Chromed doesn't look the same either, partly because they toned down the (quality of the) glossy effects significantly during one of the earlier updates.
There are plenty that don't look the same, I have a Pharaoh Red Chieftain that in Odyssey looks like a toddler's toy rather than the cool maroon Horizons shows.
Here's Chromed for comparison (not a skin I normally use).
Chromed (Horizons):
Chromed (Odyssey):
Which is a bit careless as these are limited editions PJs that are currently being advertised in the launcher.
The Cutter doesn't actually look too bad. Maybe it's just the SRV they forgot to fix.
Yup, original Chrome is amazing now.
Yes, and now they are selling all these broken limited edition PJs without having bothered to fix them...
It was always awesome. Now it's more awesome!
People largely got distracted by much more egregious issues with Odyssey, so FDev took the opportunity to ignore the paintjob issue.
Indeed, the old gold now almost looks stygian.
And to be fair, there are far more important issues still to fix. I'd not have even made this thread if FD hadn't plastered these broken paintjobs all over the launcher as limited edition.
Odyssey was (still is) so broken that Frontier didn't know where to start fixing it... now I have the feeling they realized the amount of work required to actually fix it would make the whole task painful enough to force them to just drop it and move forward, get a "closure" to the game's story, then start working on Elite Dangerous 2 based in Unreal Engine 5 or 6 (depending when it's actually released).
