It's official- No hail this time

"Sk8rblaze;c-16505771" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16505541" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16505460" wrote:
Another disappointment. The trade off being FX fog doesn't seem fair. What about the game play? Why bother having rain at this point?

Hail didn’t do anything in previous games except add a new death type and had sims react to the hail by being pelted by it. Hail didn’t really do anything in previous games so they probably left it out this time because they probably didn’t think it was necessary. They saved that little extra time and resources they would’ve spent on hail and adding proper reactions to hail to make other parts of the pack more detailed.

Hail wasn’t that big of a deal. Snow depth wasn’t that big of a deal. Yet, all of these “no big deal” omissions are starting to add up.

My question remains, and I mean this in the most non-toxic/bashing way, what are they spending their resources on over these basic weather effects? I really hope we find the answer soon.

This. Some people are even saying they don’t have it where they live, honestly that’s not a valid argument. People keep saying to spend their resources else where, but at this point what are they? At some point, “spending resources elsewhere” just isn’t good enough.

"Sk8rblaze;c-16505809" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16505790" wrote:

"06Bon06;c-16505547" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16505541" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16505460" wrote:
Another disappointment. The trade off being FX fog doesn't seem fair. What about the game play? Why bother having rain at this point?

Hail didn’t do anything in previous games except add a new death type and had sims react to the hail by being pelted by it. Hail didn’t really do anything in previous games so they probably left it out this time because they probably didn’t think it was necessary. They saved that little extra time and resources they would’ve spent on hail and adding proper reactions to hail to make other parts of the pack more detailed.

Which parts of the pack is more detailed. I mean there is less and less by the day they spend all this time on.

Trees blowing in the wind, sims animations reflecting the current climate (hot sims walk in a slouchy kind of way, wind blowing against the sim the sim is blocking the wind), lightning strikes actually emitting real light causing a brighter environment and more intense shadows, heat waves during hot weather, etc. all of these can be seen in the trailer.

"Sk8rblaze;c-16505771" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16505541" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16505460" wrote:
Another disappointment. The trade off being FX fog doesn't seem fair. What about the game play? Why bother having rain at this point?

Hail didn’t do anything in previous games except add a new death type and had sims react to the hail by being pelted by it. Hail didn’t really do anything in previous games so they probably left it out this time because they probably didn’t think it was necessary. They saved that little extra time and resources they would’ve spent on hail and adding proper reactions to hail to make other parts of the pack more detailed.

Hail wasn’t that big of a deal. Snow depth wasn’t that big of a deal. Yet, all of these “no big deal” omissions are starting to add up.

My question remains, and I mean this in the most non-toxic/bashing way, what are they spending their resources on over these basic weather effects? I really hope we find the answer soon.

Take a simple look at the trailer and you'll see all the great extra features and details they added, I already mentioned a few, all those details have never been in the previous games might I add.

All of the "features" you listed are better weather effects. I would expect better weather effects in a pack they are re-releasing, not once, but twice; 11 years after the original version. It seems very strange to me we would defend these omissions for things that should be improved off the bat with no question..

And mind you, they are omitting weather conditions here. That's really questionable for a pack surrounding around weather itself.

Exactly, for with each release I would expect something better but while the effects may be better in this version, the other areas lack and been gimped and not evolved just did a time warp back to the past.

"graventhe;c-16506264" wrote:

"CrystalAbyss1;c-16506257" wrote:

"Sk8rblaze;c-16505771" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16505541" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16505460" wrote:
Another disappointment. The trade off being FX fog doesn't seem fair. What about the game play? Why bother having rain at this point?

Hail didn’t do anything in previous games except add a new death type and had sims react to the hail by being pelted by it. Hail didn’t really do anything in previous games so they probably left it out this time because they probably didn’t think it was necessary. They saved that little extra time and resources they would’ve spent on hail and adding proper reactions to hail to make other parts of the pack more detailed.

Hail wasn’t that big of a deal. Snow depth wasn’t that big of a deal. Yet, all of these “no big deal” omissions are starting to add up.

My question remains, and I mean this in the most non-toxic/bashing way, what are they spending their resources on over these basic weather effects? I really hope we find the answer soon.

This. Some people are even saying they don’t have it where they live, honestly that’s not a valid argument. People keep saying to spend their resources else where, but at this point what are they? At some point, “spending resources elsewhere” just isn’t good enough.

I don't understand "I don't have hail where I live so it doesn't matter" this is the most ridiculous and funniest argument I've ever heard, I don't understand why people think weather EP for Sims that ships worldwide should revolve around local weather where they live!

I had to scratch my head on that one. :)

Wow this is just getting worse where is the Seasonal effects in this Seasons Pack. This "focus on other things" is getting more and more ridiculous. No gradual snow buildup, no sunburn, no hail what other surprises are we to expect from the release...

Sigh. So... no hail, no snow depth, no sunburn or tanning, no allergies. Remind me again, what are they including? :p

"elanorbreton;c-16506272" wrote:
Sigh. So... no hail, no snow depth, no sunburn or tanning, no allergies. Remind me again, what are they including? :p

Not igloos, that's for sure.

But we are getting more kinds of Snowmen!

I have one word for this situation.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

Oh, also snowball fights.

"elanorbreton;c-16506272" wrote:
Sigh. So... no hail, no snow depth, no sunburn or tanning, no allergies. Remind me again, what are they including? :p

A calender and thermostat.

"MidnightAura;c-16506278" wrote:

"elanorbreton;c-16506272" wrote:
Sigh. So... no hail, no snow depth, no sunburn or tanning, no allergies. Remind me again, what are they including? :p

A calender and thermostat.

That does seem to be all we're getting that's actually new (that said wasn't the calendar in the Sims 3?). I've looked at the lists of "new features" and nearly every single one has been done before. The only genuinely new features I can think of are the thermostat, the sim lightening powers and the kiddie pool. Whatever happened to improving and expanding on previous EPs?

"RnM92;c-16506287" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16506278" wrote:

"elanorbreton;c-16506272" wrote:
Sigh. So... no hail, no snow depth, no sunburn or tanning, no allergies. Remind me again, what are they including? :p

A calender and thermostat.

That does seem to be all we're getting that's actually new (that said wasn't the calendar in the Sims 3?). I've looked at the lists of "new features" and nearly every single one has been done before. The only genuinely new features I can think of are the thermostat, the sim lightening powers and the kiddie pool. Whatever happened to improving and expanding on previous EPs??

I feel sims 2 took a lot of what sims 1 had improved not and added new stuff. Sims 3 did the same, we got the old and then soccer and plenty of other fun new stuff. The spaceship alone is fun.

Now we are expected to be grateful for less objects and on top of that sprinklers and swings?

They said they really focused on summer and this far it only has sprinklers and a kiddie pool. What do the season have that they didn't focus on?

Okay, it has water balloon fights too if we have to count that. Pool parties? I don't see the best season's ever features.

I don't see where they spend all the the time of the features they left out. I hope they didn't exclude everything to work on calendars because I can imagine that being as exciting as real calendars.

"CrystalAbyss1;c-16506257" wrote:

"Sk8rblaze;c-16505771" wrote:

"filipomel;c-16505541" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16505460" wrote:
Another disappointment. The trade off being FX fog doesn't seem fair. What about the game play? Why bother having rain at this point?

Hail didn’t do anything in previous games except add a new death type and had sims react to the hail by being pelted by it. Hail didn’t really do anything in previous games so they probably left it out this time because they probably didn’t think it was necessary. They saved that little extra time and resources they would’ve spent on hail and adding proper reactions to hail to make other parts of the pack more detailed.

Hail wasn’t that big of a deal. Snow depth wasn’t that big of a deal. Yet, all of these “no big deal” omissions are starting to add up.

My question remains, and I mean this in the most non-toxic/bashing way, what are they spending their resources on over these basic weather effects? I really hope we find the answer soon.

This. Some people are even saying they don’t have it where they live, honestly that’s not a valid argument. People keep saying to spend their resources else where, but at this point what are they? At some point, “spending resources elsewhere” just isn’t good enough.

I want to know where the resources went.

Also I rarely get hail and never snow here and I want those in sims because sims is a game. If I only did real stuff on my game I guess I'd have to get rid of a lot including vampires.

And what's the problem with options? Options mean people that don't want it don't get it while the rest can enjoy it without having to spend $20 on a vacation pack then $20 for hail and let's not forget a part of fall is in another pack for $10