My big issue is that the game seems to be currently without a direction except "fix some of what we broke and get it on consoles in a few months."
Frontier don't even honour their own words!!! (Angry about VR)
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I'm impressed. I knew the FPS was gonna be a bust but I did believe the planet tech hype. The ED graphics team had never let us down until EDO. The only MVP left is the audio department.
Well, to be fair, they just haven't told US what direction they're going in. I'm sure they have some kind of plan. It just doesn't seem to be one a lot of us like.
Somewhat curious console illiterate here... So apparently they had to specifically go in and add screenmodes, rather than them just being available in a list to begin with..(?)
What else is there that people are expecting from a new-generation console optimisation pass, that go beyond the better performance that should come inherently with the more recent silicon, which I would have to assume the game build would automagically make use of?
Better specifically coded use of the new direct access SSD controllers, perhaps? What else?
...FSR and raytracing, maybe - there's some things of the sort PC players, too, would probably appreciate...
On Xbox One X, FDEV added a 4K Quality mode for 30fps and a 1080p performance mode at 60fps. On older Xbox hardware it was just 1080p at 30fps.
I think PS4 Pro got a 1440p mode added, PS owners can confirm/deny that?
For the next-gen consoles, I would be looking for visuals and performance closer to what a medium-rig PC is doing now. Stuff like more rocks in ice belts, better volumetric lighting etc. Neither console would beat a top-PC, its just about taking advantage of the extra horsepower both on PS5 and Xbox Series S|X. I'm not expecting ray-tracing or FSR (not supported on PC yet anyway), or even exploiting the native SSD speeds.
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Yeah but the Cylons had a plan to, according to the intro, and see how it turned out.
I think the plan is to focus on console release. They do what they can on the side, and that's it.
Well... apart from the new "squelch" noise when you land on a landing pad that sounds like someone replaced your landing gear with overcooked pasta, yes, the audio is superb.
That is fair actually, they obviously have some future plan we just don't know it yet. I mean they kept tight lipped about the space legs they were obviously working on for ages so who's to say they're not currently working on Atmospheric worlds or ship interi... oh wait..
The Many Fixes and Improvements Era or the Maintenance Mode Era? both seem valid...
Unless it was just Roadmap for fixes.
Oh, I'm sure you're correct, I'm certain they're actually planning something beyond that. Presumably there's actually some stuff in this expac we haven't seen yet (There are files that have been datamined for new SRVs, for example) - because otherwise it took 100 people 2 years to break the UI, semi-fix multicrew, and slap on a half-arsed FPS.
But that the only thing we know about the future so far are things that aren't planned isn't great.
As I say, I take your point about the more fantastic hopes among gamers and the limitations of present tech. It seems to me that VR was ditched largely as a result of the challenges of conforming to best practices in VR and FPS gameplay though, and that it could have been otherwise.NMS doesnt have planet orbits, full scale planets, decent rendering distances, any kind of BGS, a proper flight model, native peripheral support and so on. It reinforces the point: you can do some of what NMS, X4, ED and so forth do, but you cannot combine it all into one game. And gamers really need to get that simple point through their thick skulls pronto.
Nah, Tencent own shares in several game studios and not all of them are making the missteps FDEV have recently.
I promise not to spend one more penny on any Frontier game till VR fully supported in ED.
Ok, I would have thought things like that would either be subject to user settings, or adapt dynamically, but I guess things are more cut-down by hand and hardcoded in that market space, that I would have imagined...
Oh, I didn't mean the missteps so much as I meant the obvious shift towards console.
Tecent have share in pretty much every company nowadays. They simply don't have the manpower, finances and time to give instruction to them. Only a few a "tencent-ed".
That's was the joke.JPEG
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