And I played them side by side for a VERY LONG time. For almost 5 years, I was a devout CMDR in Elite. I was active in the community, I wrote stories on inara.cz and I built dream ships in Coriolis. Then, out of the blue, Frontier Developments announced that they would no longer give support to console gamers and that no future DLC would be added except to PC. So after 5 years of paying them for every scrap of content to include paint jobs, ship kits, and decorative boubles for my cockpits; after spending $50 of my hard-earned money so many years ago to purchase a physical copy of the game, I was told to either buy a Steam Deck/PC, or kiss off because (supposedly) the FPS aspect that was added in the Odyssey expansion was too much for consoles to handle.

Meanwhile, here’s Hello Games not only constantly expanding the game by leaps and bounds (totally for free) and not only have they never stated that NMS is too much for consoles to handle, they’ve done the impossible and added the Switch to their list of platforms! And with every expansion or update, there’s always something that HG has in the background to try to improve stability for non-PC fan base. Proving without a doubt that the Elite dev team and their claims are full of sh*t.

Thank you Hello Games for actually CARING about the people who spent money on your product and fastly refusing to leave us blowing in the wind as you move forward. Thank you for doing all of this hard work for FREE (even though I have no idea through what sorcery you’re supporting yourself). And thank you for putting other developers to absolute shame by showing them how you’re supposed to treat people who invest both their time and their faith in your product. I’m proud that after I hung up my CMDRr’s hat, I was able to pick up the cloak of a traveler…

From the official information for the Omega update:

The classic Atlas Path mission has been given a new breath of life, culminating in a final, consequential, choice. Witness the Atlas in all its grandeur, and decide whether to embrace the path it offers – or deny it. Either path will permanently impact your relationship with the Atlas.

But it turns out the “consequential choice” is the same one we already had, to birth a new star or not. The only difference is, from the same information page:

Players who decline the Atlas at the end of the Atlas Path are now awarded their own counterpart title and technology to those awarded for accepting its request.

Yay! A different title and technology. How that impacts your relationship with the Atlas, I have no clue. It’s not like I have any ongoing relationship with the Atlas, after having completed both the Artemis and Atlas paths.

The conclusion to the Atlas Path has been visually enhanced and reworked, to create a more spectacular finale.

I didn’t notice anything at all spectacular. There are some small differences, but nothing remarkable.

Choosing to birth a star or not marks the end of the path, now. The whole “go through a black hole to make the Atlas path go away” thing has been removed, which means that the Atlas path’s annoying habit of popping back up again until you go through another black hole has been fixed.

Well, not exactly fixed, but replaced by a new permanent mission in which you can present wonders to the Atlas:

Players who have completed the Atlas Path now have access to a repeating mission with which they can earn nanites and additional words in the Atlas language.

Those additional Atlas words aren’t worth anything if you’ve already completed the Artemis path. It used to be that you could review the log of the Atlas path, and the translated words of the Atlas would be filled in as you learned them. Learn the whole language, and you could understand everything that the Atlas had been telling you. Well, all except one word. The log of the Atlas path has been removed, so you can no longer review it.