Thunderstorms missing rain sound effects/lightning/on-screen message

[frammelpie]

Has anyone else experienced this recently? I haven't been playing for a while, but now that I'm coming back the last week I'm running into this issue.

Rain used to put a message on the screen that said "It begins to rain" and you'd get the rain sound effects along with the lightning flashes. I found the original sound effects to be overbearing so I swapped out the sound file for a much milder loop, which always worked flawlessly.

Now when it rains, the rain just starts coming down, and visibility will reduce in zones like Feerrott, but it seems 'patchy', like it's only raining in certain outside areas as if it's a glitch that it's raining in the first place. There's also no sound effects to go along with it, no on-screen message, no lightning flashes. I haven't seen the on-screen message stating that it begins to rain since I've been back. I verified that others are experiencing the same thing in the zone with me.

I've found this mentioned in a couple other threads but nobody ever replied to them and instead of necro'ing those I wanted to see if anyone has this issue as of today (v45 build) and if there's a way to fix it.