Damn you PC gamers :disco:
you get all the good stuff :banghead:

Don't care.
Don't care.

Write-in vote: Thunder and Lightning should be the names of a matched pair of dual-wielded artifact weapons.

Actually, it's the name of a real husband and wife duet. How about some roving minstrels?

LIGHTNING & THUNDER were the Milwaukee based husband and wife singing duo that entertained fans across the Midwest with their Neil Diamond/Patsy Cline/ABBA revue for over 17 years. Lightning replicated the grit and gusto of early Neil Diamond while Thunder belted out the hits of ABBA and Patsy Cline. LIGHTNING & THUNDER are the focus of a feature length DOCUMENTARY FILM currently being produced by New Jersey based, Corn Filmworks, Inc. Corn's cameras filmed the singing duo on and off the stage for over 7 years capturing the extraordinary epic story of Lightning and Thunder, Milwaukee's Singing Sweethearts. The film is scheduled for completion in 2007.

Ya...waaaaaay obscure reference :rofl:

ON topic: don't forget about ball lightning, sprites, or a good chain lightning spell with the sound effect Oh, and Call Lightning as well.

Em . . . they had storms in OB, not sure why you guys are asking them to "add" it.

i'm DOWN for ANYTHING that would make ANY game more realistic and believable! especially for an EPIC game like SKYRIM!
i don't really like games that are over-the-top UNbelievable in physics and storywise.

It would be so hilarious if you were walking in one of the cities, all of a sudden someone challenges you to a duel, steps back to draw his sword and then gets struck by lightning. Yeah don't mess with Dovahkiin!

YES!

I'd say lighting should still be in the background, not actually striking the player or anything else, but we should see visible lightning bolts, rather than just flashes in the sky. The risk of actually being struck by lightning would add nothing to the game as it's not something you can in any way predict or really do much to avoid or cause it to happen, short of not being outside in thunder storms at all, which would make them rather pointless seeing as if there IS a risk of being struck by lightning, players are not going to choose to be outside in thunder storms, does, it would add no challenge to the game, just entirely pointless annoyance if you just happen to get struck when you could not have done anything to prevent it.

As far as thunder goes, realistically, how much of a delay there is between it and the lightning, if there is any perceptible delay, should depend on how far away the strike is, but I don't expect Skyrim to go into so much detail as to have lightning occur different distances from the players' location, so having the thunder happen at the same time as the lightning seems like an alright compromise, as I think that would feel less unrealistic than there always being a uniform delay between lightning and thunder.

Anything not confirmed people are going to ask for.

I think the thunderstorms in Red Dead Redemption were some of the most brilliantly implemented weather effects to date. When these effects are handled properly, they can really add to the atmosphere and environment, which is big in a game that emphasizes exploration of an well-crafted world. I hope Skyrim has some good effects. It would be rather interesting to see how the animals would react to the weather, like the dogs and horses did in RDR.

Yep. It'd be annoying, and wouldn't be "realistic" at all - how many times have you been struck by lightning?

Your getting your [censored] kicked by a dragon and all of a sudden *crack* the thing get frickaseed

I've nearly been struck twice in my life. Once when I was swimming in a lake when a squall blew up and lightning struck a telephone mast on shore, causing a shock to pass through the water. Very tingly. The second was on Crete when I foolishly (and deliberately) decided to climb a ridge in the middle of the storm at 4am to take some long exposure photo (film) shots. That one hit less than fifty metres away, seriously stunning and deafening me.

The closest 'safe' strike however was when I was sleeping at home as a child and lightning struck the huge old oak tree just twenty metres from our house. That bang literally made me reflexively flinch out of bed and incidentally split the oak and blasted off one its branches.

So its come close a few times. However, unless you stupidly ignore precautions - for example go climbing to the peak of a mountain, wave your sword in the air and shouting "All gods are bastards!" the chances of being hit by lightning are reasonably slight.

I don't think lighting should be hitting characters. That's not something that's typical at all. There's also warning before lighting strikes. If you feel a static sensation, like when you touch one of those static generators, you should drop to the ground and roll away. Even though that's a real last minute countermeasure that can work in real life, should they introduce quick time events in Skyrim to drop to the ground if you feel static? No, I absolutely do not think so.

Putting real lightning and thunder mechanics in game wouldn't necessarily mean going out of the way to make sure it strikes a character. You could play for 5000 hrs and never even see a strike hit the ground or you could play for 5hrs and get hit directly, it's all left to chance. That is another thing that sets Bethesda's games apart from just about every other developer out there. When the other guys put something in their games they tend to make sure the player experiences it at least once. Bethesda on the other hand puts tons of stuff in the game that the average player never even sees because that is just the way of a true open world and how Bethesda can boast having the largest amount of content of any game of it's type. Think about that next time before you dismiss something as unnecessary or undesirable.

Could be really cool. Epic(in the true meaning of the expression) battles in a thunderstorm FTW

Storms and Sound v3 lightning for all weathers
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8711
Was awesome in Oblivion, and I really want to see similar or better weather effects in Skyrim

This sounds like a fun idea. Anything to improve the atmosphere, and immersion, also theres something comforting about lightning, and thunder storms.
Plus having the slim chance of seeing lightning strike a heavily armored enemy would be too hilarious.

thumbs up for this!

Yes, yes, one quadrillion times, yes.


I love storms to an abnormal degree. If it starts storming near me, I will drop everything and spend as much time as possible in my enclosed porch, relaxing and watching it. I would love for storms to be an impressive thing in Skyrim.

we know that water this time around will have dynamic waves, with thunderstorms we could have a fun storm at sea quest

"hoist the sails! clear the deck! hands on that wheel man!"

By the nine! Theres a thunderstorm on the loose
I can only imagine the epicness of trawling my way up a snowy mountain at night slaying werewolves as the lightning crashes around me and thunder roars out louder then the death cry of the beast Ive just sunk my sword into.

As long as it doesn't storm too much and then when it does it would be a holy shii this is awesome moment, I'm happy.

I'd also want to see ball-lightnings, rare but cool real-life things

+10

ill be happy if the rain doesn't fall through roofs and coverings