FAO FRONTIER: List of Graphical Changes / Issues for since Patch 1.3
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Colour mismatch looks fixed to me. I only went into 3 or 4 ring systems, but they all looked fine.
That is not due to missing fog , belive me. this issue has been here sins beta , just at times the intense fog would hide it (not very well)
maybe one day they will fix it or increase the draw distance beyond 2CM
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Realy?! hope thats the case...Colour mismatch looks fixed to me. I only went into 3 or 4 ring systems, but they all looked fine.
rock ones are the worst
Well I might have missed it, but I don't see a fix listed in the 1.4 beta notes.....sigh
It mentions that missing asteroids have been added to thin rings.
Very sad news... no changes to astroid mismatch they still look terrible (sorry FD)
This is just terrible , I cant belive its allmost a year and the astroids got less and less good over time... still the best game ever but damn
also , wear and tear still does not work
Edit : I actualy found some good news we can now edit the ammount of stars that show up
This is just terrible , I cant belive its allmost a year and the astroids got less and less good over time... still the best game ever but damn
also , wear and tear still does not work
Edit : I actualy found some good news we can now edit the ammount of stars that show up
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I`m afraid there are downgrades, at least in beta - lots of asteroids pop ins and I`,m pretty sure there is something with the ships geometry too - but, there is a huge boost in performance.
This makes me sick... And as a customer it makes me angry. This isn't what I bought.
Remember that its still beta, we will see if those downgrades will transfer after beta ends.
Yes you're perfectly right. And I dont mean to rage...
I agree , I am a bit angry as well... I got a GTX980 for elite so I can play it in 4K because they used to go on and on about how much they wanted the game to look amazing...
I can understand nerfing graphics on consoles but on PC there is zero reason to do so... because we have graphic options... we NEED more graphical options
This is becoming a pattern. Each patch more downgrades. Why would they downgrade just for a beta? You know this is going to continue.
I hope not... but it has happened allmost every single patch from after gamma (sometimes even before) but I remeber them saying they would never do it but instead keep adding tones of options to tweak...
and what is wierd is all my bug reports have been looked into but not the astroid related ones , its like if they like it the way it is
Things are looking a lot better in patch 1.4 - at least in terms of what is going on within the ring systems and the asteroids.
There has also been a nice update to the filtering on the galaxy map, in 1.4. I problem was introduced in 1.3, when you put the filter on, you could only see a short radius of stars around your current location and if you moved the camera you saw no stars at all. In 1.4 you still get a 'bubble' of filtered starts, but this bubble now moves with the camera so you can look as far as you like across the galaxy for specific star types.
I haven't had a chance yet to look at wear and tear paint degradation.
The issue with low quality models on nebula when there are more than one in view still remains. Only one nebula will be in high quality (the largest) the rest remain in low. Prior to 1.3 in was the closest nebula that remained in high quality. Frontier did acknowledge this, but didn't seem particularly interested in making a fix for it.
I have seen some people mention there are some reductions in model geometry, however I haven't seen this myself (mainly because I haven't been looking for it, and perhaps it isn't all that obvious).
Here is a video for the improved changes to rings and asteroids:
[video=youtube;CUyf_5K877U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyf_5K877U[/video]
There has also been a nice update to the filtering on the galaxy map, in 1.4. I problem was introduced in 1.3, when you put the filter on, you could only see a short radius of stars around your current location and if you moved the camera you saw no stars at all. In 1.4 you still get a 'bubble' of filtered starts, but this bubble now moves with the camera so you can look as far as you like across the galaxy for specific star types.
I haven't had a chance yet to look at wear and tear paint degradation.
The issue with low quality models on nebula when there are more than one in view still remains. Only one nebula will be in high quality (the largest) the rest remain in low. Prior to 1.3 in was the closest nebula that remained in high quality. Frontier did acknowledge this, but didn't seem particularly interested in making a fix for it.
I have seen some people mention there are some reductions in model geometry, however I haven't seen this myself (mainly because I haven't been looking for it, and perhaps it isn't all that obvious).
Here is a video for the improved changes to rings and asteroids:
[video=youtube;CUyf_5K877U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyf_5K877U[/video]
Granite, I'll cross fingers in hope you are right. They might indeed enhance graphics and restore -if not best- the former version after all. But I'm still not as optimistic as you. 1.4, while fun and adequate as far as gaming goes, displays some pretty ugly graphical glitches. Having textures and geometry popups at very short distances is not something I want to see, but it is there.
Grainite/Obsidian Ant, you said at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyf_5K877U&feature=youtu.be&t=1m28s "downgraded the graphics. Frontier insisted that was not the case."
I have to challenge you on that. I did not see Frontier anywhere insist they had not downgraded the graphics. Not in their weasel words "We are certainly not inclined to downgrade the appearance of anything in the game." or anywhere else.
I have to challenge you on that. I did not see Frontier anywhere insist they had not downgraded the graphics. Not in their weasel words "We are certainly not inclined to downgrade the appearance of anything in the game." or anywhere else.
I just watched and rep'd Granite for the video, not just this one but all of them!
As some one who spent money on a new GPU for this game I have to say I am left feeling deflated from what I saw. I would love to hear from a developer as to why these changes are being made... despite what they claim the evidence is clear to see.
The game I was sold on no longer exists. Months of watching video's, getting excited knowing that in June I would be able to fly in the galaxy. Wife was pleased to buy me the game as a present, I got my new GPU and a monitor, my birthday was perfect.
Or at least I thought it was, non of the systems I went to looked quite like those I had seen but I didn't mind to much. Now though after seeing just how much the view has changed I feel like I have been conned by FD.
I will go as far as to say this is a bait and switch con. I wonder how trading standards in the UK would view this?
EDIT: Can you imagine if R* downgraded the PC GTA V to be the same as the 360... I think there would have been a riot.
As some one who spent money on a new GPU for this game I have to say I am left feeling deflated from what I saw. I would love to hear from a developer as to why these changes are being made... despite what they claim the evidence is clear to see.
The game I was sold on no longer exists. Months of watching video's, getting excited knowing that in June I would be able to fly in the galaxy. Wife was pleased to buy me the game as a present, I got my new GPU and a monitor, my birthday was perfect.
Or at least I thought it was, non of the systems I went to looked quite like those I had seen but I didn't mind to much. Now though after seeing just how much the view has changed I feel like I have been conned by FD.
I will go as far as to say this is a bait and switch con. I wonder how trading standards in the UK would view this?
EDIT: Can you imagine if R* downgraded the PC GTA V to be the same as the 360... I think there would have been a riot.
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I haven't seen these problems on any of my three PC's. But I have seen quite a few people mentioning it...so clearly something isn't right there. (It may also be a case that it is occurring on my PCs but I just haven't noticed it).
Thanks.
Although 1.4 certainly improves things a lot, I still feel that same disappointment that we go longer have a lot of the fantastic systems we once had. That said the performance is significantly better than it once was - although I hear quite a few people still have stuttering issues.
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