Odyssey/Horizons crossplay
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that won't change until after they update Horizons to a version of the new engine.
Aren't they turning off the servers?
The only news so far is that Odyssey will not be coming to Consoles. I'm not even sure of the exact date that Update 11 is going to be released (though everyone seems to think it'll be this week).
The only thing that is certain is that I'm going to play Skyrim for a while tonight before bed. Unless we get hit with a nuclear blast. In that case, all bets are off.
I thought it was crazy they didn't restrict odyssey content to a new class of planet that isn't accessible from horizons. That way they could have kept the horizons base the same, by just adding new instead of replacing the whole planet tech without compatibility. Since frontier previously themselves chose this approach with vanilla vs horizons..
No idea why they went all in and failed with Odyssey.
The worst part about it is the space visuals for odd planet tech are so bad. If the horizons planets were still around that would have been really easy to accept, and even created more diversity. Could have been an absolute positive even ;(
No idea why they went all in and failed with Odyssey.
The worst part about it is the space visuals for odd planet tech are so bad. If the horizons planets were still around that would have been really easy to accept, and even created more diversity. Could have been an absolute positive even ;(
I think the planets look good, but it's space itself that looks downgraded. All of the beautiful dust and color variation seems to be lost. Just watch one of OA's youtube videos and you'll see what I mean.
Anyway I think the plan is to move Horizon PC to the Odyssey codebase soon, maybe after update 11, and then you won't be selecting Horizon or Odyssey anymore when you start the game. Everyone will be running the same client. It's just that people who own Odyssey will be able to get out of their ships.
Anyway I think the plan is to move Horizon PC to the Odyssey codebase soon, maybe after update 11, and then you won't be selecting Horizon or Odyssey anymore when you start the game. Everyone will be running the same client. It's just that people who own Odyssey will be able to get out of their ships.
The original plan was to have one code base.
The Odyssey players would be able to land at that new ground bases but the Horizons players just would not see them.
As stupid as that sounds, that's pretty much the only option they had, it was that or only put Odyssey bases on the thin atmosphere planets ( which would have made more sense, but they are more rare ).
I still think there will be too options in the launcher, just like there was for base game and Horizons for a long long time. ( various glitches where 'worked around' by reloading with the base game client )
So Horizons players will get:
1) new planet tech ( ie no more wonderful RNG planets, instead just the new cookie-cutter handmade assets scaled and rotated and tiled randomly - a major downgrade in my eyes ).
2) new material based textures and lighting - so no more driving around at 100+FPS on planets, you'll take around a 60-80% cut in frames!
3) new UI - The new UI is finally back to the levels of Horizons in teams of what you can do, but I still greatly prefer the Horizons Gal and Sys maps.
4) and as lefty1117 said "All of the beautiful dust and colour variation seems to be lost"
That's about it. Just be grateful you don't have to try and do ground combat at your new reduced FPS.
FYI: I solved Odyssey not having playable frame rates on the ground - I bought a new PC ( not to play Odyssey, but because the old one died
). The old PC got 40-50 FPS in Cyberpunk on good settings, even in combat, but Odyssey on foot was 30-35FPS at a ground base, with no combat and about a third of the level detail as Cyberpunk! Old PC at a Guardian site in SRV Odyssey got 40FPS, Horizons 110FPS. - I've only loaded Odyssey once since getting the new PC, just to test frame rates on the ground, it took about a hour to fully get my keys and controller bound correctly ( and I didn't even test SRV controls! ).
The Odyssey players would be able to land at that new ground bases but the Horizons players just would not see them.
As stupid as that sounds, that's pretty much the only option they had, it was that or only put Odyssey bases on the thin atmosphere planets ( which would have made more sense, but they are more rare ).
I still think there will be too options in the launcher, just like there was for base game and Horizons for a long long time. ( various glitches where 'worked around' by reloading with the base game client )
So Horizons players will get:
1) new planet tech ( ie no more wonderful RNG planets, instead just the new cookie-cutter handmade assets scaled and rotated and tiled randomly - a major downgrade in my eyes ).
2) new material based textures and lighting - so no more driving around at 100+FPS on planets, you'll take around a 60-80% cut in frames!
3) new UI - The new UI is finally back to the levels of Horizons in teams of what you can do, but I still greatly prefer the Horizons Gal and Sys maps.
4) and as lefty1117 said "All of the beautiful dust and colour variation seems to be lost"
That's about it. Just be grateful you don't have to try and do ground combat at your new reduced FPS.
FYI: I solved Odyssey not having playable frame rates on the ground - I bought a new PC ( not to play Odyssey, but because the old one died
). The old PC got 40-50 FPS in Cyberpunk on good settings, even in combat, but Odyssey on foot was 30-35FPS at a ground base, with no combat and about a third of the level detail as Cyberpunk! Old PC at a Guardian site in SRV Odyssey got 40FPS, Horizons 110FPS. - I've only loaded Odyssey once since getting the new PC, just to test frame rates on the ground, it took about a hour to fully get my keys and controller bound correctly ( and I didn't even test SRV controls! ).
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According to EDDN data there are more odyssey than horizons commanders online.
But theres only about a 10% chance of that
