EpisparhJust 10 a.m. there... I bet some of them are not even in the office yet. You will get your black paint eventually in 4 hours.

Yuna Sakashiro

EpisparhJust 10 a.m. there... I bet some of them are not even in the office yet. You will get your black paint eventually in 4 hours.

I'm not going to buy them anyway. I bought one for my Courier and my SRV back in Horizons 3.8, but since 4.0 they are no longer black but grey. In fact these days it's hard to spot the difference between Midnight Black and Tactical Graphite, the latter costing a fraction of the Arx and being available all year.

The same thing happened to the black Remlok suit. It looked gorgeous in 3.8, but in 4.0 it looks like it's made of grey rubber. I have no idea why it's so hard for them to make a proper black shader in 4.0. Just dial down diffuse reflection and keep the specular one, and there you have it: shiny black material.

They also removed the blue lights from those suits btw.

Broken MessI've kitted out about two thirds of ships in Elite with MNB paints (cost me a pretty penny given their premium price tag, but best not to think about it), all pre-Odyssey release. In EDO, it largely depends on the lighting of the scenario; they can look pretty solidly black but often are more a light grey as you say. They actually looked alright and very much matte during the final stage of the "Alpha", but at go-live they became non-matte and more grey, which they sort-of-sort-of-not fixed over time - so they tried, yet still haven't managed to get it right.

I often wonder whether FDev's designers actually look at the product of their work in-game at all, because even in the main menu hangar scene the difference is stark and most skins look nothing like they're advertised via thumbnails in the shop (which are based on 3.8).

I guess someone is still buying these so little need for FDev to do anything about it. /shrug

Odyssey/4.0 single handedly killed my (admittedly bad) habit of buying cosmetics for this game - given that I spent a multiple on skins compared to the base game + 2 DLCs it's a blessing in disguise to be fair. Zero enthusiasm for these seasonal skin offers nowadays whereas I used to be giddy as a child in anticipation of them.

Yuna Sakashiro
The fact that the look of their shaders depends on the lighting situation shows that they actually don't use PBR properly. The whole point of PBR was to put an end to exactly these problems.

Eyeball shaders are the worst offenders. In some places they don't reflect light at all, in other places they are emissive, i.e. they glow in the dark. It's like the avatar and the scene around it are lit by different sets of lights. I've taken some screenshots where my avatar was standing in a lounge in some settlement and appeared totally dark, as if no ambient light was cast on it at all.

Yuna Sakashiro...I always wanted to take a fleet carrier out into the black and try to be self-sufficient, and soon I can do that while keeping my Odyssey commander in the bubble for all the new stuff that's coming

Shg56The discoveries that you would be making in legacy, will stay in legacy only. You won't have the first discovery title in live if you did it in legacy. That sucks.

Shg56

Yuna Sakashiro...I always wanted to take a fleet carrier out into the black and try to be self-sufficient, and soon I can do that while keeping my Odyssey commander in the bubble for all the new stuff that's coming

The discoveries that you would be making in legacy, will stay in legacy only. You won't have the first discovery title in live if you did it in legacy. That sucks.

Yuna Sakashiro

Sir Sprocketthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouX5cAVTMzw

go to 2.15.15 and watch your taxi shoot the distance after Webgear pulled you