Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Two words: meat locker

edit: OK, let's elaborate a bit more. I want to have a location where I can store all my collected clone corpses. :)

A possibilty to look inside your station cargo. All the rounds of Ammo, all your corpses and the whole other stuff. To be watched in 3d (yeah i know a whole bunch of work to make all those models so it's never going to be implemented.

Collectible Items that appear in your CQ, Custom Couch, Posters, New TVs, Soft Drinks (Quafe, Quafe everywhere) and the ability to drink them.

I was going to make my own thread for this, but it applies to the Captain's Quarters as well as the entire game, so why not. I would recommend adding native Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing to the game, and thus the Captain's Quarters. As it stands, the Captain's Quarters is the worst place in the entire game to see jagged edges and shimmering like crazy. Even the post processed AA method doesn't do anything to that area of the game.


The only thing that somewhat works is an SMAA injection, but I use "works" very loosely in the sense that I can see it trying to work and failing miserably. The other AA methods just do nothing. It's like the CQ is fighting the AA and just forcing jaggies everywhere on the wall edges, the railings, the ship, any place you can think of, even my character's eye lids. It makes me feel like I'm playing a game on Playstation 2 rather than PC. My guess is it has something to do with some kinda ghetto excuse for Ambient Occlusions in the Captain's Quarters that doesn't match the rest of the game, or perhaps something you did with the HDR in there and it doesn't play well with any form of AA. It's the only thing I can think of that would cause such terrible aliasing and shimmering on a DX9 game. It seems like a problem rooted in lighting or shading or maybe even at the base of the engine's coding. Especially considering how more intense the performance hit is in that tiny little room compared to the rest of the game. The entire game seems to rebel against Anti-aliasing as a whole. Also, the aliasing has gotten much worse since Retribution when it comes to being docked in your ship, or inside the Captain's Quarters.


I can't really go to the CQ now because I'm forced to use 8x SGSSAA via Nvidia Inspector for this game just to combat the bombardment of jaggies everywhere (4x isn't enough in this game unlike most others) and when I use the 0x004010C1 DX9 AA compatibility bit, the captain's quarters gets really wonky. Like layers of a transparent black overlay cover the entire screen, and pieces of walls and my character missing. It looks pretty hideous. Sometimes it even crashes my game when I try to load into the Captain's Quarters, but I can't resist using SGSSAA with that bit. It's just the only one that works well for what I want to see in this game, and I believe it outperforms the outdated 0xF0000045 which if used, requires I use the terrible ingame AA method on top of my SGSSAA (even more of a performance hit.) Where as with my bit, I can turn off the ingame one and just use mine + SMAA. Much better results visually and performance-wise because FXAA/MLAA or whatever was coded into the game are renowned for looking terrible and ruining texture quality.


There's no reason a game in this day and age should not have native multi-sampling 2x, 4x, and 8x. I think I started playing maybe 1-2 years after this game first came out, but quit on and off for different reasons I remember thinking back then maybe one day you guys would realize how good MSAA is, but then one return I noticed the FXAA. I thought "Well this blows" and figured out how to use the 8x SGSSAA. That looked great for awhile despite lagging me terribly in dust clouds with HDR on, but hey, I managed. Now the PC gaming industry is just neglectful as all hell when it comes to proper AA and it drives me batshit crazy, especially when there's simpler options like built-in SMAA 2x and 4x as well as MSAA, and SMAA's fully compatible with ATI and Nvidia cards, and costs almost nothing in performance when compared to MSAA , but looks just as good as 4x MSAA. That's food for thought right there.


And yes, I know many of your players have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about or requesting. A lot of them are on toaster ovens from 1997, the very same ones they started playing this game with. Some of their eyes can't even see the edges even when they know what they're looking for. The list of reasons you might not care about this goes on and on, but remember those people can just keep playing with the same crap settings they're using now. This is for the people running multi GPU setups with 120hz monitors, 3D vision, etc, and should be allowed to witness smooth, creamy visuals. There's something very wrong when I can downsample the game in 2880x1620 resolution with 4x SGSSAA and still see jaggies everywhere.


Sorry for the long post, but I never post and it needed to be said. Best of luck implementing this one, CCP. I imagine it will be tough without some major improvements to the core engine, but it can be done, and it's been ages since you graphically enhanced this ancient game. It's due for another makeover. I'd recommend going full blown DX10, since you don't really need Tesselation for this game, and most devs appear to suck at coding for DX11 anyway. :P

I want to sleep in the bed!
Or lay down on it for a rest ( AFK )
Now the bed is just there....

captain quarter view or hangar in general should look something like this http://www.alide.com.br/artigos/docagemSP/imagem/docagemSP_132.jpg

The ability to look out into space.

Sure, would be nice if I could see what was happening. But more to the point, I would just like to look through a pane of glass or high-quality mockup and see space.

I think I spent more time in Dust just staring out the window in the staging area than I did on the ground.

I want a joystick on the panel on the balcony so I can make my boat spin with it.

Also add The Device. It shall do a thing.

I feel the functionality should be different, and a matter of taste. Let the windows we use pull up on the screens while we're in CQ. Let us use the functions around CQ to activate basic tasks, like the bed for logging off and the little control panel by the door for the options menu.

There is a fear that if you make too much unique functionality, players will feel 'forced' into CQ, which is essentially what's ruined it. It's not that things couldn't be added to make CQ fun, entertaining and worthwhile. It's that by doing so, the portion of the playerbase that screams for all of CCP's assets to be focused on them and their personal playstyle would scream even louder.

So many think that the riots during the release of Captains Quarters were about removing CQ from the game. Not at all. Most of the complaints were about the half-assed way that CCP installed it, with one crappy quarters, removing ship spinning, massive hardware issues, pay-to-win fears, etc. If it was a proper, finalized release, it wouldn't have generated half as much content.

I have a feeling that Odyssey, and the half-hearted approach it seems to have been given, is going to generate a lot of distaste and vinegar. The same as you would expect from any poorly-applied update.

I would like a Nano-Dragon pet that flies around the Capt quarter incinerating things when hes too annoyed, sort of Tamagotchy style but more cohmprehensive..