Here's your daily weather forecast
Okay, I'm not going to be posting about the weather where you live because I'm no psychic. But what I will talk about today, is an exciting new gameplay mechanic coming to Last War Season 1, the weather!
Do we have to wear a coat to play now?
No no no, the world your base lives in will actually be under the influence of a new weather mechanic. The type of weather will affect your gameplay and interactions. To find out how, let's first look at the different types of weather, there are 7 of them!
Cloudy weather
This is the neutral weather and has no effects, neither negative or positive. It is also the very first weather effect you will encounter as the first 2 days the weather will always stay cloudy.
Positive weather effects
Let's first have a quick look at the 3 positive effects.
Sunny weather
Sunny weather gives a 30% experience buff from killing monsters.
TIP: This is the best time to level to rush your profession up! When this occurs at the start of the season, it's time to farm monsters and quickly reach lvl 40 to unlock your skills.
Rainbow
The rainbow weather effect provides a passive experience gain for professions while you are offline. This weather effect is ideal for gathering and idle experience gain. The experience does not tick constantly, but you get a set amount awarded at regular intervals.
Light rain
This is perfect for combat situations. When engaging with monsters in the world map, you will NOT be able to acquire virus stacks from killing them or trigger it's effects.
In player versus player combat, attackers do not carry virus stacks and defending team takes reduced virus damage.
TIP: Challenge high-level mobs as you can not acquire additional virus stacks upon failure. This is perfect for achieving those first-time kills.
Negative weather effects
There are also 3 negative weather effects
Windy weather
All march speed is reduced by 30%. This impacts all travelling on the map and could cause a garrison or rallied attack to fail so be sure to look into your timing windows when traveling in windy weather.
Foggy weather
This weather can be dangerous as it can spiral your virus debuffs out of control. When engaging against monsters in the world, rallies, stronghold attacks, etc. you will gain extra virus stacks and the debuff can ramp up quickly then.
TIP: Having active members online to cure you from your virus stacks helps out a lot to counter this effect!
Acid Rain
This is the most dangerous debuff of the weather mechanic. Virus stacks accumulate automatically over time, this effect can not be stopped. What you can do, is have your virus stacks cleared by members applying serum, which is explained in the article about radiation.
How it works
In the top left corner, on the world map, you will see the current weather in effect on your server.
If you click on this icon, you will see a detailed overview of the weather report. Here you can see the past weather, current weather AND a predication of the weather to come.
There will always be 3 choices presented with their % chance of happening. You can use this to your benefit to perform or delay certain tasks ingame.
TIP: The weather is tied to your server. So on other servers in your grouping, the weather could be very different. This has a big impact on gameplay when travelling between the server groups opens up in week 3.