the real reason why no full atmosphere
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The real reason is really very simple. It can't be done. Or at the least, not on Cobra, and not by FD.
Yup that's it. I mean, some people might argue that they could just lock the planet, but they are madder than a fish riding a bicycle.
It would be doable by simply limiting atmo world to areas 10-30 km from space ports. Or by placing landing spots with features and player would be given at least some nice samples of landable atmo world without all the problems related with creating an entire full atmo world. Just create 10-15 variations, a mixing script, some hand palces features, random skies et voila.
Seems likes people didn't really liked on Foot content with Odyssey, since it decresed performance, and other reasons.
Maybe time to go back to the basics, and focus on Space.
Maybe time to go back to the basics, and focus on Space.
Expert level feedback here... or not.
they're gonna have to permit lock earth, realistically
and that will make everyone mad
The (earths) moon is already permit locked.
Full atmos hasn't happened yet probably as it It's quite a hard thing to do and therefore a lot of work.
It's the gerbils. No really, FDev are always overly ambitious with these things and tried to procedurally generate the entire extrapolated population of gerbils for 3308 and it just broke the engine.
Cancelation of Console Odyssey pretty much confirmed it. It can't be done.
All we can expect is probably just foot Thargoids and few more foot missions to accompany them. But going beyond that would probably kill FPS even further.
Do you know why it was cancelled?
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on that.
I can't see that being acceptable to a lot of players, having 10-15 variations in a galaxy with potentially billions of planets. But I do agree the issue is proceduarally generating convincing ELW is a difficult thing, probably something they are working on now if they ever hope to have them in game. SC has basically given up the procedural generation route for planets and now hand craft a lot of stuff, but that's probably acceptable because they are only planning around 100 systems, however they only have 1 system in game yet, hand crafting planets takes time.
I would personally be dissapointed if they just went with the 10-15 variations route, but I would have to see how well it worked before deciding yay or nay. I do hope they can get procedural generation working properly with thick atmosphere worlds, I will be here to see it if they do, and probably also if they don't lol!
ED Odyssey is very dependent on single-thread CPU performance. Something the PS4 CPU can never deliver. I was speaking of that something like a year ago and made an assumption that Ody will not be released on consoles. The assumption was true
I see, so i should believe you over what FD said.
Good to know, you may need to know that assumptions are not generally held in high regard though.
It all depends on the justification of assumptions, doesn't it?
There is the unofficial expansion for Earth called MSFS2020.
I think i'm gonna be more comfortable with what FD say.
That's the downside of trying to be a forum warrior, it's all deflection.
These people, man.
What are you expecting? Frontier, who upto now have only been able to deliver barren airless rocks and barren rocks with a coloured skybox, to suddenly be able to pull ELW's out of their rear ends? Stop and think for a second. Do you have any idea what doing ELW's requires? I've said this before, you're basically asking for MSFS2020 in Elite. They can't even do gas giants. You people are living in cloud oo land.
Telling us they failed to do it before they tried to do it is probably where you're going wrong there.
Pretty sure i didn't mention elw's so... what are you going on about?