Weather and Cycles - Lets do it again

[Forgo]

watch them do something crazy like if you are battling in the rain a gauge starts to fill and when its full you cant see so you have to hit an action to wipe the water from your face,lol.

or get snowblind if you stay in the snow too long or get frostbite and lose a small % of hp til you defrost lol

that would make the game a challenge, can't stay out in the weather to long or something bad happens.

[Shougun]

watch them do something crazy like if you are battling in the rain a gauge starts to fill and when its full you cant see so you have to hit an action to wipe the water from your face,lol.

Hahaha,

Though I think you are onto something with weather you could actually build some boss battles around weather though.. Like fighting Leviathan perhaps it starts to rain really hard and the zone is filling up and you have to climb the tower as you fight him in the center (open topped tower filling with liquid), at the top its thunder storming and you can use nearby ballistics to nail lightning rods into him for extra damage..

With titan it you can really go with what you said where like even though he is so big its so sandy that he is kind of like an assassin hulk. Somehow you have to clear the air or else he will just cast spells that separate everyone and then pick them off one by one.

(You can do these a little without a weather system but they wouldn't look as good / seamless)

or get snowblind if you stay in the snow too long or get frostbite and lose a small % of hp til you defrost lol

The longer Shiva's fight goes on the slower your spells cooldowns come back... :O ? lol

I dont think negative weather effects in the open world would be good though - specially because people who need to turn them off would be like.. I DONT SEE IT, ITS NOT HAPPENING lol