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I believe it's time you guys named the expansion it's one of the coolest sh*t i saw this last 2 months.

how about Eve Online: Hibernus

cause you know, winter has come, and it seriously kicks arse and chews bubblegum, and oh it's all out of bubblegum.

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now some serious sh*t and feedback:

• for some reason sisi launcher did 3 passes, by that i mean it checked the sums, downloaded and applied the patch like it should but instead of returning to initial sisi launcher state it did that again and then for a 3rd time.
• i haven't seen any slowdowns or distortions so far. it kicks arse, literally. kudos to art guys.

I know about WIP but cubemap texture is still broken in Heorah

There is a bug in Pakshi sky, we can see the seams of the cube in one of the nebulaes :D

Other than that, they are amazing !

Bug

They are so bright and clear a feeling of depth is lost.

Beautiful, but it is making ships seems even darker and undistinguishable,have you ever considered light the ships up a little?

oh my god Verge Vendor !!!
the artists deserve a raise. now. wait no, not now, they need it for yesterday, now it's already too late.
these nebulaes are wonderful. really.

i'm a bit lost on how it works however ; given the stargate are not well positioned, you can't know where to go just by trying to choose thre stargate which is close to the nebulae you want to go. but well i suppose it would be too much work.

also i don't really see a difference on high / low / null.
some dark regions are on high. well i suppose you choosed them cause they have a lot of low sec.
Forge is a problem however ; there is too much dark for something which have Jita, while Lonetrek is the region of all blue. (like a lot the blue however :P)
it's hard to see our ship on these region where dark is the main color.maybe add more stars ?

also there's a bug on Genesis ; the orange/yellow nebulae have a texture edge big mark.
edit : same bug also on everyshore

ah and i didn't really saw the difference between Heimatar and Molden Health, they are too close for me to see what's different.
(edit : same for Domain and Bleak lands)
for now i have saw +-10 regions.
i have the impression there's difference of quality between regions however ; some nebulaes seems to have gotten way less work than others. (Providence for example, seems to have less details)

looking at these make me want to read the lore about the regions.
a little lore, like when we show infos on a planet would be nice.


-> in short : very VERY good work from the artists, but a bit more work on the darkish one would be nice.

ps : in fact the real buff to gallente is NOT the hybrid review, it's their nebulaes, maybe i'll even go back to mission a bit on gallente space as an excuse to saw these more often

pps : the new map engine is extremly slow, (i even blackscreened while switching to solar system) and the new travel list where we don't see each system, and so the region is a pain to check these. it's more sexy, but i want an option to have a way to see the whole list of system like before.
also that we see the constellation / region while putting the mouse on a system would be way better.

The new cubemaps look amazing. The image quality is really good for the resolution they are at.


One thing though, distant cosmic features are removed from the cubemap render too soon. When you change areas into a new cubemap you should be able to recognize most of the features from the system you were in previously.

I've only briefly tested moving from Syndicate to Verge Vendor, but I was disappointed to see that Cloud Ring completely vanished into the abyss after being a very prominent feature with just one jump.

Loving the nebulas.... still think they need to be at the constellation level rather than region, and shifting/augmenting the cube maps when u move through a constellation/region would add soooooooooooooooo much more feel to moving through space.

granted what u guys have done with the feel of moving through space is awesome! i genuinely think people would adore custom levels of these, so the client build ships with a default amount of the new cube maps... but allow people to eventually download the higher res and higher number cubemaps when theyre available

Augmenting the direction of the gates should also be considered and tried to see if it screws with peoples "to 0" custom bookmarks, cause it'll add greatly too!

and i know some people have addressed opinions about the luminosity of the nebulae, but personally i do like the fact it creates darkened silhouettes and allows u to see smaller ships from afar moving against the background =)


OHh btw... ive always thought the level of glare and light reflection from bright objects isnt high enough to really portray space in a really visceral form.

remember space is danger and death wrapped in darkness and silence!

Heimatar / Sinq Liaison make no sense ;
i came from Siseide, Heimatar, totally red to Eggheldende, SL ; mostly dark, with the big VV green nebulae, and a very little red himatar thing faaaaar away.
but on heimatar there is NO dark at all. nor the green of vv. while i saw some little yellow/orange nebulae somewhere.


the liaisons between the regions need to be reviewed, more work are needed here.

My first impression was..... - Breathlessness.

This is perhaps the best change ever to come to EvE regarding depth and immersion.


Just for the fun of it, i've taken screenshots of the new and old nebular's, the camera for these shots are taken in the same direction. Let me be the first to say, that there is a BIG difference, space is indeed BIG.


http://eve-files.com/dl/249013 <- first shot taken.


http://eve-files.com/dl/249014 <- 2nd shot taken.



I just got new backgrounds