Loaded up the game and playing for the first time in ages. Where are my rank percentages!!!!!???? What **** thought it would be a marvelous idea to remove this info! Fair enough maybe pressed for space on the UI - but WHY can we not see this in the detailed codex info?
Have resorted to loading up horizons to check ACTUAL percentages. This is really annoying
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Whoever is designing the UI for ODYSSEY has done an absolutely abyssmal job - it has slightly improved after much complaining, but it was so atrociously bad that it should never have been approved in the first place. Literally everything they touched has seriously degraded the informational content of the UI.
The worst part about this particular piece of UI is that the indicator line for your rank percentage isn't even drawn correctly; I've had cases where the line was showing, easily, high 90's yet the actual number (retrieved from the log-file) was only in the mid-80's. There's no consistency either - they added a percentage display to the ship shields (which is really nice) but removed it from rank progression.
ODYSSEY has been a complete disaster, in every way, from initial release. It's marginally better than it was, but there is literally not a single thing in it that I like over HORIZONS - I have zero interest in a buggy 2005-era shooter - this is a spaceship game, if I want to play an FPS, I'll go and play COD or BF which are vastly superior. I have no interest in staring at plants, and I'm not going to hyper-grind for suits and weapons that are part of a gameplay element I have zero interest in playing. On the whole, all ODYSSEY has done is dramatically damage the core game. They would have been far better off adding interesting content in the form of new things to find out in the black and focusing on the core mechanic of spaceflight. There really are not enough words to describe just how much I despise everything about the ODYSSEY release.
