Weather

[silver slyph]

in d2lod and previous games you see it raining, daylight, night, ect.....

how the weather effects your gameplay would be interesting i think.

example 1: at night, your light radius should be reduced to a yard or so. where as during the day it should be unobstructed. same thing for a cave or ruin, it should be almost black in there unless you have a torch or something.

example 2: when its raining your run/walk speed and attack rating should be decreased because of the wet ground (slipping and sliding).

example 3: traveling through a blizzard (cold effect), thunderstorm (hit by lightning), strong winds (physical damage).

what do you think?

 

[Arkillo]

Example 1 was in D2.
Example 2 and 3 don't really make sense. I mean, if you think about it, the Blizzard thing, or Raining woul djust become really annoying after a short amount of time. Not to mention "Cannot Be Frozen" would nul the blizzard effect, as would lighting absorb nul the thunderstorm thing.

 

[silver slyph]

true, but it should have an effect on your life regenerating and visibility. a nice morning fog would be cool.

 

[Arkillo]

How would weather effects have to do with your life regen?

 

[SweatyOgre]

I could run around naked in a blizzard, t-storm, or hurricane without getting hurt at all unless I got pnuemonia, was struck by lightning, or was hurled into a hard object by wind, all of which are pretty rare, except the one for in a hurricane.

What I'm saying is, if a normal human can be out in severe weather without immediately becoming injured, a D3 hero can.

 

[Darkmatter]

Make the Thunderstorm electrify parts of the ground, like randomly strike. The Blizzard Area won't be like D2, it could be like a massive snow/ice storm, and as such you would be frozen despite Cannot Be Frozen (Much like Holy Freeze can do, but with a storm).

I do like your ideas. Weather should effect gameplay, and it could also effect how monsters fight and if they want to fight or run away. ^.^

 

[SweatyOgre]

I like the idea of weather affecting gameplay, but it needs more fine tuning than silver_slyph applied.

 

[Darkmatter]

Most things need more tuning, but the general concept is really nice I think. ^^