Air RB Weather and Time of Day need an adjustment

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I have logged the weather and time of day of 240 recent Air-RB matches I played, with a BR-range of 4.0 - 6.0 (idk if BR can make a difference there).

WT has a lot of ToD and weather settings, as can be seen in the testflight/testdrive but in actual matches you will only find the following:
Dusk, Dawn, Morning, Evening, Noon and Day for the ToD and;
Hazy, Thin Clouds, Partly Cloudy, Cloudy and Thunderclouds for the weather (I did once have a “low cloud cover” match at 3.3 I think)

Results:
Thunderclouds: 19.6% (bad)
Cloudy: 18.8% (bad)
Partly Cloudy: 20.8% (ok)
Thin Clouds: 23.8% (good)
Hazy: 17% (good)
((Clear: 0% !!!))

Dusk, Dawn, Morning, Evening: 33% (bad/ok)
Noon, Day: 67% (good)

These results are of course not in any way definitive given the low amount of matches observed but the trends are clearly visible. I asume the the theoretical percentages are: 20% on each of the five weather settings which are actually used and 33% for the “bad” and 67% for the “good” ToD. (Given how well the numbers match a 1/3 - 2/3 split in ToD I assume Gaijin themselves group them in the same way).

Personally I would like, ney, need Gaijin to reduce the amount of “bad” settings in favor of “ok” and “good” ones! Please oh mighty snail I beg you! I want to see the other people in my match.

I have found some posts of users saying they want “harsher” weather settings and I do agree that they are quite atmospheric (no pun intended) and flying in the rain or having the sun rise/set can be cinematic as fook but actually playing a PvP game in it is horrible given it is not some hour long community mission but a ~ 10 - 15 min. TDM where the tickets often run out before the timer does and so positioning and beeing able to see and engage the enemy is obviously of the utmost importance.

We all know that the already imperfect spotting system gets even worse when the weather and ToD suck along side the fact that it is just much harder (and imo not in a fun, challenging way) to see people in the dark / impossible through clouds. Especially when you mix a bad ToD with bad weather, like Thunderclouds and Dawn🤮 (shit is darker than a black hole).

I do not want the “bad” settings removed but reduce the amount and maybe make them mutually exclusive so there are no bad ToD and weather settings at the same time(e.g. above).

Does anybody agree with this? (or am I just salty that I get put in bad situations because of the weather?)

  • Yes (adjustments are needed)
  • No (keep as is)
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I know there already is a post about it but it is old and I was hoping to maybe get more attention to this topic. Old post:
https://forum.warthunder.com/t/air-rb-dynamic-weather-conditions/160010

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk and I apologize for any grammatical or other mistakes made.

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Clarification:

Air battle weather and time of day need an adjustment.

The same issue extends to air simulator battles.

While it’s possible to fish for the ideal lobby, I’d much prefer to be able to join any game with at least 6 vs 6 players and know I’ll get to have fun rather than flying blind unable to find enemies thanks to insane thunderclouds or haze.

“Hazy weather” is probably the worst. It makes planes pop in and out of existence, and combined with “Evening” time of day turns air sim into a survival horror experience with pitch black soil and thick fog all around you.

From when I played ARB, I recall the same “hazy” weather causing markers to disappear with little apparent logic at close range. You might want to mark it as bad yourself. At least clouds are logical and predictable in their effect on line on sight.

I’d really like if “light” and “partial” clouds and of course “clear” weather at morning and noon formed at least 66% of all weather outcomes at BR brackets below 10.0. I say 10.0 as a rough guesstimate of the point where radar becomes a thing to enable universal all-weather capability. I did not use “radar capable” because technically F6F-5N and P-61 and that Me-410 have radar/night fighter capability to shut down certain people who love latching onto regularities.

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