So this guy set all graphics to LOW and just trolling probably and saying that these are ULTRA. Now I set mine to low and I have same ugly landscape as in his vid.
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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That must be some exotic kind of animal that few could see so far with their own eyes.
Wondering where the people who claimed Frontier had a secret good version of the planetary tech and the alpha was just a decoy are. Haven't heard from them in a while.
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And don't forget the mini-canyons you can find too. Shallow & wide is all that's found.
Except the 'handcrafted' stuff on Pom 2C. That's deeper but still wide enough to fit a fleet of T9's down side-by-side.
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Frontier CEO apologises 'wholeheartedly' for shoddy Odyssey launch
Why are they well aware? Because these issues are being shotgunned by people repeatedly on the forum and elsewhere and not in an accepting, almost apologetic tone but furiously disappointed and frustrated. Because this isn't the first time. It's not the 2nd time things like this have...
Even worse, they seem random ? There are no logical pattern. There was in Horizon, valley and stuff. Now it's just random.
The guys in the video mentioned Deciat. First engineer for about everyone right. Went there as a noob, it was amazing looking. I literally thought "Ok, this is cool". Took screenshots and everything. Look at it now. It's like Elite dangerous : 2005 edition.
High preset on each at 1080p. Sorry for the slightly different cockpit lighting/angle, I had to dodge a pirate in between these shots.
If it’s true that all planets are generated from patterns like that, then whether we notice them or not is irrelevant. The point is that there’s not much reason to explore as there was in Horizons because we know we won’t find any truly unique or out of this world planets, or interesting looking ones. They’ll all have the same dull patterns, whether we notice the details or not.
People are complaining it's not ready for console, but Fdev is one step ahead of you, they are apparently planning the release on the PS2 for this autumn !
It will look stunning, sorry but no other game from 2001 will even compete.
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Ok, we're getting into almost comedy territory now. You've really got to laugh, or you'd just be too sad to speak.
Ok. Sooo. Look at this. LOW gfx preset and ULTRA gfx preset. See which one those guy is using in his vid? Not ultra for sure.
Normal with no reshade:
With Horizons Detail FX 2.0 Reshade:
With Horizons Detail FX 2.0 Reshade:
Wow. That bad. I hope this will get fixed before they'll turn Horizons off. Or that Horizons will remain available as it is.UPDATE:
Looking at the high number of reported planets. I have gone ahead and created an issue tracker for this one. I urge everybody to go ahead and tick "can replicate" with as many examples as they can provide.
Thanks everyone!
ORIGINAL:
What I'm about to show you will be the final straw in cementing the new planetary tech system into a failure.
I remember Dr Kay Ross stating on stream that their procedural heightmap system made use of handmade terrain that would then be randomized across. I was worried when I heard this.
Check this out - I'll let the images speak for itself:
Literally all terrain features both from high orbit to low orbit are repeating, hand crafted, and break every little bit hunger for exploration. There is absolutely no desire to go down and explore since all you're looking at is the "randomly" organized set of hand crafted height map bits the developers have made.
Horizons gives a REAL sense of wanting to go and explore. Find planets with unique features.
Planets in Odyssey are no longer unique. They are just reorganised sets of the same features.
These planets were designed with one goal: look acceptable from an on-foot perspective or when looking from a twilight perspective with a setting sun for the atmo effect.
I want to see Felicity's base - apples to apples.
There is a massive gulf in fidelity between these and the worst examples of graphics, it suggests to me these are results of bugs and rushed developent not some intended 'downgrade' purposed to make us all miserable.
Personally I think the game looks pretty nice in these two, I try to make them look like general gameplay shots rather than PP and excessively framed beautified ones:
Personally I think the game looks pretty nice in these two, I try to make them look like general gameplay shots rather than PP and excessively framed beautified ones:
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Yes, the ugly lod get removed around that height and you start loading the regular terrain. Still look like trash from above up to space.
Still look like a random generated terrain. And look at the lack of details, look at the hill thing middle left ? Texture stretching and random. That's all there is.