Weather in towns please.

I feel it's odd how a town built on sea is completely immune to weather changes.

Also I'd like the specular shaders of most of the textures be dynamic. It just doesn't look right when nothing looks more shiny during a rainstorm. Even wood looks as matte as ever when it's raining.

It would be a completely different experience to shop in Ul'dah if a sandstorm suddenly started or to walk in windy Gridania (sorry the pun).;)

I would also like this so that environments feel more immersive!

Pfff, It never rains in Limsa because the Lighthouse is actually a Weather Control Tower.

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Originally Posted by Seif

I feel it's odd how a town built on sea is completely immune to weather changes.

Also I'd like the specular shaders of most of the textures be dynamic. It just doesn't look right when nothing looks more shiny during a rainstorm. Even wood looks as matte as ever when it's raining.

It would be a completely different experience to shop in Ul'dah if a sandstorm suddenly started or to walk in windy Gridania (sorry the pun).;)

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Weather they can do as they already do it during the events.

Shaders? That takes optimizing plus they need to get it working right with the PS3 which DX and OGL handle it a bit differently, even with the same engine being used.

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Originally Posted by viion

I would also like this so that environments feel more immersive!

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Scratch everything I just said in the OP. You speak the truth.
More than anything I'd like to feel like the towns are alive and I have some reason to talk to NPCs even if there's not a gigantic immersion breaking "!" marker over their heads.

No thank you. Weather in town would suck. It will either be raining all the time or a dust storm. I'll pass

Fine and dandy to have the weather in towns - just for the love of all that is sacred, add a toggle on/off weather effects. It is aggravating not being able to turn the weather off when I am on a system that would be happier without the effect. =)

I'm pretty much sure that weather effects have been kept out of cities for performance reasons. Also, while some weather effects (namely rain) would work? I seriously doubt a sandstorm would be anywhere nice to see INSIDE ul'dah.

In FFXI the only weather effects in town were:

Wind (Al Zahbi)
Fog/Gloom (not Darkness weather)

As those were the less intense effects, a sandstorm if you could handle it outside of the city, think of how it would be inside of the city with a lot of people as well as more things to render?

LOL YES PLZ ID LIKE TO BRING THE LAGFEST THAT IS RAINING IN GRIDANIA OVER TO TOWNS!!!

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Originally Posted by Frebaut

No thank you. Weather in town would suck. It will either be raining all the time or a dust storm. I'll pass

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not true.

ffxi had some ports/ mini towns with weather Id like to see towns with weather. If elder scrolls can pull it off. I don't se why not.

Weather in town would be a nice change. It wouldn't really be just like the weather outside, because the cities have walls, cover and such, that's if they try to make it more realistic. It might be a problem for taking clear screenshots though.

P.S. Puns are fun :D

Another strange design decision, if the original worry was that people would complain about the fps lag then all they needed to do was add a toggle.

A lot of people on here want weather in towns with an on, off switch. They should also add "the switch" for the weather outside. It seems when SE adds something to the game they don't add everything with it. So if they add weather to towns it would either be raining all the dam time or hardly ever. Oh ya and they wouldn't give you an off, on switch for it untill they did a poll....lol

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I'm pretty much sure that weather effects have been kept out of cities for performance reasons. Also, while some weather effects (namely rain) would work? I seriously doubt a sandstorm would be anywhere nice to see INSIDE ul'dah.

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But they had snow in the capital cities during Christmas.. I don't quite see that being any less intensive than the occasional rain or fog. It also wouldn't be difficult to add an option in the menus to scale up\down weather effects, so they only appear in certain places\don't appear at all. FFXI had this.

I made a mention about this in a Lodestone blog on my old main that I don't have anymore.

FFXI only gave us fog/cloud effects at most in the starting regions of the game, and it would make sense the towns wouldn't show that much weather otherwise. Tavnazia had it's thunder weather (dark rarely happens and I can't recall a moment I was there when it occured) and Aht Urghan had wind on occasion.

But I know in FFXIV it's different. The Black Shroud has rain and thunder a lot, but this little blip in the middle of the region known as Gridania doesn't go beyond cloudy weather. Now concerning sandstorms getting into Ul'dah, I wouldn't know the know how of how nature works for this, but the town is surrounded by a tall wall. Maybe to some degree the sandstorm wouldn't be as serious inside of Ul'dah because of the layout of the place?

For now, I'm just putting the "towns have no weather" because of the random machinery that seem to float around the towns. You can see them easily outside of Ul'dah and Limsa. Maybe they're town weather controllers, maybe not.

This would be a nice feature.

EQ2 has it, it is possible, though I think for a long time it was raining inside buildings, that seems to be an issue with a lot of games with weather.. If they could pull that off alongside a toggle it sure would be nice.

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LOL YES PLZ ID LIKE TO BRING THE LAGFEST THAT IS RAINING IN GRIDANIA OVER TO TOWNS!!!

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dude, I have a Nvidia 9500. which is below the minimum requirements.
either you're not playing on medium settings or you're running a pentium II

snow is second place if not just as bad as rain in terms of performance hits and it went over pretty well.

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snow is second place if not just as bad as rain in terms of performance hits and it went over pretty well.

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Oh you're right and there was petals too. XD

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snow is second place if not just as bad as rain in terms of performance hits and it went over pretty well.

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Maybe they were using it as a benchmark to see how people would react to it, probably not but just a thought.

I ll pass on that, add in a turn off weather in city if conside add that, my laptop will broke down witht he graphic lag

The snow was pretty cheap looking though. It went through the ground and there was no snow on the streets. How hard is it to model blobs of white mush?

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The snow was pretty cheap looking though. It went through the ground and there was no snow on the streets. How hard is it to model blobs of white mush?

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Yah it was pretty amateur if you ask me. At first I was like wooo cool, but then it kept constantly reminding me "yo am an object infront of your face, following you around showing you white blurry dots, blud" and i disliked it after a while XD

Rain and Lightning I think are the only decent affects, I dislike Mor Dhonas because it clips on everything and breaks immersion.

But the weather in towns changes! ... in December.