>>27293963Seasons /SHOULD/ come back, but they'd need tweaking to make them work.
Firstly, a month per season is just too long, nobody's got time for that shit. Shorten it to two weeks. Fuck, shorten it to one week! That way you go through the whole seasonal cycle within one month.
Secondly, either as well as or instead of my first suggestion, there shouldn't be anything you outright CAN'T do in a certain season. Change colour schemes, change environmental graphics, change weather, change encounter rates - but stuff like Casteliacones being unavailable in winter and certain areas only being accessible in certain seasons shouldn't return. That just makes it tedious to wait for the seasons to change (instead of just being a nice worldbuilding feature), which is compounded by the amount of time it takes for a full season cycle.
Basically, I like the concept but Gen 5 didn't execute it particularly well in my opinion.
