New weather/seasons system?

[Manu La Canette]

CA just published these 4 images with this mention:

'It’s pretty hot here in the UK at the moment, but what’s the weather like in Total War: ROME II at the foot of Mount Vesuvius? Hmm, seems changeable…'

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What does that mean? Random season when triggering a battle?

[nrthee2]

just showcasing the weathers and seasons? (not all)

[DarrenTotalWar]

What did u get that from? (not the photo) but the thought of it being random, saying the weather is changeable, means it can be different, just like ALL TW games. They posted 4, so im guessing its the 4 seasons probably akin to 4 seasons a turn or 16months a turn.

[super_newbie_pro]

euhmmm... Its me or ? ... CA have a serious problem with the light and the setting of the black color !! Even if the sun is here, its too dark !! They have a problem with the colorimetry ! Except on the two last screen in down i like them, the two in up are horrible ! How can we play with this black level and this light effect ?!



EDIT : even if i try to delete the black with adobe LightRoom 5, its not good because blacks are too powerfull... OMG... CA do something !
But its better for me when when i correct the light on two screens in up :

[Manu La Canette]

just showcasing the weathers and seasons? (not all)

I don't know, they haven't released any informations about the system itself, but keep saying we are going for 1TPY. But here we can distinguish more or less the 4 seasons or at least important variation not just in the weather but the whole season. So how these different seasons will be implemented in a campaign map or a random battle?

[Manu La Canette]

euhmmm... Its me or ? ... CA have a serious problem with the light and the setting of the black color !! Even if the sun is here, its too dark !! They have a problem with the colorimetry !

I agree, if the 'summer' picture is their sense of 'sunny', well there's a colorimetry issue in this studio Yeah that's too dark for a sunny day, it would fit if Tchernobyl has blown once again a few miles away IMO.

Actually the 'summer' picture of the scene seems like an Instagram picture haha

[Lockcaps]

I don't know, they haven't released any informations about the system itself, but keep saying we are going for 1TPY. But here we can distinguish more or less the 4 seasons or at least important variation not just in the weather but the whole season. So how these different seasons will be implemented in a campaign map or a random battle?

They could just do 1 season per year, so for example Year 1 = Summer, Year 2 = Autumn, Year 3 = Winter, Year 4 = Spring - or have several years per season (which i would prefer)

[I2ain_2_Battle]

i like the photos. depending on where the sun is in the sky, the shadows might be more realistic on the mountains.

[❋ Flavius Belisarius ❋]

They could just do 1 season per year, so for example Year 1 = Summer, Year 2 = Autumn, Year 3 = Winter, Year 4 = Spring - or have several years per season (which i would prefer)

I think exactly the same.

[dom385]

I was thinking the same thing, the sun is pretty low in the sunny shot so the side of the mountain being dark make sense. This also isn't really even seasons, its just weather types, at least I hope so, autumn was my favorite season in shogun 2.

[Fishdawg]

Pics look awesome also looks like a fort map

[General Grievous]

It's hot on summer...
good, news if we are able to construct those defencives positions.

[Evelien]

I like it. I think the campaign map will 'life' if you know what I mean. It will change (like after every 30 seconds).

[Manu La Canette]

I was thinking the same thing, the sun is pretty low in the sunny shot so the side of the mountain being dark make sense. This also isn't really even seasons, its just weather types, at least I hope so, autumn was my favorite season in shogun 2.

It's not just the shadows, like super_newbie_bro said it's a the whole lighting that is problematic: there's color filters on the global rendering. Just look at the sky in sunny picture, what kind of country have this grey/green sky color? Seriously?

Anyway, no game breaker here, just not my taste!

[MrOuija]

Looks like a mix between Rome 1 and Shogun 2, awesome.

[LEGIO_XXX ULPIA]

please no 1 turn= 1 season... PLEASE!!!!

[kamikazee786]

id really like it if the sky was more blue and if the colors were a bit more varied like in Shogun II.

we havent seen much of the game but judging by this every area has a color scheme to it. the regions in the desert (battle of the nile and carthage) are those rusty dusty disgusting brownish color which just makes everything look dull and horrible

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Battle of the Nile

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I feel that Teutoburg forest is pretty decent although im not sure if that is because they've made that a custom tile or if that's the color scheme for Europe.

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and now we have this. 3 out of 4 of the seasons are all dark and gloomy and the one which is nice and sunny has a green sky

[Igor85]

please no 1 turn= 1 season... PLEASE!!!!

Better this than no seasons at all. Main thing is there are seasons on campaign map, rest is moddable.

[dom385]

Hmm looking at it against I do see what you mean, but yeah I can live with it, less black would be nice but at the same time the heavy skies do look kinda cool.

[Flikitos]

yep igor is right if we can mod it, that stupid one turn per year doesn't matter anyway.