Weather?

[cellinaire]

Volumetric clouds, full-fledged weather system, and battlefield smoke are all post-launch features they'll implement.

[Novice bot]

INF's are certainly going to have a fun time.

Here's to hope for thermal scopes.

[IHateMMOs]

Wouldn't it be awesome if in a sandstorm your visor got all dirty and it's harder to see where you're going? Wish you could spec your armor so that it could automatically clean it up for you.

[Kalledorn]

Imagine a guard patrolling a base wall during heavy fog, looking out and seeing nothing. He turns back to his patrol route but then hesitates. Slowly, he turns back out and looks out toward the horizon.

A shape is seen through the fog, then two, then more. He raises his weapon to his shoulder and as the fog starts to lift, a whole enemy army is seen, in formation and ready for battle.

[Arcsilver]

One thing very interesting I saw about weather effects in this video:


Go to 44:54

what is that? a dust cloud? that was cool.

[DarthGiggles]

Flying in heavy wind and snow could make air combat even more epic!!!!

[Firearms]

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

Wouldn't it be awesome if in a sandstorm your visor got all dirty and it's harder to see where you're going? Wish you could spec your armor so that it could automatically clean it up for you.

I know what you mean - But for me it makes playing quite difficult. I have to have my monitor perfectly clean, same with the windscreen on my car....I don't think it's OCD.....
Dust clouds, snow etc is cool - makes the game tense. Dirt/blood on visors winds me right up... Prolly just me tho

[cellinaire]

I also remember Higby and PS2 dev crew clearly said they don't want to squeeze it(weather system) in just for launch date. They wanna do it justice.

[Littleman]

I don't know about infs in the rain. If SOE goes for broke, infs might just show up as a clearly visible "ghosts" in heavy rain.

[opticalshadow]

Originally Posted by Littleman

I don't know about infs in the rain. If SOE goes for broke, infs might just show up as a clearly visible "ghosts" in heavy rain.

maybe, but the balence would be as simple as how much harder they are to see at night.

[SFJake]

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

Wouldn't it be awesome if in a sandstorm your visor got all dirty and it's harder to see where you're going? Wish you could spec your armor so that it could automatically clean it up for you.

Frankly having anything hinder my vision directly would annoy the living hell out of me. I despise things that aren't even created to hinder you, such as blood splat on the screen.

Please don't arbitrarily make my eyes not work just because there's some weather. The weather can make it difficult to see yes: but don't arbitrarily stick things in my screen.

Basically...

Originally Posted by Firearms

I know what you mean - But for me it makes playing quite difficult. I have to have my monitor perfectly clean, same with the windscreen on my car....I don't think it's OCD.....
Dust clouds, snow etc is cool - makes the game tense. Dirt/blood on visors winds me right up... Prolly just me tho

This. You're not alone, I can tell you that. I don't think I'm as OCD over that, but it still bothers the living hell out of me.

[Gugabalog]

Rain Spatter on a visor is not arbitrary, but I understand your point.

[opticalshadow]

Originally Posted by SFJake

Frankly having anything hinder my vision directly would annoy the living hell out of me. I despise things that aren't even created to hinder you, such as blood splat on the screen.

Please don't arbitrarily make my eyes not work just because there's some weather. The weather can make it difficult to see yes: but don't arbitrarily stick things in my screen.

Basically...



This. You're not alone, I can tell you that. I don't think I'm as OCD over that, but it still bothers the living hell out of me.

i wouldnt call it arbitrary, its quite logical. if your in a sandstorm, dust becoems a real problem. if you were in the desert wearing goggles, both the sandstorm would make it hard to see, and your goggles would cake with dust.

[TheSadhatter]

Dynamic weather would be awesome, but if they do add it I hope there is a way to track it. Sort of like a forecaster, that in fact doesn't even have to be accurate. It could make for very interesting scenarios...

[opticalshadow]

Originally Posted by TheSadhatter

Dynamic weather would be awesome, but if they do add it I hope there is a way to track it. Sort of like a forecaster, that in fact doesn't even have to be accurate. It could make for very interesting scenarios...

in the early times of PS we did have weather tracking on the main map.