Weather effects? Is day & night realtime or no?

[Navaron]

You know I don't know where I read this, (I'm looking now) but I think it is in like a six or nine hour cycle, with like 3 of night (maybe). I don't know, I'm looking for the link....

[Zarparchior]

For some odd reason, I remember hearing that too. That the night period was shorter than the day period.

It sounds like old information though. Might have changed by now.

[Hamma]

The game wont be real time - they had not finalized the night/day cycle when I played.

Weather was not in the game at the time either

[BLuE_ZeRO]

I'm looking forward to freak snow storms in the middle of the desert. I better see it or I'll be pretty pissed!

[Navaron]

Zarp, where the hell did we read that. I spent like 10 mins of my life trying to find that damn thread.........

[WhiteSun]

I'm going to be disappointed if weather is not in the game. That's a great environmental effect that is decent with some simple 2d sprites.

3 hour nights and 6 hour days (real time) sounds good to me. Plus it doesn't line up with 24, so night/day in PS keeps changing in RL.

Just a few ideas...

[Delos]

i think a 5 hour day would be good. 3 hours of daylight, 2 hours of night

[Duritz]

I think delos's idea is great because then if you have people who can only get on for a little while at the same time of day then they could play at night or day, but i think it would be nicer to have as much (or more) night time as day time because night assaults just make more sense when attacking a base (to obtain surprise).

I dont raelly care about weather... it's got it's pros and cons...


Pro: It adds to the game, looks nice

Con: Some/most games lag in rain/snow, or have problems with the "clipping plane"(how far you can see), when it rains & such...


if rain doesnt slow the game, I'm fine with it.. if it does slow the game, and kill all visibility.. I'd hate it ;-P

[Sandtaco]

As long as there is no fog In DF:Land Warrior you could barely see the end of your gun

[Navaron]

OOOOHHH I HATE FOG OF WAR!!! I hope this game doesn't get like that, in Sof2 the weapons aren't even useful at their full range because you can only see halfway to your target. Also, howcome all alien planets have a weather pattern Identical to Earths? Why not have the water evaporater really fast (Kinda like reverse rain) or some thing new?

[Hamma]

I didnt see much fog

[Unregistered]

All the Random maps are full of fog, and not much fun to play. The only ones with fog on the other maps that I can think of are Columbia, and Columbia 2

[Navaron]

Yeah I was talking about those large rgm ctf ones. Those are the best (if it wasn't for that damn fog). Hey hamma, did you get to play at twilight or so? Was their like a morning dew or fog on the ground? That would be pimptastic.

[Hamma]

Not that I noticed, I did play a bit during dusk/night/dawn tho