While I was playing on AoP, I have seen nice looking weather effects such as rain and desert storm. Both of these effects probably affect on player condition, his/her aiming, fov, moving and so one. I am thinking about topic and ihmo Reloaded should have something similar. Improved rain same like in AoP (darker light) with some effects could give different experiences and impact on gameplay. Just random everywhere: cities, random encounters, bases, tents, quests places. Look how you could adjust atmosphere on specific places. Heavy rain in Den at night or creepy, quest place.
The main question is how those sexy effects affect performance issues? Can we get weather effects without losing fps? Can people with wooden pc play comfortable?
For me:
+ variety and sexy effects
+/- open path for modifing combat aspects (probably hard to balance)
+ better immersion
+ something new in this 7 years old fonline-like game
- performance issues, fps
- hard to code (?), ask for AoP stuff?
Let me know what are you thinking.