Weather and Rain

SnakeDodger · June 4

So...how does the weather work exactly? Why does it feel like it's always raining when i play it? I usually try to do quests during the (in game) daytime, and it feels like it always rains when the sun is rising, at like 5/6 am in game time. Is the weather fixed? Like it rains a certain time every day two times and that's it?

On a side note, i'm really sick of the rain, why can't the weather control stuff just work outside houses?

Dithieon · June 4

Rain doesn't bother me, but like you I like to quest during in-game daytime.What I wish for is the hourglass of Alkosh(?)that we can place in our homes to control time of day, be imported to the UI, so we can set time of day individually via toggle. Maybe the same could be done with weather control.⛈️

VindictiveRidge · June 4

Dithieon wrote: »

Rain doesn't bother me, but like you I like to quest during in-game daytime.What I wish for is the hourglass of Alkosh(?)that we can place in our homes to control time of day, be imported to the UI, so we can set time of day individually via toggle. Maybe the same could be done with weather control.⛈️

Psst. Check Rolis Hlaalu, the master writ vendor, for the Chronometer of the Tribunal item; it'll let you set the time to sunrise, morning, midday, afternoon, sunset, or midnight. The recent Golden Pursuit: Commemorate the Date had Kynareth's Icon of Storm Control as a reward, which does indeed provide weather control for your housing; just like the hourglass and the chronometer, hopefully they'll put in a weather control item down the line for people who missed the reward.

Finedaible · June 4

Pretty sure OP means the weather in the open world spaces since they are questing. Weather is client-side and randomized to the individual player though. It can actually be raining for one player, and be clear and sunny for the player right next to them for most of the world.

tsaescishoeshiner · June 4

It's been confirmed that some areas are rainier, such as near coastlines. It rains rarely in Rimmen, but often in Gonfalon.

I haven't noticed if some areas always have rainy mornings, but I've otherwise noticed no correlation between time of day and weather.

Unrelated, but the skybox and weather effects could use an visual update.

SnakeDodger · June 4

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

It's been confirmed that some areas are rainier, such as near coastlines. It rains rarely in Rimmen, but often in Gonfalon.

I haven't noticed if some areas always have rainy mornings, but I've otherwise noticed no correlation between time of day and weather.

Unrelated, but the skybox and weather effects could use an visual update.

I def agree they need deserve an update, tbh it often feels like the sky is not nearly as dramatic enough when there is actually heavy rain with thunder. It doesn't match very well.

SnakeDodger · June 4

Finedaible wrote: »

Pretty sure OP means the weather in the open world spaces since they are questing. Weather is client-side and randomized to the individual player though. It can actually be raining for one player, and be clear and sunny for the player right next to them for most of the world.

This is strange, i guess this is something they've decided early on? I can't imagine it being for performance reasons.
I feel a bit spoiled by the single player tes games, you can just wait to switch daytime and shift through weather, and in skyrim specifically, you can just use clear skies or storm call to modify it.
Honestly, i feel like rain in general just kills the mood, at least on daytime. I am going through cadwell's gold in glenumbra rn, and the map is gorgeous, until it starts raining. All the vibrancy gets washed out immediately lol

LalMirchi · June 4

Looking at Online:Kynareth's Icon of Storm Control which I suspect mimics the basic settings for weather in-game:

1 - Clear is largely fine but could use some cloud cover occasionally drifting in front of the sun for some variety.

2 - Overcast is too bland, this should occasionally shift between clear and some gusts of rain/sandstorm or drizzles & other small weather animations in the appropriate locations.

3 - Stormy should match it's name, let's go wild here, Please?

I want and wish for the very wild and stormy.

Athymhormia · June 4

How I feel you, OP, it's almost always raining for me too! Wish weather was server side, there is no reason for it not to be.

But what bothers me most - not even the rain itself, but the lightning, that constant bloody lightning! Does it really have to be flashing?

For years now there were requests here and there for a simple option to turn off screen flashes, but nothing happened. Even Stardew Valley, made by one (1!) person, has that accessibility option, but still not TESO.

Now I've learned when I need to prepare my eyes to go blind for a second when screen flashes during scrying etc, but during rain with lightning it's sometimes just constant flashes here and there, it's just too tiresome. And I don't consider myself having serious eye problems, just a mild light sensitivity issue after laser correction, bit still these flashes bother me so much, I kid you not, I still haven't finished some of the new zones just because of that (and consequently stopped subbing and preordering things). If I teleport somewhere and it's raining - nope, nada, I'm out for today. Cause guess what? Teleporting to a friend doesn't help, restarting the game doesn't help. So what does? Genuinely asking. *sigh*

TaSheen · June 4

SnakeDodger wrote: »

Finedaible wrote: »

Pretty sure OP means the weather in the open world spaces since they are questing. Weather is client-side and randomized to the individual player though. It can actually be raining for one player, and be clear and sunny for the player right next to them for most of the world.

This is strange, i guess this is something they've decided early on? I can't imagine it being for performance reasons.
I feel a bit spoiled by the single player tes games, you can just wait to switch daytime and shift through weather, and in skyrim specifically, you can just use clear skies or storm call to modify it.
Honestly, i feel like rain in general just kills the mood, at least on daytime. I am going through cadwell's gold in glenumbra rn, and the map is gorgeous, until it starts raining. All the vibrancy gets washed out immediately lol

For all the years I've played ESO, it's been very rainy, and since I live in an RL place that doesn't get much moisture (other than in the winter), I REALLY love the rain in the game. My favorite weather is 65 and raining, or (season permitting) 35 and snowing....

For those who are happier with sunshine and daytime instead, it's too bad they can't allow a choice. The very odd thing is that when a friend and I got together a few times to swap stuff back and forth, my game was generally wallowing in rain, and hers was sunshiney and bright.... She was complaining about never seeing it rain (in VIVEC of all places!) and the next time we met up it was in Sentinel, and yeah.... it was raining a bit there for me too.

SnakeDodger · June 6

Athymhormia wrote: »

How I feel you, OP, it's almost always raining for me too! Wish weather was server side, there is no reason for it not to be.

But what bothers me most - not even the rain itself, but the lightning, that constant bloody lightning! Does it really have to be flashing?

For years now there were requests here and there for a simple option to turn off screen flashes, but nothing happened. Even Stardew Valley, made by one (1!) person, has that accessibility option, but still not TESO.

Now I've learned when I need to prepare my eyes to go blind for a second when screen flashes during scrying etc, but during rain with lightning it's sometimes just constant flashes here and there, it's just too tiresome. And I don't consider myself having serious eye problems, just a mild light sensitivity issue after laser correction, bit still these flashes bother me so much, I kid you not, I still haven't finished some of the new zones just because of that (and consequently stopped subbing and preordering things). If I teleport somewhere and it's raining - nope, nada, I'm out for today. Cause guess what? Teleporting to a friend doesn't help, restarting the game doesn't help. So what does? Genuinely asking. *sigh*

This is a lot worse, damn, never though about the flashing. It's crazy because even without considering light sensitivity issues, it's still not great, it doesn't feel like it matches the rain, the sky always seems rather flat. Too flat for thunder, maybe it's because there's no wind effects.

Man, overhauling the weather in general and allowing weather control would be grand.