Not needed in Skyrim. Do players even notice? Day and Night has gameplay implications, hitting window for a Hohmann transfer does also but it's for different audiences and the SC audience doesn't particularly strike me as the scientific explorer player.
Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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One of the reason Star Citizen spaceships had never captured my interest is how shiny and factory new they are. Seeing them in space or each enviroment always looks out of place. Escpeically on planets, even a new ship should look dusty after landing there. The ships and graphics might look good but there's a disconnect there that says to me, its fake.
And since its all a spaceship selling enterprise, its a major flaw.
And since its all a spaceship selling enterprise, its a major flaw.
First thing I looked agreeing at was the buttcheeks.
SC in a nutshell.
Now that's a good point!
However, i'd guess that the center of the galaxy is also not really well represented in ED, that's its more than just "more stars per region".
The fact you can find earthlike worlds in the core is sus, just like you can find earthlike worlds around neutron stars.
But there again, ED doesn't claim to be the most fidelitous space game ever.
I do remember early on FD were considering a reset before launch, and i think one of the stated (or suspected) reasons was to do a reset of the galaxy. Maybe they saw those issues with the procgen and were thinking whether to change the algorithm or not.
Not as fast as Mitterand Hollow!
So all I can assume is that when they say, "a vast sandbox of life-size planets, moons ...", what they actually mean is, "a vast sandbox of scaled down planets, moons ..."
It's life size to action man.
I wish the realistic orbit stuf had a effect on things you do in game. Like if a planet is scorching hot or frozen during day or night cycle, affects thruster efficiency or something. Could be something simple like its so bright during the day you have to rely entirely on instrument landing. Things like that would influence gameplay.
You could see they were all about the graphics from the first pitch on Kickstarter. Not much daving the gaming industry.
That early video of climbing into the cockpit every was so hyped about was what they said was wrong with AAA in the first place, all for show and very shallow.
Reason why I allow ship paint to detoriate on ED, especially on my exploration Krait. All those light years should show up. Of course all internal modules are kept in top condition
There's a lot of that, even in the design decisions.
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Yeah, that is also another part of the issue. I can’t see much fidelity in SC at all (not in the celestial motion or navigation department, not much in the broken physics, not much in the economy side as there is none, not much in the broken t posed chair standing AI either, not much in the 4 or 5 colorful types of deep laser gameplay etc etc) unless they refer to graphic fidelity, which I personally don’t care much about and for which I think there are tons of other games that offer the same if not more fidelity in a product that actually works.
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It is like saying that requiring a car to be able to turn both right and left is moving the goal posts because when someone says they would like a car that "can turn", if it turns only left, it is technically fine.
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Most likely, yes.
The Quantum Travel function can't handle moving bodies because you can't steer, so whatever you target will be gone by the time you get there! It's Zeno's Dichotomy paradox in space! You could never get anywhere in SC if they had orbits because the object will always be somewhere else when you get there!
Graphical fidelity is the easiest of the lowest hanging fruit, but it works, there's nearly $400 mil reasons to prove it.
And CIG hadn't mastered the science of calculating an intercept course. Chris Roberts will probably call it something else like "Future Object Collision Prediction" or something.
Daym, that's a burn.
Exactly. CIG commented on these difficulties about two years (?) ago.
@Vasea Azure Do you have a HDR screen and Windows 11?
While HDR isn't in SC yet.
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Windows 11 can force HDR on the Desktop and in games that don't support it, and....
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Not every screen will need calibrating mine certainly did, it was out by miles.
Also, you brought up cloud city and the C2, i just bought one at cloud city
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l9xp4DKjTw
While HDR isn't in SC yet.
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Windows 11 can force HDR on the Desktop and in games that don't support it, and....
My experience with HDR (Screen here https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/gaming/32gn600-b/) was that its just incredibly washed out, until i used the Microsoft calibration tool linked below.
After calibrating my screen it was utterly different, completely the opposite to washedout, it was bright with really strong vibrant colours. just stunning....
Including for Star Citizen, it looks completely different, i have biased the settings toward the vivid side and it just looks gorgeous, totally different to SDR.
You need Windows 11
First make sure HDR is turned on on the screen, then in Windows settings, as see in the screenshot linked.
Then simply run the calibration tool linked below and save the profile as instructed in the tool, that's it, its all you need to do.
Happy HDR'ing
Windows HDR Calibration - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
This app lets you calibrate your HDR display to optimise it for HDR games (including Auto HDR) and other HDR content on your Windows 11 PC. Go through a series of steps to set the minimum and maximum brightness levels, as well as colour saturation level, to create a new colour profile that's...apps.microsoft.com
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Not every screen will need calibrating mine certainly did, it was out by miles.
Also, you brought up cloud city and the C2, i just bought one at cloud city
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It's still early decades. Predictive intercept course computation is hard when you still calculate with Z3 mechanical calculator. Only semiconductors and miniaturisation made self-guided missiles possible.