Elite: Odyssey

Artie
20 May 2021, 6:46pm
SakashiroThreads on the Frontier forum have been started comparing Odyssey to Horizons. People are beginning to realize that Odyssey, despite its frame rate issues, is in fact a graphical downgrade. The new planets look worse rather than better, the lighting looks worse, the special effects look worse. And the previous excuse ("It's an old build from a test branch!") no longer works.

Although there are no objections that things on those comparison images look worse, there are also things that look better. But, for obvious reasons, those aren't a part of such threads, because their point so it complain about problems, not praise the improvements. Nothing bad with that, of course, but let's not take it as a general statement that everything is worse.
Kraylo Adaraan
20 May 2021, 6:49pm
Sakashiro
20 May 2021, 7:34pm
ArtieAlthough there are no objections that things on those comparison images look worse, there are also things that look better. But, for obvious reasons, those aren't a part of such threads, because their point so it complain about problems, not praise the improvements. Nothing bad with that, of course, but let's not take it as a general statement that everything is worse.

I'm looking at the game right now, it's running on ultra, but I can't find anything that looks better than before and can be attributed to the renderer. The new suits look good of course, but they would look good in Horizons, too. The faces however look like plastic, the hair looks worse, the ship paint jobs look worse, the planets look worse (and all the same), the skybox looks worse. The lighting inside my Courier is so messed up that I can't even see ships on the scanner trailing me. And don't get me started on tenuous atmospheres. I've seen better light scattering and volumetric shadows in Fallout 4, a game from 2015.

Cyberpunk 2077 was demanding to GPUs, too, but at least you could see why. How can a small settlement on a desert planet have lower fps than Night City? Odyssey is a disaster.
Thanatos au Grimmus
20 May 2021, 7:39pm
Sakashiro
ArtieAlthough there are no objections that things on those comparison images look worse, there are also things that look better. But, for obvious reasons, those aren't a part of such threads, because their point so it complain about problems, not praise the improvements. Nothing bad with that, of course, but let's not take it as a general statement that everything is worse.


I'm looking at the game right now, it's running on ultra, but I can't find anything that looks better than before and can be attributed to the renderer. The new suits look good of course, but they would look good in Horizons, too. The faces however look like plastic, the hair looks worse, the ship paint jobs look worse, the planets look worse (and all the same), the skybox looks worse. The lighting inside my Courier is so messed up that I can't even see ships on the scanner trailing me. And don't get me started on tenuous atmospheres. I've seen better light scattering and volumetric shadows in Fallout 4, a game from 2015.

Cyberpunk 2077 was demanding to GPUs, too, but at least you could see why. How can a small settlement on a desert planet have lower fps than Night City? Odyssey is a disaster.


Sorry to hear that, Sakashiro. I hope EDO will improve significantly with time and patches. I will definitely be watching and waiting (to purchase) for now.
Episparh
20 May 2021, 8:13pm
Well that video Sakashiro shared earlier explains a lot. I have started to develop a headache today and EDO kills my eyes
Shabbyj
20 May 2021, 8:40pm
Can we do open letters to FD on here, or is that just a FD forum thing?

I do love an open letter.
Dirnivir
20 May 2021, 8:43pm
Omg tried doing mercenary missions they where hard. assassin missions where easy tho but you get a bounty even if its covert. i might just do exobiology match my irl future ambitions
Aunty Sledge
20 May 2021, 8:47pm
Anyone else worried about the bounty going from your person to your ship if you get scanned?

Get killed and your hot ships get impounded. I don't think they've thought it through.
Sakashiro
20 May 2021, 9:28pm
Steam reviews now mostly negative, only 36% approval.
Rebecca Hail
20 May 2021, 9:33pm
That's probably not the impact FDev envisioned with Odyssey.
Veronica Vayle
20 May 2021, 9:40pm
Can you skip the Legs tutorial to do it at a later date? Or is the tutorial gone if you skip it?
Kalenar
20 May 2021, 9:53pm
Pretty sure you can do it again later.
killadark
20 May 2021, 10:33pm
Dont think people like the new lighting that is implemented..... the old lighting was more artificial and brighter and vivid to a extent which made it pop a little more? maybe thta is what makes people think it looks better.
In my perspective th enew Odyssey lighting is more true to life and i prefer it that way the cockpit lighting is amazing more toned down than how it used to be the brights are bright and the dark are dark with even lighting distribution unlike before. (i feel i may not have been able to word it properly what i want to convey but in short i think the current version is more "realistic" and suits my preference)

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