Perhaps everyone it bothered has already left the game.If planetary tiling has never bothered anyone, how come it was on the issues list?
Perhaps everyone it bothered has already left the game.If planetary tiling has never bothered anyone, how come it was on the issues list?
Totally this ^^^Now if Frontier were to release Odyssey Lite while also leaving the option to log into Horizons Legacy, then I'm totally fine with that. I'm not opposed to the creation of Odyssey Lite, I'm opposed to the deletion of Horizons Legacy.
So i'm not the only one ^^Wait... they actually completely wiped the issue from the tracker? Not only that, you still can search for "tiling" but only get one result, that leads to the broken link. Now I wonder, is the word "tiling" already banned in the issue tracker? Will it even be banned on the forum?
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.Wait... they actually completely wiped the issue from the tracker? Not only that, you still can search for "tiling" but only get one result, that leads to the broken link. Now I wonder, is the word "tiling" already banned in the issue tracker? Will it even be banned on the forum?
"There is also bad procedural generation. [...]We see things where we can see the patterns, they're too simplistic, it's too obviously computer generated. And the problem with that, it's, I mean, essentially it's bad art if you like."
"Elite Dangerous is a game close to my heart."Well, since the tilling issue was apparently deleted from the tracker, guess all future badly tilled planets will go in this very thread... as examples of... how DBOBE said?
"bad procedural generation"? "bad art"?
He's busyPut your console team on it.
I am pretty sure that the decision would have been the same with her still on board.losing Dr Kay Ross... was a such irreplaceable loss?
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).Hopefully the merge will happen, and soon, purely to enable those of us who enjoy playing EDO to be able to play alongside friends who do not own the expansion, rather than downgrading to Horizons to play together.
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.Now if Frontier were to release Odyssey Lite while also leaving the option to log into Horizons Legacy, then I'm totally fine with that. I'm not opposed to the creation of Odyssey Lite, I'm opposed to the deletion of Horizons Legacy.
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.[...]
Having said that, I still challenge the design decision to completely re-roll all previously discovered Horizons planets. There was history there in people's discoveries that is being overwritten and it would be good to hear about the technical limitations that prevent these historical planets from appearing the same.
You wish. And me too.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).
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.As Bruce alluded to though, to fix it would mean a hell of a lot of work, for what return? In the end
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.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).
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?This is fine !
On the bright side, you still have a long list of issues you can safely ignore so you can divert resources to, huh, something else !
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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.So with this announcement, exploration is dead.
May we have the very same statement for Powerplay?Greetings Commanders,
We’d like to take this opportunity to address the Tiling Planetary Features issue from the Issue Tracker.
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. Reducing or preventing the tiling effect 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. We cannot justify this level of change and a re-generation of the galaxy in Elite. This is unlikely to change in the future so the issue will be closed, freeing up votes on the tracker for other issues.
We’ll continue to strive for the best possible experience for the highest number of players which our current focus allows us to do. We hope you’ll appreciate the reasoning behind this decision.
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