weather on rtw...

[Red Harvest]

What is amusing about weather is that the carried over the same bizarre feature from MTW: the weather changes every 5 minutes or so, with little regard to what it was "forecasted" to be. You can actually detect the slight pause as the new weather loads.

Here's a really novel idea ...weight the weather change probability. In real life if it is raining cats and dogs, chances are that 5 minutes later it will still be doing the same. It is extremely rare that it is bright and sunny within 10 minutes... Or raining 5 minutes after having a clear blue sky. As time goes on the chance of weather changing could certainly increase.

It does tend to go in sequence: fair, light rain, heavy rain, then light rain, then fair, then light rain, repeat... Instead of cycling so easily there should be some sort of probability that the weather will change (better or worse.) Most times it would not change on the first pass, or even the 2nd or 3rd.

Statistics have shown that the most reliable weather forecast is that tomorrow's weather will be roughly the same as todays. Now cut that down to 5 minute or one hour increments and think about the most likely forecast.

[Es Arkajae]

Depends, afterall theres a saying in Scotland "If you don't like the weather, wait around for five minutes".

I'd love to fight some battles in heavy fog that was genuinely obscuring though, especially if the AI was as handicapped as the player, kind of like a Jutland-like complete mess of a battle

[The Stranger]

RTW weather simply sucks, either if it rains, snows or it is foggy, the sky is always blue and unclouded

[hoom]

I thought the weather in 1.2 is much improved?
Though it also includes ahistorical fossil fuel horizon haze...

[The Stranger]

yeah the rain and snow are improved and you see it very good but the sky is almost always the same.

[Divine Wind]

Overall i think the weather system adopted by Rome is generally pretty good, especially the regional variations. What i miss however (mainly from Shogun) is the extreme heavy fog weather effects. I remember a battle where i only had one unit of warrior monks hidden in a treeline, while a whole army of Takeda troops marched around in circles looking for my single unit In the end they did find my small unit but alas, the timer ran out! Saved by the bell so to speak!

Ahhh those were the days.

[Vlad Tzepes]

Overall i think the weather system adopted by Rome is generally pretty good, especially the regional variations. What i miss however (mainly from Shogun) is the extreme heavy fog weather effects.

Absolutely agree - weather was spectacular in STW, got kind of dull in MTW (though winter fights still were a treat) and is completely dull in RTW. Maybe it has something to do with all the animations that have to run smoothly on the battlefield, dunno, (not a tekkie by any means) but it's a big loss... atmosphere just isn't the same anymore.

In 1.2 I got some rain in N Europe and some sandstorms in the East. The rain was simply some lines popping in and out on the desktop. Sandstorms were some blur rotating in close-up. Seemed to be there just to block your view, not to make the game more tense.