Don't know the science behind it, but would acid rain caused from fallout be feasible in the game? You would have to take shelter.

Im sure it would be feasible, but outside some form of hardcoe mode its not that attractive to add it out of a gameplay perspective, kinda svcks some of the fun exploration factor out of the game adding a element that forces you to run for cover then stand around till it stops.

Well you can have umbrella or raincoat I think.

Then you have temporary gear restriction instead, still bothersome. Remember folks its suppose to be fun for the average Joe gamer, not a simulator ;3

I'm also not sure... but the game is most likely 200 years after the war. Would there still be acid rain after such a long time?

It would be a little late for that. If the game was set one or two centuries before, maybe...

If it (the radiation) got caught up in the atmosphere then maybe but after 200 years if any it would be weak.

Acid rain is not caused by radiation but by industrial pollutants that are emitted by smokestacks and the like. I think it is sulfur dioxide that forms sulfuric acid and gets deposited in waterways and whatnot killing fish. It was a problem back in the 70's with pollutants from the Rust Belt being deposited in the Northeastern US but got cleaned up with better scrubbers on the smokestacks.

Some sort of real acid falling from the sky that melted everything would not make any sense at all as it would kill everything and poison the land.

Radioactive fallout would pretty much all be deposited in the first few weeks, precipitation would knock the rest out of the atmosphere. There would be no logical reason to still have radioactive fallout 200 years after the bombs were dropped. The really dangerous particles are the heaviest and would drop first.

From what I remember the acid rain season is long over since shortly after the bombing.

Ide be in favor or cherry chocolate rain instead. Three dog singing it on the radio.

Precisely.

It would be a catastrophic event for the region affected by it and I'd hate it if no NPC mentions it, no wild-life is affected by it and not even any of the environment seems different.

That's why I really do not want to see acid rain. Don't get me wrong, it'd be neat for a DLC's story set in its own little local where by the end acid rain comes and mess everything up.

Imagine a place like The Pitt turning into the Sierra Madre by the end of the quest-line of the DLC, going from bad to extremely bad.

But for the main game? It'll be way too big for reactivity to do acid rain justice.

Radioactive rain which is quite modest in its radioactivity could work I guess, but it should really be a rare occourance(?) and NPC's should be prepared for it with shelters and stuff.

Then the following days should be quite limited as wild-life will stay inside ruins or caves, NPC's will wait it out in their homes and the land will have a constant +1rad per second.

But even then; How does radioactive rain just 'happen'? Unless a nuke or something goes off or a reactor goes into meltdown it should'nt just happen out of nowhere.

I'd rather not see any wild weather in the main game. It works for DLC's (Sierra Madre, The Divide, The Pitt), not so much for the main game.

There is just too much reactivity needed for NPC's and the gameworld itself to do extreme weather justice.

no. in fact, we need not look any farther than japan or the Ukraine after the Chernobyl disaster to know that within about 20 yrs plant and animal life would have started to return.

Chernobyl is a terrible example because it was a nuclear leak, not thousands upon thousands of nuclear bombs raining down from the sky, all across the world, scorching ENTIRE CONTINENTS, and causing a nuclear winter that lasted for like a year.

Sure, it could be in the game. The question is if it's a fun thing to have in a video-game or if it's just unnecessary.

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....will be a great idea, but not how you guys think, actually the acid rain is not a toxic that actually drops from the clouds full with acid water, it is totally the contrary, when a "acid rain" drops it cause the emission of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.

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Think it this way, the dioxide is actually the odorless gas that is vital to every living life in earth (that actually is true by the way) taking that to a note, then we know that this compounds actually makes a huge different impact when a environment is contaminated with toxic. (like this game presents) so...

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This acid rain when it drops on the floor and or make contact with the environment, which reacts with the water molecules in the environment / atmosphere it does products acids, due to the cause of the soil toxic that are in the ground and environment.

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So it could be possible to have it in game, but not like if the rain drops on top of you, you will burn to death lol... that will be totally "non accurate" or even too stupid to put that up, instead it could cause what in real life cause, intoxication in your body, health and nature. If we put this on the games perspective, well sickness that can cause you life degeneration or any kind of symptom that can't be cure easily. Instead of the clothing or armor being impact by this rain acid, that will not be even a reality in real life, because the clothing material is not a living organism and it can't be affected by this kind of toxic. (due to the fact that the rain acid only affect on materials such as stones, statues, buildings and metal)

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Even so when you first step out of the vault, you are being exposed from the first time you step out of the vault. But I don't see the armors or clothing having a huge impact in the matter as you guys think. The only way I can see this having impact in the game perspective is that the degeneration of armor points could drop slightly downwards depending how much you use it.

its not a terrible example because it was and extreme release of radioactivity that killed everything and left the region uninhabitable. the radiation subsided, plants began growing, and wildlife moved back in far, far, quicker than anybody predicted. sure, there weren't the concussive effects, or fires that a nuclear exchange would entail, but that's not what were talking about in the case of acid rain.

They already had the Black Rain the week after the Great War, from all the radioactive ash and soot thrown up by the bombs causing a lot of cloud-seeding. I think two centuries of no new particulate pollutants being put up by industry long gone is enough to make the rain not acidic.

Considering the trouble they've had with rain and snow falling through cover that might not be so great visually

Hah, they implement this, and every NPC in the cell just drops dead...

No acid rain isn't possible unless there is a lot of Heavy industry and or cars using gasoline with sulfur in it. In order to have acid rain you need high amounts of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere. The Great War wouldn't have caused that. It was over 200 years ago.

Also why do I get the feeling when people say "acid rain" they think of something that is super deadly if it falls on you? It doesn't work that way either.

They're probably associating the term with GoW where the acid rain kills you

No acid rain. Go look information on the planet Venus, it has acid rain daily.