No Night and Day Cycles?

Crofton Begean

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2005

First of all I love the game. I enjoyed the beta this past weekend. But I noticed the sun never went down and the moon never came up. Are there no night and day cycles? That feature seems pretty standard these days--even Diablo II had that.

Crofton

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

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Originally Posted by Crofton Begean
First of all I love the game. I enjoyed the beta this past weekend. But I noticed the sun never went down and the moon never came up. Are there no night and day cycles? That feature seems pretty standard these days--even Diablo II had that.

Crofton
no changing cycles alas

still very nice though

Thumpy

Thumpy

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Minnesota

Wow, i am acually very pleased that there is no night. Just limits your viewing range. Is there any real benefit to it?

-Thumpy

Crofton Begean

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2005

I agree that your view is limited during the night, but it's still cool to watch the sky change from blue to orange to black and have village lights start to pop up on the horizon.

Freyas

Freyas

Champion of the Absurd

Join Date: Jan 2005

Spirits of War

Mo/W

The missions are intended to take place at certain times of the day- for example, in the Borlis Pass mission, you have to get the refugees to shelter in Grooble's Gulch by nighttime. It wouldn't make much sense to go through 2 day-night cycles while you're working on that mission, or even to have it turn night halfway through. Riverside Province is a mission that you do at nighttime- they do have day and night, and do have the capability to switch between the two(as anyone who was in LA at the end of the BWE could attest to). I'm pretty sure a day-night cycle won't be in the game for missions and such like that, but I could see a possibility of having it in towns and outposts, and possibly even EA's.