Mining visuals. Can we get horizons level of quality back please?

[Deleted member 182079]

Fwiw, I just had an hour's session in Horizons for the first time in months. The difference is pretty stark alright - smooth as butter throughout the entire game (including the transitions between SC and normal space which are a laggy, juddery mess in Odyssey), very clean and coherent visuals, heck even the flight model seems to feel ever so slightly better (though could be because there's no stutter and framedrops anymore).

Even the small hardpoints on my Cobra 3 work again when applying certain shipkit pieces - not a biscuit in Odyssey.

 

[CMDR Yates]

The loss of "comet contrails" is part of an intentional overhaul of the supercruise effects, and IMO it is a big improvement, as the (ostensibly gaseous-like) contrails were as rigid as a wooden plank and slapped around clumsily like an inappropriately turgid appendage at the men's gymnastics when ships turned.

The more subtle points of light with short little streaks are much less jarring and immersion-breaking. Short of having the contrails with realistic gas dispersion physics, this is the next best solution. It doesn't look like "wow!" but it also doesn't make me go "oh that looks bad".

Everything else though, I agree with.

 

[Deleted member 182079]

I was never a fan of those contrails myself, always thought they looked very gamey so I don't mind if they stay like they do in EDO.

Also have to say, now that I switched back from Horizons (sitting on a rocky ice world) the planet tech looks better once it settles down - shame they had to mess up so many other unrelated things in the process (not directly related but from a player perspective it's difficult to recommend Odyssey over Horizons purely from a visual perspective in terms of the ship-related stuff). It's particularly hard to go back to Odyssey after reminding myself what various paintjobs used to look like. Oh man... Midnight Black, Azure.... might have to launch different games depending on which bit of Elite I want to play (Horizons for ship stuff, Odyssey for exploration and on-foot stuff).

Oh... seems switching back from Horizons to Odyssey deleted my Odyssey Holo-Me. Good stuff Frontier, top work

 

[The Roofus]

Calm down.