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econoodle 06:24 PM 11-02-2009

hi all bout to pick up 10 from amazon on the 49.99 'deal', hows the weather this time round?
snow specifically.
rain get soggy, muddy?

thanks guys [Reply]

BrianFifaFan 07:17 PM 11-02-2009

Originally Posted by econoodle:
hi all bout to pick up 10 from amazon on the 49.99 'deal', hows the weather this time round?
snow specifically.
rain get soggy, muddy?

thanks guys

There is weather in MM. But, in classic EA fashion, it's totally overdone. I feel like I'm playing in India during Monsoon season in my ManU MM. Every match has weather now. I did get to play in the snow vs. West Ham. That was cool, as the game felt different than a dry or rainy pitch. It does add some variety to the play styles. Visually it's cool, as well. No mud or tufts of snow, but the wet players and the raindrops on the replay screens look cool. I love how the game plays in the rain, too. I've had a shot that was off the end of my boot stop in front of the goal. Much better than last year, but it still could use some work on the frequency of it. [Reply]

econoodle 07:36 PM 11-02-2009

Originally Posted by BrianFifaFan:
There is weather in MM. But, in classic EA fashion, it's totally overdone. I feel like I'm playing in India during Monsoon season in my ManU MM. Every match has weather now. I did get to play in the snow vs. West Ham. That was cool, as the game felt different than a dry or rainy pitch. It does add some variety to the play styles. Visually it's cool, as well. No mud or tufts of snow, but the wet players and the raindrops on the replay screens look cool. I love how the game plays in the rain, too. I've had a shot that was off the end of my boot stop in front of the goal. Much better than last year, but it still could use some work on the frequency of it.

awesome response Brian, just what i was looking for.
In depth.

very very helpful.
it sounds immersive! [Reply]

SpHSpH 10:12 PM 11-02-2009

Is there no "work-around" to this like there was in FIFA09?

The "leave MM / go to exhibition / set the weather / return to MM" thing.

I still fail to understand why EA does not have the weather as an option in the game set-up screen. It seems like it should be just as complicated as changing the team kits ... and they let us do that.

Right? [Reply]

BrianFifaFan 12:03 PM 11-03-2009

Originally Posted by SpHSpH:
Is there no "work-around" to this like there was in FIFA09?

The "leave MM / go to exhibition / set the weather / return to MM" thing.

I still fail to understand why EA does not have the weather as an option in the game set-up screen. It seems like it should be just as complicated as changing the team kits ... and they let us do that.

Right?

It was supposed to add some depth to the MM. You wouldn't know what weather each match would have. But it's kinda overdone. The team knows about it, it has been brought up in the Developer Thread over on the EA UK Forums, but it doesn't appear it'll be patched unless something changes. David Rutter says that due to patch size constraints that the decision was made to focus on MM issues, not authenticity issues. Kind of agree with you about how they should have just let us enable it, vs. hard-cding it into the mode.

P.S. I have played the last 5 matches with either rain or snow. I feel like it's "The Day After Tomorrow!" LOL! [Reply]

econoodle 12:53 PM 11-03-2009

Originally Posted by BrianFifaFan:
It was supposed to add some depth to the MM. You wouldn't know what weather each match would have. But it's kinda overdone. The team knows about it, it has been brought up in the Developer Thread over on the EA UK Forums, but it doesn't appear it'll be patched unless something changes. David Rutter says that due to patch size constraints that the decision was made to focus on MM issues, not authenticity issues. Kind of agree with you about how they should have just let us enable it, vs. hard-cding it into the mode.

P.S. I have played the last 5 matches with either rain or snow. I feel like it's "The Day After Tomorrow!" LOL!

:-) [Reply]

ggsimmonds 04:18 PM 11-03-2009

I'm playing as DC United in my MM and out of 6 games I played so far, one has been rain and 2 have been snowy conditions....in the middle of spring. :-)

I love the weather effects, but the seasons are messed up. Kinda understandable since this is a global game though. [Reply]

Mad 69 06:09 PM 11-03-2009

I'm trying to turn weather off, it's not realistic to be playing in the snow when I'm at home playing in Palermo in MM, I don't think it snows there in October. [Reply]

econoodle 10:17 PM 11-03-2009

this was a problem with madden this year
snowing in tampa bay. [Reply]

calcutta 10:37 PM 11-03-2009

Yeah it snowed in one of my BAP Seasons in sunny North Queensland during the middle of summer :-)

To manipulate weather conditions though, you can simply set each team's stadium to one without snow/rain conditions in the main menu (under Team Mgt > Stadiums) before starting your next tournament or MM. I personally enjoy the weather variations though, only 2 of my 50 total games in my League Two season were in snow. [Reply]