Whoops - Haha...Just posting here on behalf of ACTIVE DREAMER who contacted me as they appear to have had their forum priveleges changed so they can no longer post in this thread.
They went out to the above location and did indeed encounter exactly the same repeating "VMA" formation that I ran into. Here's Frillop's screenshot ..
There was also a follow-up remark and video which I'll quote below.
Source: https://youtu.be/EZoARnFuMoA
I don't agree. There is much more variety now. There used to be none!UPDATE: Planetary terrain prefabs are now also being discovered to be reused between planets:
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.
Yes but they've admitted they don't know how to fix the issues, so it might be a while. The beigification* of the galaxy went on for over a year<?> before getting fixed.
Haha, have you actually looked at the issue tracker? And seen how many bugs have gone unfixed for years, or even better, get put back in after being fixed when a new update comes along? I don't disagree with you, but I think we have to set realistic expectations based on objective data up until this point. The game has been out a long time, there's a lot of data to look at.
Yes but they've admitted they don't know how to fix the issues, so it might be a while. The beigification* of the galaxy went on for over a year<?> before getting fixed.
100% Proof Planets have lost their colour. [UPDATED with official Dev reason and plan to improve]
UPDATE 2: I just wanted to bring this back to the top. There have been a number of threads over the past few weeks, with people still under the false assumption that beige planets are an intentional change, and that this change was made for realism. Frontier have confirmed that neither of...forums-new.frontier.co.uk
Imagine one of this DLCs headline features (that will eventually be rolled out to Horizons, too) being broken for months or years.
It's going to be good once it has stopped being bad. Got it.
Thats fantastic - i love stuff like this
Wow - I have no idea what its about but looks cool for cities - I found another link
robertheaton.com
Other than they're aware of it and are trying to find out how to fix it?
I guess making the planets look random is the goal. (One of them).
Only "we'll focus on fixing the pc".
The news is it's a hard problem to solve and they are thinking about it.
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