I'm so done with instability storms

[Midnght]

Gateway storms fine.

But this constant growing instability even in a perfect stability zone is just bs I'm turning off instability storms unless they fix perfect stability zones. Because there shouldn't be an instability storms unless you start ripping out anchors. Just venting really but I'm done with random instability storms.

[MageKing17]

Originally posted by Midnght:

But this constant growing instability even in a perfect stability zone is just bs

...The whole point of perfect stability is that there is no instability storm. Do you mean squalls?

[Honorable_D]

Places with the pink Dove symbol will never have the storm come unless you open a gateway yourself or it is some story related trigger from a mission quest. Take all the time you want otherwise.

Notice in other junctions the STORM TIME bar. If the bar is low you'll have less time until the yellow storm comes. If the bar is really high you'll have a long time until the yellow storm comes.

Even when the yellow storm comes, it moves pretty slow, you'll have a long time to leave the zone. Manually triggering a gateway, however, causes the yellow and red storms to come much, much faster.

[LadyJade90]

Originally posted by Honorable_D:

Places with the pink Dove symbol will never have the storm come unless you open a gateway yourself or it is some story related trigger from a mission quest. Take all the time you want otherwise.

Notice in other junctions the STORM TIME bar. If the bar is low you'll have less time until the yellow storm comes. If the bar is really high you'll have a long time until the yellow storm comes.

Even when the yellow storm comes, it moves pretty slow, you'll have a long time to leave the zone. Manually triggering a gateway, however, causes the yellow and red storms to come much, much faster.

i have them turned off and even in perpetual stability places ive had those storms appear

[DrSNAFU]

We talking about the yellow blob storms that pass over the map from time to time?

And also, what's the STORM TIME bar? I'm not sure I'm aware of it. Is this on the map screen, or in the car?

[StarSkunk]

Originally posted by LadyJade90:

i have them turned off and even in perpetual stability places ive had those storms appear

The mini-storms (the wavy yellow circles on the map) are part of the zone conditions listed on the right side of the screen in the Route Planner (the green icon that looks like a hurricane labeled Atmospheric Shifts next to a bar graph shows the chance of a squall appearing), and they can appear even if the zone is in Perpetual Stability. Perpetual Stability ONLY refers to the fact that the zone-wide storm (the big yellow/red closing circles) will only appear once you open a Gateway, as opposed to appearing after a certain amount of time spent in the Zone.

[Abyssal Crow]

Originally posted by LadyJade90:

Originally posted by Honorable_D:

Places with the pink Dove symbol will never have the storm come unless you open a gateway yourself or it is some story related trigger from a mission quest. Take all the time you want otherwise.

Notice in other junctions the STORM TIME bar. If the bar is low you'll have less time until the yellow storm comes. If the bar is really high you'll have a long time until the yellow storm comes.

Even when the yellow storm comes, it moves pretty slow, you'll have a long time to leave the zone. Manually triggering a gateway, however, causes the yellow and red storms to come much, much faster.

i have them turned off and even in perpetual stability places ive had those storms appear

You're talking about squalls then, not the instability storm. Squalls are just a localized weather event that causes some anomalous thing, could just be high winds, could be alot of bollards everywhere. They aren't really that bad since you can literally avoid them.

Instability storm is the one where you're on a time limit before it blankets the area, with the escape feature forcing an accelerated one out.

[Honorable_D]

Oh yes, by yellow storm I mean the one that comes when the alarm sounds and it covers the entire map eventually.

The moving yellow patches are either hurricane, seismic or acid storms. You can't turn those off but they pass fairly quickly.

[Insolent]

Originally posted by DrSNAFU:

We talking about the yellow blob storms that pass over the map from time to time?

And also, what's the STORM TIME bar? I'm not sure I'm aware of it. Is this on the map screen, or in the car?

On your route planner or as you're transitioning into a new zone, in the box on the top right with the junction name, energy needed to escape etc. One of the icons is a clock, that's your approx time limit.

[LadyJade90]

Originally posted by StarSkunk:

Originally posted by LadyJade90:

i have them turned off and even in perpetual stability places ive had those storms appear

The mini-storms (the wavy yellow circles on the map) are part of the zone conditions listed on the right side of the screen in the Route Planner (the green icon that looks like a hurricane labeled Atmospheric Shifts next to a bar graph shows the chance of a squall appearing), and they can appear even if the zone is in Perpetual Stability. Perpetual Stability ONLY refers to the fact that the zone-wide storm (the big yellow/red closing circles) will only appear once you open a Gateway, as opposed to appearing after a certain amount of time spent in the Zone.

thats what im talking about i know theres a difference. the storms still appear in stable zones even with them turned off for me. its happened a few times and was really confusing

Originally posted by Abyssal Crow:

You're talking about squalls then, not the instability storm. Squalls are just a localized weather event that causes some anomalous thing, could just be high winds, could be alot of bollards everywhere. They aren't really that bad since you can literally avoid them.

Instability storm is the one where you're on a time limit before it blankets the area, with the escape feature forcing an accelerated one out.

nope i mean the big yellow pubg storms still appear for me despite being turned off even in stable areas. it was really confusing and ive been unable to fix it i dont mean the smaller blob storms those i just wait out most of the time

[Abyssal Crow]

Originally posted by LadyJade90:

Originally posted by StarSkunk:

The mini-storms (the wavy yellow circles on the map) are part of the zone conditions listed on the right side of the screen in the Route Planner (the green icon that looks like a hurricane labeled Atmospheric Shifts next to a bar graph shows the chance of a squall appearing), and they can appear even if the zone is in Perpetual Stability. Perpetual Stability ONLY refers to the fact that the zone-wide storm (the big yellow/red closing circles) will only appear once you open a Gateway, as opposed to appearing after a certain amount of time spent in the Zone.

thats what im talking about i know theres a difference. the storms still appear in stable zones even with them turned off for me. its happened a few times and was really confusing

It's because you're turning off instability storms, the time limit, not the atmospheric shifts. You cannot turn off atmospheric shift squalls, they are considered another anomaly you must face in a junction and are not in every junction. You can see if a junction has one as well as what type it is in the anomaly/resource section of the Junction details, best to always go into a storm if you don't have it in your logbook as just going in real quick and dipping out gives you it's info and lets you see it more easily for future junction details.

[Midnght]

Hmm I'll have to test. I feel like I've had yellow without popping anchors but then I could be mistaken and popped an anchor which I do expect a yellow storm to show eventually. Hmmm time to test and see.

[Abyssal Crow]

Originally posted by LadyJade90:

Originally posted by Abyssal Crow:

You're talking about squalls then, not the instability storm. Squalls are just a localized weather event that causes some anomalous thing, could just be high winds, could be alot of bollards everywhere. They aren't really that bad since you can literally avoid them.

Instability storm is the one where you're on a time limit before it blankets the area, with the escape feature forcing an accelerated one out.

nope i mean the big yellow pubg storms still appear for me despite being turned off even in stable areas. it was really confusing and ive been unable to fix it i dont mean the smaller blob storms those i just wait out most of the time

Hm, shouldn't be getting them in perpetual stability zones at all, you have an infinite timelimit. Only reason you should get them in those situations is if you started the gateway sequence to return to your garage. That's strange, I hope you actually are in a perpetual zone when you notice this and aren't just in a regular junction, cause the literal only junctions that don't have the zone creep in slowly are ones with the Condition : Perpetual Stability, which is normally rare outside of story missions which always have it. There is also the stabilizers that can trigger a free gateway run which the story does introduce you to very abruptly.

[Beshi]

Do you turn off storms to fully explore the map? Doesn’t that get a bit boring after a while? I know I’m going to get booed for this comment, but why transform a game where part of the gameplay loop is to traverse zones without lingering, gathering as many resources as needed with the pressure of an incoming storm (which is the whole appeal of the game), into a simple chill exploration game? It’s a bit like playing Dark Souls but with my health never decreasing.

Yes, yes, I know, everyone plays as they want, blah blah. Yes, the developers have planned the option, just as they have planned options for clearer, shorter nights, unlimited headlights, etc. Options for casuals. So how do you enjoy the game when there’s no interesting challenge, that’s my question.

Now, you can boo me, judge me, and criticize me :)

[Midnght]

Originally posted by Abyssal Crow:

Originally posted by LadyJade90:

nope i mean the big yellow pubg storms still appear for me despite being turned off even in stable areas. it was really confusing and ive been unable to fix it i dont mean the smaller blob storms those i just wait out most of the time

Hm, shouldn't be getting them in perpetual stability zones at all, you have an infinite timelimit. Only reason you should get them in those situations is if you started the gateway sequence to return to your garage. That's strange, I hope you actually are in a perpetual zone when you notice this and aren't just in a regular junction, cause the literal only junctions that don't have the zone creep in slowly are ones with the Condition : Perpetual Stability, which is normally rare outside of story missions which always have it. There is also the stabilizers that can trigger a free gateway run which the story does introduce you to very abruptly.

Hmm yeah that's not kosher. I'm at least certain it shows up if I pop anchors I've raged many times at the storm that like you said shouldn't be there. And I'm near 100% certain popping anchors breaks that stability.

[Abyssal Crow]

Originally posted by Midnght:

Originally posted by Abyssal Crow:

Hm, shouldn't be getting them in perpetual stability zones at all, you have an infinite timelimit. Only reason you should get them in those situations is if you started the gateway sequence to return to your garage. That's strange, I hope you actually are in a perpetual zone when you notice this and aren't just in a regular junction, cause the literal only junctions that don't have the zone creep in slowly are ones with the Condition : Perpetual Stability, which is normally rare outside of story missions which always have it. There is also the stabilizers that can trigger a free gateway run which the story does introduce you to very abruptly.

Hmm yeah that's not kosher. I'm at least certain it shows up if I pop anchors I've raged many times at the storm that like you said shouldn't be there. And I'm near 100% certain popping anchors breaks that stability.

Pretty confident anchors might not even affect the global timer, only thing I've seen popping anchors effect directly is the anomaly spam around you that can happen and there's a condition "barely plugged" that immediately spawns a squall right on top of you when you pop it out.

Can also say from many runs of first getting the anchors in perpetual areas, they do not remove the condition at all as I was looting for way longer than I should in those situations with zero anchors left on the map.