Are you aware of how to find Frontier employee posts on the forum? There have been quite a few recently. Probably some on other platforms too. Could be worth a read?
Or not, you two could just continue shouting from your soapbox, it could work
Please commit to rerolling the planets...
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Are you aware of how to find Frontier employee posts on the forum? There have been quite a few recently. Probably some on other platforms too. Could be worth a read?
Or not, you two could just continue shouting from your soapbox, it could work
Well, then, can you kindly show us, poor fools we are, where is the dev post on the mentioned thread, kind sir ?Are you aware of how to find Frontier employee posts on the forum? There have been quite a few recently. Probably some on other platforms too. Could be worth a read?
Or not, you two could just continue shouting from your soapbox, it could work
Try searching for specific names of community managers without specifying a particular thread (or don't if you prefer) if you are looking for the latest info and don't want to just email them & wait for the working week to start before getting too disappointed that you've not had a response yet.
Not going to mail them, because that's extra work for them. And I still try to be respectful of other people's time.
As for the search, I did already. No posts have been made in planet generation thread, for quite a while at least. You can check for yourself, and if you find one, please let me know !
There were a dozen made...
The Mods removed them and issued a warning for being off-topic
So, it's all Tj's fault. I should have seen that coming.There were a dozen made...
The Mods removed them and issued a warning for being off-topic
New tech planet is marvellous?… nah. What we got is a huge upgrade. There are still issues, but the new planet tech is marvellous.are you for real? Mate its bloody crap
Whatever?
We can throw examples of it being absolutely stunning and examples of where it has issues at each other until the cows come home. All that will ever show is what we have known since we left Alpha: New tech creates stunning worlds and came with a host of issues in need of urgent addressing.
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System BPM 72121 planet A2.... any good ? (Don't take a big, heavy or un-maneuverable ship down in those 'canyons'... I did and face planted a canyon wall!)Please can I see canyons?
Mind you...sunset probably wasn't the best time of day! o7
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Please can I see canyons?
I spent twenty hours exploring and investigating planets from sc looking for deep canyons / holes and super mountains. Giant negative.
From supercruise what look dramatic literally moprh and shallow out in front of your eyes as you glide in and then when you finally get through glide those dramatic canyons are only a couple ships deep. Always gentle and smooth like a water slide. All the mountains looked similar ala terrain tool. No super beasts that stick out into space like Horizons could produce. 15+km.
Infact the first planet I loaded and visited in Horizons had more dramatic terrain than all the planets I saw in my entire time doing surface explo in Odyssey.
Most landable planets look terrible from sc and terrible on the surface. A couple exceptions aside, but on the whole I am extremely dissapointed. I consider it a regression.
No - this is been going on since release - it's not one thread I'm talking about - it's many. Fdev is silent because it took the wrong turn at the beginning of a 3 years trip.
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I had better quality experience in Cyberpunk on launch day, than I'd been getting in Elite weeks after EDO launch. I dread to think what things would be like on console for Odyssey.
Same, got better performance playing cyberpunk on launch day on ultra settings than I am currently able to get on elite running medium settings.
I don't agree with the widespread view that "that will be fixed in time". It should never be an excuse or a way of defining what we have right now. It seems to me as reckless as saying "they'll never fix it". Better to focus exclusively on what we have now, because that's the only sure thing, the rest is just talk for talk's sake.
And what do we have now? In my opinion and experience, a deficient planetary technology that only works well one out of 3, 4 or 5 times. When it works well it's amazing, but when it usually doesn't, the impression is disastrous; that's why it's so easy for some people to excuse it and say "when it always works well it will be amazing, and I know they'll fix it". No, we don't know, we can't know, we wish we did, but it's not a sure thing, at least for the players.
Personally, leaving aside the problem of the mosaics (I didn't verify this problem in the alpha), the planetary technology of the alpha seemed to me much superior to the current one in terms of realism, geometry (many more polygons which means much more realism) and ambience of the planetary surface, besides the much greater dispersion of rocks towards the rest. I guess they decided to change the technology to gain apparent optimisation or performance perhaps with a view to console release; which if true would mean a classic downgrade so that consoles could handle it.
My hope is that they will eventually go back to at least the technology seen in the alpha, but I'm certainly not sure they will.
And what do we have now? In my opinion and experience, a deficient planetary technology that only works well one out of 3, 4 or 5 times. When it works well it's amazing, but when it usually doesn't, the impression is disastrous; that's why it's so easy for some people to excuse it and say "when it always works well it will be amazing, and I know they'll fix it". No, we don't know, we can't know, we wish we did, but it's not a sure thing, at least for the players.
Personally, leaving aside the problem of the mosaics (I didn't verify this problem in the alpha), the planetary technology of the alpha seemed to me much superior to the current one in terms of realism, geometry (many more polygons which means much more realism) and ambience of the planetary surface, besides the much greater dispersion of rocks towards the rest. I guess they decided to change the technology to gain apparent optimisation or performance perhaps with a view to console release; which if true would mean a classic downgrade so that consoles could handle it.
My hope is that they will eventually go back to at least the technology seen in the alpha, but I'm certainly not sure they will.
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I'm not convinced that view is as widespread as you are. I think it's actually more of a narrow view where mostly white knights and people playing on PCs from the future think this. I hate time traveling white knight future tech ( only cuz I don't have it)
They mainly reduced the polygons to keep the old SRV driving model.
No good, sorry - too shallow, too wide and too simple. Python's a slow and unwieldy beast to take surface flying too - good job for trying it!
Yes, I remember that during alpha, there were players who complained about the driving with srv; also referring to the rock scattering. Obviously the driving was more difficult, but the realism and geometry of the planets was much better. If this was the only reason for this drastic change, in my opinion it was a big mistake, but that's just my opinion.
I don't know if it was the only reason. Reducing the rock scattering reduce also the amount of hand-crafted rock and therefore the amount of invisible rock. It's not as if they've given themselves time to work out the problems intelligently. They went for the quickest.
The complaints at the time were not about the SRV being more difficult - but that the physics had been altered and made it far easier, along with far too much traction and power. There were also complaints about invisible rocks. You'd need to ask one of the posters though as I can't find the alpha feedback threads any more, but I think guys like @BlackMaze would be able to explain it better