🌩️ Overwatch Maps need different Weather

General Discussion
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THIS! IMAGINE A STORM ROLLING IN AND LIGHTNING FLASHING DURING OVERTIME MAX HYPE OVERLOAD AHHHHH…!

“Time is an illusion…”
thunder and lightning
“…but the illusion will soon run out.”

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The ship has pretty much completely sailed on this. You may as well make a sequel at that point with the amount of work that would have to be done.

EDIT: To be clear, Day/Night adjustments are pretty straightforward, as they’re basically new maps with the assets cloned and baked for the new time of day. For something like rain though, you’re looking at all-new dynamic lighting, and pretty much every map asset in the game would need to be retooled.

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This would be quite the addition. Makes the game feel more alive, we already have Daytime Lijang and Nighttime Nepal and they look great.

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Sounds pretty cool. Although it’s even less probable we’ll ever get dynamic weather.

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I’d be fine without weather, as long as we got night maps.

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He isn’t saying the lighting/weather should change during a match. He is saying this would be almost the same as creating a new map.

IMO not worth it.

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Welp you can’t argue with that. Like literally, you can’t argue with that or this whole thing just turns into “yes it is!” “no it isn’t!”

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It will be a lot of work to create but not impossible.
It can be environmental effects too. :thinking:

Snow storms in Antartica
Cherry blossom petals floating in Hanamura
Animals running around Eichenwalde
Rain in King’s Row
Fireworks in Dorado

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Graphically it’d probably kill some computers lol. But they could just make a toggle option for “weather” and for low-spec people all they’d see is the cloud-changes/stuff in the sky that doesn’t really move.

I’d love a snowy map where it’s actually snowing.

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Though I don’t disagree with the concept of your idea, I think they should give a played side option to choose this sort of thing, for example:

I don’t really like daylight maps, so if I had an option to switch them to night/dark mode without affecting anyone else (even if I had to pay for it), I’d love it. Taste is kinda subjective, so things like these would be good for some people and bad for others, that’s why I’d say player side only is better.

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yeah would be a nice addition.

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We need this 20 chars.

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when Overwatrch defeated climate change they stopped the spinning of the earth and weather is always the same everywhere now - its cannon people, please respect the wishes of the author

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Well they should do maps with certain weather effects already set to when you load into the map and not transition in between them i mean they are kinda gold rich right now so that wouldn’t really be an issue and would make the game better and feel more of a refresh than anything.

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This would be amazing

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This.

Hanamura became a lot more enjoyable when it was covered in snow. It was fresh and made the map a lot more fun to play on.

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FOG! Can’t use snipers! =P

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No one is going to like losing matches because of annoying weather effects. Some people like me can barely run the game on lower than the lowest settings. So unless you want an option to turn it off then certain people wouldn’t be able to play. If you could turn it off then having it on would just put you and your team at a disadvantage.

I would like more maps to be in different times of day. Like the dusk Eichenwalde when Brig came out. I loved how that looked and I wish it stayed. They could only do smaller changes like that on completely new maps, they wouldn’t be able to change the pre-existing maps.

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While I think it would add some variety, I don’t think it’s really necessary and might actually be more of an annoyance.

Just like night and day variants, I think it could be cool in certain cases, but not part of the base game mode.

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This would be awesome. I would love to get some cloudy, rainy, and thunderstormy weather.