Does the Console News mean that Horizons will probably stay the same?

[galahad2069]

In the end there will be always some people complaining that they dont have a good performance on Odyssey on their 10 years old laptops and are "forced" out of the game because they simply refuse, or can't, take the investment into their gaming hobby and ignore technical progress.

Odyssey still performs worse than Horizons while doing the basic spaceship gameplay lightyears away from the new planetary surfaces, AND it looks worse, that is the issue.

You simply cannot justify that performance loss saying 'technical progress' while it offers literally zero quality gain in exchange for the loss of frames per second (actually it's not even zero but negative).

 

[Gentleman_Raven_]

I still can't believe Fdev is dumping consoles altogether. I get it if Odyssey won't run on PS4 but could it run on PS5? With the PS5 specs I would think you'd be able to run Oddy but it seems they threw the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[Threeofseven]

Yesterday I spent the entire day playing Horizons. I can honestly say, IMO, it’s just better than EDO.

Planets are better, lighting is tons better. Horizon’s surface settlements are glistening and gleaming while Odyssey settlements look dark and fuzzy.

Horizon’s UI is tons better. Odyssey’s station UI is still hot garbage. It’s clunky and is missing a lot of information. Odyssey’s Galaxy map is also way behind Horizon’s.

Performance is obviously better on Horizon’s.

There really isn’t much to do in Odyssey after the first few hours. In the surface installations, all NPCs follow the exact same routes and repeat the exact same 3-4 different lines.

Its engineering grind wall is a mountain compared to Horizon’s.

Missions pay less and there isn’t anything really valuable to steal.

Alien plant life is the exact same galaxy wide and it’s very unbalanced with handheld laser pistols doing more damage than ship mounted lasers.



Apparently I’m not the only one who feels this way. The CG was actually more crowded with cmdrs in Horizon’s than in Odyssey yesterday. I really hope Fdev will simply leave it alone.

 

[WR3ND]

In a lot of way, Horizons is better than Odyssey IMO. I remember that original plan was to add odyssey planet tech into Horizons. I think that would be bad as I personally like Horizon’s planets/lighting better. Maybe now it won’t happen?

Odyssey runs exceptionally poorly on my fairly niche computer compared to Horizons [see thread here for more on that], so as it stands, I certainly hope the Odyssey graphics update is not incorporated into Horizons.