For you that remember my old post, I started playing ED on a used laptop that I had drilled hole in it, put four fans under it, change paste and undercooking the GPU in order to have the bare minimum to play my dream game at low setting!
I was so excited when I finally bought myself a new rig with a decent 1080 Founder Edition GPU. Everything was butter smooth in pancake mode and when playing VR I had a good experience. I spent thousands of hours collecting ships and engineering them to the max (my favorite thing to do). I even meet another commander in the vastness of space that became a really good friend.
Then Odyssey came and I was so excited to finally have space legs, but as everyone know, Odyssey was not very much optimized. I could not have any good frame rate in station or on planet even with a 1080 GPU. I had 30-40 in station! This was very different than the constant 165 that I use to have.
Like many of us, I was very disappointed, but my understanding of how game are made me wait patiently. Unfortunately even update after update nothing major was giving me the performance that I was expected to have. I could have gone for a 60 at least but even with a lot of trying and tweaking I was still in the 30-40 fps in station…
This situation added to not having VR on foot and no ship interior really disappointed me. The argument for no ship interior being boring was kind of dismissive because we already need to walk a significant time in the hangar to the elevator and every time I really enjoy the immmmmeeeeersion, but this is another topic…
I then stop playing my dream favorite game of all time. I needed to wait for better performance to come back. Each update I was hoping for good performance to come back. While waiting, I was playing other games, but nothing fulfill my need of feeling in space like ED does. This game is just the best out there in term of a well balanced sim-ishh in space with so much to do that only imagination is the limit.
Yes, there is always room for improvement. Yes, I’m really concerned by the decision to not implement VR on foot, it’s really sad, but ED is still a very unique and amazing experience that I cannot get tired of.
So…, what about my title that say, finally good FPS you would ask and why did I not do a TL
R and made you read all of that? This is a bit sarcastic and my answer is:
I (beep) BOUGHT (beep) A 3080 TI!!!
I can tell you that this game is just amazing on full ultra+ setting and run mostly smooth except sluttering at some place (can other commander that have a 30XX confirm that please). The bad thing is that not everyone can afford this. I never thought I could buy that card myself. I slowly and patiently accumulate my money to afford me that rare luxury…
I hope Frontier will be able to bring this game up to normal performance standard. There is a lot of whining and I understand so much, but at the same time, this game is still one of a kind, continuing to be amongst the pioneers in the gaming industry. Like many other have said, a lot of those complaints are because we love so much that game.
Game that let you enjoy hundreds or even thousands of hours have something special and that need to be considered. I have probably spent 200$ on this game playing it since more than 3 years. I really put a lot more on restaurant, cinema and beers. This is around 5.50 buck a month and in Canadian dollars. Nothing to complains here for so much fun and healthy evasion.
I think I just want more and I think we all agree that ED as a lot of potential that is only waiting to be invested in by FD.
I really like the new approach and the more open oriented community management and I hope ED will continue to expand for many years to come. Sally is really putting all her hearth and Arthur, Bruce and Zack are doing their best in a challenging time that was the launch of Odyssey. I lift my hat to them and say thank you.
In conclusion, I hope that they fix what preventing this game to run on normal popular computer especially in this time of crisis about the GPU market and for the upcoming console port.
I don’t need to be a white knight to fully appreciate that game. It’s a wonderful time to be a gamer and I am really grateful for that.
Thank you Frontier, thank to all the commanders that have a realistic positive mindset.
o7
I was so excited when I finally bought myself a new rig with a decent 1080 Founder Edition GPU. Everything was butter smooth in pancake mode and when playing VR I had a good experience. I spent thousands of hours collecting ships and engineering them to the max (my favorite thing to do). I even meet another commander in the vastness of space that became a really good friend.
Then Odyssey came and I was so excited to finally have space legs, but as everyone know, Odyssey was not very much optimized. I could not have any good frame rate in station or on planet even with a 1080 GPU. I had 30-40 in station! This was very different than the constant 165 that I use to have.
Like many of us, I was very disappointed, but my understanding of how game are made me wait patiently. Unfortunately even update after update nothing major was giving me the performance that I was expected to have. I could have gone for a 60 at least but even with a lot of trying and tweaking I was still in the 30-40 fps in station…
This situation added to not having VR on foot and no ship interior really disappointed me. The argument for no ship interior being boring was kind of dismissive because we already need to walk a significant time in the hangar to the elevator and every time I really enjoy the immmmmeeeeersion, but this is another topic…
I then stop playing my dream favorite game of all time. I needed to wait for better performance to come back. Each update I was hoping for good performance to come back. While waiting, I was playing other games, but nothing fulfill my need of feeling in space like ED does. This game is just the best out there in term of a well balanced sim-ishh in space with so much to do that only imagination is the limit.
Yes, there is always room for improvement. Yes, I’m really concerned by the decision to not implement VR on foot, it’s really sad, but ED is still a very unique and amazing experience that I cannot get tired of.
So…, what about my title that say, finally good FPS you would ask and why did I not do a TL
R and made you read all of that? This is a bit sarcastic and my answer is:I (beep) BOUGHT (beep) A 3080 TI!!!
I can tell you that this game is just amazing on full ultra+ setting and run mostly smooth except sluttering at some place (can other commander that have a 30XX confirm that please). The bad thing is that not everyone can afford this. I never thought I could buy that card myself. I slowly and patiently accumulate my money to afford me that rare luxury…
I hope Frontier will be able to bring this game up to normal performance standard. There is a lot of whining and I understand so much, but at the same time, this game is still one of a kind, continuing to be amongst the pioneers in the gaming industry. Like many other have said, a lot of those complaints are because we love so much that game.
Game that let you enjoy hundreds or even thousands of hours have something special and that need to be considered. I have probably spent 200$ on this game playing it since more than 3 years. I really put a lot more on restaurant, cinema and beers. This is around 5.50 buck a month and in Canadian dollars. Nothing to complains here for so much fun and healthy evasion.
I think I just want more and I think we all agree that ED as a lot of potential that is only waiting to be invested in by FD.
I really like the new approach and the more open oriented community management and I hope ED will continue to expand for many years to come. Sally is really putting all her hearth and Arthur, Bruce and Zack are doing their best in a challenging time that was the launch of Odyssey. I lift my hat to them and say thank you.
In conclusion, I hope that they fix what preventing this game to run on normal popular computer especially in this time of crisis about the GPU market and for the upcoming console port.
I don’t need to be a white knight to fully appreciate that game. It’s a wonderful time to be a gamer and I am really grateful for that.
Thank you Frontier, thank to all the commanders that have a realistic positive mindset.
o7
