The game has changed so much

atomic7431 · Jun 30, 2017

I jave just found my old videos and pictures from 2014 and Alpha 3

[video=youtube_share;ijac0BV8clc]https://youtu.be/ijac0BV8clc[/video]

remembered fondly

Muzz UK · Jun 30, 2017

The games doing well and has come a long long way but still has a lot of work.

Frontier should be proud of what they have achieved and I look forward to the future good work Frontier.

Cough crime cough and punishment cough... more multicrew cough like proper mining cough cough cough... more ships cough... working CQC and powerplay cough cough.

Sorry had to clear my throat!

Knightshark · Jun 30, 2017

atomic7431 said:
I jave just found my old videos and pictures from 2014 and Alpha 3

https://youtu.be/ijac0BV8clc

remembered fondly

I don't know why, but i get the feeling that the sky looked much better in alpha 3 that now. Had it more stars and higher res?

Cervantes01 · Jun 30, 2017

Knightshark said:
I don't know why, but i get the feeling that the sky looked much better in alpha 3 that now. Had it more stars and higher res?

The sky looked excellent plus the planet textures, FD can we have them back please

verminstar · Jun 30, 2017

Ah the good old days before the milky way was beigified and the dark side of the planets were actually dark...not everything that changed has been an improvement ^

Noctover · Jun 30, 2017

I actually preferred the cockpits and skybox in Alpha. And when dark side of planets were...Dark.

atomic7431 · Jun 30, 2017

The colours from the nebula in the distance and glow from the suns, the planet textures and cockpit detail was much better back then, not sure that side of the game has changed for the better

some pics uploading now, my connection is very slow though. I have a picture of a planet/moon which look amazing.

Certacito · Jun 30, 2017

+1 Knightshark! Some of that looks better than now, but OP you are right, the game has generally come a long way and with major improvements too.

atomic7431 · Jun 30, 2017

added a pic of planet

atomic7431 · Jun 30, 2017

more pics added

[DOOK] Droogie · Jun 30, 2017

The dark side of planets shouldn't be dark. Nightvision should be a thing. I'd like to think that the HUD takes in whatever light is available and amplifies it, kind of like a cat.

Now, we should have the option to turn that off.

mojonaut · Jun 30, 2017

Knightshark said:
I don't know why, but i get the feeling that the sky looked much better in alpha 3 that now. Had it more stars and higher res?

Everything looked better, station interior lighting, planet textures, ship interiors, Frontier well and truly screwed up the visuals over time until we now have total blandness

Knightshark · Jun 30, 2017

mojonaut said:
Everything looked better, station interior lighting, planet textures, ship interiors, Frontier well and truly screwed up the visuals over time until we now have total blandness

But why?

Noctover · Jun 30, 2017

Knightshark said:
But why?

We'll never know

its been asked many times but no response.

verminstar · Jun 30, 2017

Noctover said:
We'll never know its been asked many times but no response.

Well they did answer once about one aspect but it was months ago now...after countless arguments from those who said the beigification was done fer "realism", a dev offered the alternative that they were messing with something or other and the beigification was an unintended bug which would get fixed..."soon"

Other arguments blamed the consoles which obviously became the goto argument fer some because they had something to use against them...also debunked by the devs.

Players speculating on why never ends well...gets to a point of lameness that a dev has to set the record straight but lately, the moaning hasnt been about visulas, so they in silent mode again ^

VonBlade · Jun 30, 2017

Love the looks of the planet.
Particularly love the looks of the lighting.
No stupid grimy canopy rubbish.
No monster bloom lens flare off my eyeballs (even though I've turned it off)
The dark places are dark. The light places are light. The contrast betwixt them is amazing.

It's almost like the older game had much higher texture resolution and less of the tropes of modern gaming (Turn bloom up to 11, make everything brown).

Spacemarkl · Jun 30, 2017

Sure it looks partially better than now, but look at those framerates.

I'd say there were a lot of optimizations going on... maybe in 5 years when the average PC is much stronger visuals will even outshine this.

Iskariot · Jun 30, 2017

atomic7431 said:
I jave just found my old videos and pictures from 2014 and Alpha 3

https://youtu.be/ijac0BV8clc

remembered fondly

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Yep, many people don't even realize how much the game has already improved.
It's difficult to be patient when you love a game and spend a lot of time with it. You want new stuff all the time.

VonBlade said:
.... make everything brown.

FD is on top of that. They already said that this would be addressed.