Unrealistic Fog

[Knoble]

I came back to the game and started exploring again!
and it only took a little while to remember why I left the game before.
The stupid fog, EVERYTIME you jump into your boat.
Unrealistic, and ruins the game for me.
Hope you guys have it fixed the next time I decide to give Valheim a go.
and its one of the two reasons I hesitate to recommend your game!

[gigapus]

kind of agree, but it is easy to work around by zooming out and panning the camera above

[Humpenstilzchen]

Yep I feel you. The overly excessive and way to frequent fog is one big reason why I don´t play this game anymore as it is just incredibly annoying.

Also, whoever at iron gate thought making ground fog so thick that you can´t see your own feet anymore should probably stop working as a game designer.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157642703

[Val Heimershmidt]

I too hate the fog. Especially when at sea w/ no map. I usually just stop the boat and watch youtube vids till it clears. I don't wish it away, I just wish it was less frequent and less enduring when it does occur. I think it would be cool if a torch would clear the fog in the same way a wisp light clears the mist.

[Eternie]

I hate Fog or Blur in all things and unfortunately fog and blur are quite consistent in this game.

With Valheim having a console, I would have thought that there should be a console command like in Skyrim to FW (Force Weather )
With various types of weathers having a code. like FW 81a

Or like Skyrim the Shout Clear skies to get rid of fog Would be brilliant and clear and suitable for a Nord warrior. Dreaming

[gadfly6363]

Last I played, the console does work. Setting environment to clear gets rid of the fog, rain, swamp gloom, blizzards, everything except the doofy mistlands mist. It also lets you build something without the water wrecking your build before you can finish.

[avatar.zero]

Originally posted by Eternie:

With Valheim having a console, I would have thought that there should be a console command like in Skyrim to FW (Force Weather )
With various types of weathers having a code. like FW 81a

The command you're looking for is 'env'.

[Eternie]

Originally posted by avatar.zero:

Originally posted by Eternie:

With Valheim having a console, I would have thought that there should be a console command like in Skyrim to FW (Force Weather )
With various types of weathers having a code. like FW 81a

The command you're looking for is 'env'.

Thanks I'll give a try

[withered]

Too bad because using that is becoming a habit very quickly. Generally speaking a fog is only working against player characters - npcs ignore its debuff perfectly which is the main problem. When said event happens - in plains biome for example - then player can only wait or cheese camera with silly angle.

[loppantorkel]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Yep I feel you. The overly excessive and way to frequent fog is one big reason why I don´t play this game anymore as it is just incredibly annoying.

Also, whoever at iron gate thought making ground fog so thick that you can´t see your own feet anymore should probably stop working as a game designer.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157642703

The fog in my game never looks that ugly or intrusive. Do yo use some mods or odd settings? I don't think that's a normal fog.

[electricdawn]

Yep, my fog doesn't nearly look as thick. Not sure what is going on here. Probably lowest graphic settings.

I don't have much of a problem with fog, but then I'm not turning off the map. I can see that it is probably a big problem when not using the map. You get hopelessly lost.

With the map? No big deal. That's what you got it for.

[esbenmf]

That is not what fog looks like in my game at all. That screenshot just shows a white blanket. I would try to play around with graphics options.

[Exodite-Dragon]

Yah, the fog isn't...remotely that thickly opaque in my game, either. It's hardly impenetrable.
That has to be an issue with graphic settings.

[swiftdoll]

I have this gripe too, I live in Finland and have spent a lot of time on the Northern seas doing work commissions and the weather is NOT like this. That thick fog so you can't even see nearby shore only happens very, very rarely and mostly during late late autumn when temperatures drop to near zero, or ♥♥♥♥♥♥ weather during winter. Here it's almost daily. and If it's not thick fog it's rain or storm, again killing your visibility. Even morning mist on the sea kills your visibility in this game, which is insane. No it doesn't, morning mist is just ethereal hazy, not blinding.

I get that these things don't have to be realistic as it's a creative choice, but it really just sucks the life out of sea exploring - which I LOVE, sailing is so frigging cool in this game, but there is nothing fun being constantly forced to stop and stand still waiting and waiting and hoping you can see something again before the night hits and it gets pitch black.

I'm all for the sudden spooky fog rising up, it's a great immersion in the game, but the intervals need to be cut WAY back so it actually feels like something special, not a daily tiresome nuisance (not the least cause fighting in the boat is beyond dreadful and the monsters, which you normally could deal with 2 sword swings, can literally walk under the boat and kill you through the bottom of it while you cannot hit them, so aggroing stuff while sailing is just unrealistically dangerous)

[electricdawn]

Would be interesting to know if all the players that experience fog like shown on the screen shot would post what graphic settings they have (or if they use mods). Again, my fog looks NOTHING like this.

[Outhous]

Originally posted by Knoble:

Hope you guys have it fixed the next time I decide to give Valheim a go.

Nothing to fix, you'll need to adjust yourself to the fog.