy rain storm if they aren't on a road.

I don't know whether I would like this or not but it would certainly make players have to change their tactics in certain situations.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by 0Shadow0

Would you guys want weather to have an effect on gameplay other than draw distance? Say aircraft can't enter a sand storm without crashing or land vehicles have are slowed during a heavy rain storm if they aren't on a road.

I don't know whether I would like this or not but it would certainly make players have to change their tactics in certain situations.

I don't care as long as nothing RNG; IE random lightning, random missing.

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by 0Shadow0

Would you guys want weather to have an effect on gameplay other than draw distance? Say aircraft can't enter a sand storm without crashing or land vehicles have are slowed during a heavy rain storm if they aren't on a road.

I don't know whether I would like this or not but it would certainly make players have to change their tactics in certain situations.

I love flying in PS and I would love it if a huge storm would knock my reaver around in the wind. I'd still like to be able to fly through anything, but having it do more than just limit my view and get noisey would be a welcome improvement on a very cool idea.

Variables likes this add variety in a game that thrives on variety.