I'm going to ask, and I don't know if you know the answer, and can even answer, but It's worth a shot. Sorry for the early big chunk to chew on^^
The pre alpha and even late alpha planet generation was drastically better in overall quality than the one we have now, for a majority of planet. I'm not going to bother you with tons of screenshots to compare (I have a lot), but if you look at those one (same planet), you can see a decrease in quality (noise and overall texture quality). Atmosphere also changed from volumetric (nice weather and cloudy effect) into a shader one (regular painted skybox).
It is also true on the ground, rock scattering have been severely reduced, texture downgraded in resolution, drastically decrease in "noise", some texture apparently removed etc...
Some of this footage was labelled "ingame footage", yet they are exceptionally rare, and the planets in said footage doesn't have nearly the same quality in today's Odyssey.
Some planet still have that kind of quality, as I've seen screenshots of them, but they seem incredibly rare compared to the one with very low resolution texture and poor noise. I personally never saw one myself, only screenshots.
My question is, will we have the promised planet generation finally added to Odyssey, or was it downgraded for some reason (optimization ?) and what we have is all that we will get for the foreseeable future ?
