Drizzle. (Destiny)

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 12:35 (3301 days ago) @ narcogen
edited by uberfoop, Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 12:38

They've had drizzle since ODST. Rain, never.

ODST's rain effect is basically the same as Halo 3's. And Halo 3 is certainly not the series' first outing with rain.

For instance, The Great Journey in Halo 2 I think qualifies as a moderate violation of your "rain, never" comment.

I also think you need to take a good look at Reach. The game really cranks up the downpour sometimes (check out parts of Winter Contingency!), and it's using an enormous amount of falling particles with vertex-based motion blur to create much of the streaking, and said particles actually turn into splash decals that even feature normal-mapped rippling when they hit the wet ground. It's absolutely nuts, looks amazing, and even holds up well if you slow-mo it in theater.