Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
It depends on what region you are in. Carthage, Italy, Spain have dry weather for the most part. In anything north of the Pyrenees or the Alps, you will get rain/snow in every battle. It cycles about every 5 minutes...just like in MTW. The strange part about the rain is that it is hard to tell it is raining. The new engine doesn't do weather very well.
Personally, I believe that the effects for heavy rain should be the same as most MMORPGs (IE: EverQuest and Dark Age of Camelot), where a heavy "fog" obscures everything except for a radius small around you. That would be quite interesting to see if it could be implimented in the expansion...