Forum:What about the rain?

In Fallout world there is no rain? 62.201.124.131 19:30, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

To my understanding, the Fallout world is rife with both rain, droughts and lazy developers. --Headcrab 23:32, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Based on the dialogue mentions, there is rain in the Fallout world, it just wasn't implemented in any of the games. Ausir 22:34, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

well the only recorded "rain" would be nuclear fallout if considered heavy acid rain. Other than that, I don't think there is any other rain. Even if there was I could imagine it would be heavily irradiated.
 * Actually,its been indicated that the rain glows,just ask a few civilians in the Boneyard. Fiedoggist High Priest 14:41, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

There has already been a thread about this. Sozzles. Anyway, no, there is no rain. But, if ya want some, there is a mod somewhere for it. Spoon 14:43, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * There is rain,the developers are just too lazy to include it. Fiedoggist High Priest 14:47, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

The official history of Fallout indicates that, a few weeks after the bombs fell, it rained a thick, black rain that poisoned what plant and animal life wasn't killed in the initial explosions. Thereafter all plants were dead, and the world became an arid desert in which no rain ever fell again. And I'm sure, if it did, you wouldn't want to be outside in it. Nightweaver20xx 05:52, September 2, 2009 (UTC)
 * You're wrong. It still does rain, based on dialogues in all 3 games. It just isn't implemented in-game. Ausir(talk) 16:40, September 3, 2009 (UTC)

Rain would be a very cool addition though... It would be neat to have some sort of acid/irradiatied rain come at random times, forcing your character to seek shelter or take damage or rads. It could add a whole new danger to exploring, possibly even different creatures that come out in the rain, or just limited visibility to make it harder to spot approaching enemies. God there are so many possible ways to better this game (not that it isn't already awesome)... I wish there was some way we could communicate our ideas to the deveolopers. --SpiderJerusalem2 20:20, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

Don't you know, SJ? Developers are like the Enclave. They've got eyes EVERYWHERE, they just don't talk to us =P --Marked318 09:30, September 30, 2009 (UTC)

Meh. It sounds interesting, but it would detract from the fun of the game for me. There was a similar effect in the original Legacy of Kain, in which the rain would inflict damage to you due to being a vampire. It helped the plot, but it hurt gameplay because I was being damaged for having the misfortune of going outside when the RNG didn't want me to.

Another example that really bugged me was in Mafia, the 1940's gangster GTA rip-off; cops would pull you over for speeding. You know, like when you're doing a mission in which you're involved in a high speed chase through the city? Yeah. The game punished you for going faster than 30 miles an hour to chase a car going 45 miles an hour during a mission in which you were supposed to catch said car.

Fallout, and FO3 especially, has a very heavy exploration aspect. Having "radioactive/acid" rain means that you either take damage for playing the game, or not play the game as you sit idle waiting for the rain to let up. Doesn't sound "fun" to me. Airos.the.Tiger 10:03, November 27, 2009 (UTC)

It's just one of those if-then things. like, if the rain just causes rad increases, and you have enough rad-x and radaway, then it would be a cool aesthetic property to the game. but if it causes heavy, constant damage, and lasts for hours, then the whole game is pretty much ruined.Rainman222 17:34, January 9, 2010 (UTC)Rainman222

I think the idea is ok if, for example the rain falls extremely heavily for a few minutes leaving the character with a very small LOS, a la hard rain campaign in L4D 2 Sheepbiter 09:59, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

I think it is a good idea to make a rainy mission. Something like an unusually heavy rain falls, and the rivers go back to life in DC and we need to help build a dam or something to protect Rivet City for example. Plus it looked better the wasteland with a running river, not just the emptyness.

Let it rain. I would prefer the short powerful rain so it doesn't kill the fun. Yum Brahmin 21:31, July 26, 2010 (UTC)

it should rain and there should be sandstorms...fighting the enclace would have been better if i could hear and see the rain dropping on my t 45d power armorPaladinjames92 10:53, July 27, 2010 (UTC)paladinjames92