Weather?

Re: Atmosphere?

you could have a radiation effect tho
that wud be mad and wud totally fit the starcraft theme
maybe they cud even have a halo ring lol

 

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Man i love atmosphere idea but I'm not so sure it should affect gameplay too much...
Night and day is also nice but game would lose its flavor if they put many units that get unbalanced bonuses
during night,it would become much more predictable.

 

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well normal weather effects shud just be there to look nice
but there shud be the wc3 concept of night
where units cannot see as far at night as aposed to daytime
i though that was a pretty good concept

 

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thats why sc2 need day and night cycle. it would be innovative and pwn all other RTS. and it should affect gameplay. =p

 

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As long as they don't make the weather effects awkward. Having rain on space platform seems a bit odd.

 

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Really great ideas, especially the snowing on the units that stands imobile for some time. I think it would be cool if they also could add somewhat of persistent bodies option, similiar to that effect in dawn of war. I doubt it though that blizzard actually will.. And it would't matter for the zealots anyway. I just love signs and hints of a once heated battle. It's most likely though that we will encounter some kind of weather effects. Didn't they allready talk about night fighting or did they flush that idea?

I think that we just have to trust blizzard on that one, that they would never do something that stupid. If, it's not some kind of small meteoric rain of course

 

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i reakon that there should be different types of weathers for different planets, say on a world with TONS of vespene gass outlets there should be acid rain that slightly damages your units and on magical planets there should be scaled down psi-storms that damage all units and every now and then a rare "one species" damaging event i.e a commet storm that only damages terran units and a acid rain that damages protoss

 

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I say no to the above on account of randomness

 

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Nice ideas, they should keep it out of inital gameplay but add it in the map editor cuz otherwise it imbalances things.

 

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i agree with zergalicious
those effects would make the game unbalanced as some units would have advantage of map over other units and such
though if it was saved for map editor or um does SC2 have custom games? then that would be best

 

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yes it has custom games, it actually will get a stronger editor than wc3

 

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will sc2 have a game like DotA for wc3 and would it be called DotA
i reckon that would be pretty cool you could even have some wc3 heroes in sc2 DotA

 

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I think this is actually quite a good topic.

I can see there being effects like Earthquakes and Sandstorms, etc.... but it can't affect gameplay other than making it look neat or offering a break in the graphics.

It wouldn't be too tough on the processing of the game (obviously, they included rain, etc. in WC3) so I don't see why it couldn't be included, but it definitely shouldn't affect units.

I also like the snow pilings, etc.

 

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As long as they don't affect gameplay there's no reason not to have weather. Even if the game doesn't have weather systems in it, you can always add them through the almighty editor.

 

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It would be nice but only if doesn't hurt performance. Remember Blizz wants to keep it accessable to everyone, not just those with supercomputers.

 

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There already has been games with simple day/night changes (i. e. Dark Colony, where Alien units where stronger at night) or weather (anyone remembers Earth 2160?) But there many, more recent strategies, where environment was implemented... Imho this improvement has only good sides...

 

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It would be cool to have atmospheric effects, but it shouldn't have any direct impact on the game. Any random event would add elements of luck to a game that should be based solely on strategy. Even periodical events such as day and night should not affect gameplay, since it would cause temporary shifts in balance, and early on in a game this could be catastrophic for a player who would have won if strategy alone had been the determinant.

On a side note, did anyone else think of Dune when the sandstorms were mentioned?

 

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i think that there should be a toggle that determines if there are storms

 

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Yes, haha, I did when I started the thread.

Random weather, yes.
Different types of weather determined by map/world, oh yeah.
Affect gameplay, not necessarily, I just want them for cinematic reasons. The lights on, say, the Nomad and Planetary Fortress would look bad ass at night...

 

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i think that the cinematics in sc2 will be beastly