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

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9M1m-dpgM

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahxG3iPeVcU
 
Ok, now those look downright amazing. I haven’t seen anything with anywhere that level of detail in-game yet (and yes, I’m on max settings).

You got locations for any of those planets? I’d love to check em out next time I’m in-game.
 
I know. Who got the most money - theyre AAA, who got less - theyre A and indies.
I usually don't do homework for people but here goes:

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First one is from their official website. Last one is taken from oculus website.

If a company can develop, publish an AAA game then it is an AAA company. Doesn't matter if they throw in a couple of indies now and then. They are capable.
 
Yes, I am quite serious. I’ve seen dozens of side by side comparisons, and visited a number of planets in Odyssey myself. I’ve yet to find a single instance where Odyssey’s terrain geometry looked better than Horizons.

Source: https://youtu.be/WftxpkiPeL4
Haha.
Sorry, but... I spent a whole day visiting planets yesterday and am on it again and... Odyssey is generally so much better in creating believable terrain.
Maybe visit some more planets? And different locations on planets? Those differ a lot actually. The same planet on three different locations can look totally different.
 
Don't forget this, though they call themselves Frontier Foundry on this one, I got it via Frontier's email, soo...

They aren't the devs on lemnis gate, just publisher.
 
Damn it all I can see now is repeating patterns on every blooming planet I find :(

Really making it sad to just fly around now.
It does seem to be extremely common. Even as someone who isn't really an exporer, it severely cheapens the experience of seeing a new planet (at least new for me).

Well, it has been accepted on the tickets. If that means it's confirmation of a bug, or just automated by numbers of signatures, I don't know.
 
Damn it all I can see now is repeating patterns on every blooming planet I find :(

Really making it sad to just fly around now.
This "can't unsee" thing makes me wonder if and when we would realize planets are made of "lego bricks" if FD wouldn't get sloppy enough to release it in a state where the same features were used next to another on a single planet.

I mean, if they would be reused on different planets, but single planet had no more of one large scale feature of a specific type, they could have get away with this for a long time.
 
if they have about 500 assets that will be randomized in an epic permutation it could work. In its current state they look like theyre being reused over and over again so much that it takes away the random feeling.
 
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