Sadly this is the truth of it. We as as community are only dollar signs.
Same here, i've been willing to wait on everything to be fixed, but this is too nasty. I'm not going to refund in the hope they change it, but my review is going back to negative for now.
What planet is this please?What I'm about to show you will be the final straw in cementing the new planetary tech system into a failure.
I remember Dr Kay Ross stating on stream that their procedural heightmap system made use of handmade terrain that would then be randomized across. I was worried when I heard this.
Check this out - I'll let the images speak for itself:
Literally all terrain features both from high orbit to low orbit are repeating, hand crafted, and break every little bit hunger for exploration. There is absolutely no desire to go down and explore since all you're looking at is the "randomly" organized set of hand crafted height map bits the developers have made.
Horizons gives a REAL sense of wanting to go and explore. Find planets with unique features.
Planets in Odyssey are no longer unique. They are just reorganised sets of the same features.
These planets were designed with one goal: look acceptable from an on-foot perspective or when looking from a twilight perspective with a setting sun for the atmo effect.
Same here, so far nothing dented my optimism, not even the frame-rate, but this has gut-punched me.
... and to think I actually moaned when in Horizons, FDev horribly cut'n'pasted the dirt and dust smudges on the Asp Explorer cockpit screen (among'st others but most noticeable on the Asp E)... just a minor 'crime' compared to this 'travesty'.... there is just no point playing EDO from the perspective of 'eye candy'... stick with Horizons until the final stab-in-the-back coming this autumn/fall to a PC & Console near you!
They shouldn't touch Horizons at all.
I wonder if they'll consider keeping Horizons separate, on a separate server. No need to continue to add content to it, just leave it as it is, for those that want to put this sorry affair behind us and live in that gameworld.
