But why do you buy low-end components every time ?I've updated my PC around 4 times since 2013
ANNOUNCEMENT Odyssey Update 2021
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I haven't upgraded my iMac at all since 2013 and it still plays Horizons fine.I've updated my PC around 4 times since 2013
The minimum specs for Odyssey are the same as the minimum specs for Horizon, but suddenly the consoles have become the convenient whipping boys, to be blamed on all occasions on the flimiest of evidence.
It’s not 10% do some google work before you say nbrs.
20% then. If that.
have you got a better figure?
What's the big deal? PC players were discovering things and tagging things for 2 years before the X-Box version was even released, and the X-Box players were doing the same for 18 months before the PS4 version was released. That horse bolted a long time ago.
Its not as if there isn't going to be anything left for you to get your footmark tags on first. 400 billion stars, and trillions of worlds. Is that big a deal, really?
There was a time in gamma, and early release when this game never even had discovery tags, and no one cared about such trivial things. They were just happy to have a 1:1 scale galaxy to explore and have fun in and share their discoveries with others. But now all players think about is writing their name all over as many systems as they can before anyone else gets there.
Holding back the game for PC players (the ones who actually got this game made thanks to their kickstarter money) is what would be unfair!
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To be honest ... I was not pleased at first reading these news. I'm having hiatus from ED after 5 years of constant play now, I'm playing "on foot" Cyberpunk and I hoped to return to ED space on foots too. But it's fact that RL times are not good right now, so I wish Frontier all the best and hope that Odyssey when released will be a success. I look forward to it.
I agree here, it’s not the system is going to conquered by PC players in a few months. Nearly 10 years(ish) of game player from 3 different systems and only like .5% have been explored
Thank you for the update. I ve waited 25 years to play Elite again, I can wait for few months for a new upgrade. See you soon
they may not have explicitly said that consoles would be released at the same time of PC but implied it.
your quoted dates above are selective.
PC was the original target platform, Microsoft funded XBOX shortly after and also bought a period of exclusivity from PS4. (Thought to be one year)
once the game was eventually released on PS4, all subsequent releases were across all platforms (3.0 beyond, Fleet carriers etc). This will be the first released where it is split again.
couple the statement from Frontier that they will not be (re-)coding the game to make use of any of the improvements provided by the new consoles with the statement that we will now have to wait a further six months and I hope you can see why the console base are flagging annoyance.
by splitting PC from console, the game will be optimised for a single platform. Players with Mouse & Keyboard could potentially have a disproportionate influence on how the game handles
it’s not too long ago that there was an almighty uproar from VR players that Frontier was evil personified for not providing VR as part of the Odyssey DLC.
care to explain how?
I posted facts, you posted some personal speculations and some wishful thinking.
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The Official PlayStation and Xbox channels on YouTube posted the teaser trailer with the words "Arriving Early 2021" in it?
Quite rightly, however you would expect to be able to play the very latest version, not a version which is compatible with the 8 year old tech you have just paid to replace. The value of the console product is highly likely to be below the standard of the PC product.
I don't really see the culture reference, do we strike you as different in some way?
ED on different plattforms – from my point of view:
Meanwhile, over the years, things around ED changed a lot, how to play together within communities giving a plattform for all three worlds PC, PS, XBOX.
Playing on a PS and beeing part of a community where also XBOX and PC gamers are higly active, brings us more and more together in having the same targets/actions … where possible.
I fully understand the needs of FD for releases at different dates in the timeline.
I would be very happy about it, if game-internal details, like the third tag on a planet, would be avaible for all plattforms at the same time.
It gives a bad feeling to a console player to see your friends tagging the bubble and you are not a part of it.
Meanwhile, over the years, things around ED changed a lot, how to play together within communities giving a plattform for all three worlds PC, PS, XBOX.
Playing on a PS and beeing part of a community where also XBOX and PC gamers are higly active, brings us more and more together in having the same targets/actions … where possible.
I fully understand the needs of FD for releases at different dates in the timeline.
I would be very happy about it, if game-internal details, like the third tag on a planet, would be avaible for all plattforms at the same time.
It gives a bad feeling to a console player to see your friends tagging the bubble and you are not a part of it.
Reading this tread I understand now that its pretty pointless to play ED on console (at least if you want that pristine experience). I was under the impression that this new release was when we all where going to have that Neil Armstrong moment, leave our ships, take the first steps etc... I think im not alone to think that way, but I see now that all this thinking is just bogus. Im not going to waste anymore time complaining and will accept the fact console players are not a priority and move on. ED on xbox was clearly a mistake on my part.
You missed a 0,
its 0.049% as of last info from Frontier that I saw.
It can´t be explained clearer than this I think (and this is from 7 years of experience as an alpha backer from previous updates):
PC players get all the bugs, crashes and similar bad stuff at alpha to play whack-a-mole --> FD fixes most and worst of them --> game launched for PC --> FD starts porting game to the consoles --> more bugs detected after PC launch --> FD starts to fix them for PC and prevent them making it to the console version (where bug and crash fixing later after launch might be much harder thing)..
For me, again through learnings of previous major updates, all console owners will miss is pretty much alpha-phase of the Odyssey (both before and after launch, that much bugfest some updates have been long after launch), available to grind in that time billions at passenger missions while I work and swear my head off to squash bugs just to yell at the screen in the end...
To me it seems PC players are much more discriminated than console players, we are even used as free workforce to hunt bugs, and then to find first still existing bugs and other bad stuff after launch!
And this, there should be enough planets to name tag for console players for "first foot landing" (if there even will be any such thing, especially at already colonized systems like in the "bubble" where most seem to wanna have their name despite people already live there).
And it is only certain planets, not like we can tag Earth-likes through Odyssey.
And all the rest of "first discovery / mapping" name tag-stuff console players can still do through Horizon, maybe even better at yet undiscovered systems while PC competition is drawn away from traditional exploration by Odyssey station interiors/ fps /planets.
As a side note, Fs2020 will come out this summer for the Xbox Series X/S, a much more anticipated title then Odyssey will ever be for me personally.
I wonder how much ED I'll still play once I get the Series X with Fs2020 installed.
An early 2021 Odyssey release would've gotten me to play ED a lot more then right now and had given it a chance to win me over, I doubt that to happen with a late 2021 release since I'll be hooked on Fs2020 by then.
I wonder how much ED I'll still play once I get the Series X with Fs2020 installed.
An early 2021 Odyssey release would've gotten me to play ED a lot more then right now and had given it a chance to win me over, I doubt that to happen with a late 2021 release since I'll be hooked on Fs2020 by then.
I would not wanna hurt you much but I already tried it through Microsoft Store with Xbox Game Pass, and oh well... I discontinued whole monthly Game Pass.
Yeah if you like travelling on autopilot mostly above cities that don´t look much like they do in real life, or try to fly yourself and eventually crash...
And they say ED has no content... LOL
I bet that the minimum specs for Odyssey have been low balled and now they are realising it's actually very hard to get it to run well on those specs.