I like this suggestion

Fog would be cool. A downpour that effects vision would also be neat, but my arrows would still find their target in the worst wind.

I dream about the day that an MMO developer will have the courage to add game hindering effects to some regions, like... debuffs or other type of 'punishments' for really bad and inhospitable areas like Alik'r when the sun is high or the freezing, deadly cold of Skyrim. Maybe diseases in Black Marsh?

I'd like the environment in general to be more interactive as far as combat goes. Imagine that running into water would put out fire effects but would increase cold or lightning damage. Storms could randomly strike players. Lots of possibilities but I doubt they could do it with an MMO.

Bump, zeni read this! Make the weather beautiful!!

DaniAngione wrote: »

I dream about the day that an MMO developer will have the courage to add game hindering effects to some regions, like... debuffs or other type of 'punishments' for really bad and inhospitable areas like Alik'r when the sun is high or the freezing, deadly cold of Skyrim. Maybe diseases in Black Marsh?

It doesnt have to be just debuffs.

Heavy rain/fog. Any fire/heat spells and abilities dampened some. Any cold/ice abilities on the other hand.......

Out in the desert would be the opposite.

During natural thunder storms (natural only) lightning spells enhance.

Be nifty to add some zone buffs/debuffs based on local conditions.

I bet fire atronachs hiss and steam and shrink in the fog/rain, ice ones get bigger and tougher and/or regenerate.

Lots of ways to work this!

Hadria wrote: »

I agree with everyone above me! this could really boost ESO I think. interactive combat weather would be beautiful!. Hopefully someone from Zeni sees this, I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to implement this.

I expect weather would have to be run at the local level like it is now.

I suppose zones get get tagged for storm, type 1 etc.

I would love it. I just wonder about the people whos systems would choke on all the shading and transparency. Lets hope dx12/mantle/open-gl has a fix for that!

That'd be lovely. I still sometimes think back fondly on the rainstorms in that one area in WoW, what was it called... had all sorts of spiders running around and a creepy old manor. Howling wind, and rain coming down in sheets. Pretty nice.

Elf_Boy wrote: »

DaniAngione wrote: »

I dream about the day that an MMO developer will have the courage to add game hindering effects to some regions, like... debuffs or other type of 'punishments' for really bad and inhospitable areas like Alik'r when the sun is high or the freezing, deadly cold of Skyrim. Maybe diseases in Black Marsh?

It doesnt have to be just debuffs.

Heavy rain/fog. Any fire/heat spells and abilities dampened some. Any cold/ice abilities on the other hand.......

Out in the desert would be the opposite.

During natural thunder storms (natural only) lightning spells enhance.

Be nifty to add some zone buffs/debuffs based on local conditions.

I bet fire atronachs hiss and steam and shrink in the fog/rain, ice ones get bigger and tougher and/or regenerate.

Lots of ways to work this!

About the atronachs that sounds awesome!!

starkerealm wrote: »

Of course there's one huge issue with weather having effects on players. Weather is calculated locally, not on the server. Meaning two players standing next to each other can be experiencing completely different weather. It's why you'll sometimes have players asking if anyone can see the moons, and you'll look up to a clear sky. It's not that they're confused or are actually asking about someone dropping their pants: on their screen they're standing in the middle of a thunderstorm, or under a cloudy sky.

Weather really needs to be calculated on the server side and applied to everyone equally before we even think about having weather that actually affects gameplay.

That is an easy fix buy having zones give a general weather status, say rain 1 or fog 23 or ash storm 6 + fog 2.

The weather would still be locally generated and while particulars of when/where for lightning strikes might be wildly different for people in a group the tone and shade coloring the weather would be the same.

Easy fix. Of course what is conceptually easy doesnt always mean programming easy.

If the game made weather that pervasive or invasive to other systems it would have to be non-optional to prevent the minority from abusing it. Having very low end effects for weather available and/or have the buffs/debuffs happen regardless of what is being rendered on the client would fix that.

What about a hurricane or a sand storm that deals damage to players?

Honestly, I wish I had the option to turn off the rain like in the single player games. I cannot stand how much it rains in this game. At first I thought the effects were cool. But, after noticing that it rains almost every time I play, I'm getting sick of it. It's especially bad in the AD zones. To me, it just feels drab.

Cool idea +1

KanedaSyndrome wrote: »

Supporting more intense and longer lasting weather. It adds atmosphere. Would honestly also loved for the day/night cycle being closer linked to the real life day night cycle.

I am curious, for what time zone should it be linked?

Sleep wrote: »

What about a hurricane or a sand storm that deals damage to players?

Um, No.

There is a quest were you die from cold damage, that's far more weather effect than I was happy about.