Perhaps everyone it bothered has already left the game.
Totally this ^^^
There is a possibility that there are players who don't frequent this forum or their other outlets and will, in due time, open up a new issue for this. If so, I know where my free vote is going.
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I was able to view the issue a minute ago on my phone, but not on my desktop... so I think the issue tracker's just broken (like it always is)
As Bruce alluded to though, to fix it would mean a hell of a lot of work, for what return? In the end
He's busy
I am pretty sure that the decision would have been the same with her still on board.
Indeed, if I find anything surprising in the said decision, it is that it took so long to make.
Hopefully this includes leaving Horizons as-is on PC rather than replacing it with Odyssey Lite. This will give the best experience to the highest number of players (some of us prefer Horizons over Odyssey) while also enticing those who really want Odyssey features to pay you for those features.
I hope it will be possible to merge the new planetary tech into Horizons (I guess different planetary tech to be the biggest obstacle to EDO and EDH players sharing instances) without merging the rendering engines (as I guess Odyssey’s poor performance is primarily caused by all that PBR stuff).
TBH I would like an option to play with the legacy planetary tech, too, even though probably I would use it only once in a proverbial blue moon.
I can imagine the decision was not taken lightly, but I do think it was the right decision to make. The new planetary tech is not as much a “re-roll” as a complete change of rules.
As for what prevents “these historical planets from appearing the same”, I think it is not as much technical limitations as human resources limitations; IOW, they do not have the manpower needed to do detailed modelling (including blending with the neighbouring terrain) for all those historical locations.
You wish. And me too.
It only took 11 months to figure out they couldn't do it, so any solution would indeed take them 4 to 5 years at least.
Thanks Bruce.
I think Frontier will carry on telling us what they are not going to do, and whatever is left is the roadmap. Brilliant!
I think Frontier will carry on telling us what they are not going to do, and whatever is left is the roadmap. Brilliant!
Don't get your hopes up. There will be no merge, only removal of the 3.8 client, and putting everyone (on PC) on the 4.0 client.
Exploration is pretty much dead then. Since only explorers really care if planets look good and interesting.
Odyssey is a serious downgrade in how planets are generated, gone are the unique procedurally generated planets leaving us with planets with simpler height maps and hand made assets just scaled and rotated at random to try and look unique, often resulting in the obviously 'tiling'.
Those that only play the 'space' part of the game won't care because they rarely go low enough to notice.
Those that actually have hardware capable of playing the Odyssey ground content seem happy enough to just run around shooting NPC clones at the dozen different layout cut-n-paste 'settlements', they won't care.
Odyssey offers only an insult to explorers anyway with the bare minimal effort biological scanning tool and the pointless ( and worthless ) grind for ex-biology.
So with this announcement, exploration is dead.
Odyssey is a serious downgrade in how planets are generated, gone are the unique procedurally generated planets leaving us with planets with simpler height maps and hand made assets just scaled and rotated at random to try and look unique, often resulting in the obviously 'tiling'.
Those that only play the 'space' part of the game won't care because they rarely go low enough to notice.
Those that actually have hardware capable of playing the Odyssey ground content seem happy enough to just run around shooting NPC clones at the dozen different layout cut-n-paste 'settlements', they won't care.
Odyssey offers only an insult to explorers anyway with the bare minimal effort biological scanning tool and the pointless ( and worthless ) grind for ex-biology.
So with this announcement, exploration is dead.
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Actually @Bruce G are you able to confirm if the stopping the work on planetary tiling issue means that stuff like above examples will not get looked at either, or is it strictly the tiling itself that you're stopping investigation of?
(Or stuff like that: https://clips.twitch.tv/CalmRefinedFennelPanicBasket-uhTjHBP-EnSKXtS2 )
Would be very useful to know! o7
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Nah. FSS didn't kill exploration, ADS didn't kill it before that, and some bad art planets won't kill it either. Not getting ship interiors also won't kill exploration.
May we have the very same statement for Powerplay?
Oh, wait: there's no resources invested in Powerplay already, silly me.