People aren’t excited for new updates due to Fdev’s awful track record the past few years and their continued secrecy.
because usually there's nothing to be excited for.
In 2 years they did just slight above the bare minimum on performance of odyssey(still doesn't run on my "horizons capable hardware" as advertised, and still dips below 60 in various odyssey-related occasions on my new one)
in 2 years+ they've released, besides odyssey:
a "new SRV", fleet carrier interiors, some new modules, added thargoids to the BGS with little modifications, 1~2 new thargoid units and reused old assets to fuel a "misterious war" that has been going at a slower pace than my progress towards senior retirement. i might be missing something but the list is small. for the scope of the game.
that in two years+, past update "big surprise" was to see the titan inside the maelstrom, basically the same one we saw on the ground since 2017, and to collect tissues that might be useable god knows when.
In the same time they ignored many issues on the issue tracker, they even abandoned some cause "we don't think its worth the effort", one of these is anti aliasing, in 2023 a 2014 game not being able to improve its own ANTI ALIASING, which imo got worse on odyssey, alongside many things. hell the lighting on systems which used to work fine on horizons still doesn't work properly on odyssey and now 4.0 Live(iirc)
The DLC itself was(is) lackluster in content and full of issues on launch, and after launch was still ridden with bugs, some that persists to this day which fdev doesn't have the face to admit they either dont want or dont know how to fix, so they come in public to say "we won't fix and wont tell you why, thanks for understanding and sit down", hell there's issues from horizons that people still complain since 2016~
So yeah, some folks are happy and that's good for them, but people still "disagree with the addition of new ships cause "every niche is filled", like if there was a problem that another corvette/anaconda/cutter existed but on a new shiny model, with different hardpoints or internals, but nah seems they are allergic to new content unless is the crumbs fdev throw at us 4 times a year. and that's usually the user base they want to keep around, no matter what they do, there will be minimal to no complain coming from them anyway, and again that's totally fine if you are happy with the current content.
But people usually don't like when you show a shiny cake but brings half a carrot stick to a birthday party, to be eaten throughout the span of 3+ years. it becomes boring.
As usual, the game still has a lot of potential, but some of this same potential was spent on an "amazing gameplay" which consists of almost hovering over soil trying to find a white fungus on a white planet, while the game don't render things fast enough so you gotta slow down and let it take its time, to find that fungus if you are lucky, drop from your ship, hold a button, go up your ship again, and then go find more 2 of them.
and GOD FORBID you find another plant on your way, you'll have to imprint on your mind where it was, cause we can fly spaceships, can carry limitless "cans" to store the biological data, but we can't switch said cans to store different plant datas alternately just because.
and there's the post of today
"hey, we've dropped 3 issues cause we won't look further into it(like lighting that we said it was fixed but it wasnt!), and no talks of the said "system rework" yet, but here's a shiny new client, we know you will LOVE a new client more than the 3 issues we just dropped alongside many others being fixed, right?"
what a joke.
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