Hi all, is it me or does the weather not change. You would have thought after nuclear war it would snow or rain. nope clear skies and 80oC

crazy

The way I see it, it means one of two things:

1: The creators decided not to add rain because constantly getting rained on with radioactive water would be annoying.

or

2: They just didn't think to add a weather system. Despite Fallout 3 being a great games, it lacks some of the details The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had.

i am thinking of getten the elder scrolls soon, dont think its linked to fallout but still looks good

I believe (from threads way back at release) that there was a weather system to be included, but I think graphics drain prevented it from getting put into the game. I'm not sure, but I think there may be a mod or two that provides it.

The seasons change, as in the sun gets weaker and stronger depending on the time of the year, but it doesn't have an effect on game play.

Or 3: They had so many problems with varying weather in Oblivion that they decided to leave it out with Fallout. In Oblivion, it was absurd that you could go from one part of the Imperial City where it would be nice and sunny, to the section right next door and it would be experiencing a raging thunderstorm. Or go into a shop to buy something, and when you come out the weather had changed completely. That sort of thing would happen constantly in the game.



There's probably at least half a dozen mods that provide varying weather. But actual precipitation isn't in most of them, there are no rain/snow meshes in the game you can use.

I had the impression it was supposed to be a barren desert, and so only really had one weather type. Hot and dreary.

That too. There's not alot of variation in desert climates, it's pretty much clear and sunny all the time. Which is what it's like throughout most of the Wasteland, aside from that green fallout in the sky. While it does cloud over in certain areas, clouds don't necessarily mean rain.

True, however deserts are notorious for having flood-level storms from time to time. And they are pretty damn intense. If i had to imagine that in Fallout 3, I am imagining my character being dragged into a Radio Active body of water and drowning lmao.

Odds are, alot of people aren't running "graphically intense" PCs (I realize this is for PS3 and Xbox 360 as well, but if you left out rain for only the PCs, PC gamers would revolt and quite possibly burn Bethesda HQ to the ground xD). they probably decided to leave it out, and figured it wouldn't take long for the modding community to add it in, and it didn't. There are a few different mods which add this feature.