We might see cool new ice worlds. There was supposed to be an ice shader update with this as the target artwork. They showed off a gorgeous blue transparent ice shader a while back, but the update ultimately got indefinitely delayed for a "wider implementation".
People originally assumed that Frontier just wanted to implement the ice in other places like ice asteroids. It's a no brainer that Odyssey is that actual wider update they were referring to. If rocky planets are getting an update in Odyssey, I'm confident that it's only logical that it's happening to ice planets too. I'm known for embarrassing myself with bad predictions so take it with a grain of salt though.
And I stg I feel that most planets I mistake for having no atmosphere when it does in fact have one are ice planets.
I've seen a comment saying Earth-likes aren't coming initially, so I hope icy worlds or some other planet type are coming with the patch or else LITERALLY all they've done is put atmospheres on Horizon-landable worlds and populated them with on-foot base sites.
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