Please add time of day randomness to maps! (Or at least rain/storms!)

[Lone Rebel]

Now I understand, thanks

Still, I guess the community won't mind to use up one or two more gigs for some more map variety. After all, HD are in TB nowadays, don't think that would be a problem (I downloaded about... uh... 10 gb just for the various beta version, no problem with that, got to sleep anyway )

We could try with just one map maybe, like Red October factory with some fog? Or spartanovka with rain? Sounds good to me

 

[Frell]

OF COURSE I DO NOT MEAN DO 24 DIFFERENT MAP VARIANTS FOR EACH HOUR

morning
noon
evening
midnight

with weather effects will be absolutely perfect. The maps will have to be baked to that time setting but believe me the effect will be well worth it

Sorry I have to post in color but im trying to get everyone on the same page

 

[Colt .45 killer]

Yes, but was it actually raining during the actual battle? If it wasn't, then it's not historically accurate. So there.

Yeah because we all know the real stalingrad was just the germans and russians fighting over ~8 distinct areas and ONLY on nice days of the week. if it rained they all went inside and played drinking games.

 

[Frell]

Who cares if it was raining during the battle, im pretty sure people were writing about more important stuff than the weather..

 

[Adenru]

Random stuff is what makes gameplay fun and last more. I'd love to see such feature.
I would download 3 Gb patch for this.

 

[Frell]

Even though it probably wont be near 3gb or 1gb at all but id still dl it

 

[Lone Rebel]

Even though it probably wont be near 3gb or 1gb at all but id still dl it

Why you say so? I haven't checked yet the dimensione of official maps, but shouldn't they be about same dimension than custom made maps?

 

[Xendance]

Why you say so? I haven't checked yet the dimensione of official maps, but shouldn't they be about same dimension than custom made maps?

The art maps in the game are about 1 GB total. Multiply that by the amount of variants you want.

 

[Lone Rebel]

Doh!... yeeeeeiiiishhhhh... 1 gb x map x variant... all in a singel download would be... around 20 gb? not bad

Guess we can scrap this idea then, for good

 

[Frell]

He said 1gb TOTAL, so to do 3 variants of each map with randomized rain could be alot but there could be a way around it

 

[Lone Rebel]

You would also need a quad core 4.5 Ghz machine and a unreleased Nvidia 6 Kepler series video card (or 3 580's in SLI) to run it with anything near acceptable frame rate.

Download the UDK and run the Day/Night cycle demo. Then imagine gameplay and player load on top of that.

The alternative is this. If it's so resource draining and no alternative way can be done atm, we have to put this aside. I understand that, probably, one day (maybe not that far) TWI or someone will manage to handle this cool feature in a better way, but since that "someone" pops up, we'll have to wait and hope i'm afraid

 

[Frell]

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