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CCP Savior
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2015.11.13 09:29:14 -
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Greetings Capsuleers,
We have recently updated our test server Singularity with the revamped visual effects for the upcoming release. Here is the list of effects that have been updated:
GÇóCyno Beacon (e.g. Cynosural Field Generator) GÇóECCM GÇóECM Burst GÇóSensor Booster GÇóStasis Webifier GÇóSurvey Scanner GÇóTracking Computer GÇóJump Portal GÇóJump Portal Black OpGÇÖs GÇóSmartbombs (All four types GÇô EMP, Graviton, Photon & Plasma) GÇóProbe warp FX GÇóWarp FX when a capsuleer views another ship jumping through a Stargate & Wormhole.
WeGÇÖd like your help as weGÇÖre interested in your feedback!
For example weGÇÖd like to know if you think a certain FX is too large or small or if you feel that an effect doesnGÇÖt have the same visual GÇÿimpactGÇÖ as it once did.
It goes without saying that if you find something that you looks like a bug please send us a bug report via the F12 in-game menu or via the website
https://community.eveonline.com/support/bug-reports/
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Kuronaga
Fatal Absolution Bleeding Sun Conglomerate
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Posted - 2015.11.13 10:08:59 -
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But where's the earth shattering kaboom? |
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
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Posted - 2015.11.13 12:02:52 -
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Kuronaga wrote:But where's the earth shattering kaboom?
There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.
I don't judge people by their race, religion, color, size, age, gender, or ethnicity. I judge them by their grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation, clarity of expression, and logical consistency.
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Aivlis Eldelbar
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve Curatores Veritatis Alliance
133
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Posted - 2015.11.13 12:24:21 -
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The new ECM Burst looks more like a sustained effect than a, you know, "burst". In my honest opinion it should look a lot more like the EMP smartbomb does. Right now it resembles ECCM way too much, I activated it while the ECCM was still flashing red and couldn't notice the effect at all.
[tinfoil]Unless this is a first glance at an ECM rebalance [/tinfoil]
Regarding ranges, can you scale the effects based on their range, so that a bonused Survey Scanner has a larger visual effect, or an officer smartbomb actually extends out to it's correct range? Or is that too far out of your scope?
PS: just noticed that smarties actually project their FX far farther than the nominal range, at least for low meta ones (:cough: seed faction ones on SiSi :cough:), so I guess the range is not touchable. In that case I'd suggest you scale the Survey Scanner, ECCM and ECM burst up to more realistic ranges. |
Captain Cean
Holy Cookie
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Posted - 2015.11.13 13:27:27 -
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have someone already make some videos from new FX ? (for the people that still at work) |
Harkin Issier
Moira. Villore Accords
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Posted - 2015.11.13 13:51:06 -
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From what I've seen the smartbomb effect, while gorgeous, is a gigantic step down in "oomph". If there's a way for you to add some more blast on there I think it would really benefit from it. |
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CCP Savior
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2015.11.13 14:47:12 -
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Thanks for the feedback so far guys, the artist behind the FX and myself are actively discussing the points you've all made and are looking at ways we can take your feedback on board with them.
I'll take a look at creating some gifs of the new FX for those that are unable to get on to try them :)
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Circumstantial Evidence
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Posted - 2015.11.13 14:56:56 -
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I realize this may be out of scope, but, One Day I'd like to see another pass made on the gate jump warp tunnel effect, which is very cool the first couple of times, but grows tiresome with repetition.
The main problem is the forced camera move from third to first person view, would like to stay in third person, with no camera takeover... similar to the warp tunnel effect.
Alternately, if the session change time efficiency brought by BiaB permit, please consider removing the gate jump effect and simply fade to black from the last frame on jump, and fade into the next loaded system.
Thanks TriLambda, for your work polishing EVE & keeping it fresh, in so many other areas :) |
bigbillthaboss3
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.11.13 15:21:36 -
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Thank you for updating these visuals, incredible job.
Is it possible to make the "covert cyno" more ~covert~, it's kinda bright. Looks beautiful however. |
Ripard Teg
Snuff Box Snuffed Out
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Posted - 2015.11.13 16:04:52 -
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I haven't had a chance to get on Sisi yet to look, but the most important thing for this:
* Warp FX when a capsuleer views another ship jumping through a Stargate & Wormhole.
is that the effect be both obvious and noticeable when a player is looking at a gate/wormhole both at 10km and at 200km. The first iteration of the last change made to this effect two years ago was too subtle to be easily noticeable (particularly at long range), so please make sure that isn't the case this time. Thanks!
aka Jester, who apparently was once Deemed Worthy To Wield The Banhammer to good effect.
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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
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Posted - 2015.11.13 16:35:39 -
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any chance to make the scramble effect bluish? Disruption would stay green and both would align with the icon colors.
new effects like web, eccm or TD have in their animation a ~2s segment were they are completely faded out and invisible. I would like to have this much shorter so that you can see the effect all the time.
web is maybe a little too subtle for its power but i overall like the new effects (ECCM is cool). Jump effect is my favorite.
hoping for those explosions we saw in the fanfest session ;)
edit: game mechanics wise ECM burst should look more like a smartbomb pulse and less like the always-on ECCM effect.
how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
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bigbillthaboss3
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.11.13 17:56:02 -
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Bienator II wrote:any chance to make the scramble effect bluish? Disruption would stay green and both would align with the icon colors.
Cool idea. |
Liner Xiandra
Sparks Inc
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Posted - 2015.11.13 18:04:46 -
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Bienator II wrote:
new effects like web, eccm or TD have in their animation a ~2s segment were they are completely faded out and invisible. I would like to have this much shorter so that you can see the effect all the time.
It would be swell if we could have a startup and fadeout animation with these effects, instead of a single animation for a single cycle; Making looping cycles look proper. |
Aivlis Eldelbar
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve Curatores Veritatis Alliance
134
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Posted - 2015.11.13 18:33:42 -
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Harkin Issier wrote:From what I've seen the smartbomb effect, while gorgeous, is a gigantic step down in "oomph". If there's a way for you to add some more blast on there I think it would really benefit from it.
Try a full rack, they are kinda meh individually, but they stack much better than at present. It actually works nicely to show if a ship is a dedicated disco platform or just has a couple utility highs dedicated to ant-bomb duty. |
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
4733
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Posted - 2015.11.13 20:21:37 -
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New explosions...?
I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
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Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
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Posted - 2015.11.14 00:20:51 -
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GÇó The Barghest model needs to be reduced by 50% in size and given 2 engines for every 6-engine cluster (so instead of having 24 small and 4 medium engines it would have 8 large and 4 medium engines). The new exhaust effect is totally lost on the smaller engines because you cannot zoom in close enough to really see it (except at warp where it looks like you have 8 large engines). The Waschi Uprising Mordu SKINs are appreciated, but what I really want is my black Barghest back...
GÇó I really like the 1st person HUD. Can't really think of anything to change other than perhaps having the option to adjust the brightness level. Gate and warp travel is seriously messed up when you have camera shake enabled (it sometimes locks on a planet and you have HUD elements randomly jumping all over the place).
GÇó Noticing a lot of blockiness/pixelation in the background nebulas (whether in 1st person or not; this is regardless of graphics settings).
GÇó I like the new effects for missile guidance (and I assume tracking) computers and sensor boosters. There doesn't seem to be an effect present for omnidirectional tracking computers, though.
I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
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CCP Savior
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2015.11.14 11:56:17 -
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Arthur Aihaken wrote:
GÇó New smartbomb effects are pretty slick. They seem to really extend far out (well past range); not sure if this was intentional?
Glad you like the new smartbomb FX and I think you're right with the scale of the FX, I think we'll look into tweaking the scale so that it matches the radius of the module a little bit more accurately.
For those that have not seen this yet, but I have attached a link in the original post that should take you over to Imgur to see gifs of the new fx, as always the quality of these is not as good as it is in client so if you get a chance please do check these out in game.
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Winters Chill
Ministry of War Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2015.11.14 12:23:37 -
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ECM burst and survey scanner should be swapped about.
The present survey scanner has a very burst effect. While the present ECM burst looks like probing energies. |
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
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Posted - 2015.11.14 13:15:47 -
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CCP Savior wrote:Glad you like the new smartbomb FX and I think you're right with the scale of the FX, I think we'll look into tweaking the scale so that it matches the radius of the module a little bit more accurately.
For those that have not seen this yet, but I have attached a link in the original post that should take you over to Imgur to see gifs of the new fx, as always the quality of these is not as good as it is in client so if you get a chance please do check these out in game.
Thanks for the animations, they all look really good. Now when do we get to see some explosion pr0n?
I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
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Yadaryon Vondawn
Alius Itineris Virtus
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Posted - 2015.11.14 13:42:19 -
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Maybe it is an idea to let the tracking computer and sensor booster indicate which script is loaded by the effect? The current tracking computer effect reminds me (at the moment) of a range script since it 'pushes' out.
I think meaningful gameplay and even more exciting PVP can be attained by implementing this.
I like all the new effects so far, keep it up :) |
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Aivlis Eldelbar
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve Curatores Veritatis Alliance
137
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Posted - 2015.11.14 14:25:01 -
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I just saw the new probe effects and have to say they are beautiful. Maybe a bit obtrussive and in need of lower brightness, but gorgeous nonetheless.
PS: Also, the duration of the scan effect needs to match the actual duration of tha scan a bit more closely, right now it's too short. |
Manic Velocity
Emergent Dynamics
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Posted - 2015.11.14 15:45:52 -
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I've always held out hope for a return of the old gate-jump effect. At this point, the only place I could find an example is in the original Clear Skies video.
https://youtu.be/5285kr1J4xE?t=8m4s
It looks like your ship is gradually torn away, atom by atom, before being shot between systems at light-speed.
I can't remember why exactly this effect was scrapped. I think it was because it was too resource-intensive during multiple subsequent jumps? But it's extremely similar to what we now have as the cloaking effect. If the game can now handle this effect for multiple people cloaking at once, why not jumping?
@manicvelocity
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Liner Xiandra
Sparks Inc
363
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Posted - 2015.11.15 11:34:56 -
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CCP Savior wrote:Arthur Aihaken wrote:
GÇó New smartbomb effects are pretty slick. They seem to really extend far out (well past range); not sure if this was intentional?
Glad you like the new smartbomb FX and I think you're right with the scale of the FX, I think we'll look into tweaking the scale so that it matches the radius of the module a little bit more accurately.
Is there not a way to tie this directly to the smartbombs radius?
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Leo Burnhart
Tauron Heavy industry Shadow of xXDEATHXx
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Posted - 2015.11.15 17:39:34 -
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CCP Savior wrote:Arthur Aihaken wrote:
GÇó New smartbomb effects are pretty slick. They seem to really extend far out (well past range); not sure if this was intentional?
Glad you like the new smartbomb FX and I think you're right with the scale of the FX, I think we'll look into tweaking the scale so that it matches the radius of the module a little bit more accurately. For those that have not seen this yet, but I have attached a link in the original post that should take you over to Imgur to see gifs of the new fx, as always the quality of these is not as good as it is in client so if you get a chance please do check these out in game.
Like the effects, though one effect looks too bleak - new Gate warp FX. The background animation looks good but the ship just dissapears, maybe a distortion/fade out effect on the ship would cure it |
Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
1974
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Posted - 2015.11.15 18:48:04 -
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Smartbombs look cool but they aren't scary anymore :(
It needs more... hmmpf! More... body. To the effect. Not just a hollow sphere. Or if you go full "pulse" at least make the surface of the sphere look more like pure energy!
More epicness damit!
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Retired Exploration Frontier Inc [Ex-F] CEO - Ex-BRAVE - Eve-guides.fr
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Crazy KSK
Tsunami Cartel
97
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Posted - 2015.11.17 01:09:03 -
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My only gripe with the new effects is that the webifier effect pulses which is a bit misleading because it is indeed a continuous module also it could be a bit more "flashy" add some slow moving lighting sparkles, something that makes it look more like the ship is actually being gripped and held down by big energy hands more powerfully if you know what I mean
Quote CCP Fozzie:
... The days of balance and forget are over.
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bassie12bf1
Militaris Industries Northern Coalition.
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Posted - 2015.11.17 22:13:50 -
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New engine booster effects are in.
http://i.imgur.com/RDWPId7.jpg |
Avon Salinder
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2015.11.18 12:33:55 -
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I love that the eccm effect has finally been toned down. The smartbomb effects are a tad underwhelming and personally, I was kinda hoping to see the explosive smartbomb be a series of explosions around the ship (a little more BSG-ish I admit!) Otherwise, the new effects are brilliantly subtle. I hope to see autocannon and artillery effects updated to the same calibre one day soon (pun intended!) |
Ghaustyl Kathix
Quantum Singularities Half Massed
63
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Posted - 2015.11.24 16:18:49 -
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Does the tracking computer (and sensor booster, for that matter) effect scale with the size of the ship? I thought it was pretty tough to see on a Nightmare, for example. |
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