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@Arioch
I had no idea. And now you’ve got me wondering just what the hell I have been playing? Lol!
I’ll be miffed if I’m already playing Legacy, as even my 4090 struggles with less than maxed out settings. I’ll take a look later. Hopefully, I’m on 4.0. I know that the initial Training Mission was severely updated, so maybe that’s a pointer? More than happy to roll back to 3.8 in the hunt for extra performance
A 4090 (what headset?) is not going to struggle with anything in Legacy unless you really max out everything (including the headset resolution plus supersampling). Chances are you are already playing Horizons 4.0. Do you have a shield percentage display at the bottom of the shield rings? Then you are playing 4.0.
For me, Odyssey is totally worth it. Performance is still a struggle, but it has become much better for me with U14. For reference, I use a Reverb G2 on a 5900X with 32 GB RAM and a 3080 Ti, and I run my G2 at 60% (yes, that low, and my system still struggles at times). But I really like the Odyssey gameplay. I only started with Odyssey settlement gameplay in january, as before U14 performance was not tolerable for me. But since I started, I am having a blast. You have to get over the fact that on-foot gameplay is displayed on a virtual flatscreen. I am okay with that and just enjoy the gameplay. You still get full VR in the camera suite, and while running around on a planetary surface this might be okay, you cannot interact with anything and have no HUD, so it is not a substitute. Also, there is no motion controller support.
I originally bought Odyssey for one, and only one reason: Atmospheric planets. Back then I did not care about the on-foot stuff, but I wanted to be able to land on the new atmospheric planets. Approaching one of these, especially near the terminator, is just awesome. I never get tired of it. The atmospheric visuals are really well done, and I also do like the new planetary tech that came with Odyssey; not everyone does though.
Back to the on foot gameplay: I was put off, first because performance was atrocious, and later refrained from trying because... well franky because everyone talked so bad about it. I just put it aside and stuck to ship gameplay. But if you approach the on-foot gameplay with the right expectations, it is a lot of fun.
People say it is a "tacked on FPS", a lackluster Call of Duty, and so on. Truth is, the on-foot gameplay is not a FPS game, and decidedly so. Yes, it is first person, and yes, you shoot guns (depending on your character very often), but that does not make it an FPS. The missions are actually fun, and a lot of them can be approached in a variety of different styles: Go guns blazing, or sneak in and try to be undetected, murder everyone or just do your objective without noticing, raid a settlement Terminator style or pick them off one by one from the largest building top in the settlement... your get the idea.
Of course you have to learn the mechanics, the do's and don't's of interaction with the NPCs, and you will have and want to do the gear upgrade spiel. But my experience was that, as with the ship gameplay, the grind is what you make of it. Personally, I got a good start with store bought G3 gear - which in many cases is good enough so be successful - and then made a list which weapons and suits I wanted modded and upgraded. It will be a grind if you want everything right now, but if you are content to progress your gear naturally during the gameplay it is not so bad.
Also I do not share the opinion that the on-foot gameplay is disconnected and tacked on. Yes, some mechanics from the ship gameplay do not transfer to on-foot gameplay, there are differences, but all in all I find it well integrated in the sense of: I fly to a station, get out to the concourse, pick my mission, maybe do some shopping or trading, get back to my ship, fly out to my target body, approach the settlement, land, murder everyone, get back in my ship, fly to the station, cash in my reward. It feels like a fluid process to me.
Personally, I can live with the performance deficiencies and having to work around some bugs. But I am having a great time and do play even more than before since integrating Odyssey on foot stuff into my gameplay. It might be worth trying for you. It is on sale often enough that the damage is limited if you don't like it.
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