Hi there, so is it possible to identify those Odyssey trailer planets using the FSS Scanner in actual gameplay?
Atmospheric pressure, maybe? Any ideas?
Atmospheric pressure, maybe? Any ideas?
Is It Possible to ID Tenuous Atmo Planets Using FSS Scanner Today?
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Without knowing the specs on what FDev classes as a 'Tenuous Atmosphere', not really. That said, the currently available specs to look at would probably be Atmos Pressure and the gas mix. Really need more info than FDev have given us for now.
It's been speculated that this "tenuosity" might be linked to a currently-invisible "thin atmosphere" category - visible in the journal files but not currently on the system map. All we have for evidence is circumstantial: all four of the the planets named in previous Odyssey demonstrations were classified as "Thin". If this hypothesis is correct, then you can pick the newly-landable planets using a journal-reading third-party app or site, like EDSM.
Example: in Sol system, the only "thin atmosphere" planet is Pluto. Thus, under this theory, in Sol system only Pluto would become new-for-Odyssey-landable.
Example: in Sol system, the only "thin atmosphere" planet is Pluto. Thus, under this theory, in Sol system only Pluto would become new-for-Odyssey-landable.
When scanning, you often find planets that have Atm Press 0.00, but nonetheless show chemical compositions for an atmosphere. It would be simple for Fdev to define those as "tenuous" atmospheres, and thus we could go back to any such worlds already visited and listed in our journals and walk around.
I think I had asked something like this a few weeks back, got the same nebulous answers, too. Fact is, no one is 100% sure what the definition of "tenuous" is as far as the game is concerned. I, too, would like to look at a few planets for a "before and after" comparison. I have to assume that it'll have that blue circle around it like to currently have for landable planets. I had assumed up to 0.1 atmospheres myself but no one knows yet.
Unless FD just comes out and says what the maximum pressure at the surface will be I guess we're just going to have to wait and be surprised.
Unless FD just comes out and says what the maximum pressure at the surface will be I guess we're just going to have to wait and be surprised.
If you can guess what they're going to be.
It would be a safe guess that the class of planets is already in the game, they won't be adding more stellar forge planets to support odysee.. you would think.
It would be a safe guess that the class of planets is already in the game, they won't be adding more stellar forge planets to support odysee.. you would think.
Judging by the trailer, I suspect the maximum threshold will be a bit higher than that. At least 0.01 (present-day Mars), but probably higher. There are plenty of fairly desolate worlds with atmospheric pressures closer to half that of the Earth.
Why worry?
There will be 100s of millions of possible planets for you to explore that will have a tenuous atmosphere. Just think of all the Icy bodies and Rocky-Ice worlds you come across while exploring, thing is, we don't know which ones will have anything of interest on them.
There will be 100s of millions of possible planets for you to explore that will have a tenuous atmosphere. Just think of all the Icy bodies and Rocky-Ice worlds you come across while exploring, thing is, we don't know which ones will have anything of interest on them.
If all you want are some planets for "before and after" shots, then consider grabbing pics of the few planets that we know are going to be Odyssey-landable, because they've been featured in the Dev Diary demo shots:
- ADS 10329 B 5
- Ovid A 6
- Wolf 1311 B 3 b
Reference: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/odysseys-atmospheres-seem-to-be-really-thin.552917/
- ADS 10329 B 5
- Ovid A 6
- Wolf 1311 B 3 b
Reference: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/odysseys-atmospheres-seem-to-be-really-thin.552917/
Interesting that the gravity is over 0.5... I was expecting low gravity planets upto Mar like conditions at 0.37g. I guess it's possible to get high G planets with thin atmospheres. It would be interesting walking around a 3g planet!
There is evidence in our own system to suggest the atmospheres of terrestrial worlds can be drastically disproportionate to their size and gravity. Look at Venus. 95% the size of Earth and 81% the mass, but with 93 times the atmospheric pressure.
I don't think getting out of SRV needs the atmosphere.
So, take a stroll on Achenar 3 or any other high-g already landable planet.
