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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Elite, definitely. I was on cloud nine with it for a while. It was fun to fly by the seat of my pants, smuggling especially. Then they eventually nerfed out all the ways I was having fun, and one day I just sat there, staring at the cockpit with all this money in my account, wondering what was the point it all. After dozens if not hundreds of hours with the thing, I uninstalled it, and only have touched it once since to check out its VR, which they’re also discontinuing.
Stellaris just disappointed me pretty much from day one, so it was far less of a letdown than Elite in the end.