D’oh! I missed my chance to get rich.
I’ve played it a bit. I have two main issues with Odyssey:
- I’m not interested in a space legs FPS in E:D. I’m interested in flying space ships in VR.
- Odessey was very buggy and slow. Not just for the new content, but a downgrade of E:D in general wrt performance, lighting, planet generation, VR, …
Frontier has mostly fixed 2. after 6 patches. And to their credit, the seem to be doing better at communicating with the playerbase now than they have been. But that was a pretty low bar to clear.
Yeah, I’ll say this for them, they definitely made asteroid mining far more engaging than any other game I know of.
I never experienced the mining after they fixed it, but it truly used to be a slog (and take up an extraordinary number of ship slots).
I like how most space games handle mining: point the laser at the asteroid in question, the same laser vacuums it all up, then you go sell what you mined at ye old space trading post.
How many months later, Odyssey still looks like shit when exploring.
Plenty of people in denial it seems, saying “it is what it should look like”.
I’ll wait a year to rage again over it still not being fixed.
I’ve just given up on it entirely. It’s a far more peaceful life that way.
Whatever happened to that Elite kickstarter, anyway? Guess we’ll never know.
I don’t know why I even click on this thread anymore. Oh wait, yeah I do - @krayzkrok you got any cool new stories and screenshots?
Have you been playing, Dive? If you’ve had some fun experiences with spacelegs I’d actually be quite interested in hearing about them!
No, though I keep meaning to get back into it. I need to carve out some time to dedicate to a game like this, and what with working on Subnautica and a couple other smaller games I don’t think I can dedicate the attention it deserves.
My exploration partner moved on to the new version, so it’s a big split. It’s all political!
He sent me this screenie. Apparently the 70s public buildings objets that could be found around here were inspired by space exploration from the future!
Am a bit jealous, but also annoyed. Ach!
In case any console E:D players still care…
… it is with a heavy heart we have decided to cancel all console development
Well, I has a sad. I haven’t played in some time but always figured I’d get back to it, and I kind of liked having a console version to dink around in. But I guess there’s always PC, even if mine is pretty much a potato.
Remember when they cancelled offline just days before launch?
So no surprises now, I guess.
Yep. Mac version is also gone and VR support is going downhill.
I’m not surprised a console version of Odyssey is cancelled, but waiting this long after the Odyssey release to let everybody know? I really wonder what the development process for Odyssey must have been like for the developers at Frontier.
Maybe focusing on PC only allow them to make it a better game in the end?
Yeah, I didn’t think so either.
I booted it up a couple of days ago but the new version still makes planets look like ass from orbit -which is kind of an issue as an explorer at heart. Seems it is by design, which boggles the mind, given how gorgeous the rest of space is.
Is it just the Odyssey expansion that tanked everything? If one didn’t care about that too much, is the game otherwise in a decent place?
Which one disappointed you more ED or Stellaris?
The base game I enjoyed to chill with a friend, but I am guessing people hoping for a more intricate space gaming experience will most likely find it disappointing.