Indeed, you right :
So :
After spending some time to observe the effects of the issue while weighing-up the costs to resolve it, we have decided to focus those resources elsewhere. Learning and implementing proper on-foot VR would require a deep-overhaul of fundamental systems, which in turn would disrupt other aspects of the game. This would inevitably take time away from developing and improving other elements such as performance, bug fixes, and new content.
VR fixed. Next ?
That is not what dr Ross said in that well-known video (it has been already linked in this thread).
Curing the beige plague did not change the terrain generation system, only the colouring system.
The only change to the terrain generation system done since the Horizons release was fixing the rare case of arithmetic overflow that generated absurdly tall spires.
Thanks Bruce.
For me, planetary landings have always been a key focus however, this is a sensible decision (in the grand scheme of things) and despite there being some flaws, I think the planets in EDO are actually pretty good.
Also if this speeds up the cadence of other content delivery, I welcome it.
For me, planetary landings have always been a key focus however, this is a sensible decision (in the grand scheme of things) and despite there being some flaws, I think the planets in EDO are actually pretty good.
Also if this speeds up the cadence of other content delivery, I welcome it.
The beige plague cure meant that a load of existing Bio locations were lost. (Not all though.)
I get why, but this is actually very disappointing.
The gameworld of an open-world sandbox game is kinda a big deal... Especially if said gameworld is basically a simulation of reality.
So, thanks for clarifying but I disapprove craptons of this decision.
Or that they had a long list of problems (which is more than likely) got to tiling, looked at it, realised they'd need to redo the underlying tech, re-roll the galaxy again for a minimal amount of return compared to the effort and instead went 'sod it' and drew a line (which they have to at some point).
The post suggests they didn't even get to the point where they would divert resources to fix the issue, so I'm not too sure if it will.
Ah right, forgot about those.
Cheers Bruce, appreciate the update. It was never a major issue for me and its good if resources can be better spent elsewhere in the game. As several others have mentioned we've had communication about what is not happening and it would be really nice to get some positive news about upcoming fixes improvements and new content
Not sure what you mean with 'for the majority', but planets obviously look vastly better.
Few months ago I booted Horizon by accident and it was quite painful in contrast.Yes, but didn't we all kind of expect that 11 months ago already?
Oi! We're manufacturing outrage here, please take your facts and logic elsewhere sir.
Depends on how they went about assessing things. The majority of the time has been about optimization, if you have finite hands they can only do so much. It could have been someone did a check last week and went 'nope'.
It shouldn't be the same team when it comes to optimization and planet gen though.
But then I wonder if they still have a planet gen team working on ED.
That certainly seems to be the go-to approach nowadays. But, at the very least, it's "better" than hearing nothing at all.
Well my understanding is that the planet generation was done by the render team - after all, Dr Kay Ross was the lead render programmer...
Why not? The people most familiar with the systems would be the best people to find efficiencies at short notice. The priority for EDOs triage has been to make it run as well as it can, sorting out the artistic side (which this is, where proc gen RNG meets the simplified stamp system) must have been secondary.