I've not touched Horizons for months and now play exclusively with Odyssey and I'm a little confused by much of the negativity I read about it. I hardly have a beefy rig (GTX 1650 super) but get decent framerates mostly and the game is very playable. My girlfriend is away and has instructed me to play Elite while she is absent so I decided to try out the Thargoid content to be found in the codex. My experience with them is limited to blowing up a few scouts with the Vulture that Winking Cat gifted me at Christmas... and that is about it. So I decided to visit the Delphi system as the codex pointed me in this direction. What follows is a pictorial record of what I discovered on Delphi 3. Additionally, after seeing all those beautiful images on Frameshift Live's Steller Screenshots I thought I might have a go at taking some dramatic pictures with the camera suite too.
Arrival on Delphi 3. I was pleased to find a crashed Thargoid ship on the sunlit side. I've spent some months engineering a Type 6 for the very purpose of investigating the resident aliens of Elite and have just slapped on the paintjob and decals given away on last week's CG too. Named the 'Musca Dark' she carries multiple anti-corrosion cargo racks, Prismatics and Guardian Gauss Cannons along with a decent vehicle hanger.
Despite my PC's lack of juice the lighting on foot was brilliant and the weather effects were very photogenic. If you didn't know, Delphi 3 is an Ammonia atmosphere and the skybox looks gorgeous.
I love the scale of Elite. This site represents a crashed Thargoid Interceptor. I dread the day I meet one in the Black. Trying to master the camera suite wasn't easy either, as it can be a bit obtuse. These images are my favourites from the 100s I took.
I spent several hours exploring the environs around the ship and harvesting the probes and fragments found there.
I spent so long exploring that the sun began to set.
I loved the metallic graphical effects during the sunsets. Very futuristic and alien at the same time.
Bernard's Loop became more visable as time wore on. I've been out there a few times on various errands. Perhaps I should visit properly?
You can't deny that Odyssey is a beautiful game.
Time for the Musca Dark to depart. I'm not going far.... I've scanned the system and I'm intrigued by the structure on 5a. That's my next stop.
Arrival on Delphi 3. I was pleased to find a crashed Thargoid ship on the sunlit side. I've spent some months engineering a Type 6 for the very purpose of investigating the resident aliens of Elite and have just slapped on the paintjob and decals given away on last week's CG too. Named the 'Musca Dark' she carries multiple anti-corrosion cargo racks, Prismatics and Guardian Gauss Cannons along with a decent vehicle hanger.
Despite my PC's lack of juice the lighting on foot was brilliant and the weather effects were very photogenic. If you didn't know, Delphi 3 is an Ammonia atmosphere and the skybox looks gorgeous.
I love the scale of Elite. This site represents a crashed Thargoid Interceptor. I dread the day I meet one in the Black. Trying to master the camera suite wasn't easy either, as it can be a bit obtuse. These images are my favourites from the 100s I took.
I spent several hours exploring the environs around the ship and harvesting the probes and fragments found there.
I spent so long exploring that the sun began to set.
I loved the metallic graphical effects during the sunsets. Very futuristic and alien at the same time.
Bernard's Loop became more visable as time wore on. I've been out there a few times on various errands. Perhaps I should visit properly?
You can't deny that Odyssey is a beautiful game.
Time for the Musca Dark to depart. I'm not going far.... I've scanned the system and I'm intrigued by the structure on 5a. That's my next stop.