Used to be quite automated. Then they broke the system / shut it off. And when they turned Goids back “on”, it was all manual.
See e.g. Eagle Eye still pointing at the last “old way of doing things” infestation system.
See e.g. Eagle Eye still pointing at the last “old way of doing things” infestation system.
This is wrong on both levels.This is wrong on both lvls.
1) Compare opinions on both - E: D and Ody on Steam. Seeing this difference - it is as much failure as you can possibly imagine. If you wanted to make a template of failure to sink it in glass and put in Sevres - it would look exactly that.
2) Why should I try FPS, when I'm not looking for it? This is not a matter of past, present or future - it is the matter of genre. I played Elite II Frontier, because I wanted to play spacesim - not FPS. I played First Encounters, because I wanted to play spacesim - not FPS. I've played all those years E: D before Ody most premature () release, because I wanted to play spacesim - not FPS. If I wanted to play FPS - I had a lot of options before Ody was so-called released - and better done at that (which is not an achievement BTW). So nope, I'm not going to try it. This DLC has one problem that no amount of patches may fix - it is off topic.
1. Steam reviews mean nothing
2. The space game is still there and hasn't gone anywhere. The FPS you speak of is entirely optional and there's more to do on-foot than just FPS. Plus you also get to experience the tenuous atmosphere planets, which can look beautiful. You're missing out on those.
I've barely done any FPS recently. I've been doing Exobiology though. I also found some nice rock formations, plus a mountain to try and ascend.
Development time that went into a mediocre shooter did not go into making a better space flight sim.
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Does this mean that you will no longer be able to use 3.8 to move your commander from on foot back to your ship in orbit. Or use regular Elite to move from from your SRV that is stuck back to your ;ship in orbit?
Thanks for the reply and I'd really like to believe it. Confirmation from FDev is still outstanding. If it works I'll have Legacy on one PC and Live on another and jump both carriers simultaneously.
That's what they said.
Or escape a 4.0 crashloop by relogging to 3.8, yes.
Let's see how well they have implemented a decent stuck system, since obviously you wouldn't implement a change like this to the standard fix for common recurring bugs without an alternative in place...
....right?
Not so sure how easy it is necessarily.
Inside stations in 3.8 I get 90+ fps at the worst of times (going through the slot, etc), that tanks to as low as 40 in 4.0, it's a VERY noticeable difference that my eyes absolutely register.
Yesterday I replaced my ageing 8GB GTX1070 with a brand new RTX 3070ti and was dismayed to see that FPS in concourses were still in the 50s and that in settlements were in the 70s. I was getting smooth 40ish in concourses with the 1070 and settlements were in the 50s. (Both running 1440 at Ultra)
I obviously need to investigate further (as far as I could see GPU and CPU were not maxed, not even remotely) but that is seriously disappointing. Everywhere else was huge step up but the Oddy specific seems jobbie.
Also 3.8 works better in VR than 4.0.
Things like shadow flicker and no antialias are very poor in 4.0 VR.
Not to mention the massive performance drop in 4.0 VR compared to 3.8 VR.
All Odyssey Cmdrs will have free access to "Horizons" 4.0, so nothing will change in that regard, just log to "Horizons" 4.0 instead of "Horizons" 3.8.
Well, Sandro's policies towards pushing people into open to be able to experience his systems were a major contributor to my quitting the game for five years. I suspect he cared about his own priorities, but had a filter against non-PvP players opinions or keeping to the original promises made about all modes, etc.
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I'm going to nip this in the bud here.
All Sandro did was ask a question about what players thought of a scenario and it's been twisted so many times by the community.
Let's stop discussing the development team before this gets out of hand!
The main thing about him that I recall is at the time of his departure, he was pretty much the last one still talking about optimal mass for shields coming back as an experimental effect, and folks were like "This is the elephant in the room Frontier can't ignore for much longer"
Remind me again how long ago that was now?
Remind me again how long ago that was now?
Where are you getting this crap from? I play Odyssey at 1080p on a PC with an i7 3770 (10 years old), RTX2060 and 16 gig of RAM and it's fine. If you want to buy it for €2,000 though, let me know
You cannot use the same frontier account on multiple installs simultaneously. You log in on the second one the first one will be logged out (actually bypasses the ship in danger timer too).
I appreciate it.
Finally you are honest, instead allowing players for wild speculations about limits, or PEGI
Good, that AT LEAST frontier was smarter company in hzn era, where base players could play together with hzn players in space.
Am I supposed to pay for that?
This so-called "better engine" cannot even display properly stars in system map. In 3.8 I had no such problems. And BTW - why am I supposed to pay additionally for space instances, that are exactly same like in Horizons? I dont remember anybody forcing basic game players, when Horizons was an extra, to pay for that - and space instances were still common for all then.
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So?
He said "fly spaceships".
Why would he buy dlc about on foot activities?
Now it is even more absurd, because he "has to" buy it to play together in 1 instance with more people. Players are basically part of DLC.
And no, steam revievs definetely means something. I would ask few quetions, if base game has 90% positives, when example dlc has 90% negatives
PS dear frontier knights: more not always means better. Maybe we should add WW II planes in space, just for "diversity, and more to do"?
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