The fact they didn't code the POI and flora procedurally boggles my mind.
Yes, me too. I was quite disappointed by that. Even NMS procedural quality would be better than hand-made and duplicated like we're getting.
1. I don't think it rotates. Distance between systems appears to be fixed.
Quite baffling. I read, or heard, frontier saying they believed that their procedural generation skills were well above the ordinary in the industry and they felt they would lead the way in procedural generation. Seen as Elite 1984 made use of it they can claim it's embedded in their coding DNA. It's part of their stated strategy and embedded into the game. Also the flora gameplay is all about genetic variation, which fits hands and glove with procedural generation. You would think the decision to get the art department to create the plants was an early decision, a strategic decision. Baffling.
Yeah, to be fair they probably wanted to avoid No Man Skying the game (it took Hello Games what, three years to make their procedurally generated plants and animals NOT ridiculous?
) and went with the safer option.I was really looking forward to exobiology too. But that scanner thing... yuck. I know they're doing away with it but it really put me off.Yeah, to be fair they probably wanted to avoid No Man Skying the game (it took Hello Games what, three years to make their procedurally generated plants and animals NOT ridiculous?
But still, I really hope they're going to work on this after launch. Exobiology is the ONLY part of Odyssey that really interests me.
There is artifical life research since the 1960s - there are well known algorithms for artifical plant growth and plant growth is highly mathematical to begin with - fibonacci sequence, fractals (self-similarity), golden ratio are all part of biology. With a bit of an effort put into it, it wouldn't have been hard to make believable artifical plant life.Yeah, to be fair they probably wanted to avoid No Man Skying the game (it took Hello Games what, three years to make their procedurally generated plants and animals NOT ridiculous?
But still, I really hope they're going to work on this after launch. Exobiology is the ONLY part of Odyssey that really interests me.
Can happen sometimes, just rinse and repeat.
Thanks!
Probably worried about giant phallic alien plants appearing on HIP 69696
I plan to clear my save and start from scratch, which has the unfortunate consequence that I now don't have anything to do in the game because "If I'm going to burn it all, soon, what's the point".
How about this one? I'd kill this one.
Give the guy a break! He was only looking for TeePee.
/shudderI plan to clear my save and start from scratch, which has the unfortunate consequence that I now don't have anything to do in the game because "If I'm going to burn it all, soon, what's the point".
As for concrete plans, they are kind of similar to my usual plans when I'm clearing the save - Start small - get the DBX - unlock Felicity - gut the DBX - sod off into the Black for half a year.
Only this time I hope the "getting to the DBX" part will take longer as I try the new things in Odyssey and discover new ways of making money and the exploration part will be a little more involved beyond taking pretty pictures and slapping my name on things.
Well for me it's simple. When I hit a certain point in the game (usually around 1bnC, when I've unlocked all engineers and own all the ships I'm interested in) I lose motivation to continue, because I kind of don't know where. I've usually been on two or three several months long expeditions, at that point, I have no interest in PvP nor any other multiplayer aspect of the game, fleet carriers or any other end game fluff, so I usually just roam around doing nothing. And that gets boring quite quickly.
