Dark, blurry graphics - unplayable

[JSteel]

Wow, I'm so disappointed!
I'm surprised with Frontier, that they would release this.

Not only is the DLC horribly clunky in many ways, but the graphical changes are a major step in the wrong direction.
The in-game text is so blurry that it gives me a headache, and there is nothing in the graphical settings I can do to correct it. It's so dark, with interface elements so bright. Just terrible.

I requested a refund on Steam - lets see if they'll grant it.
Here's a side-by-side screenshot of Horizons vs Odyssey inside the cockpit of my Sidewinder:

HORIZONS (crisp text)

ODYSSEY (fuzzy text)

 

[MrTwister]

Also dark as deepest layers of hell, especially in deeper space, lighting and gamma are completely screwed.

 

[Welsh Wizard]

Steam wont refund this steaming heap of DLC dung. I already tried.

 

[J Michaelson]

Wow, I'm so disappointed!
I'm surprised with Frontier, that they would release this.

Not only is the DLC horribly clunky in many ways, but the graphical changes are a major step in the wrong direction.
The in-game text is so blurry that it gives me a headache, and there is nothing in the graphical settings I can do to correct it. It's so dark, with interface elements so bright. Just terrible.

I requested a refund on Steam - lets see if they'll grant it.
Here's a side-by-side screenshot of Horizons vs Odyssey inside the cockpit of my Sidewinder:

HORIZONS (crisp text)


ODYSSEY (fuzzy text)

Your comparision shots are exactly what I'm seeing, right down to the formerly bright blue HUD elements now being a dull blue-green. I thought maybe I was going nuts or my display calibration got messed up. Thanks for posting those.

 

[CMDR Melloca]

As far as the HUD goes, there is a HUD brightness option now. Mine was only set halfway and I didn't like it being that dark.

I also had to play with my gamma settings as well. The calibration seems a little off.

Not saying these are "fixes", but they helped me greatly.

 

[MrTwister]

Its not the HUD its everything being very dark

 

[Ydiss]

I put my HUD brightness up and that's fine now. Still plenty issues with lighting but this is one thing that's solved for me.

 

[Gungan]

The Krait 2 looks green inside now. Never did before.

 

[SoReal]

Same problem for me , its very tough on the eyes

 

[Freyar]

Your comparision shots are exactly what I'm seeing, right down to the formerly bright blue HUD elements now being a dull blue-green. I thought maybe I was going nuts or my display calibration got messed up. Thanks for posting those.

You can see this is very evident on Donar's Oak right now. There's a lot of stuff that's missing and the contrast is completely out the window here.
Left is new, right is original. The brightness/contrast was balanced to my monitor, so with the same settings we can see the new lighting model is far too dark and it seems like all contrast is gone too.

 

[JSteel]

We've always had the ability to increase the HUD brightness, but I find it makes it worse.

Instantly headache-inducing.

 

[Drelthar]

It's almost like they changed art directors...

Did they?

 

[Woodsie]

Same issues here. Too dark to read text, and the 2D holograms on the ship's panels make this experience even worse.

 

[Freyar]

I updated my earlier post with an explanation as to what I'm seeing in this game.

 

[SoReal]

i thought something was wrong before even getting into game

Horizons Entry screen :

Same Screen in Odyssey it looks dull and crap:

 

[Freyar]

i thought something was wrong before even getting into game

Same Screen in Odyssey it looks dull and crap:

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Looks like a toy..

 

[Raennik]

Your comparision shots are exactly what I'm seeing, right down to the formerly bright blue HUD elements now being a dull blue-green. I thought maybe I was going nuts or my display calibration got messed up. Thanks for posting those.

Yeah, it puzzles me how they managed to screw this up so badly. Ignoring the overall "way too dark" problem (which is a massive problem), where did this go so wrong that these two colour elements no longer match? It's all just ugly now. :\ And yeah, did a full colour calibration as well. It's not us, it's them. This is how they designed it to look. Awful stars, awful contrast, awful colours. I really can't see myself continuing to support this game if it's going to look like this.

 

[Freyar]

Interesting to see the shield color change between the two.

 

[Scaletho]

Also dark as deepest layers of hell, especially in deeper space, lighting and gamma are completely screwed.

Wake up, friends. We were bamboozled. Frontier sold us a half-baked alpha as a full DLC. I'm outraged.

 

[Drelthar]

They changed the entire shader system, and then.... seemingly... haven't done much in the way of trying to make it fit the old system, the new system shouldn't be modifying this stuff, it should be allowing the artists to do cool stuff with the planet tech, not ruining previous artists work.