That can't be true - they said they're willing to wait another year for it to load
There's a general problem in Ody though with stuff not loading quickly enough (I'd say "compared to Horizons" but I'm not sure it needs that qualifier as such). For instance on the station contacts screen I wait for the portraits to load, for a bit of flavour or whatever, then get impatient with the swirly loading placeholder and click through (and then the game lags the input regardless). This is non-VR Ody on a system that runs pretty much ultra settings in VR in Horizons (I've abandoned VR for Ody). As much as I'm still enjoying the game and the new content, it'd be disappointing if an expensive machine upgrade were the only way for Ody to lose its clunky and overweight feel. It feels like a software problem.
I'm not entirely certain it is a software issue (although Odyssey in particular appears to load many tiny files when transitioning) as moving the EDH / EDO directories to a new NVMe (6.6 GB/S) drive I've not seen the low-res versions that precede high-res enough to notice them. (when even on a SSD the wait for the textures, or whatever it is, was particularly visible)
Possibly a slight exaggeration especially on the part of the quitters all too may of whom break their word and come back.
Yes on the whole it has, I have upped my graphics settings since launch and still get better framerates, by a factor of 5 in some cases. Note that my graphics card is significantly under spec in many areas.
Slowly loading portraits used to be a feature of Horizons as well for me. I do get all sorts of other things that take their time as well from engine sound and other audio when I drop from cruise to dock at a station, I can be sat on my pad for some time waiting for the right station menu to appear before it catches up; and the couple of seconds before the SRV controls swap over when I go into turret mode.
Station services have always been horribly slow; my friend has been complaining about it for years, long before Odyssey was even announced… Portraits seem to have been constantly broken in Oddysey, although I haven’t had issues with them taking a while to load; they’re just rendered wrong. General asset loading is only slow after logging in when the game is trying to load everything at the same time, though occasionally I’ll see a texture or something that stays low res for a bit too long.
Yeah maybe, and there are network (?) issues that can become the worst problem at times. Of course I'm commenting in things that I've noticed deteriorate noticeably with Ody, not necessarily things that were absent entirely from Horizons.
Yes thankfully it gets better the longer after log in you are. But in Horizons such issues would only last a couple of seconds iirc.
You know that borrowing without giving it back is the same as stealing it, right?
Common man. I do criticize Odyssey for its lack of gameplay but wouldn’t call it unplayable. The game is pretty stable with acceptable fps comparable with other games with similar graphics. Mission work well now. Haven’t encountered single issue for weeks. I wouldn’t call it unplayable.
Hm, really? Which games did you compare it to?
I am not him but Cyberpunk doesn't run better. And neither does the most recent Sherlock Holmes. Hellblade also has worse performance.
I don't own the first two but Hellblade ran better than Odyssey for me. While looking miles better. Doesn't help that I have to reduce the graphics quality completely for Odyssey.
Hellblade looks pretty bad compared to Odyssey in my opinion. It's just lots of fog and effects while the levels are smaller than my living room (which, admittedly, is actually quite big). The animations and facial expressions are good though.
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