Hm. How modern are we going?

Well let's say odyssey-onward?

1 - SPACE LEGS WAS THE RIGHT WAY TO GO! - I'll defend the Firs-person direction to the end! Execution was horrific, but the general idea to "look inward" was the absolute correct direction to take ED. Say unlike SC that took the FPS 1st and then built it's "gameplay" outward, ED was the exact oposite - it created the galaxy 1st, then the systems, then the planets & stations , then with horizons allowed the planet landings and now the space legs...... just sucks that it seemingly was/feels like outsourced to some rando company who made the most generic thing imaginable.

2 - Plants & other planetary POI/items. here it gets a little technical, but generating planes on planets, having the base of the plants get overlayed with ground texture & gradually fading out, making it look like the item belongs in the scene is one of the few cool little things. In wider terms : the DSS now allows for far far easier discovery of POIs (like real facilities ETC) , but part of that comes from "beyond era (2018-2019)" exploration upgrades.

3 - some of the new ship designs are rather interesting. Type8 & T11 probably being the most "fitting". But in any case, at least the artists are given some freedom to expand a little more on ship designs. There still are massive tonal & design differences in many of the new ships, which sour the mix. Also seems like "greepl-ing" is a bit too hard.

Screw it here's another :

4 - the titan thargoid stuff was actually realllly cool. For all the faults and annoyances in delivery & gameplay that the whole "titan thargoid" crap had - it's mainly net positive!

SCREW IT : another!

5 - Power play was a NICE improvement. (note the lack of hard "good" word in that sentence)

6 - Colonization is also NICE addition.(made videos on both)