I don't like the new ice worlds.

Jaim Vlazaltadar

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I've had my share of problems with Odyssey, but the most recent ice world I have landed on looks more like the youtube still you posted, than your other images.

I fully expect a promotional video to over-play the graphics, but I agree with other posters here, your images are as poorly lit as possible and I'm not convinced your graphical settings are as good as they could be.
 

"Red" the Pirate

"Red" the Pirate
Soulstain said:
Where’s the one they showed the picture of 2 years ago?
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That one gameplay clip they showed at, what was it.. gamescom? lavecon? The one with the ice sheets and everything? Dunno, I kinda forgot about it. Which is fine I guess, cuz it looks like FD forgot about it too.

Edit: Found it
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Northpin

Northpin
Old Duck said:
Here's another promo shot from orbit, again on the official Steam page. This is what Frontier is telling potential customers Odyssey should look like:

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And again, it's taken above or even a bit behind the terminator


Edit: and the Terrain quality setting has a "ULTRAFORCAPTURE" setting - the benefits of using an alpha build is some of the marketing tricks are still here :D
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Northpin said:
And again, it's taken above or even a bit behind the terminator
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Yes, you keep saying this, but my point is I've yet to see a CMDR post a screenshot that looks as good as either of the ones I provide from Frontier's "this is what you get with Odyssey" page.

If you want to prove me wrong, give me a screenshot that looks like these. As normally is the case in these debates, I WANT to be wrong. But until I see proof, all these arguments will not sway me.
 

jammedhamed

jammedhamed
Old Duck said:
Here's another promo shot from orbit, again on the official Steam page. This is what Frontier is telling potential customers Odyssey should look like:

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I'm a fair guy. I'll play devils advocate and actually admit that this shot here, I've seen pretty much on every planet. Every planet will look that good at that angle. Besides, with that angle the atmosphere is heavily tinting everything and you can't really tell what's what.

The problem is the lack of features. And the lack of good ice textures and effects.
 

jammedhamed

jammedhamed
Jaim Vlazaltadar said:
I've had my share of problems with Odyssey, but the most recent ice world I have landed on looks more like the youtube still you posted, than your other images.

I fully expect a promotional video to over-play the graphics, but I agree with other posters here, your images are as poorly lit as possible and I'm not convinced your graphical settings are as good as they could be.
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I'll post more pictures and recheck my settings
 

Northpin

Northpin
Old Duck said:
Yes, you keep saying this, but my point is I've yet to see a CMDR post a screenshot that looks as good as either of the ones I provide from Frontier's "this is what you get with Odyssey" page.

If you want to prove me wrong, give me a screenshot that looks like these. As normally is the case in these debates, I WANT to be wrong. But until I see proof, all these arguments will not sway me.
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Lack of evidence is not evidence.

And people taking pictures when the sun is right above so there are no shadows, are not going to prove how bad is the current lighting/gamma implementation in game.
Only how bad they are at taking pictures.


Note that i'm not praising EDO, because it failed to impress me yet.
But a bad picture is bad nonetheless
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
I will confess that @kinemator 's photos look pretty nice. They don't impress me as much as the two I posted, but they don't disappoint, either.

Now an interesting test is for the OP to go to this same planet and see if he can reproduce similar results. From many of the screenshots I've seen lately, it feels like some CMDRs have very different graphics settings than others, which can account for some of the "wow, that's dull" screenshots.
 

jammedhamed

jammedhamed
kinemator said:
First three are from release, another two from alpha.
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In that case, yes, it does look better. However it's not better than horizons in my honest opinion. However, I'll take that over what I have now. Maybe my PC isn't powerful enough?

Here's a shot of a canyon on another ice planet in Horizons (Odyssey better than this? really?)
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