100% Proof Planets have lost their colour. [UPDATED with official Dev reason and plan to improve]
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Given ED , is a PC crowd funded PEW PEW game for XBOX ...
AND Xbox is played on a TV not a PC monitor , colour is not that important ..
XBox player here - I respectfully disgree. Playing this on your sofa with a 50" TV means that *every* detail missed is clearly seen.
Of course we want colour. We don't want beige planets...that just makes the game plain and ugly. FDev are actually up against it trying to even retain XBox users.
Of course, there is a core PvP only crowd who only bought this game for the pew pew factor and don't give two hoots about the wider galaxy.
But there is also a group of us that love to explore and see the sights. Beige planets are fugly, and they DO need something doing about them.
I'd think I'd like sofa exploring. When I was bitten by the exploration bug, one of the first things I did was buy an old comfy chair, bolt the HOTAS to it, so I could explore in comfort.
And that's fine if users like you contribute something worthwhile, and maintain some self-awareness that the game may not necessarily develop in the direction you want.
But users like Panticus contribute nothing of value. Look at his message history and you will see that he does nothing but whinge about a game he doesn't even play any more, and doesn't make any positive or worthwhile suggestions himself.
In short, his presence on these forums is waste of everyone's time (including his own). I just can't understand the mentality behind that.
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A shame you didn't read some more of this thread - Frontier already said they will address it:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/330457-100-Proof-Planets-have-lost-their-colour-UPDATED-with-official-Dev-reason-and-plan-to-improve?p=5187868&viewfull=1#post5187868
But then look at the paradox of your own behavior, and I am in no way objecting your intentions (don't take this the wrong way). If the type of user you are talking about should stop wasting their time posting about things they don't like, then why are you any different if you start posting about things you don't like (such as people complaining in the forums)? Even more, if the forum is to talk about Elite Dangerous, and by extension, Frontier, then what is more directly related to it; the complains about Elite, or the complains about people complaining about Elite? I am fine with both, as long as we keep the arrogance aside.
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A-ha! Yes, fair point. I realise I'm a tautology.
Panticus is on my ignore list now - probably the best solution all around.
Agree. The stars are generally very well done, with their rippling surfaces and solar flares (although animation is too fast), but their colouring makes them look like throat lozenges. It is really too exaggerated and this will get them unstuck when they try to do realistically lit atmospheres.
I did read that thread and Yes they acknowledged the fact that the colouring of Planets is wrong, but I honestly dont believe that FDev will ever do anything about it.
Since they are working on atmospheric landings and gas giants, I bet that any improvement to the Stellar Forge on these will have some carry over to the current landable planets and moons. I think they will most likely do it, but it might take ridiculously long. In the worst case, it will come with the 'atmospheres expansion', which may or may not be S3.
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