A graphical/shading engine revamp that came with Cataclysm severely lowered the intensity of dusk, night, dawn and weather and I don't think we're getting Classic day/night cycles or weather.
Not much to say other than the title here. There was a post yesterday but it was thinly-veiled clickbait for some guys YouTube content. It is true, though.
"During Cataclysm there was a revamp of the graphics system by adding shadows to the game, which required raising the ambient light in every zone, as the shadows made it too dark. This resulted in the night time having more ambient light than it used to."
Is there even a possibility that we get the old weather and day cycles back if there was enough noise made about this or is this a technical inevitability of using the MoP engine?
Posted Mar 16, 2019, 1:50 PM UTC
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And then it was made just as dark as vanilla in a later expansion...
And yes, we will get the lighting and weather that was in vanilla.
And it is not using the MoP "engine", but is based on the client as it existed during Legion.
EDIT: And as you can see from the images in the thread that Argantaelle linked to, the Ambient Occlusion that was included in the demo made for an overall darker scene most of the time.