Would you like a weather system in Guild Wars 2?

I always thought how cool it would be if Guild Wars 2 had a climate system but as it is Guild Wars 2 it would have to be different and the climate would influence the gameplay. I think regions like Cantha and Blood Legion Homelands would be great for that.

Yeah, I like weather changes in games. They have the capability to do it, since we have the sandstorm in the desert. I would love to see rain, and snow out in the world.

I'm pretty sure it does rain in some places, and snow in others. It just depends on where you are.

If they added a remove other players particle effects sure I'd love it!! I couldn't imagine open world boss fights though between a massive particle blur that makes it so you can't see the game AND it raining? Might as well turn the pc off and just keep tapping 1 your basically playing gw2.

In all seriousness though if the particle effects from skills wasn't so over the top annoying id really like to see actual weather in places going on.

I always love good ambience. Some of the most impactful, mood-setting mods for Fallout 4 are the realistic weather ones, for example. Along the same lines as what @Sylent.3165 says, though; I doubt the current engine can handle it properly. The environment effects would have to be culled during big/busy fights.

@Zephyr.5382 said:I always love good ambience. Some of the most impactful, mood-setting mods for Fallout 4 are the realistic weather ones, for example. Along the same lines as what @Sylent.3165 says, though; I doubt the current engine can handle it properly. The environment effects would have to be culled during big/busy fights.

oh, I'm pretty sure they can implement it with the current engine, just need to slap on an additional layer on top of the existing day night cycle.

But they will need to hire weather women to be sent out to each zone, implement TV, TV remoteand we will need to tune in at a specific time during the day to find out the weather forecast, I dont want my kitties to get wet

There is some cycling weather in PoF.I find it especially easy to notice in Elon Riverland and northern part of Desolation.I don't think it's enabled everywhere in every maps of PoF though.

@Haco.1546 said:I always thought how cool it would be if Guild Wars 2 had a climate system but as it is Guild Wars 2 it would have to be different and the climate would influence the gameplay. I think regions like Cantha and Blood Legion Homelands would be great for that.

Dry Top, Bitterfrost Frontier.

Dunno with PoF, but in core maps they havn't a global dynamic weather, it's always raining/sunny/snowy within a certain area.But we have some cases of dynamic weather:Dry top, Bitterfrost frontier,...Also hesitating about southsun cove and blazeridge steppes... rain/ashs fall depend on the time of the day I think.

I'd love a proper living weather system. Weather being tied to only certain areas of maps / events just isn't the same.

A thorough implementation maybe. Simple surface level implementation is pretty boring. For example weather without seasons. On the other hand I really don't need more fights where I can't see a damn thing.

Yes I would

Gw2 has weather??

Not really, I could go for less visual clutter to be frank.

No! It always gets stuck on rain and I see way too much of that irl. lol I also hate day/night cycles because it gets too dark to see anything.

I would love this! Back in the beginning of GW2's release I was so in love with the day/night cycles, soooo cooool!It does rain in some areas sometimes and so does snowing here and there.

But a fully weather system everywhere would be so coool! :D

Absolutely yes ..... exspecially if we combine them with events like e.g. "survive the snowstorm".

As long as it doesn’t decrease FPs.

OP isn't really specific enough for me to engage in discussion. We technically already have a 'weather system.' There is a day night cycle. There are weather elements per-zone. There are weather elements based on season (Wintersday). There has been some experimentation in the new zones I suppose. Some of this is automatic, and the seasonal events are more manual. Again, it's all technically a 'weather system.'

I don't think even tinkering with it would add much value. Unless a new zone accommodates it...but then it's just another dynamic event. Maps already have dynamic events so...I don't see the point in adding it globally since it is aesthetic.

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I may remember it wrong, but I believe the game had a weather-system in very early builds. With rain, like in the human starting-instance, appearing throughout the map.

nothing pumps me up more than random thunderstorms in a map, i love it on other games.

Environmental effects yes. Let's have an actual blizzard in the shiverpeaks. Chill constantly in effect if removed reapplied and 10% visibility.

Also desert should go from burning constantly during the day to chill at night and should also have mirages Like chest seen in the distance but disappear up close. The sandstorm in the silverwastes are great already expand on it.

I'm indifferent to it. As some have mentioned, weather does happen occasionally--Particularly rain. But only as long as it's purely visual and doesn't effect gameplay. Tornados pis... get on my nerves enough as is, and any other neigh unavoidable pulling effect.

I do actually like this. I've always kind of wanted some weather variance. Something to keep things visually interesting. I also would kind of prefer a more distinct (read: NOT EXTREME) variance between night and day. I realize I'm probably in the great minority in that last one, but I'd enjoy it! ..don't hurt me.

They added a weather system in with PoF, but if I recall it's only for PoF(and most likely any future maps)...I believe there was mention of spreading it to the rest of the maps, but I'd have to go back and check one of the PoF developer talks.