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Odyssey Horizons Comparison Thread
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So, they've brought the players graphics cards to their knees, and turned all the planets inot 1993 space pebbles at the same time, how the.....?Hello everyone,
I'm starting this thread in the hopes of creating a collective comparison thread where we show the differences between Horizons and Odyssey, both good and bad.
I'll kick it off with some unfortunate examples that show the extreme downgrade in terrain quality. I am very very very sad to see the incredible Horizons terrain go and hope it's not too late to keep them.
Sommerfeld Enterprise in Ross 671
Farseer Inc in Deciat (engineer base, hand crafted in the new planet system to look the same - look at that horrible blobby lack of sharp edges)
It's almost as if a "fan" remade the base in Unity.
Lighting system much darker and emmisive decals not working very well
Some additional Farseer comparisons because the downgrade is really, really bad: here and here.
Please FDEV - Can we keep the incredible Horizons planetary tech system? Incorporate your atmospheric effects, some new rocks and call it a day.
Thank you.
There were canyons. I didn't specifically go looking for them to take pictures of.
Some were flat, some weren't. Would be weird if none were flat...
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I don't know what you mean, everything is fine for me
Jason Voorhees is that you?
I've posted these elsewhere but here they are again. All taken using Ultra Graphics
1st Picture is Horizons, 2nd Is Odyssey.
Cubeo 2
Earth
In each case the Odyssey pictures look overexposed.
1st Picture is Horizons, 2nd Is Odyssey.
Cubeo 2
Earth
In each case the Odyssey pictures look overexposed.
I wa thinking more like guy from the awful House of Wax remake. Where's Paris?
So I just went back to Taylor Keep - An incredible Inra base found in 12 Trianguli that was set in a crater in a crater with an amazing pirate bay looking hill for cover.... It was in a tidally locked perma day state. Very well selected location.
Why are all these special locations ruined?
This place is now on a flat surface in perma night without any significance to it.
Why are all these special locations ruined?
This place is now on a flat surface in perma night without any significance to it.
Without Bloom
With Bloom
Disabling bloom helps a little, but not by much. The image is still far too bright.
With Bloom
Disabling bloom helps a little, but not by much. The image is still far too bright.
Oh yeah, these new earthlikes (and indeed the Earth itself) ... from the screenshots I've seen, is it just me or ... they look terrible right?
Apologies for the Mamba in the way but the Earth used to look like this.
Surely that's WAY better?
Apologies for the Mamba in the way but the Earth used to look like this.
Surely that's WAY better?
Seemingly nope.
Well...
Most probably Horizons generated the planet, then the settlement location was handpicked to a realy nice locarion (Dav's Hope is also in a nice location, at the edge of a crater and a nice mountain nearby)
But Odyssey? They already had the location more or less fixed, but the algorithms to generate the planet are completely different so it looks different.
The only thing they could do is to flatten the ground so the settlement can be placed.
The only solution would be to manually review all EDO planets and handpick new zones and then place the Settlements.
That might happen in next year, but in the meantime their priority is to make this mess at least a working mess, then optimize it.
Not making excuses for them.
But those things should have been anticipated by FD
They've not changed these planets, what you're seeing is this new lighting system and it has some issues.Oh yeah, these new earthlikes (and indeed the Earth itself) ... from the screenshots I've seen, is it just me or ... they look terrible right?
Apologies for the Mamba in the way but the Earth used to look like this.
Surely that's WAY better?
But I think those issues are sort of well catelogued by now... stuff too dark, stuff too bright.
unbelievable. they actually did make elite worse. this is the definition of "i expected nothing and was still disappointed".
Seems we have the Beige Menace situation again. This happened after the Horizon beta, too, if you recallWell... the new EDO Planetary Tech is very underwhelming at the moment.
And guess what, i preordered based on the really nice screenshots advertising amazing planetary tech
I bought Odyssey, but I won't be playing it. Maybe in time it will be polished enough to move to it, so I'll keep the purchase, but it looks like a significant downgrade to the game at the moment.
Horizons works better and looks better, unfortunately. Thank god Horizons is remaining as a separate client! I really hope it isn't "upgraded" at some point
Horizons works better and looks better, unfortunately. Thank god Horizons is remaining as a separate client! I really hope it isn't "upgraded" at some point