EVE General Discussion

I'm going to agree with the general sentiment here. There is a noticable improvement in sharpness/detail on some ships, but T1, Viziam, and Carthum ships are WAY too dark, and not saturated enough. Dulling down the red a LITTLE might've been ok, but this is actually just brown now.

Secondly, what the HELL was the reason for the Khanid ship change?! The COOLEST looking ships in the game have lost their all-black stealth look, for what reason?!

I like the V3 tech, I just don't like the dulling down of the colours, and in Khanid's case, the extra shiny that was absolutely not needed.


The art direction in EVE does seem to be getting more generic with each technology upgrade. I'm still bitter that the new character creator is nowhere NEAR as sci-fi as the old one.

Why do we have characters that look like people you'd see on the street? It's ~40,000 years in the future if I remember my backstory, and each of the races has an entire tear down and rebuild of society since our world.

Eve should be pushing forwards to a MORE sci-fi and unique look, and it's losing that. I just hope it's not policy, and it's just accidental erosion. If it IS policy, it's idiotic.

It is about spaceships!
We learn skills for ages, we work/cheat/steal hard to collect the ISK to buy it and then, finally, we have it, --- our cool ship.
We give it a name, we spin it, we make screen shots when we leave station.

And here you go and you change the look of our ship. Seriously, what were you thinking...

whats funny is the old Guardian looks great in that same dull and dark preview window. I've looked at both screenshots on my home PC, my work PC and my cell phone and the old Guardian looks great on all 3 while the new Guardian looks like **** on all 3

Sadly, it is policy. IIRC there were several videos a year or two ago where they talked about the previous art design being too "goofy" or something, and they literally were canvassing s-f movies for what they supposed would be a better look.

Yes, it's idiotic, but there you go.

This is what I believe. They are trying to get away from ships being very bright and shiny and making them more "real" looking. I just think they took it too far. Even if ships in real life do look like crap as they are beaten up and covered in space dust, this is a game. We don't have to have it that way.

Spoiler: The Guardian has always been butt-ugly, no matter what colour.

I for one like the changes, much more details, most Amarr ships look a lot more "baroque" and decadent now...yay!

On the contrary, I rather like the new style. The colors go much better together; they're subtle, darker, and more bad-ass. The old red and "gold" was extremely gaudy. On top of that, they weren't even gold, but a pukey green-yellow. The current Ark, for example.

Gotta say, this is finally becoming the deadly royal warship I signed up for:

This,
this,, and
THIS.

<3

This, my friends, is the old abso.



Tell me again how the new one isn't better?

Edit:

In response to Corina Jarr: The prophecy hull actually used to have distinct "eyes." You can kind of see them here. The Trinity graphics update homogenized them [I cried] but I'm glad to see their return; they add a certain personality to the ship.

I guess if that's your preference. I will, however, fight you for the new ... every step of the way. ;)

I definitely see what you're saying about the browns. What's odd is that the reds on my ship show up as more of a dark magenta, like an "old blood" sort of color. I would guess that it's just the system you're in making your ship brown; CCP did say that the new shaders were designed to reflect the environment more than the previous ones.

That's why the Viziam ships' greens are almost absent in certain systems, and very apparent in others. It's unfortunate, but overall leads to a more immersive experience [in my opinion.] I guess I'd liken it to the atmospheric effects in most newer shooters. In certain settings [and at greater distances,] detail is obscured by the "atmosphere," but it adds to the overall effect of making it more lifelike.

Personally I like this, there's nothing that bothers me more [graphics-wise] than objects that don't blend with their environments. If they don't blend visually, it doesn't feel like they're even a part of it. As a kid, it always annoyed me about cartoons, too. You could TELL an object was going to move even before it did, because the moving objects are always much brighter and less detailed than the static environment.