Rainy Days Are Coming To Fractured Online As The New Weather System Goes Live

How’s the weather over at Fractured Online? Well, there’s going to be a high chance of rain with the addition of a dynamic weather system in the sandbox MMORPG’s latest beta update. The new weather system will work in tandem with the existing temperature system, precipitating temperature changes depending on the weather event.

“The weather is determined by a dynamic system of circular clouds that can spawn in different zones within a continent,” Dynamight Studios explained in a previous dev blog. “Each cloud has its own life cycle: first it grows, gradually darkening the sun, then if it has a precipitation event assigned, it starts precipitating (rain, hail, snow, etc..) and gradually shrinking in size, and finally, as it reaches a smaller pre-determined size, it stops precipitating and starts dissipating completely.”

“Each cloud determines a specific weather event, and during its lifetime it determines the precipitation particle type, the wind intensity and turbulence, other special effects like lightning, and the temperature variation,” the team added.

All of the cloud types currently have negative effects on the temperature although the team promises even more catastrophic effects coming in the future, such as acid rain, firestorms, and even meteor strikes.

You can find out more about the new weather system in the full patch notes on the Fractured Online official site. You can also learn more about Dynamight’s plans for the game in the dev stream below.