Weather Effects Toggle

I agree. We need weather toggles. My PC suffers from dust storms. XI had this part right.

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Originally Posted by Xmbei

I think what he means by weather will have major impressions in the future is...

Sandstorm is occuring in Thanalan, and there is a large scale besiege-like event happens with empire/beastman tribes marching to the city and they are using the weather to cover their movements. Such so that you can not see them in the feild/their number's in a distance and the movement patterns they are using to come to the city and you have to run around "blind" to find them. I could be wrong, definately speculating. I think that is what they mean by weather will be very important in the future. If you could just turn off the weather you would see people going, "Oh I turned off the weather effects and they are flanking us from the west!!! Everyone go west, we need to stop them before they reach the city!!!"

Now if my instance is the case.... I don't see why "normal weather effects" cant be turned off, and when an event like this goes on it over rides the toggle for the time of the event... but I would like my idea for what he meant, could you imagine a siege is about to happen you are running through Thanalan in the sand storm and a Cerberus like monster rears it's head out of the sand storm at you and attacks but you couldn't see it 50 steps before but at that point it has aggroed you and you have to run away, or die a warrior's death!

EDIT: also Zenaku.... recently your posts have started giving me migrane's like you post full of rage mindset and not actually think about what you are posting.... just a bunch of non thought out hate.... not saying some is not needed with the things going on... but you just have become super bitter before things have been resolved....

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Very elaborate guess, but wouldn't matter with the weather effect toggled off. In FFXI, when you toggled off weather effects and there were dust storms the orange murky fog was still displayed. So, if that were the case, they'd still be hidden.

I think this has more to do with a translation error in the question presented to the developers. Actually, it is obvious, being that the answer Yoshida gave had not very much to do with the question and didn't answer what was actually being asked.

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Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang

You don't need the weather toggled on to know what conditions there are in the field. Just look at the weather icon. Excuse me for being blunt, but are you sure you got the right message to him? It sounds like he's answering a different question. This is more of a graphical issue for low spec systems. It has nothing to do with removing the graphical weather effects altogether.

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I feel like this problem is going to be resolved when 1.18 rolls around. Tons of game optimization incoming, right?

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Originally Posted by Xmbei

I think what he means by weather will have major impressions in the future is...

Sandstorm is occuring in Thanalan, and there is a large scale besiege-like event happens with empire/beastman tribes marching to the city and they are using the weather to cover their movements. Such so that you can not see them in the feild/their number's in a distance and the movement patterns they are using to come to the city and you have to run around "blind" to find them. I could be wrong, definately speculating. I think that is what they mean by weather will be very important in the future. If you could just turn off the weather you would see people going, "Oh I turned off the weather effects and they are flanking us from the west!!! Everyone go west, we need to stop them before they reach the city!!!"

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I'm impressed. I was very hard-pressed to figure out a situation that would conform to the dev response, and that not only fits, it sounds cool. Well done, and that sounds pretty awesome. Way better than "Oh, weather's out, better start watching out for water elementals".

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Originally Posted by Benji

I feel like this problem is going to be resolved when 1.18 rolls around. Tons of game optimization incoming, right?

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Only if you get your hopes up. I'm not setting myself up for that disappointment.

You know that this game is of next generation right? You know that you need a GOOD PC to play this at 1080p with all maxed right? So if you know and like this game start collecting some money and buy/upgrade your pc.

If you do that you wont notice those problems with weather.

Or try to reduce to lower quality until you dont get that problem.

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Originally Posted by Shiki_Lockhart

You know that this game is of next generation right? You know that you need a GOOD PC to play this at 1080p with all maxed right? So if you know and like this game start collecting some money and buy/upgrade your pc.

If you do that you wont notice those problems with weather.

Or try to reduce to lower quality until you dont get that problem.

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Forcing your playerbase to upgrade PC components is never an excuse for poor coding.

I'm sure a lot of players are in the same boat as I, in which we have a lot of settings fairly high or maxed out and the game runs beautifully...until we hit weather. I consistently see a 10-15 FPS drop when it rains, for example. And my PC parts are quite good, thank you.

All we want is a toggle to switch it on and off, just like there are toggles and different levels for the other graphical settings. These kinds of settings are in practically every other MMO, I don't see why we can't have it in this one.