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kinda off topic , but just booted up horizons and wow odyssey is huge downgrade , performance wise and visuals wise , the planets are a big let down in odyssey , what happened people ? odyssey aliasing is seriously bad planets textures are over rendered all pixelated and terrible , performance is terrible , why is odyssey's performance so terrible ? seriously what happened ?
 
Might be time to pull an FDev and stop further development on this console thread.
In the words of Dr. Evil, "How about, No, ya frickin' weirdo!"

Or moreso, in my own words, you misspelt, "restart development of the console versions" there!" 🤔😯😀🤘 .

(Also it's weird that "'" rightly isn't censored by the swear filter, yet our playful innocent Irish F word parody which we say in front of the politest of company is marked as cursing and I can't type it! 🤔😯😂🩲.)
 
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In the words of Dr. Evil, "How about, No, ya frickin' weirdo!"

Or moreso, in my own words, you misspelt, "restart development of the console versions" there!" 🤔😯😀🤘 .

(Also it's weird that "'" rightly isn't censored by the swear filter, yet our playful innocent Irish F word parody which we say in front of the politest of company is marked as cursing and I can't type it! 🤔😯😂🩲.)
If you are being prevented from typing some variant spelling of a swear word or obscenity such as or , that must be down to you I have no problem typing them. Obviously the software rightly censored them so they never leave the draft of the post to reach the forum but I could and did type them.
 
I will be watching the Console to PC transfer with interest.

If they are doing total transfers (ARX, paintjobs, decals..), I would like to request that for us that have made the jump and still maintain an active console account (which I play from time to time as a Pirate) to have some of our paintjobs/decals transferred over as well.

Quite honestly, I only want my DW2 Decal which I earned on PS4.

Do I believe it is sad that the development for Consoles can go no further but I have expectations that this will give FDev to pool all their resources to maintain the game with better focus.
 
If you are being prevented from typing some variant spelling of a swear word or obscenity such as or , that must be down to you I have no problem typing them. Obviously the software rightly censored them so they never leave the draft of the post to reach the forum but I could and did type them.
The swear filter is quite powerful on this site and though it might let you type actual curses or false positives, it's rather annoying and quite sneaky in that if something triggers it, even a false positive just as the particular word I referred to, instead of warning you that it thinks or knows a particular word is a curse or otherwise offensive, it simply deletes the word, even the space it took up, so it can be hard to see it's done anything unless you carefully proofread your posts...

Long story short, the word I'm referring to is wrongly censored....

edit - actual frickin' is allowed, which I seemingly typed last night, yet typing two "gg's" in between the two "i's" instead as I accidentally typed just now without thinking did trigger it!

I never realised there was a difference before.

(To me these are two false positives, but anyway it is what it is and as said the swear filter here in o.p. 😂.

All I want it to do is warn us when it is being triggered and we can use alternate "safer" words, to be clear I'm not advocating swearing, more so legitimate and correct use of the filter 🤔😀.)

As I alluded to, the swear filter isn't always right, maybe only 90% of the time and many are prone to the "Scunthorpe" problem, if you know what it is 🤔😀🤘 .

Anyway, getting back on topic...

I'm hoping Frontier either says, "sorry everybody, this early April Fools joke has gone on long enough!" and they restart console development.

Or maybe more realistically, this short "change of focus" was enough for them to optimise Odyssey and or they realise how big a mistake that they made and either restart console development with their existing staff or hire more people 🤔😀🤞🤘 .
 
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kinda off topic , but just booted up horizons and wow odyssey is huge downgrade , performance wise and visuals wise , the planets are a big let down in odyssey , what happened people ? odyssey aliasing is seriously bad planets textures are over rendered all pixelated and terrible , performance is terrible , why is odyssey's performance so terrible ? seriously what happened ?
Management.
 
kinda off topic , but just booted up horizons and wow odyssey is huge downgrade , performance wise and visuals wise , the planets are a big let down in odyssey , what happened people ? odyssey aliasing is seriously bad planets textures are over rendered all pixelated and terrible , performance is terrible , why is odyssey's performance so terrible ? seriously what happened ?

Weird, i find Odyseey planets so much better - the only thing i miss from Horizons Planets is the fact they had way more dramatic terrain features (more often finding deep canyons or higher mountains) than Odyssey planets.

Make sure you dont have Checkerboard enabled - U11 added this new option for gfx settings and might come as enabled in certain setups
 
I may be missremembering but did FD say they were still tinkering with the surface generation to try to bring large canyons craters and mountains back?
 
Well, in this context, R&D could be part of the 6 month+ of extra work to improve EDO engine, rendering, etc.
A direct result of the state EDO was at launch

From what we currently see, it's obvious that ED is subjected to some (maybe more than some) cutting costs policies and budget reductions.
Yes, yes, I was just talking plain and boring finance here :p
 
I may be missremembering but did FD say they were still tinkering with the surface generation to try to bring large canyons craters and mountains back?
They would need to regenerate the whole galaxy to change either the canyons/mountains or the pattern issue. As far as I know they were still looking at the pattern issue, not sure if that included canyon heights though.
 
Greetings Commanders,

Elite Dangerous is a game close to my heart.

It’s no secret that Odyssey’s launch was less than ideal, including the need to split the PC/console player base to focus on a PC-only launch. Since Odyssey’s release in May 2021, we have worked tirelessly to improve the Odyssey experience on PC, and whilst we have made great progress there is still more to be done. We have been supporting the pre-Odyssey and post-Odyssey codebases since.

Over the last several months, we have been wrestling with the best way to move forward, and it is with a heavy heart we have decided to cancel all console development. We need to be able to move forward with the story of the game, and in order for us to do this we need to focus on a single codebase. Elite Dangerous will continue on console as it is now together with critical updates, but we will focus on new content updates on PC on the post-Odyssey codebase.

We appreciate this news is not what our console community were hoping for. This was not an easy decision to make, but it was made with the long-term future of Elite Dangerous in mind.
FDEV as a long time elite player on PS4 - I have invested thousands of hours I am crushed this news but understand your decision - please give us a way to transfer out accounts to PC so we do not loose all of our hard earned progress in the game - starting over from scratch I feel would be unfair considering I would not be willingly switching to PC, but am forced to if I want to play any new content - I love the game, but that is a lot of time lost (years) - anything you can do would be appreciated - also I believe you will be alienating the console community for good if you decide to not pursue transfers - many of us would be bitter and likely not be very forgiving going forward
 
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