When on the side of a moon facing its nearby planet, why can't I see the planet?

[SteppenWolf]

Landed on Charon directly facing Pluto, and look up to see nothing. Kinda lame.

Also planets don't cast shadows on each other.

Also, why can't we craft armor and weapons?

[Boe Jiden]

Woah woah, don't criticize the game. You will upset the consoomers. Wait for 2-3 years for the special edition to come out, then maybe it will be complete and have the features you want behind paid dlc.

[smr1957]

The planet that the moon you are on orbits should indeed be visible - provided that you are actually in the hemisphere where it would show (and, of course, provided it is not aligned so that the dark side is facing you), as can be seen here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040239004

Also, moons and planets do cast shadows on each other when they are aligned right and are close enough to do so:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036051362

As for the last - that is something that will have to wait for the release of the Creation Kit and xEdit, to be modded in. As of now, it is just the design choice that Bethesda went with, and not much can be done about it.

There are a lot of things that would have been nice to have in the game, but which, unfortunately, will just have to wait until the tools are available to add them in as mods.

[SteppenWolf]

Originally posted by smr1957:

The planet that the moon you are on orbits should indeed be visible - provided that you are actually in the hemisphere where it would show (and, of course, provided it is not aligned so that the dark side is facing you), as can be seen here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040239004

Also, moons and planets do cast shadows on each other when they are aligned right and are close enough to do so:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036051362

As for the last - that is something that will have to wait for the release of the Creation Kit and xEdit, to be modded in. As of now, it is just the design choice that Bethesda went with, and not much can be done about it.

There are a lot of things that would have been nice to have in the game, but which, unfortunately, will just have to wait until the tools are available to add them in as mods.

Go to Charon. Pluto is blocking 95% of the sun, but no shadow. Land on the side facing Pluto and look up.

[Dagný]

When I was trying to explore I noticed this with a lot of moon-planets that aren't gas giants.

It's like they let procedural generation 100% deal with it. There's just the star and nothing else.

[UNBREAKABLE]

I can see Pluto from Charon just fine? Make sure you're landing on the correct side, also ignore how it looks on the map because that isn't accurate to where the planets really are.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3045580852

[Dagný]

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

I can see Pluto from Charon just fine? Make sure you're landing on the correct side, also ignore how it looks on the map because that isn't accurate to where the planets really are.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3045580852

Interesting. What video card are you using? What about you OP? I'm using AMD and can't see it.

Up until last patch I couldn't see star lens flares.

[SteppenWolf]

Originally posted by ♫♬♫♫♬:

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

I can see Pluto from Charon just fine? Make sure you're landing on the correct side, also ignore how it looks on the map because that isn't accurate to where the planets really are.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3045580852

Interesting. What video card are you using? What about you OP? I'm using AMD and can't see it.

Up until last patch I couldn't see star lens flares.

Weird. I just triple checked, no Pluto. Also, I'm pretty sure if the sun was real it would appear much smaller from that distance.

I'm using an RTX3080 10GB.

[[CTU]Jack_Bauer]

Crafting our weapons that is one i also have thought about, and also the whole skins we mostly only have the default skins.

[Sgt. Flaw]

One of the first things I did in the game was go to Sharon and look at Pluto...It's there

[Dagný]

Yeah now I'm sure it's a bug like the star lens flares I mentioned before. I'd report if I cared to be honest. I'm just fast travelling doing quests.

Maybe they're already slowly working on it, who knows.