What's up with the weather???

SilentFox22

I believe "Travel to player" puts you on the same weather pattern. At least..I've tested it a couple of times in game and so far it seems to work.

MornaBaine

Rhass wrote: »

I believe "Travel to player" puts you on the same weather pattern. At least..I've tested it a couple of times in game and so far it seems to work.

Interesting. I wonder why. I mean, one would think that if you can SEE the other character you are in the same instance as they are, no?

AlexDougherty

MornaBaine wrote: »

Think there's any chance they might ever fix this so weather is consistent rather than bizarrely and illogically individual? I just don't see how it never occurred to them that having 2 players standing right next to each other and experiencing completely different weather makes absolutely no sense.

They might, but if they do it will increase everybodies lag, which on occassion is bad even in PVE (jumped into a city yesterday, and was hit by massive lag/delay).

CapuchinSeven

MornaBaine wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed that we all experience different weather in the game, even when we're standing right next to each other? Many a time with my guild we've been out doing various things and someone will go, "OMG so sick of the rain!" and someone else will say, "What are you talking about? It's perfectly sunny!" My husband and I have computers right next to each other and on his screen it will be raining and on mine it'll be sunny...and we're grouped, running the same quest in the same area!

Can anyone explain this bizarre phenomena?

Yeah my friend and I noticed the same thing.

ferzalrwb17_ESO

AlexDougherty wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

Think there's any chance they might ever fix this so weather is consistent rather than bizarrely and illogically individual? I just don't see how it never occurred to them that having 2 players standing right next to each other and experiencing completely different weather makes absolutely no sense.

They might, but if they do it will increase everybodies lag, which on occassion is bad even in PVE (jumped into a city yesterday, and was hit by massive lag/delay).

Not in the slightest. Transmitting the current weather to the client would be a minuscule blip in the information that is sent constantly about the environment. It would be as simple as "weather=n" to indicate a state that is sent at login/zone or on the next update after a weather change. It would be a fraction of the information of a single line of zonechat (for example).

Other games manage it fine because it's just that simple.