Volumetric Clouds disappeared and poor water quality since 5.03 (Mac OSX)

[ildánach]

Has anyone noticed / ever had the problem where their volumetric clouds simply just not longer exist, especially since 5.03 update?

I was playing yesterday and don't remember noticing it, but I did an update earlier in the day for 5.03. When I started it up today, I noticed that all my planets looked quite "Bald". That's because there are no more volumetric Clouds! None, anywhere, at all! Just a haziness and the upper atmosphere thin cloud layer. Even during storms and rain.

Also, the water, which is supposed to have been improved with reflections since World Part 1, just looks transparent and a little empty. When underwater and looking up, you can't see the top of the water. Everything just all looks a little bland in my opinion.

I've sent a bug report to NMS, but I just wondered if anyone else out there (PC and/or Mac) is having the same issues.

This is affecting my M1 Pro Macbook Pro - which previously was working fabulously on Ultra with beautiful volumetric clouds. Now the graphic settings appear to do nothing anymore.

Checked file integrity etc... no problem, no crash reports or anything. Just no clouds and poor water quality all of a sudden.

Quick disclaimer for any pedantic or dogmatic PC fanatics who enjoy making silly comments rather than saying anything useful or constructive: Before you get your knickers in a twist about gaming on a Mac, I come from a PC background too and have one, I just also happen to also have a Macbook pro for work which nowadays can smoothly and efficiently run games too and I use it on the go when I'm not on my PC. And of course, the cloud and water issue was not an issue before the most recent update. (;

[Mandrake]

I've seen several posts regarding Mac and either not noticing any changes, or minimal changes to the game compared to PC.
I can only imagine there are some hardware and therefore rendering differences that they are still trying to work through.

[ildánach]

True, I can imagine so. Perhaps the graphical settings isn't a new problem as I never really looked into it before.

But I do wonder if anyone else is having this same issue with the missing Clouds at least. Just before I go ahead and reinstall the entire thing.

They forced this 5.03 update. I'm on the go at the moment and can't use the PC. I enjoy a bit of space adventuring to switch off.. unfortunately it's pretty lame now since I can't fly into puffy clouds or feel immersed while swimming in the ocean. It has just taken an entire dimension of fun out of the game. Might just take a break until they can fix it.

[Mandrake]

Yeah that kinda sucks. It was a really good patch for a lot of things that were needed though. Unfortunate that it appears to have caused some issues for others... if you're gonna be out for a bit, I'd still install it for the take-along. When they push out a big patch and there's a few bugs, they usually do hot-fixes on the fly within days. Just a thought.

I know I'm on the road all the time. I play on an OLD PC laptop. Just an ultralight Ryzen 2200G using the iGPU. I gotta slam everything but textures way down, but it still friggin' plays! LOL

[DigitalElk]

Originally posted by ildánach:

True, I can imagine so. Perhaps the graphical settings isn't a new problem as I never really looked into it before.

But I do wonder if anyone else is having this same issue with the missing Clouds at least. Just before I go ahead and reinstall the entire thing.

They forced this 5.03 update. I'm on the go at the moment and can't use the PC. I enjoy a bit of space adventuring to switch off.. unfortunately it's pretty lame now since I can't fly into puffy clouds or feel immersed while swimming in the ocean. It has just taken an entire dimension of fun out of the game. Might just take a break until they can fix it.

No clouds here since the last patch either. M1 MacBook Pro.

[ildánach]

Glad to see I'm not the only one! So it is widespread.

[fodder]

one thing about clouds. makes me paranoid about ramming the planet when practically the whole sky is one giant thick cloud patch at times. (though maybe not in the last few days?)

[ildánach]

Originally posted by fodder:

one thing about clouds. makes me paranoid about ramming the planet when practically the whole sky is one giant thick cloud patch at times. (though maybe not in the last few days?)

But isn't that part of the fun! xD
I actually think the issue is more to do with the weather system below the clouds (unless I've not encountered your thick cloud issue yet). Because even though my planets are completely bald (cloudless), say I go to a frozen planet, when I go into lower atmosphere I encounter a blinding foggy blizzard and... I ram into the planet.

But not having clouds is such a big deal, because they at least make the fact there's a blizzard beneath them believable. Right now I fly down to a planet on a crystal clear sky then get hit by a previously invisible interplanetary storm when trying to land LOL

The frustration... not to mention the BLAND looking water that looks as good as water in games from the early 2000s. It's kind of ridiculous they released Worlds Part I and made it this big thing without at least alerting to Apple players that they have nothing implemented adequately for us.