New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)

[Just]

Looking at the high number of reported planets.

High? Where?

 

[Erei]

Looking at the high number of reported planets. I have gone ahead and created an issue tracker for this one. I urge everybody to go ahead and tick "can replicate" with as many examples as they can provide.

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/34834

Thanks everyone!

Done sir.

 

[Erei]

High? Where?

 

[J Michaelson]

Yeah, right. Then why my game doesnt look that bad?

Calling me a liar isn't going to get you anywhere. Nor will posting pictures on the surface of a completely different location. I took those screenshots yesterday and anyone can go replicate them. The planets CAN look nice, but we shouldn't have to run on beyond ultra settings to see them, nor do they all come in that nicely. This is crap:

 

[Agrar Therenus]

High? Where?

Honestly in a galaxy of billions, finding TWO in a day's work means it's common, VERY COMMON. Just consider the probability.

 

[Deleted member 121570]

Please Fdev first acknowledge this is not intended and then fix it asap. There will be always ugly or boring looking planets, but it has to be plausible. This is not the case with 90's voxel-like terrain graphics.

Whipped yoghurt.

 

[Bruce Patton]

Terrain generation quality :
View attachment 230682

It's likely a leftover of when they were doing promotional shot, but they forget to remove it.

I'm lost, I dont have that ULTRAFORCAPTURE field but a slider for TERRAIN WORK which I slided all the way to the right (i.e. maxed out), is this what is replacing that ultra thingy ?

 

[Erei]

I'm lost, I dont have that ULTRAFORCAPTURE field but a slider for TERRAIN WORK which I slided all the way to the right (i.e. maxed out), is this what is replacing that ultra thingy ?

Seen the screenshot earlier ? If not go and see it. Otherwise :

Option->graphics->quality->terrain quality->ultra for capture

 

[Amy Pendergast]

I'm lost, I dont have that ULTRAFORCAPTURE field but a slider for TERRAIN WORK which I slided all the way to the right (i.e. maxed out), is this what is replacing that ultra thingy ?

Directly above the slider

 

[hunvagy]

Please Fdev first acknowledge this is not intended and then fix it asap. There will be always ugly or boring looking planets, but it has to be plausible. This is not the case with 90's voxel-like terrain graphics.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZUkPG1A1MM


Now this takes me back...

 

[CMDR Fru]

I know I'm going to get a lot of heat for what I'm about to say, but here it goes:

With all due respect, Dr. Kay Ross has failed.
Mr. Braben should really consider cooperating with Flavien Brebion instead, imo.
I'm sorry.

Please Frontier, keep this tech out of Horizons at least.

 

[Just]

I asked seriously.
I can see 4 examples in the issue tracker report, two of them are also here.


I try to find out what PERCENTAGE off planets has this "repeating tiles" problem, it can tell us if it's tech inherited perk, or just a (non)random bug.
And I won't make any percentage of 4 such planets because i will always round to zero

 

[fourrunes]

I also think that it matters at which lighting you take the screenshot. Most of the 'beautiful' screenshot are taken on sunset where the details are much more visible. Plastic can be seen when it's straight over the terrain.

 

[Erei]

I asked seriously.
I can see 4 examples in the issue tracker report, two of them are also here.


I try to find out what PERCENTAGE off planets has this "repeating tiles" problem, it can tell us if it's tech inherited perk, or just a (non)random bug.
And I won't make any percentage of 4 such planets because i will always round to zero

It's hard to tell (and as I say that I literally have a big crater planet like I posted pass right by me on elite). But I find that most of them have the repeating issue. They follow a different set of pattern though.

 

[Just]

Honestly in a galaxy of billions, finding TWO in a day's work means it's common, VERY COMMON. Just consider the probability.

Lol.
Exactly because of galaxy scale dealing in absolute (numbers) is pointless, it's percentage or chance that gives us information about probability (you mentioned).

 

[jammedhamed]

Thats what Im saying. This is a REAL representation of a planet.

Can confirm, that setting made stuff look quite magical. but it ran like dogsh*** even out in the middle of the galaxy

 

[hunvagy]

Can confirm, that setting made stuff look quite magical. but it ran like dogsh*** even out in the middle of the galaxy

And it shouldn't there shouldn't be such a gap between ultra and ultraforcapture. Not unless you are Randy Pitchford and you're selling Aliens Colonial Marines to the people.

 

[jammedhamed]

The first time I actually hear my RTX 2060 begging for mercy

 

[Bruce Patton]

Seen the screenshot earlier ? If not go and see it. Otherwise :

Option->graphics->quality->terrain quality->ultra for capture

Thanks a bunch, found it. Had it on Ultra and did not see the last option, my bad.

 

[Amy Pendergast]

And it shouldn't there shouldn't be such a gap between ultra and ultraforcapture. Not unless you are Randy Pitchford and you're selling Aliens Colonial Marines to the people.

And the sun's coronas look meh still