The issue really is that the new tech is not producing Horizons-like, wild, unrealistic surfaces that people loved to play with. They might try and do some tweaking to mitigate the current Infinite Monkey issue if we are lucky, and there's some optimization that still needs sorting out. Some of the issues that been linked here, especially regarding textures, have been accepted in the Issue Tracker, so effectively FD Has said something (and in the latest Update notes too.)
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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There is no way they don't know this is an issue. My guess is when they publish their roadmap of issues on the 4th you will find it then. until then they are heads down troubleshooting where it went wrong.
Actually no. And how could I? I can't read anybodys mind to miraculously know what they "meant" but didn't actually say. And in this context it makes a huge difference if the planets are RNG generated or procedurally generated. So please don't put the blame on me for your inaccuracy.
Yes. I only get it when I've been flying close to the ground for a while (I've found that flying up a bit fixes it). It's like the shaders are loading in slower than I'm flying. Or it might be they've tested it by flying up and down from the surface (which makes sense) and not by flying across the surface.
It's almost as if the pop in was designed exclusively for ground level on foot perspective and movement speed.
Mr Swainey
Banned
The planets are worse not better 
No it's bugged. Many game have good lod pop and relatively fast speed on ground. We are in 2021, not 2001 anymore.
at the moment because of bugsThe planets are worse not better
Mr Swainey
Banned
Hmmm.... I want to believe that
And I wish I would see that phrase in ANY of the communications from fdev since EDO came out.
The more I look at it, the more terrain in release Odyssey looks like grandma's lumpy mashed potatoes.
Like this one and its (nearby neighbors) I spent a couple hours scaling in Alpha:
Some of that unfortunate rounded lumpiness is still there, but at least there was height.
Like this one and its (nearby neighbors) I spent a couple hours scaling in Alpha:
Some of that unfortunate rounded lumpiness is still there, but at least there was height.
Is this one of ground structures manually transferred from Horizons?
I am asking, because such transfers went hopelessly bad.
FD and ROADMAP???
I mean like: WHAT will be fixed/changed, HOW and WHEN?
When hell freezes over...
its just a little
I have been persistently worried it will bleed back to horizons
I have been persistently worried it will bleed back to horizons
Have you been to Mitterand Hollow? Apparently that's been Odysseyed as well. A friend went there yesterday and the transitions from light to dark that were so rapid in Horizons are no longer there (at all).There are no canyons, everything is flat... Not...
OK, a bit of bait to catch the fishes.. Deriso (Colonia) - a few minutes ago - and I'm departing the station for my FC. The body in front of me is non-atmo landable. Quick exit to Horizons: A few canyons... Odyssey: Vaguely interesting - I'll take a peek at that big scar top left... Quick...forums.frontier.co.uk
But I know what you're going to say: It's not Horizons!
I agree with you in that some of the things we had in Horizons were ridiculous, but once they put them in there, they could not take them out... like that moon that orbited so quickly you could sit there and watch it do a full orbit in 2 minutes... Way below the Roche limit, but because it got in there, and got attention, they left it in.
Some planets look tremendously good in Odyssey, some way off. At its best, Odyssey's planet tech way surpasses what Horizon managed to do, but it is very clear Odyssey's planet tech is very, very broken. It really is in a state where they should not have released it.
I get your position but here are the words
Our plan is to publish a road-map by 4th June as we continue to push forward addressing issues, including giving some details on specific improvements, building upon the fixes the team have already made.
If in the near future, FDevs will come out with a good news: "we fixed the planet tech, look at the improved planets now guys", I wonder how the White Knights will react?
A: What was the point of that - planet tech was already perfect, waste of time - should have focused on other things.
B: Wow - thanks Frontier, this is awesome!
We're all on the same side guys, just some of us aren't satisfied by what we got yet.
A: What was the point of that - planet tech was already perfect, waste of time - should have focused on other things.
B: Wow - thanks Frontier, this is awesome!
We're all on the same side guys, just some of us aren't satisfied by what we got yet.