Thanks for the recap Zac, great job. And a huge thanks to Kay once again for giving up some of her time to spend with us.
I had been thinking about this and it does raise another couple of very interesting questions. Ones that I really wish could be answered please.
Will users on PC who don't upgrade to Odyssey, see the changes at the same time as those who do?
Previously I had assumed that everyone would get the changes when Odyssey is released, in the same way that adaptive lighting changes affected everyone, even those not running Horizons. But now the updated planets are to do with the changes that have been made to the engine, which must mean that there will now be two versions of the engine running at the same time (let's assume Odyssey vs non Odyssey). This has knock on implications for things like the
Issue Tracker. We had been assuming that there would be a clean cut as the new engine would make a lot of the old issues obsolete, or at least no point in trying to fix them on the old engine. But if the engine is now going to be split based on who upgrades and who doesn't. Where does that leave us?