Elite: Odyssey
12 Mar 2022, 9:09am
12 Mar 2022, 9:55am
MeowersRecommended hardware will run space things well, but on-foot content will be in 20-30 fps. It's vomit-inducing even on high-end machines due to crappy optimisation. And you don't need (probably) more than 75 fps in space.
My computer is over 10 years old. I have both shadow settings at medium and terrain detail at low. Everything else is maxed and I am using the default supersampling at 1x. With these settings I get 20-25fps for ground CZ and going to the 15-20fps range when it gets busy. Lowering other settings didn't really improve anything. The pre-odyssey content runs just fine for me except for some slowdown when entering large stations. Funny how I seem to be getting as good or better performance than many high-end setups. Sounds like coding issues to me.
12 Mar 2022, 10:03am
MelonarMinimum:
Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 780 / AMD R9 280x
Recommended:
Intel i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 (6 GB VRAM) / AMD RX 580 (8 GB VRAM)
You don't need cutting-edge hardware. Even the recommended hardware is several years old.
Series S costs 1300 PLN (~300 USD), while Series X costs roughly 2300 PLN. Intel i5-8600 and AMD Ryzen 5 2600 alone over here already cost around 3,500-4,000 PLN brand new. You don't want to rely on auction sites either, because in 99% those are post-mining units. My wage is below 1,800 PLN a month and I can only save maybe 400 PLN off it and that sum goes to hobbies, friends meeting, tickets to drive to them, etc.
I hope you kinda see the problem now.
12 Mar 2022, 10:26am
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12 Mar 2022, 12:41pm
Iwao KishiroMelonarMinimum:
Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 780 / AMD R9 280x
Recommended:
Intel i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 (6 GB VRAM) / AMD RX 580 (8 GB VRAM)
You don't need cutting-edge hardware. Even the recommended hardware is several years old.
Series S costs 1300 PLN (~300 USD), while Series X costs roughly 2300 PLN. Intel i5-8600 and AMD Ryzen 5 2600 alone over here already cost around 3,500-4,000 PLN brand new. You don't want to rely on auction sites either, because in 99% those are post-mining units. My wage is below 1,800 PLN a month and I can only save maybe 400 PLN off it and that sum goes to hobbies, friends meeting, tickets to drive to them, etc.
I hope you kinda see the problem now.
Yeah, I can see how that would be a problem, though < 1,800 PLN per month seems awfully low when the average monthly salary of a McDonald's crew member is 2,856 PLN per month.
12 Mar 2022, 2:37pm
Grecale80I wonder how this could impact on the BGS. Probably it will be completly unbalanced in favour of the squadron pc based. In any case whatever fdev could says this is still a psycological ransom: or you change platform, loosing any progress you achieved, o shut up and play a second class game.
The BGS is currently unbalanced in favor of PC, and will continue to be that way now that it's confirmed ground combat isn't coming to consoles.
12 Mar 2022, 2:48pm
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12 Mar 2022, 6:45pm
Why does the "PC master race" always try to shill PC's like the majority of people don't own them? You know it's possible to own a PC and a console at the same time right? And the reason why most people prefer to game on consoles is ease of use. I mean, if you're trying to sell the PC to people that don't have one, saying it's cheaper this day in age should get you laughed at. Depending on what console you have, it is cheaper. $299 and a $15 dollar subscription to run current gen 3rd party games a piece of shit 6-8 year old PC would overheat playing. It's nearly impossible to take the price of a current generation console and build a PC counterpart for the same price.
12 Mar 2022, 7:46pm
GryphnnAnd you can use a PC for work and other things, while a console is basically only made for gaming.
The trick is that an truly office PC (I have an used Wind Top AE2280 got from tax office due to their modernization) and Xbox Series S are a way less expensive option than a purely gaming PC, even if you take Xbox fees into consideration. In my case even that is cheaper because I don't even pay a monthly fee but usually get a 12 month prepaid codes, so I spend 50 Dollars per year
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13 Mar 2022, 1:44am
Aleksander MajjamHooboy. I guess we're back to PC players thinking console players are gaming on a 1991 SNES, eh?
Why does the "PC master race" always try to shill PC's like the majority of people don't own them? You know it's possible to own a PC and a console at the same time right? And the reason why most people prefer to game on consoles is ease of use. I mean, if you're trying to sell the PC to people that don't have one, saying it's cheaper this day in age should get you laughed at. Depending on what console you have, it is cheaper. $299 and a $15 dollar subscription to run current gen 3rd party games a piece of shit 6-8 year old PC would overheat playing. It's nearly impossible to take the price of a current generation console and build a PC counterpart for the same price.
My PC is 6 years old and cost me €999. I play Cyberpunk 2077 on it at ultra settings, and I play Odyssey, too. When I bought that PC, there was only the original Xbox One from 2014, the original PlayStation 4 from 2013, and the Wii U from 2012. That's one of the problems with consoles: to get the most out of them, you have to buy them at the time they are introduced, otherwise you'll get outdated hardware that will soon be phased out. CP2077 on last-gen consoles was a shit show, and even now you'll get only a downgraded version with dumb NPC AI. Only the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions are on par with the PC version. But what about space games? You'll get Elite Dangerous Horizons with no upgrade path to Odyssey. X4 Foundations: PC only. Star Citizen: PC only. Starfield: PC and Xbox. Only No Man's Sky is truly cross-platform, but most ED players seem to have a strong aversion to it. You know the complaints: graphics too cartoony, flight model too arcadey, etc. I've played it, it's a good game, but it can't replace ED.
I'm not shilling, just explaining my choice. If you think you get more out of a console at a better price, more power to you.
13 Mar 2022, 5:31am
GryphnnAnd you can use a PC for work and other things, while a console is basically only made for gaming.
This is the main reason why after my last console, a Sega Master system II, always preferred to hava a PC.
The jump has been from Sonic the Hedgehog to Doom2...
My first CPU was Pentium 100 MHz operating in MS-DOS 6.22, since then have lived with a PC, it's 25 years now.
Now here it's operating an i5 2.9Ghz (overclocked to 4Ghz) in W10, 16Gb and an nVidia GTX1650S, no big issues reported.
Will always push for PCs, I greew up with 'em ...and their f***** problems and costs
! Yes this is true almost everywhere, but I found these machines some way worth to have by sideYuna Sakashiro... I think the oldest game in my collection is Fallout 1 from 1997.
...still sometime runs Orbiter Space Flight Simulator here, copyright 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_(simulator)
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
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