Quick comparison of an airless metal-rich planet. Half-arsed pics, but shows even more starkly the difference between sunset region and noonday landscape:
Same planet.
Same planet.
I don't like the new ice worlds.
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Planet quality seems hugely variable. Sometimes they'll look heavily pixilated, at other times they'll look great.
My suspicion is that the planets are far from finished (and may had their quality nerfed due to the framerate issues identified in the Alpha). Would be really nice to hear from Frontier about if planets are in their intended state or if improvements are inbound.
My suspicion is that the planets are far from finished (and may had their quality nerfed due to the framerate issues identified in the Alpha). Would be really nice to hear from Frontier about if planets are in their intended state or if improvements are inbound.
Well, you all are entitled to your opinions. If Frontier is going to force me to always land on the sunset line so that I can get something that doesn't look out of a 2002 game, then both the lighting and tech is not up to par.
I really don't remember having this problem in Horizons. And to be honest, despite the stunning pictures people have posted, to me it really isn't all that better than the average rocky planet in Horizons.
In the end, @Old Duck , it's really a matter of experience. It's been shown that looking through posts alone won't give you a solid answer. Personally, when I play Horizons and switch to Odyssey, sure it looks meh/decent, but the colors really repeat too much, and sometimes I'll find a pretty decent world to land at.
But here's the thing. Does it offer anything more than Horizons? not to me. There's nothing new here that will counter-weigh on the LOD issues that personally make me heave and vomit.
Does nobody remember those awesome "geomes"? The diverse ice caps, the deep canyons, I mean I just don't see that stuff in the new planets. Everything is just washed out now.
(Not icy, but it's an example. Notice the deep canyons on the first one)
I really don't remember having this problem in Horizons. And to be honest, despite the stunning pictures people have posted, to me it really isn't all that better than the average rocky planet in Horizons.
In the end, @Old Duck , it's really a matter of experience. It's been shown that looking through posts alone won't give you a solid answer. Personally, when I play Horizons and switch to Odyssey, sure it looks meh/decent, but the colors really repeat too much, and sometimes I'll find a pretty decent world to land at.
But here's the thing. Does it offer anything more than Horizons? not to me. There's nothing new here that will counter-weigh on the LOD issues that personally make me heave and vomit.
Does nobody remember those awesome "geomes"? The diverse ice caps, the deep canyons, I mean I just don't see that stuff in the new planets. Everything is just washed out now.
(Not icy, but it's an example. Notice the deep canyons on the first one)
Do you remember where that first shot is from? I'm back to Horizons for now and I really want to check it out while I can!
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I feel like this makes it more of a personal preference problem than a bugs/broken dlc problem.
We are talking about fdev, manage your expectations
Fair enough.
It's always been like that. Shadows bring out detail, both in the game and in real life. When I was posting shots from Horizons back in the day they were nearly always from the "sunset line".
I think there are some weird issues with the planetary tech as it currently stands -- some weird texture things, crude-looking mountains and a lack of rocks -- but if you look at the screenshots taken during the alpha period there are loads of gorgeous ones. I miss the rocks, which seem to have been reduced to keep the SRV racers happy.
All my points aside- to all the people having success with the tech- is this normal? Is something wrong with my computer or is this how it is?
I think this is normal. I've gone to visit some of the nice looking planets when people share their locations and I've personally gotten views/screenshots that look almost as good as the best ones in this thread, and I've also seen real stinkers like the one you just posted on the same settings. Horizons is arguably not as pretty as Odyssey at it's best, but I think Horizons planets were more consistent at least.
Horizons tech was the best. I firmly believe it. Odyssey isn't even coming close.
This is just my limited experience but I visited maybe 20 planets. Most looked low rez and broken. I visited one planet that looked like all the bells and whistles loaded and it kind of dropped my jaw (I actually took a nice screenshot of it, its in the Odyessy thread somewhere). I feel like for me, almost all of the time, the bells and whistles just arnt on.
Looks like low vram\low graphics settings. If theres not enough of vram the game use lower quality meshes and textures. Is this even Odyssey? Looks like Horizons to me.
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Lol no. Odyssey is far far better and much more complex landscape. Looking great on high\ultra.
How much vram you have? This might be an issue. Game really loves a lot of vram, 8gb is recommended.
6 gigs (1660ti).
Can you share a screenshot of your terrain settings? Or just summarize. Right above Terrain LOD is a terrain setting which has a new option, UltraForCapture. Try it out, you’ll notice some slow load-in maybe but it’s reasonable. It makes things look amazing.
This is how almost all planets look for me.
Has someone yet tried to find the ugliest most boring ice worlds in Horizons and Odyssey and compare those?
I just went through my gallery and yeah, it's all beautiful because I don't bother making shots of boring locations.
At the moment I am under the impression, that many screenshots of Odyssey are made with a mindset of "Oh, I don't like that, I'm gonna show it off". We obviously won't do that in a game that's already familiar where we learned to ignore boring places and focus on the nice ones.
Not saying Odyssey wouldn't produce boring surfaces at all, but I think there's still a lot of bias.
So please, shoot some boring Horizons ice worlds and share them. They aren't hard to find. There's lots and lots of them.
I just went through my gallery and yeah, it's all beautiful because I don't bother making shots of boring locations.
At the moment I am under the impression, that many screenshots of Odyssey are made with a mindset of "Oh, I don't like that, I'm gonna show it off". We obviously won't do that in a game that's already familiar where we learned to ignore boring places and focus on the nice ones.
Not saying Odyssey wouldn't produce boring surfaces at all, but I think there's still a lot of bias.
So please, shoot some boring Horizons ice worlds and share them. They aren't hard to find. There's lots and lots of them.
