Played it for a couple of hours last night, framerates are mostly smooth now even in settlements, Mobile RTX2060, 6 core i7, 16Gb RAM & SSD. I feel like it's really starting to come together. I still absolutely agree that whatever more can be done, performance-wise, it should be done, but as far as I'm concerned Odyssey is definitely playable and very much worth consideration for those who are on the fence.
As far as the gameplay.. I have been loitering around the Sol System and was parked on Mercury, took an SRV trip from Ehrlich City to the mountain top visible from the base, which was a decent distance, and did not encounter any invisible rocks on the way. I love the SRV, once you figure it out it is a joy to drive/fly. The terrain and lighting are much much improved over Horizons, and I wouldn't say that if I didn't truly think it. Some definite 'oh crap' moments as I was trying to find a decent landing spot and those massive rocks came quickly into vision due to the dark/light contrast that's present on Mercury at different elevations.
After that I checked out MakeMake and found that there was a Hospitality base there, I went to check it out to find that it was powered down, empty and it was night.. So I took the srv as the base was quite spread out and started 'gathering mats' shall we say courtesy of the Arc Cutter & Charge gun, and all the while in the back of my mind I'm thinking, 'I hope nobody shows up', which added some tension to the proceedings as well as everything being dark and moody...
So I'm coming to the end of my material gathering with a couple more cabins to check out and I get the message "Ship Under Attack", some bad guys had dropped in, and having made short work of my SRV parked outside the Habitat then started shooting my ship.. Of course I'm thinking I need to get out of dodge before they take my ship out, a very unarmoured Dolphin with only one pip to the shield, luckily the landing pad was close to where I was and as I'm running/jumping to my ship I hear "Shields Offline" and see five or six guys standing there literally just blasting my ship, the basts! With a jump boost I made it to the embark point and luckily drew some fire away from the ship - I barely got in as my own personal shield went down, and managed to take off with 17% hull, boosting away to prevent them from taking the rest. It was a very close call! So of course I then waited a moment at a safe distance for the shields to come back up, deployed my Advanced Missles, turned on night vision went back and blasted them like Sinistar on a rampage "RUN RUN RUN" boom! I scored some bounties from them, though not enough to cover the hull repair cost or probably even replace the missiles but this wasn't about making money!
I thoroughly enjoyed it, I know some might grizzle about weapons being OP against ships but I think with their combined firepower it seemed relatively balanced and I only had one pip to shields - I will remember to put four to shields when I land at settlements in future.
But the whole experience was great, going from being in the ship to the srv to foot and then having to high tail back to my ship after my SRV got taken out and boosting out of there.
There were no performance glitches or bugs at all and I guess I should have tried to snipe the bandits FPS style but I took the shortest route to achieve my objective, and I'm still getting accustomed to my bindings for on foot combat, I'm using the throttle part of the HOTAS and mouse
If I had had my rocket launcher in my loadout, I may have shot a couple of rockets at the group as I headed to the ship, I would have liked to have seen the results of that.
BTW; if you are in your SRV, your contacts panel will inform you of what's inside lockers and stuff as you get near them if you are looking for anything specific.
Thanks for reading.