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Just posting about the Golem thus far;

A) CCP, if you are going to do a revamp of the Raven hull for the Golem, can you PLEASE consider altering/removing the "forecastle" on the Starboard side? Modifying it to look more like the Tengu's "bridge" with any of the engineering systems would better reflect the lines of the Raven's Hull.

B) Bent the wings on the Hull,.. which I'm not opposed to,.. the thrusters at the tips of the wings should be addressed, they look as though they're stuck at the "old" angle. Also,.. the thruster and sensor bitz under the starboard wing have been given some anti-love. If you could try to incorporate as much of the "old" bitz under that starboard side,.. that would be great. The Port side looks,.. flimsy in comparison, it always was the "little brother", but now it appears to be more the "red-haired-step-child" , mayhaps some bulking up under the wing much like the starboard side gets?

C) MIssile Launcher placement - can we somehow put them on the "bastion bitz" at all? At least keep them on the "hull" like they were for the "old" Golem? The placement of the two that follow the lines of the "main spires" are wonderful, perhaps putting the other two just behind the "caution tape" along the same axis?

D) Bastion Mode - Uh,.. I was kinda hopin' for a little more,.. I dunno,.. pizzazz? The initial pitch on this transformation had a diagram that I swear resembled Macross, ergo I was assuming some SERIOUS transforming? It looks like you've attached four Motorola Razors to the hull and moved on?! I didn't even notice the 4 new black "boxes" until I hit the bastion module, and while I get the placement and that asking for Hasbro-like complexity is over the top, I would rather see the panels slide out perpendicular to the surrounding hull and have glowing techniture about it, then having the 4 just flip out. I don't know if it's just me, but there's more "umpft" to having it slide out,.. rather than just flip open.

E) I saved the best for last,.. the new GOLEM "Prow",.. uh,.. why you do this?! I like the underside builk,.. and perahaps even a little of the new side dynamics,.. but the prow,.. leave the "beak" alone,.. The current ineration of the Raven hull was what convinced me to finally leave my Tengu, don't mess with a good thing! I'm not saying all of it is bad,.. Heck I wouldn't mind the new "hammerhead" mounted under the neck of the current Raven Prow,.. just,.. don't leave it like it is on SiSi.

Zooming on your ship when exiting warp is very disorientating, and i cannot for the life of me see why anyone would want this in actual gameplay. I zoom out my camera to a certain distance because that's the distance i want to view the theater from, and i did so very much intentionally. To have the game zoom in close when i'm landing on grid is incredibly inconvenient, and it delays my decision making, having to zoom back out each time.

The massive info popups are obstructive and redundant. They could only ever be helpful to very new players, and even so, their helpfulness is extremely limited. Remove them completely, or give an option to turn them off.

This x9000!

Now i don't even wait for Paladin animation...

I've made a video showing the new bubble graphics.
First of all it looks very nice! GJ!

2 comments:
1) You will note a weird effect with the background. Due to the more subtle bubble effect the low-paralaxe background now appears to be in the foreground when flying inside the bubble. That is irritating.

2) The less whirly, less dynamic appearance of the bubbles nerfs the confusing effect for trapped victims considerably. I think that is a shame since the confusion effect was a nice use of graphics to implement game mechanics. With the new effect the graphics are just (nice) decorations.

Cheers, Chira.

Hi, thanks for the comments, regarding point 1, in your video I can still see alot of parallax between the blueish effects and the nebula itself. Please let me know if you're talking about something else.

When it comes to item number 2, good point but the overall idea was to have a less hectic effect.

Cheers

amazing. inties really give you that sense of speed now. i disagree with you about the confusing aspect of bubble...it's easy to tell difference between foreground and background

bubbles look awesome now. However its still hard to see if you are inside or outside the bubble. Would be nice to have an indicator for it or even a graphical effect. (i remember "nexus the jupiter incident" had an effect on the ship hull when you passed through the barrier.)

how do i see if the DX11 client is in use?

YESSSS ah gad lemme gush here about how my wildest dreams have come true with the nighthawk model change

undocking this has brought back nostalgia so strong it's hitting me harder than Solid Snake's return to Shadow Moses Island...

I'm more than happy for future players who will have the option of transitioning from their mission drake to the nighthawk

and good grief, that ferox hull looks like a face-heavy pinched-off loaf

... high res gallery of nighthawk drake, 2k resolution full graphics click to enlarge

sorry wrong thread