Remove negative effects from rain.

[Formless]

That is what I thought, but to be fair the athletic folks hate it.

..... though I do wish that night time was a bit darker.

Please no, even with my monitor brightness up as high as possible and Monitor Gamma up in game as high as it can go, night for me is very dark.  I have trouble making out the weapons swings at night.  So please do not make the night any darker.

 

[Tears of Destiny]

Please no, even with my monitor brightness up as high as possible and Monitor Gamma up in game as high as it can go, night for me is very dark.  I have trouble making out the weapons swings at night.  So please do not make the night any darker.

Oh sorry hehehe. I guess I am just insane. Well, not much guess work for that actually.

OK then, how about making torches brighter so night time and fog is more dynamic, and have them dim in the rain?

[Nemeth]

Why are people against removing rain effects/disabling it? It severely hurts single playstyle, and that is xbowmen. If you wanna nerf xbows do it in normal manner by playing with stats or introducing some new mechanic, I don't care, but this is just stupid. I understand the mentality that "if it doesnt hurt my playstyle, I'm ok that with it hurting other", but I thought maybe developers should go above that. It's not fun if your preffered playstyle, whatever it is, is so much dependant on wether it rains or not.

Also, go to hell with "reality" arguement. That has no place here, and you know it.

EDIT: As for agi stackers, it hurts them as well, but ultimately, everyone is slower. Only those high ath build can actually see significant decrease.
EDIT 2: Typo in first sentence making it stupid...

[MrShine]

I like having the variety, although I wish specific weather would only effect one type of play style.

Like rain effects crossbow damage, nighttime reduces throwing and archery accuracy slightly, etc.  Cav already get good & bad maps naturally, so I guess melee get out scot free, which I'm ok with.

[Dravic]

Nemeth, thank you. Fixed. Read that again xD

[Cyclopsided]

Hard.
Coded.
Can't.
Change.

This is why I've been saying it just needs to rain less. The weather %s are able to be changed.

[Cepeshi]

To be hones i did not notice any reduction in speed whilst it rains unless i read it on the forums. Might be due to the fact i like to run around quite a lot on some maps, and i was blaming the uphill-ish terrain.

Still, perfectly understandable why you move slower, you are getting soaked with rain water and heavier, your amor is either getting heavy or rusty, so...i know it might be annoying for dedicated crossbowman, but there are things that annoy other playstyles just as much, be it terrain, type of map, composition of the opposing team, whatever

[Dravic]

Yeah? But again. This game is not realistic, dont try to use "realism" argument.

Oh, so make it so rain affect cavalry, too. - to their horses' max speed same as to athletics speed. So we still can run away from them. Then, it will be fair. For now, on some maps, if it rains, there is no point in playing xbowman or agi-athletic char. You are just going to be raped by uberfast cavalry (when it rains, cav is superior to my agi-athletics char)

[Nemeth]

Every class is dependant on "terrain, type of map, composition of the opposing team, whatever". Only crossbowmen is also screwed when it's raining.

[Zisa]

I really do not care for malus to running, rain or crap terrain, but it warms my heart a little to think a crossbowman is suffering.

[Cyclopsided]

I don't use a crossbow, it just rapes the shit out of athletics builds with high rain percentages.
Besides, a guy with half a pound of clothes on is not going to get slowed down at all in the rain in real life -- yet such builds are slown down WAY more than heavier builds both relatively and absolutely.

*puts on deal with it glasses*

[Dravic]

Please. Less rain, at least...

[Elmetiacos]

Keep weather effects, but let's have less rain and fog. Or keep the rain and fog but replace the santa hats with top hats so we can all go round looking like Jack The Ripper in keeping with the weather.