Weather and Time in Summoners Rift

Sektaris·May 20, 2015·172 votes·5,313 views

Just some ideas,

You'd load into a Summoners Rift game and it would have a randomized weather pattern for each game.

Sometimes the Rift would be rainy, while another could be snowing or even a perfect day.

Maybe games could start at night and transition to day, and others could start at day and then transition to nightfall. Summoners Rift can get kind of old after the 300th ranked game.

There could even be a setting to choose to have that or not before the game starts. I believe a system like this would greatly improve the overall enjoyment and quality of the game.

87 Comments

NarasimhaMay 20, 201586 votes

starts raining

...Well fuck

starts snowing

Anivia BOW DOWN MORTALS, FOR I AM YOUR GOD

Perfect sunny day

Diana has disconnected!

48983507DEL1May 20, 20152 votes

{quoted}

starts raining

...Well fuck

starts snowing

BOW DOWN MORTALS, FOR I AM YOUR GOD

Perfect sunny day

has disconnected!

I actually legit think this is the reason why Riot won't do it unfortunately :(

BlGANlMETlDDlESMay 21, 20152 votes

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I actually legit think this is the reason why Riot won't do it unfortunately :(

But it rains in the parts of the jungle where blue buff is

ApolloclipticMay 21, 20159 votes

That's why Brand can't jungle :D

Chaotic ReksMay 20, 201533 votes

the joke reminded me of this:

ApolloclipticMay 21, 20151 votes

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the joke reminded me of this:

Raven from TT :P Kappa

Vistha KaiMay 21, 20154 votes

https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1415996152/11874166.gif

VesarixxMay 23, 20151 votes

Also works on Rengar

CleverExpletiveMay 21, 201516 votes

{quoted}

Perfect sunny day

has disconnected!

Leona

http://38.media.tumblr.com/02eeeb60daf5613bf9d79a1b9e5597f9/tumblr_mfg0zxWpxi1rjdnouo1_500.gif

ApolloclipticMay 21, 20152 votes

You troll you :D

PickleBabahMay 21, 201511 votes

There could be interactions at the start of a game that corresponds to a certain champion. : I hate rainy days.

Rustling BushMay 21, 20154 votes

{quoted}

Perfect sunny day

has disconnected!

Leona Is legendary! ACED

AvatarRoku22May 20, 201519 votes

I miss the winter rift of 2012

Rew711May 22, 20151 votes

I can feel the boner. Bard

FluxBoundMay 21, 201510 votes

rip toasters

Chromatic EagleMay 21, 20153 votes

That plus unless they allow you to dial it back or remove it, will somehow upset the competitive players.

ElizasleynMay 20, 20158 votes

+1 or maybe even an option to choose your own weather/time settings.

JungHai0May 21, 20157 votes

Does not quite work that well. Rain or snow would be very detrimental to clarity.

Imagine Annie's stun indicator in the snow. It's already super hard to see with Frostfire Annie, snow would be worse.

Rain would be very annoying. Think back to when you played Minecraft. (Maybe you still do) Was rain a nice part of the game? Did you enjoy the rain? I hated it. It cluttered up the screen so much, and it'll do so in SR as well.

SolaxoMay 21, 20153 votes

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Does not quite work that well. Rain or snow would be very detrimental to clarity.

Imagine Annie's stun indicator in the snow. It's already super hard to see with Frostfire Annie, snow would be worse.

Rain would be very annoying. Think back to when you played Minecraft. (Maybe you still do) Was rain a nice part of the game? Did you enjoy the rain? I hated it. It cluttered up the screen so much, and it'll do so in SR as well.

For f*ck sake, why other games don't have problems with clarity, only LoL? Will this game stay in 2000 era forever?

FırewallMay 21, 20153 votes

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For f*ck sake, why other games don't have problems with clarity, only LoL? Will this game stay in 2000 era forever?

You just went full retard.

It's mainly due to the speed of the game that LoL needs to strive for clarity, I've seen MOBAs so slow paced that I could litterally play with Rek'Sai's vision range all the time. In League, you need the information, "where, when, and how" as soon as possible and that means we don't need rain, snow, or wind gusts clobbering up your vision.

FluxBoundMay 21, 20152 votes

The only thing faster is how I die in CSGO

Silents429May 22, 20151 votes

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For f*ck sake, why other games don't have problems with clarity, only LoL? Will this game stay in 2000 era forever?

I beg to differ playing Dota 2 had a hard as fuck time trying to concentrate on things given how everything blends in together.

TreyenMay 21, 20154 votes

dota2 has time of day built right in, and weather too if you have the item dealyjiggers...riot likes to throw buzzwords like "clarity" around to excuse their laziness and/or ancient spaghetti coded game engine.

Clockwork MadokaMay 21, 20151 votes

The time of day system is necessary for certain heroes, mostly Nightstalker.

TreyenMay 22, 20151 votes

some heroes use it, sure, but it's actually there because warcraft 3 had it built in...therefore dota did also.

Vesper117May 21, 20152 votes

It's a fair point though. Everything is balanced around everything else and that includes colours. I have trouble seeing some things as it is (I'm colourblind) and I'd hate for the colour scheme to be thrown off for something as pointless as weather.

Jeddy017May 21, 20153 votes

Well,then turn it off. Riot would obviously make a function like this optional if they were to do it.They recently add an "Eye Candy" option to the PBE that turns of all the animals & stuff on SR.

MacDthreeMay 21, 20151 votes

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kunkudunkMay 21, 20153 votes

The animations would only load for people her turn it on, it would be from their computer and not the server, thus not slowing you down.

Aria ValkyrieMay 20, 20154 votes

I feel like it would be amazing to have stuff like this. It could even be based on your specific champion or skin, or the common theme like if you have several of the Freljord champs, the rift could go icy to reflect it. get the shadow isles peeps and it'll go dark and night-y. get shurima champs or peeps with the sand skins, and it could look more dry and sandy. It could be a cool change, but i think that it might add a lot of work to get everyone to look right. Probably too much. I mean, they had to update everyone just to make them look right in the new rift, doing this would need a long process of change and addition to make them look even remotely right.

MacDthreeMay 21, 20154 votes

I may be the only person, but I think this would be a bit annoying. I already think the random rain in the jungle is pointless. The daylight/sunlight would cause color changes, which would make differences in buffs appearance/character models to color blind people like me bracing for the bullying for my disability And rain/snow type animations are really difficult when slightly color blind (or at least like I am, as there are different degrees) but especially the angle. our "eye"/ point of view is already in the "sky" looking down at the field. Rain falling from there would irritate me.

Champion SkinMay 21, 20154 votes

Well you could just have it as an option Off On - Random On - specific weather (or whatever)

MacDthreeMay 21, 20152 votes

don't know why I never thought of this. -_-

lDontLiftIcarryMay 22, 20151 votes

actually I play in colorblind mode. its not bad, the color difference is better imo.

lDontLiftIcarryMay 21, 20153 votes

I think No. I already lag with 15 fps in teamfights. Wont be getting a new computer for a few weeks or so..so no. option to turn off and then yes.

TomatosxMay 22, 20151 votes

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I think No. I already lag with 15 fps in teamfights. Wont be getting a new computer for a few weeks or so..so no. option to turn off and then yes.

Dang.. sounds like a you problem :]

lDontLiftIcarryMay 22, 20151 votes

still got diamond with 15 fps. -shrug-

TomatosxMay 22, 20151 votes

{quoted}

still got diamond with 15 fps. -shrug-

Oh....did I ask for your rank?

lDontLiftIcarryMay 22, 20151 votes

Yes, by assuming its a problem. its not. Just don't want it to become one with adding effects. there's already too much going on with the new map.

MeesterMooMay 20, 20152 votes

Some areas of the jungle already have rain in them, they could definitely improve on this.

Tribbles FoxfolkMay 21, 20152 votes

{quoted}

Just some ideas,

You'd load into a Summoners Rift game and it would have a randomized weather pattern for each game.

Sometimes the Rift would be rainy, while another could be snowing or even a perfect day.

Maybe games could start at night and transition to day, and others could start at day and then transition to nightfall. Summoners Rift can get kind of old after the 300th ranked game.

There could even be a setting to choose to have that or not before the game starts. I believe a system like this would greatly improve the overall enjoyment and quality of the game.

I would love it to have a day-night cycle like Dota 2 as well that reduces non-Ward-granted vision during the night.

Also, a weather system would be interesting. Maybe it'd be like Pokemon and the weather would change depending on how it is in a selected real-world city of your choice.

SR IS really drab right now, even with the visual update. In fact, the visual update kinda made it worse, considering the simplicity. Nobody plays TT and Dominion anymore and ARAM is just a clusterfuck, so not too fun.

DecritMay 21, 20152 votes

Frankly i think it is largely not needed. Without even mentioning visibility and clarity that would already deny this proposal, i really doubt somebody has a geographical attachment to the rift. What i mean is, while i say it' s good and gives immersion riding my kodo in the hills of Hillsbrad while it is raining it' s not the same for the rift for his own "out of place" nature: as far as we know it might not even exist in Runeterra, so even meteorological issues are in doubt. It would be good because it could give a little graphical diversity from game to game, but that would not be really much because it' s a detail that does not get caught by the attention of the player focused on the game - and is not so wll timed too, for example critters and other effects not only are fun because they happen at the right time where the player can have a bit of focus for it, but also happen due to player interaction ( having vision of a point, getting near a turret etc).

I wrote down a mess and i am sleepy, hope i made my point. Still +1 because is an interesting argument.

Silents429May 21, 20152 votes

As much as this would seem neat it would get annoying to see the effects while trying to play, and given Riots focus on clarity they wouldn't put these distractions into the players view.

Not to mention the performance problems to occur from doing it.

GundayMondayMay 21, 20152 votes

This would make so many toasters cry. Also makes the game a lot tougher to design when you have to make art visible in multiple environments. For clarity and counterplay and stuff. Would probably look cool, but would also probably hurt gameplay.

DrNovaMay 21, 20152 votes

One more thing for me to toggle off to run this game on my laptop.

DeaerasMay 21, 20152 votes

You do realize how bad this would affect your FPS right?

GatiMay 21, 20152 votes

it would be soo distracting...

would only work if you could turn on/off

Ironclad DragonMay 22, 20152 votes

You would dare anger the toaster gods?

A Miss FortuneMay 23, 20151 votes

If they sold stuff like a rainy Summoner's Rift for example, nothing special just some rain drops effects + darker ambient/shadows I would easily buy this, it gets boring seeing the same exact map over and over again and I believe it's psychologically proven that change in scenery can improve your emotional state tremendously. I think people seeing very simple changes like a Sunny, Winter, Rainy, Sandstorm, etc (different seasons, weathers, natural phenomenons) on the Summoner's Rift would make the game less repetitive.

Believe it or not the small things just like adding rain drops in the background or gusts of wind blowing on top of the changes in lighting could make everyone play the game more often in a more enjoyable way. I don't think this would be super easy for Riot to create, but I definitely don't think it would be difficult either. It would make the players more happy whether they realized it or not also.

EmbertineMay 23, 20151 votes

An interesting idea for sure. Riot has already experimented somewhat with rain on the rift. If you jungle in the red team's jungle, you can see that in one area it is raining constantly, although rather lightly.