State of the Game

Part of me sooooo wants to post the Goat-see picture with ‘meow’ slapped across the bottom of it (for the love of god, do NOT google that).

Pretty sure it’d be the last thing i ever posted before the Yafflehammer obliterated my account. Might even get this thread locked! Where would we get our pointless inanity then?!
As somebody who unfortunately knows exactly what you mean, I can only agree with your conclusion.

To those who do not know what's being talked about, count your blessings!
 
no no no no. your problem is that you're playing with the quality settings too high ... the high and ultra settings are something that future computers will be able to utilize..ensuring the longevity of the cobra engine and the relevance of the elite dangerous game for years to come.

It's definitely not because of low wages not retaining the kind of talent needed to optimize math intensive engine functions in assembly and gpu shaders and having to work with an engine nobody else uses with apparently a bunch of tenured managers / directors who dont seem very concerned about an actual quality game.

Actually i do have it mostly set to high, because i found setting it to low made no noticeable difference. A few frames here and there. Still unplayable anyway.

I did not do the lowering supersamping then using the AMD upscaling trick, because that is just horse manure to me. Make it effectively run at a lower resolution and then upscale to get better FPS? Look at the graphics, this isn't even Skyrim level of quality and yet i can throw Skyrim on max settings and get a lot better experience. Back in alpha, i did set to 0.4 supersampling and yeah performance was a bit better (30 FPS more consistently in stations) but still not acceptable.

5 patches, i'd hoped for better optimizations now. Maybe patch 6 will help a bit more, i don't know.

But its just clear the old 960 isn't going to handle Odyssey well no matter what FD do. Which is a shame, because it handles Horizons just fine and we were led to believe that the requirements were not going to be that different.

I've no idea how they will get it working well on consoles. But that's not my problem.

My problem is convincing 'er indoors that a new graphics card is totally required :D
 
Actually i do have it mostly set to high, because i found setting it to low made no noticeable difference. A few frames here and there. Still unplayable anyway.

I did not do the lowering supersamping then using the AMD upscaling trick, because that is just horse manure to me. Make it effectively run at a lower resolution and then upscale to get better FPS? Look at the graphics, this isn't even Skyrim level of quality and yet i can throw Skyrim on max settings and get a lot better experience. Back in alpha, i did set to 0.4 supersampling and yeah performance was a bit better (30 FPS more consistently in stations) but still not acceptable.

5 patches, i'd hoped for better optimizations now. Maybe patch 6 will help a bit more, i don't know.

But its just clear the old 960 isn't going to handle Odyssey well no matter what FD do. Which is a shame, because it handles Horizons just fine and we were led to believe that the requirements were not going to be that different.

I've no idea how they will get it working well on consoles. But that's not my problem.

My problem is convincing 'er indoors that a new graphics card is totally required :D
I'm half expecting a statement about supporting women in gaming so the focus can be less on fdev flat out lying and basically selling something that wasn't what was advertised and more on the fact that at least they're not activision.
 
Well, it was the thread for such a post, it just got hijacked :D
Pish posh, this thread is very much about cat memes and, obviously, the state of the game, which we all agreed upon was... let me see...

Wisconsin. Or maybe Oregon.

So there. Now have a cat:

towelcat.jpg
 
hate coffee. and usually when there's a scandal bigger than your own little scandal, you point at that and hopefully everyone forgets your own. And the activision one is bigger and newer. Perfect to distract from this financial year cash padding release.

Oh yeah, i'd read about the scandal.
 
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