News: Planet Calypso Content Release 2024.0.3.0

[warmdogg]

Again I must BEG MA to put back the old trees and vegetation from before the last patch. I'm watching screen shots from the area around Orthos West Mound and North Swamp Camp and it makes me cry! WHY have you DESTROYED the trees and vegetation MA? Who came up with the stupid idiotic idea to 'upgrade' to this horrible look? You should be ashamed of yourself!!!
Is it your AI? PLEEASE revert to what it was before the patch!!!!!!!
I don't want to play this anymore until it looks as good as it was before the patch.

I hate to break it to you, but you’re going to need to buckle up and enjoy the ride if you have any interest in seeing what the world looks like in the new engine.

As far as changes go, and as far as we can guess. A few missing trees will be a minor difference.

 

[AndrewDarkwood]

I hate to break it to you, but you’re going to need to buckle up and enjoy the ride if you have any interest in seeing what the world looks like in the new engine.

As far as changes go, and as far as we can guess. A few missing trees will be a minor difference.

What other game company destroys and downgrades the look of a great looking game when 'updating' it?
If this 'update' of trees and vegetation in many areas is a sign of what the UE5 implementation will look like then I will not 'buckle up and enjoy the ride'
Maybe you're just playing for the Peds, I'm not. I have loved the beautiful Sci-Fi world that Calypso was before the patch. When they added new textures not long ago it was a big improvement too.
UE5 would make it possible to make Calypso and the other planets even more beautiful than before. But Mindark doesn't seem to have the skills to develop a game in a modern game engine. They fired around 25 developers and said that they would use AI to develop. What a joke! I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
For me the last patch destroyed the joy of playing this game. I'll login to keep my account alive.
Hopefully there is still some person left at MA who knows what a modern game should look like.

 

[Wingpool]

What other game company destroys and downgrades the look of a great looking game when 'updating' it?

Blizzard. Look at Warcraft 3 remastered. The upgrade was a complete mess and a good example of what I feel we are seeing here with this game.

If this 'update' of trees and vegetation in many areas is a sign of what the UE5 implementation will look like then I will not 'buckle up and enjoy the ride'
Maybe you're just playing for the Peds, I'm not. I have loved the beautiful Sci-Fi world that Calypso was before the patch. When they added new textures not long ago it was a big improvement too.
UE5 would make it possible to make Calypso and the other planets even more beautiful than before. But Mindark doesn't seem to have the skills to develop a game in a modern game engine. They fired around 25 developers and said that they would use AI to develop. What a joke! I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
For me the last patch destroyed the joy of playing this game. I'll login to keep my account alive.
Hopefully there is still some person left at MA who knows what a modern game should look like.

Yea, it sucks. It was a real shock when the new UI update landed on us in its unfinished state. The armor update was imo pretty bad too, as in I dont recognize the armors anymore that received their graphicsl changes.

Seems to me like the graphical part of the game is being recreated into something entirely different from Entropia Universe, rather than conserving and enhancing it.

I really wonder if the switch to Unreal engine will be a similar mess as the UI update. Not looking forward to it if that turns out to be the case.

 

[AndrewDarkwood]

When I talk about destroyed trees I mean the kind of normal trees you found in the forests around Port Atlantis, around Orthos West Mound, the forest north of the bridge near Orthos and in many other locations. The old trees were realistic and wide and made the forests rather dense and beautiful. You found these kind of trees in many other places like Camp Icarus and at my favourite Mourner hunting place at the river south of The Megavolt.
The old realisic trees have now been replaced with small trees that make the areas look like they've been deforested. Horrible!
Maybe there were many other changes of vegetation in the patch. I don't know. There are many great looking locations with very dense and great looking ground details and good looking trees.
But MA, PLEASE change back or rework the new trees in the areas I mentioned! Then Calypso will become a 100% beautiful planet again.

 

[Ludvig|MindArk]

MA please put back all the trees that you've removed! You've destroyed Calypso! It looks horrible now after the 'patch'.
Forests that were dense full of trees now are open areas!
Please revert the 'graphical update' and make Calypso beautiful again! It's a total disaster now!

Thank you for the very passionate feedback in this thread, Andrew

Yeah, there were some issues with the vegetation update. We are looking into it, and hope to fix it with an upcoming patch.

 

[AndrewDarkwood]

Thank you for the very passionate feedback in this thread, Andrew

Yeah, there were some issues with the vegetation update. We are looking into it, and hope to fix it with an upcoming patch.

Thanks Ludvig! I'll stay away from the deforested areas for the time being. There are many other great looking places to visit.
And as I mentioned in my previous post, my complaint 'only' concerns the type of trees found in the areas I described.
Many of the old type of trees had double trunks which made them wider than the 'bushes' we now got.
Probably I belong to a minority who enjoys the look and feel of Calypso and not just counts Peds

 

[GeorgeSkywalker]

Thank you for the very passionate feedback in this thread, Andrew

Yeah, there were some issues with the vegetation update. We are looking into it, and hope to fix it with an upcoming patch.

Apart from the areas Andrew mentions the area between Camp Echidna tp and Morningtear Castle has also been deforested + other vegetation gone missing. This happened when Camp Echidna tp was updated and Spina instances etc were introduced to the areas nearby.

Would be grateful if this could also be restored to it's former beauty. Thanks.

 

[messi91]

I must agree, we all love to see vegetation upgrades.

 

[Arthur The Hunter]

Thanks Ludvig! I'll stay away from the deforested areas for the time being. There are many other great looking places to visit.
And as I mentioned in my previous post, my complaint 'only' concerns the type of trees found in the areas I described.
Many of the old type of trees had double trunks which made them wider than the 'bushes' we now got.
Probably I belong to a minority who enjoys the look and feel of Calypso and not just counts Peds

You are not alone!

 

[MrBabul]

If they would fix the important bugs instead of wasting time on vegetation then they could get rid off all trees in EU