My gut feeling is that the ED development team is much smaller nowadays. When I see the discount of the elite disk in the ps4 second hand shops I know it is really a niche market. The team is probably split into two. Half working on beyond, and half on atmo landing for 2019 as it is a major endeavor
This is how it was during Season 1. So I suspect it is what they did now - half works for next paid for DLC (not season, but full release), and half will work on Beyond. Due of 'low hanging fruits' nature in Beyond, I did not expect Orrery appear there.
Anyway, this thread has given lot of interesting feedback to devs, especially about how to improve existing navigation so I hope they will figure something out and will give us some feedback during Beyond. Would be nice.
I think you'll find JPE is the basis for any atmospheric world development![]()
I doubt so. JWE has created their own rendering and yes, there are interesting atmospheric lighting effects - shaders for whom might be shared between games - other than that JWE aims for quite significant movie style look, where ED look is more subdued.