As someone who used to work in 3d modeling, unnecessary tris/quads on a model bugged me to no forseeable end. I've seen far too many walls that are encompassed with 256+ faces that only need one because they only need a flat white plaster texture on them instead of some massive detailed mosaic or something. These games commonly have performance issues.
The ED Subreddit is Salty about 2.3
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As someone who used to work in 3d modeling, unnecessary tris/quads on a model bugged me to no forseeable end. I've seen far too many walls that are encompassed with 256+ faces that only need one because they only need a flat white plaster texture on them instead of some massive detailed mosaic or something. These games commonly have performance issues.
That's what happens when the designer decides to throw in a Plane primitive from the editor instead of asking the 3D guy to do it. hah.
"but the nine catmull-subdivisions made it look smoother finally!" -guy who doesn't understand shaders.
Rep'd because I think this is a fantastic idea, though sadly I'm not sure we'll see anything like this implemented.
And I think that's the crux of the problem, many of us can see that ED has a good foundation to build some truly cool stuff on such as the above suggestion. We see it's potential and want it to fulfil it.
I don't want another space game, I don't want SC, I don't want NMS, I want ED and I want it to be good because I think ED failing would be one of the saddest days in the history of gaming.
I know there's something special there just waiting, like the finest marble slab waiting for an artist to have the vision to turn it into a beautiful sculpture but, given what I've seen, I truly fear it will remain a slab and that makes me truly sad.
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I know I've poked the anthill a bit in my previous two posts to this thread, but I'm going to try and inject some rationality.
First the obligatory disclaimer: I like ED. The game suits me.
I'm not a fanboy, though, like many others on this forum that like the game I still call it as I see it when FD have dropped an eggy one. Most recently the execrable state of both ship names and the anaconda cockpit, but I've given FD a pretty hard time on quite a few other aspects of the game where I actually believed I knew what I was talking about.
There are three groups of people on both this forum and on other discussion platforms out there such as reddit who I would urge FD to NOT listen to. Ever. The first two such groups are easily recognizable. One never posts anything but gripes or refutations of positive comments. I plonk those guys myself. They are contributing nothing of value, because they are just knocking everything. The second recognizable group is the firsts mirror image, only ever posting positive comments or refutations of negative ones. I'm not saying FD should ignore either of these two groups altogether, but count the posters not the posts, and do it on here where they stand at least a chance of identifying sock-puppet accounts rather than on a forum FD don't control.
The third group is a little more insidious. They are the internet meta-warriors. They are good at finding all sorts of arguments in favor of "whatever makes me and my buddies the top dogs in the game". This group FD SHOULD completely ignore. Not bother listening or counting their numbers because they are NOT trying to improve the game, they are trying to manipulate FD into giving them (or letting them keep, in some cases) an advantage that FDs design never envisioned them having. Some are even aiming for the fundamental nature of the game to change in order to suit themselves.
In the middle, with the two extremes chopped off and the disingenuous removed is where FD will find the opinions worth listening to. And that middle is rarely found on reddit.
First the obligatory disclaimer: I like ED. The game suits me.
I'm not a fanboy, though, like many others on this forum that like the game I still call it as I see it when FD have dropped an eggy one. Most recently the execrable state of both ship names and the anaconda cockpit, but I've given FD a pretty hard time on quite a few other aspects of the game where I actually believed I knew what I was talking about.
There are three groups of people on both this forum and on other discussion platforms out there such as reddit who I would urge FD to NOT listen to. Ever. The first two such groups are easily recognizable. One never posts anything but gripes or refutations of positive comments. I plonk those guys myself. They are contributing nothing of value, because they are just knocking everything. The second recognizable group is the firsts mirror image, only ever posting positive comments or refutations of negative ones. I'm not saying FD should ignore either of these two groups altogether, but count the posters not the posts, and do it on here where they stand at least a chance of identifying sock-puppet accounts rather than on a forum FD don't control.
The third group is a little more insidious. They are the internet meta-warriors. They are good at finding all sorts of arguments in favor of "whatever makes me and my buddies the top dogs in the game". This group FD SHOULD completely ignore. Not bother listening or counting their numbers because they are NOT trying to improve the game, they are trying to manipulate FD into giving them (or letting them keep, in some cases) an advantage that FDs design never envisioned them having. Some are even aiming for the fundamental nature of the game to change in order to suit themselves.
In the middle, with the two extremes chopped off and the disingenuous removed is where FD will find the opinions worth listening to. And that middle is rarely found on reddit.
Don't tell the kids about the wider communities dislike of the patch, it will upset them. Shhh, let them sleep.
You know what's really funny about this thread whining about people complaining? FDev are now actively monitoring that first linked post looking for feedback. Thanks for the forum exposure, folks. Sometimes this place seems a little too insular.
Yeah,unlike circle jerks - which everyone knows are'nt insular, right?
I hope to hell they do start listening more. The past year hasn't given me much hope.
Hang on everyone. Are we getting salty about how salty reddit is? WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!?!?!?
WE'VE GONE FULL SALT!!
And you NEVER go full salt!!
I feel fine.
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You know what fine means right? Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional
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They released the game exactly as they do with all the updates. Unfinished and full of problems. What's worse is that with each new update they focus on the wrong content. So it's better not to have much hope.
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These forums are way saltier. Honestly Im so sick of it. At least on reddit people can vote so its only 50% nasty. Here its just every single thread.
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