What makes you prefer odyssey/horizons?

Darrack

Darrack
Love Odyssey as there is a lot more to do, i never have enough time to get even half the stuff done on my weekly 'to do' list.
I wanted to be an explorer out in the black and a scavenger in the bubble, odyssey was the missing piece.

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mephisto9466

M
goemon said:
i actually most often fire up the base game. i'm there for flying ships. i fire up horizons for engineering ships. i fire up odyssey for a certain view out exploring, but i rarely land.
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im geniuenly confused about the base game.....literally no point in booting that up unless you get stuck on a planet and cant get off
 

goemon

goemon
mephisto9466 said:
im geniuenly confused about the base game.....literally no point in booting that up unless you get stuck on a planet and cant get off
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well, all missions i like to do are more common in the base game than in horizon or odyssey. and all activities i like to do are available. so, for me, if i don't want to fly a fighter (or want to switch to a horizon only ship), i see no point for me to boot into horizon. people differ (y)
the better optics of odyssey, which i generally like, aren't that important to me in most circumstances, as i rarely land, and the sounddesign isn't that much better - it is extraordinary already in the base game imho. if there will be EVA and i can fly around installations, megaships or my own ship, or if there will be ship interiors, this will quickly change i guess.
 

S0rkvild

S0rkvild
I play Horizons. I didn't ask for "space legs" and all the bugs related to, moreover I was opposing "space legs" and pew pews towards having more ships and more space related activities. So yeah, I'm here for the ships and flight. Also Horizons allows me enjoying game at smooth 60fps on ultra details. Of course I could play Odyssey at the moment, but don't want to lower down my grahics settings. Perhaps I'll switch to Odyssey only if Odyssey gets the same performance as Horizons, but I lost my faith that would be possible.
 

Razzerman

R
I play horizons in the bubble, and odyssey when I'm not. I couldn't care less about the on-foot pew pew missions, tyvm, and all they do is over populate the mission board imho.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Brrokk said:
A couple of months. I hear it's improved a lot. Does it still do that thing where you target something, enter SC and then find your target cancelled or changed?
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Not had that one that I have noticed/remembered and I have almost never run Horizons since Odyssey dropped.
 

Red Rocket

Red Rocket
Horizons:
Better performance
Full VR support
Better overall lighting
Hugh Mountains
Deep,Deep Crevasses
I just prefer the Horizons planet tech.
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Voidwizard1

V
Horizons by far and without a doubt, I wanted a space game so I bought and installed a space game years ago. I have no interest in space legs, first person shooting or wandering around my ship or a station.
Also, despite having billions of space bucks and dozens of and multiples of ships I have zero interest in fleet carriers. Cannot think of a single use for one for me. If other Commanders like them that is fine. I just wish they were not such an eyesore cluttering up system after system. Reminds me of driving into a trailer park whenever I arrive in a new place and there is a mess everywhere.
For me - Odyssey has nothing I want so will never buy it or play it.
I hold out hope that Frontier will do something I may enjoy to attract me back to regularly playing what I thought in the past was a fun and interesting game.

Fly safe.
 

Riverside

Riverside
Voidwizard1 said:
I hold out hope that Frontier will do something I may enjoy to attract me back to regularly playing what I thought in the past was a fun and interesting game.
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Definitely looking forward to seeing more DLCs & features added after all this time, I hope Odyssey is seen as enough of a success for FDev to feel able to justify the dev time for more.

It's a shame the development isn't further along than it is after this long, everything takes longer when you have to do it twice. Walking about and having every single plant asset being scannable might be seen as a dead-end (or might not, depending on Odyssey's sales & feedback) in terms of the direction the game will go from here but stuff like the revised lighting & terrain will hopefully continue to be improved upon (to be more than just a height map at least on thicker atmo planets), and adding more space stuff makes sense no matter what direction future addons take so hopefully you'll see something you like eventually.

But if you no longer enjoy what's already there I'd be surprised if anything they add to the basic concept of finding reasons to fly the different ships around will change that.

Fingers crossed though, you never know ;)
 

Demonlord79

Demonlord79
I've been playing from day one release of Elite Vanilla, So I can give somewhat of a good insight for you.

The game has change so much from the beginning and has always seemed to get better as content is added. Now Odyssey fell flat on its face, literally. But Frontier has picked up the pieces and moved forward, sadly without Console support but Consoles where never meant to be included from the beginning. As an extremely powerful custom-built PC I have to give Frontier true respect for trying to include Consoles and this is not to say that they might not give up on Consoles in the future.

Horizons and Odyssey? It is truly hard to say because the two are already mixed together. Horizons lost quite a few concepts that were very nice via seeding, more random aspects planet-side and seamless play, but that can't be said without giving Odyssey it's due credit in replacing quite a bit of Horizons content with quite a bit of nice details and options. Sadly, the biggest drawback with Odyssey was the loss of seamless play but it's hardly a game breaker.

Odyssey, in my opinion, is in fact a good and bad addition. I really would like to see Frontier Development return to its intended direction as a space flight simulator, but Odyssey has proven to add some new content to bring with Frontiers Developments original direction. Odyssey is done. It can't be taken back nor should it. Horizons and Odyssey are in fact quite the perfect match to move forward with. The two open up an entire new outlook to what Frontier Development can do with two successful engines.

In conclusion, yes, Odyssey deserves its place when optimized properly and bugs fixed. Odyssey was released in a type of Alpha state but polished correctly it could easily have been considered welcomed DLC as Horizons was welcomed.

I am looking forward to seeing what Frontier Development will do with the mix of both Horizons and Odyssey.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
mephisto9466 said:
Just as the title says. What makes you prefer odyssey or horizons? I'll start

What keeps me playing ody is a mix of things. i am immensely satisified being able to walk around in my carrier and see the people in the bar. Considering I try to help a lot of people, I LOVE the copy button in the galaxy map. Considering i switch parts in my ships all the time the stored modules tab in ody is 10 times better than the stupid gigantic list in horizons. Lastly I like the visual improvements to the game , barring the changes to the planet tech and the fact that the thargoid explosions are uglier. Yall can rag on this as much as you want, but the limited gameplay ive done with the on foot content, its ok and i like it.

Wbu?
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Interesting. Like you, i prefer Odyssey, but I do not like the new stored module and outfitting screens. To me those are abominations. Love the new planet terrains and visuals though Fleet Carrier interiors are meh, because they are largely useless for me. Although at least i can now watch the jump animation. The increased gameplay options is what really sells it for me though. So many more things to do.
 

Red Rocket

Red Rocket
I just jumped out to SYNUEFE VM-D C15-10 2c

The planet is the same but a bit on the dark side, If you remember Fdev made a lighting change to Horizons a few years back and this planet got darker.
I was Fdev's new and improved lighting, some things got better and some..... well not so much.
Still the scale of these Crevasses is truly mind blowing
 

Osbo89

Osbo89
Got Odyssey the day it came out and have not looked back since sure it’s got one or two problems with it but that’s with all games, now we have legs and interiors with a dash of atmospheric planets and plant life around why would I want to go back..
 
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