But I also have a feeling that we will never see other types of planets.
Same for me.
Horizons was released almost two years ago.
Yet there's still only one SRV type and no other landable body types have been added.
Ten year plan? At that pace ten years would be sufficient for horizons alone.
Other planets have never been part of the Horizons Season.
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Can you provide a link?
The in game store and the official horizons page state nowhere that it's only about landing on non atmosphere rocks/ice bodies and that atmospheric bodies will be added later on.
I have a bad feeling they've decided to do nothing...
I hope to proven wrong.
Can you provide a link?
The in game store and the official horizons page state nowhere that it's only about landing on non atmosphere rocks/ice bodies and that atmospheric bodies will be added later on.
No, but it was stated ad-nauseum during live streams that this was indeed the case.
Sure, here
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=172167&p=2640554&viewfull=1#post2640554
and here
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=192062&p=2958713&viewfull=1#post2958713
For example. There are a few hundred other posts about it...
Hear that a lot in the dev line of work. Just because we don't attend to issues quickly, doesn't mean we've decided to do nothing about them.
More than likely, the issue hasn't been resolved yet because it's proven to be much more complicated to fix than we, as the customers, could know.
Hear that a lot in the dev line of work. Just because we don't attend to issues quickly, doesn't mean we've decided to do nothing about them.
More than likely, the issue hasn't been resolved yet because it's proven to be much more complicated to fix than we, as the customers, could know.
As a former PM for a software house I can also say there are things which never get done for various reasons.
Lets remember that this was a change - not a bug. This is something Frontier wanted and were not prepared for the players reaction or the extent of the changes they caused. Yes they said they would look at it but is it seen as a bug by them?
That was never really made clear in the responses we were given...
My apologies for not responding sooner, this issue has been on my list to chase up for a while. The reason for the difference being observed on the rocky worlds is the change to the new material system - in theory this is more accurate as it uses the chemical properties to determine the colour (obviously I'm simplifying a bit here!), however the problem is that those colours were based on Earth standard colouration for those materials, and most of those are beige/brown rather than the colours you might observe in the myriad of other possible conditions. We're currently working on a more flexible material system, and this will necessitate a fresh balance pass on these. That's not going to be in 2.3 though.
Michael
To me this sounds like it's both, intended and unintended:
If y'all want 'spaced out pretty coloured planets' my suggestion is go to here:
https://www.nomanssky.com/
You get some really psychedelic Planet colours there!
I have a bad feeling they've decided to do nothing...
I hope to proven wrong.
Fair comment.
It would be nice to get some news on the issue...