Chocobo Racing and Weather Effects

[Lilianne]

There was a video posted in one of the other threads that shows the differences quite cleary along with multiple other threads discussing how bad this is.

However as Aphel pointed out, fair birds in rain = perma heavy until the rain lifts. It does make a huge difference and is totally out of balance right now. Get up to the higher stats/pedigrees and race with a fair bird and you will see the issues. R40-80 are pretty much the starter races for any higher pedigree bird and so you won't notice how bad it gets.

[RyuujinZERO]

There was a video posted in one of the other threads that shows the differences quite cleary along with multiple other threads discussing how bad this is..

Probably this one

tl;dw - Sunny weather run gets no speed boosts, but finishes course in 109 seconds. Wet weather it rains for 3/4 of the course, gets a hero potion AND sprint shoes, finishes in 123 seconds.

The most telling moment for me, is how once the weather clears up in the wet weather race, the rider gets heavied, but is still moving faster than when it was raining.

[Lilianne]

Yes, thank you again Ryuujin, and I totally agree with you. It is so sad to me to see that and I wonder just how something so obvious got by.