I hate to start with a disclaimer, but here we are. If you want to skip ahead to the feel-good part, please do so. here we go:
I'm currently out in the black(ish). Not really far (around 2.5k ly from Sol), and more on a space tourism trip than "serious" exploration, and I've just had the best few hours in Odyssey since... ever. I am having a blast, and I never took that many screenshots - I just had to stop over and over.
I am currently landed on a small moon of a gas giant orbiting a nice, bright A-class star at a distance of around 3700 ls. I landed on it because it was a landable atmospheric that had seven bio signals. It's a (seemingly) boring rocky body, but it's hands down the most awesome moon I have ever set foot on. After completing the DSS the location map showed three of the seven bios confined to rather small patches of terrain. The area I decided to touch down in is the most awesome terrain I have ever driven on. So, here is my little photo story.
This is the plateau I started from:
The area around is like an adventure quarry on steroids - various hills, plateaus, trenches, connected with what looked like dirt roads made exactly for that purpose. Also, the area was just riddled with forests of three of the organisms living on that moon. As I haven't really done serious exobiology in EDO, I have never seen some of them. Up on my landing plateau were three patches of cactoids, but I forgot to take a picture of them . Then, right after driving down the hill from my landing zone I found this:
Seriously, some of the EDO assets are both aewsome and hilarious. Driving over the hill I found more of those things, and one looked especially funny to me, so I decided to stop for a photo opportunity. Here is my masterpiece:
What made me really enjoy looking for those plants was the environment: The clear blue sky, the faint image of the gas giant, the galaxy in the background and the distant sun glaring down. Of course I tried to take a picture of it, so here it is:
Then I came to the edge of that little "quarry":
I drove over the edge and down into this valley:
The bottom of the valley was again riddled with those funny finger thingies, so I really couldn't resist. Here's my version of the cliché waving picture:
I kept going and was finally greeted by this vista:
I turned left, and the terrain opened up into an open plane with more cactoids and again a load of, I think, fungoida?
As it was time to call it, I recalled my ship and was curious where it would land. Recently, sometimes it would ignore the plane I was waiting in and try to land in the surrounding hills 2 km away... with no success I might add. Anyway, my Anaconda made it to the surface without a scratch, and of course I couldn't resist to take a goodbye picture of the are:
So, I had a really good time. This was by far the best planet I have landed on, something I would not have expected from a plain, boring rocky body. The terrain felt very well balanced, almost like I imagine a real rock out in space would be like. It's not as spectacular as Mount Neverest or Pomeche 2C, but it feels more like a planet and less like a testicle .
Now, I still have to find four more bios, and I guess I will have to move to the other side of the planet, I hope it stays that great. I've already said it a few times, I think Frontier did a great job with the atmospheric planets, and I really love the bio assets. The blue finger squid thingie is my absolute favorite . Seriously, good job!
I am aware that there are lots of problems with Odyssey and it runs terrible for alot of people, and that some think Frontier missed the mark with Odyssey. I sincerely don't want to belittle those who have issues, and I'm not "white-knighting" or anything. I am fortunate that for me Odyssey runs very well in VR by now, but then I also threw alot of money and hardware at it to do get it that way. From that, lets call it luxury, position I think Frontier doesn't get enough credit for what they did really, really well with Odyssey, and I also happen to like most of the features of the new planetary tech. Credit where credit is due. So there.
I'm currently out in the black(ish). Not really far (around 2.5k ly from Sol), and more on a space tourism trip than "serious" exploration, and I've just had the best few hours in Odyssey since... ever. I am having a blast, and I never took that many screenshots - I just had to stop over and over.
I am currently landed on a small moon of a gas giant orbiting a nice, bright A-class star at a distance of around 3700 ls. I landed on it because it was a landable atmospheric that had seven bio signals. It's a (seemingly) boring rocky body, but it's hands down the most awesome moon I have ever set foot on. After completing the DSS the location map showed three of the seven bios confined to rather small patches of terrain. The area I decided to touch down in is the most awesome terrain I have ever driven on. So, here is my little photo story.
This is the plateau I started from:
The area around is like an adventure quarry on steroids - various hills, plateaus, trenches, connected with what looked like dirt roads made exactly for that purpose. Also, the area was just riddled with forests of three of the organisms living on that moon. As I haven't really done serious exobiology in EDO, I have never seen some of them. Up on my landing plateau were three patches of cactoids, but I forgot to take a picture of them . Then, right after driving down the hill from my landing zone I found this:
Seriously, some of the EDO assets are both aewsome and hilarious. Driving over the hill I found more of those things, and one looked especially funny to me, so I decided to stop for a photo opportunity. Here is my masterpiece:
What made me really enjoy looking for those plants was the environment: The clear blue sky, the faint image of the gas giant, the galaxy in the background and the distant sun glaring down. Of course I tried to take a picture of it, so here it is:
Then I came to the edge of that little "quarry":
I drove over the edge and down into this valley:
The bottom of the valley was again riddled with those funny finger thingies, so I really couldn't resist. Here's my version of the cliché waving picture:
I kept going and was finally greeted by this vista:
I turned left, and the terrain opened up into an open plane with more cactoids and again a load of, I think, fungoida?
As it was time to call it, I recalled my ship and was curious where it would land. Recently, sometimes it would ignore the plane I was waiting in and try to land in the surrounding hills 2 km away... with no success I might add. Anyway, my Anaconda made it to the surface without a scratch, and of course I couldn't resist to take a goodbye picture of the are:
So, I had a really good time. This was by far the best planet I have landed on, something I would not have expected from a plain, boring rocky body. The terrain felt very well balanced, almost like I imagine a real rock out in space would be like. It's not as spectacular as Mount Neverest or Pomeche 2C, but it feels more like a planet and less like a testicle .
Now, I still have to find four more bios, and I guess I will have to move to the other side of the planet, I hope it stays that great. I've already said it a few times, I think Frontier did a great job with the atmospheric planets, and I really love the bio assets. The blue finger squid thingie is my absolute favorite . Seriously, good job!