FDEV need the insane grind for on foot equipment, because that essentially is the whole of Odyssey. It's filler content. Once you have all the gear you want, it's only ground combat zones and exobiology that's left. Unless you enjoy the on foot missions so much that you want to keep doing them, even after you already did them ad nauseum for the material grind. I am at the point in the game. I have every piece of ground gear at G5 and fully modded. I had to redo the Dominator suit, because I left out a mod on the first one that I now consider essential. While I could do even more specialized suits and weapons I neither want nor need to. The Dominator is fit for all things combat, the Maverick is fit for everything else settlement related, the Artemis has little build variety anyway. And on the weapon side I have some for silent sniping and some for heavy battle, good enough as well.Since being "done" I have returned to almost exclusively ship and space gameplay, I rarely disembark for anything anymore, except for exobiology and ground combat zones. And that, quite frankly is way too little for a full price expansion.
I know how FDEV work, ED vanilla was pretty barebones as well and got enriched over time, same with Horizons. Odyssey will go through a lot of fleshing out as well before FDEV even start to work on lessening the the ground gear grind. Once they have more of an actual game there, they'll lessen the requirements, but not before.
Very well put. Odyssey is hardly worth the price for the lack of anything but ground crap which the Horizons random search system was by far better than an entire planet that's blue and you're supposed to find Geo/Bio sites somewhere just to find out that the planet shows it is there but very well a chance it's not. Ground vehicles, IMO, 3rd class FPS from early 2000's quality and absolutely nothing for ships or any kind of Horizons content with the exception of poor performance for a year.
90% of base missions can be done with the SRV or Scorpion and as for Bio/Geo hunting, are you kidding, just fly around low and slow or just drive around. The other problem is the ground missions pay-out peanuts and popcorn that really don't lead to anything but adding to rank extending. Not bad if you had to use foot travel, but hardly efficient when the same missions can be done with ships and/or ground vehicles. Would you really raid a base with an SRV/Scorpion for less that 100k?
Now don't get me wrong, Odyssey is a nice touch now that they have control on the bugs and optimization, which can easily be debatable, to an extent I suppose.
Odyssey really should have been a free DLC or $15 price tag as its new content didn't really bring anything what so ever to it's heavily and overwhelming additions and success from Horizons. It's kind of like they just dropped Elite and Horizons in general for those that have played from day one..."shrug"
But it's done and it's what we've got so as mentioned in the post a few times, the engineering grind for suites is kind of an end game content if you look at it that way, not that planet walking was really a useful addition for this genre of game, IMO of course. But now that the engine is here Frontier very well could use walking with exploration with new civilizations or bring more attention to the Thargoid bases and such....
Anyway, I do hope to see Commanders stick around to see what Frontier does....o7
