Premium Beta guy here. Just to let you know I played the original Elite back in the day on the Amiga, and also the epic Frontier: Elite 2. My main thing for wanting to play ED was always for the exploration. During the Premium Beta days when we only had a handful of systems to visit and the visuals of planets were still in development I was really excited for this game. I joined an exploration group and we began making a catalogue with photos of all the planets and stars. But later at one stage there was a downgrade in the visuals of planets and gas giants and their rings, and I slowly started to realize that this was not just a work-in-progress temporary thing.
Now the planets all look the same. You have a handful of variations , and that's it. It does not feel exciting at all to go and visit a new system, because honestly, you've already seen it. A catalogue of such planets would be boring and pointless, noone would want to look through it, so I quit the group and quit playing ED in disappointment. I come back now and then and play in bursts, hoping things will improve, but not much has happened yet.
In my opinion planet visuals could and should improve greatly. Wherever you look in real nature you find beauty, so it is also in space. If you look at the planets and large moons of our own solarsystem, they all have their clear and distinct personality, easily identifiable. Unfortunately this has not passed on to Elite Dangerous, and I would want to be able to add the word: YET.
This game has such a great potential but unfortunately the planet graphics still leave a tremendous lot to be desired. (And the stars and their colors for that matter, not to mention the solar flares. Also have you realized when you supercruise close to stars you can see that they are transparent?)
Right, I apologize, my main purpose of this post was not to complain, really not, I would just like to know if planet visual improvement is still in the works? If anyone knows anything about any future plans, please share. Thanks!
Cmdr MacCraigh
Now the planets all look the same. You have a handful of variations , and that's it. It does not feel exciting at all to go and visit a new system, because honestly, you've already seen it. A catalogue of such planets would be boring and pointless, noone would want to look through it, so I quit the group and quit playing ED in disappointment. I come back now and then and play in bursts, hoping things will improve, but not much has happened yet.
In my opinion planet visuals could and should improve greatly. Wherever you look in real nature you find beauty, so it is also in space. If you look at the planets and large moons of our own solarsystem, they all have their clear and distinct personality, easily identifiable. Unfortunately this has not passed on to Elite Dangerous, and I would want to be able to add the word: YET.
This game has such a great potential but unfortunately the planet graphics still leave a tremendous lot to be desired. (And the stars and their colors for that matter, not to mention the solar flares. Also have you realized when you supercruise close to stars you can see that they are transparent?)
Right, I apologize, my main purpose of this post was not to complain, really not, I would just like to know if planet visual improvement is still in the works? If anyone knows anything about any future plans, please share. Thanks!
Cmdr MacCraigh
