Immersive or Annoying?

Just a quick rant here from a relatively newish player:

I'm sure the vast majority of the player base finds the nighttime/raining/storm effects to be amazingly immersive, but they just annoy the hell out of me.

Seems like > 50% of the time that I login it's night and/or it's raining. When it's both night and raining, and I'm out in the field doing regular quests, I can't see a damned thing. I find it super un-immersive when it's a bright and sunny day IRL but the game world is deep night and stormy.

That's my rant. TY for reading.

I'm the same with the fog weather, just irredeemable to me

I'm glad the weather effects pop often and that they are relatively strong. Makes old locations look a little new. Weather effects happen so rarely in WoW and when they do it's hardly noticeable outside of the Shadowlands zones.

Yeah, 50% is day and 50% is night because that's how days work when you don't have seasons.

I could swear they made raining more frequent after they introduced automatic parasols, but I have literally no way to prove this.

But no, I do like the rain, but I get what you mean. Cloudy weather I feel is what tends to annoy me the most because the engine just can't seem to get it right. It looks very artificial.

There are times when I logon and I'm, "Raining, again, and it's nighttime? I can't see anything!" I mean I'm a terrible enough player to begin with, but when you handicap me with adverse weather conditions, then my questing is even more sad.

"50% is day and 50% is night because that's how days work..." Now you tell me!

Reminds me of a cartoon I came across a few years ago regarding the classic clueless CEO. He's in a conference room filled with his subordinates with an outraged look on his face and angrily exclaims: "A billion is a thousand million! Why wasn't I informed of this?"

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Originally Posted by Januaria81

There are times when I logon and I'm, "Raining, again, and it's nighttime? I can't see anything!" I mean I'm a terrible enough player to begin with, but when you handicap me with adverse weather conditions, then my questing is even more sad.

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Dim your room.

Problem solved.

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Originally Posted by Januaria81

When it's both night and raining, and I'm out in the field doing regular quests, I can't see a damned thing.

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This makes me think you might benefit from adjusting your display settings; regardless of whether it's night time or raining, you should be able to see clearly. There are some games that want darkness and weather to make it more difficult to see, but FF14 is not one of them.

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Originally Posted by Januaria81

There are times when I logon and I'm, "Raining, again, and it's nighttime? I can't see anything!" I mean I'm a terrible enough player to begin with, but when you handicap me with adverse weather conditions, then my questing is even more sad.

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Have you tried adjusting your brightness and contrast settings? It should be possible to change your settings so things are visible even at night in the rain. I don't have the best eyesight but I do all right under those conditions.

As for the day/night cycle, there are approximately 3 real minutes per Eorzean hour so it's switching between the two every 36 minutes. It shouldn't be surprising if it's night when you log in but you don't have to wait that long for it to be day.

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Originally Posted by Januaria81

Just a quick rant here from a relatively newish player:

I'm sure the vast majority of the player base finds the nighttime/raining/storm effects to be amazingly immersive, but they just annoy the hell out of me.

Seems like > 50% of the time that I login it's night and/or it's raining. When it's both night and raining, and I'm out in the field doing regular quests, I can't see a damned thing. I find it super un-immersive when it's a bright and sunny day IRL but the game world is deep night and stormy.

That's my rant. TY for reading.

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I would prefer if I could control the skybox on my client - especially in cutscenes where we are like standing in the middle of a field where it's pouring down rain.
Weather is immersive sure but when people are getting soaked for no good reason it breaks immersion.
I guess it would then also be immersion breaking if all cutscenes were sunny only to go back and be night time or raining out.
Or those oh so lovely Fog weather patterns where like the game looks like it set you on some GPU saving Render distance mode. lol

I'd prefer it personally.

But it's just something you got to deal with.

Ask for not being able to see in the dark that is something that shouldn't be happening I'd tweak your settings.

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Originally Posted by Januaria81

Just a quick rant here from a relatively newish player:

I'm sure the vast majority of the player base finds the nighttime/raining/storm effects to be amazingly immersive, but they just annoy the hell out of me.

Seems like > 50% of the time that I login it's night and/or it's raining. When it's both night and raining, and I'm out in the field doing regular quests, I can't see a damned thing. I find it super un-immersive when it's a bright and sunny day IRL but the game world is deep night and stormy.

That's my rant. TY for reading.

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A full day cycle is only about an hour so it's not like you have to deal with it being night for very long. You could also go into your settings and bump up the gamma to make the image brighter. Most cities also have a sky watcher that tells you what weather is coming up in every zone so you can avoid certain weather if it bothers you that much.

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

I'm glad the weather effects pop often and that they are relatively strong. Makes old locations look a little new. Weather effects happen so rarely in WoW and when they do it's hardly noticeable outside of the Shadowlands zones.

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Agreed! WoW weather is pathetic. FFXIV weather actually feels like weather.

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Originally Posted by Nadda

Weather is immersive sure but when people are getting soaked for no good reason it breaks immersion.

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obviously never met my parents....

I do feel like it rains way more often. I moved from my plot in lavender beds to the mist because I was tired of it always raining and yet it has been raining sooo much more than before. I want to be able to take cute photos of my boy on the beach but it's always freaking raining and if it's not raining, it's nighttime!

I much prefer more impactful weather and day/night effects. Compared to WoW, where nighttime barely lowers the brightness and changes the sky to a slightly more muted shade of blue.

When I was new I was impressed and remain to be impressed with the game's weather system. I personally don't mind it, but I guess it could be an issue if you're struggling to see??? I never had an issue with that though...

To me it's immersive. I only wish there were more weather types I guess, something that changes certain things in the zone. It'd be amazing if there were seasons too...but that's a dream.

It is a bit of a shame that there's no seasons in XIV like XI had. XI was a pain since, if it was winter in Vanadiel, you couldn't get a Heatwave very easily which made unlocking Summoner a pain in the butt. You had to wait several irl weeks for the season to change for the chance of a Heatwave to rise. lol I don't miss it but it certainly was immersive.

On the topic of Night & Rain it reminds me of every time someone wants to show off their character and it's almost always a Lalafell standing in the rain at night. :P

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Originally Posted by Januaria81

Just a quick rant here from a relatively newish player:

I'm sure the vast majority of the player base finds the nighttime/raining/storm effects to be amazingly immersive, but they just annoy the hell out of me.

Seems like > 50% of the time that I login it's night and/or it's raining. When it's both night and raining, and I'm out in the field doing regular quests, I can't see a damned thing. I find it super un-immersive when it's a bright and sunny day IRL but the game world is deep night and stormy.

That's my rant. TY for reading.

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Nah, it's not just you, sometimes it seems like every cutscene ends up being dark. I'm find with just general atmospheric weather, but I wish cutscenes would temporarily turn off the weather unless it's plot relevant, and temporarily make it brighter if it's dark out.