New rain effect is a bit disappointing. It should look like this:

[Wilan]

It is an option already lol, you can go deactivate it at any time if your computer can't handle it or if you don't like the effect.

[Moheeheeko]

How can it be a PS3 limitation.....

256 MB of RAM, thats how.

Make it an option. Those of us with powerful enough PCs, let us turn on realistic weather. Leave it out of the PS3 version.

PS3 crowd would feel left out, same reason for lots of graphical upgrades that they, for whatever reason, decided not to do.

[Kayo]

Right now when it rains, it's as if the water is just falling through the world.

lol, FFXIII-2 again ... have any of you considered that every one of those images is in an enclosed area, with a fraction the amount of moving players, monsters, and effects (which mostly happen in battles staged in small areas for FFXIII-2), etc, etc. Its an MMO with a completely different engine with much more processing power needed for other things besides graphics. Not to mention PS3

[Saziel]

It's not really about A Realm Reborn being on a different engine or being an entirely different type of game. They could easily improve the rain effect visually by adding splashes and puddles. They could easily add this for players with high end PCs and PS4 users. PS3 users crying about being left out really don't mean much at this point, considering they already have an inferior version of the game.

It would be nice to see some rain running down the surface of our characters and perhaps some of the environmental surfaces. It doesn't need to be on the level that XIII-2 had it. It would just be nice to see something better than what we have. The ground should become wet and saturated, making it darker. Bodies of water should have splashes as the rain hits its surface.

Also, the rain looks more like streamers going through the air than actual rain.

[Gilraen]

PS3 users crying about being left out really don't mean much at this point, considering they already have an inferior version of the game.

Funny you should say PS3 users are crying about being left out when most of the complaints I've seen since Beta have been from PC players demanding this and that. PS3 players are pretty content given we even have an MMO on the console that isn't an afterthought, like how it was with White Knight Chronicles and Dragon Dogma (is there even an MMO element in Dagon Dogma?). Yes, the rain effects in XIV aren't as robust as they were in the single player games. The reason has been stated already, it's a different set of priorities with a different engine.

[Moheeheeko]

Funny you should say PS3 users are crying about being left out when most of the complaints I've seen since Beta have been from PC players demanding this and that.

That's because the game was developed with the PS3 in mind as the main system. Had it been the other way around and the PC crowd got all of the (reasonable and industry standard) stuff they wanted then the PS3 crowd would be screaming "but why cant we have that?!"

[Fenseven]

different game, different game engine.

i'm kind of disappointed as well but i'm sure it's the ps3 and old PCs that are holding us back.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

I've noticed the animations for the breath been visable in Ishgard but cant say wet surfaces/characters look any different on the PS3 build although the rain does look slightly different and MoDhona's lighting seems different some how 0_o or maybe my mind was playing tricks yesterday since i'd had like 12hrs sleep since wednesday at the time lol

[Pinkie_Pie]

I'm slightly confused here. What new rain effects? All I can read is new wet effects on our characters during rain.

Just to tell ya, there's no differences with characters being wet or looking wet doing rain. I've took screenshots doing rain and non rain and there no difference on the PC, I run my game on ultra.

[Mardel]

Just to tell ya, there's no differences with characters being wet or looking wet doing rain. I've took screenshots doing rain and non rain and there no difference on the PC, I run my game on ultra.

1. @wet effect - It is that subtle, it's like a glisten effect on your character's clothes/hair. Things become slightly darker in a sense too.

2. Also the PS3 limitation on effects is incorrect. As they already have in-game settings specifically for PS3 players that can be turned on/off. So it should be much for them to add extra texture downloads and effects for PC updates that can be enabled. (It isn't like you render graphics on the Server side anyways, those are client based rendering)

3. Hopefully DX11 update makes things noticeably better when it comes around.