Weather (NGS)

In New Genesis, weather has a major factor on gameplay, affecting how enemies behave, what items can be found or dropped, and what damage multipliers are in effect. Weather is shared amongst the entire game- all ships, blocks and rooms(photo rooms excluded) will have the same weather at the same position of the map.

Quests might occassionally change the weather to suit their needs. During Story Quests, weather and time of day will be forced. During Mining Rig Defences, while time is not forced, weather is. In Quests with name starting with "Simulation" (Trigger Quests and Season Quests), time of day might be forced but weather conditions might not,depending on the quest.

Quests in Virtual Enviorments like Trainias and Battledias, the time of day is permament daytime, with no type of weather occuring.

Day/Night Cycle

On Planet Halpha, there is a 48 minutes day/night cycle. This means that for one hour to pass on Halpha, 2 minutes of real time will pass. This is split into a 28 min Daytime(5:00-18:59) and 20 min Nighttime(19:00-4:59). Some tasks might demand to kill in a specific cycle, so you need to be watchful of that. There are also some Materials which you can only collect during specific time of the cycle:

• During Daytime: Notable Kvaris Ackee, Famed Stia Star Fruit
• During Nighttime: Notable Kvaris Squid, Famed Stia Mushroom

Alters are esspecially affected during Nighttime. Due to a phenomenon called "Daynight Shift", ALTERS have their appearance significantly changed, and it isn't for show either as it also increases their Attack Power by +30%. However, defeating Alters at nighttime can yield C/Alz Secrete, a powerful affix offensively with defensive downsides.

Of note is that Alters appearing in Virtual Enviroments might have Daynight Shift buff anyway, even though in theory it is permament Daytime. It also is not consistent within the same quest as well. Therefore, keep an eye out whenever Alter you're facing is actually buffed or not.

Weather Types

Each region has diffirent weather split into 2 types, Basic and Special weather, that have tangable effects on the gameplay at large.

Basic Weathers

Regions in Halpha have 3 basic weathers they cycle between at will. Here's table that presents all of them:

Weather Name	Region	Gameplay Effects
Clear	All Regions	Some enemies have been boosted. Famed Stia Crab is available to be obtained(Stia Region only)
Cloudy	Aelio	No Change
Rainy		Some enemies have been boosted.
Dust Storm	Retem
Heat Wave
Slightly Cloudy	Kvaris	No Change
Snowing		Blizzardium is now visible and can be obtained.
Volcanic Ash	Stia	Famed Stia Crab is available to be obtained Some enemies have been boosted.
Heat Wave		Volcanic Bombs and Lava Pools can now be used. Inferium is now visible and can be obtained.

Special Weathers

There are also special weathers which can at any time override the currently presented weather and cause far harsher changes to occur

Weather Name	Region	Gameplay Effects
Storm-type (Thunderstorm/ Sandstorm/Blizzard/ Hellfire)	All Regions	Gigantix enemy will spawn in all rooms of an Exploration Section(exlcuding Rayjord Gorge and Outer Mediola: Sector 1) PSE Gauge is locked to 4 Blizzardium/Inferium is now visible and can be obtained.(Kvaris/Stia region only) Volcanic Bombs and Lava Pools can now be used.(Stia Region only) Some enemies have been boosted(Aelio/Retem region only)
Meteor Shower	Retem	Stellar Seeds are now shining brightly, giving their position away.
Aurora	Kvaris	Blizzardium is now visible and can be obtained.
Phoenix	Stia	Famed Stia Crab is available to be obtained Inferium is now visible and can be obtained.

Weather Boost

Some enemies in certain weathers are boosted. This will be shown by an icon at the side of the screen, if the conditions apply. This gives enemy a +20% Attack Power buff.

Here's the known list of enemies and their boosts:

Weather Name	DOLLS Boosted	Alters Boosted	Formers Boosted
Clear	Ourq Nex Aelio/Nex Vera	Lizard Frei Wauron/Sava Wauron Big Frogga El Discythe/Sava Discythe Bubble Crab	N/A
Rainy	N/A	Ciaciurio
Thunderstorm	Bujin	Lizard Thunder	Thunder Banther Thunder Banshee
Dust Storm	Lenus Retem/ Lenus Vera	N/A	N/A
Heat Wave	Snaedal Hammer/ Snaedal Vera
Sandstorm	Kerklund
Volcanic Ash	N/A	Dark Remmus