New weather system = wow!

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Originally Posted by nats

I just cannot for the life of me understand why all these things have had to be disabled to get the game working for everyone - I mean even people with high end computers cannot put the detail up. How come the developers were not aware of how slow the game was running when they were designing it? I suppose it just looks like the whole game was completely over designed from the ground up. Why didnt they just simplify the clouds a bit to enable an overcast sky?

Didnt they ever beta test the game at all?

Complex weather was announced as an experimental feature from the start. There are plans to have it working some time in the future, it just isn't optimized yet - it is here for you to "try at your own risk".

The whole game was designed "for 2013" and thus has many options "disabled under the hood" as you put it. This is an engine built to last next 10 years, or so we have been told.

So - nothing really to be surprised about.