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I can live with this :)

The effects are much improved from what I grumbled about, with a few others, on Sept. 5. It looks reasonable with the "low" shader option, too.


"Player Owned Starbase (POS) building graphics (more on that later)."
I would not get too hyped up over this comment, if you are are thinking new POS designs are imminent. "building graphics" most likely means the graphic effect shown while building. When anchoring modules, they currently "fade in" (decloak...?) at the spot they are anchored.

My biggest 'concern' (can you be concerned over graphics) is how it will handle rapid activations/deactivations and the transition from gate cloak to module cloak. All the effects we've had to now had a habit of popping a bit in these situations.

If I'm going to accidentally deactivate my cloak and die, I might as well look good doing it.

Visual high slot module for cloaking device with effect propagating from module location?! Got a few days to release for the art! I know: it takes time. One can dream.

Just 2 questions:

Will we be able to turn it off and have the old effect ?

How long will be client freezed if we hit cloaking-on/off at the same time as we open Peolpe&Places-bookmarks atm it is like 10-20s ?

Fade in / out all at once?

You mean like it currently does?

Nothing real about it?

Where can I get this cloaking spaceship that you've flown before?

You are aware that there are literally dozens of unexplainable mechanics in Eve, right? How do spaceships turn with only one point of thrust? Why don't the planets have orbits? Why can we warp through them? Eve is a game, bro.

As someone who has flown cloaky ships almost exclusively up to this point in their relatively short career, I am very, very happy with the new cloaking effect. It looks totally awesome and I think CCP should keep up their good work towards bringing the Eve UI out of the dark ages.

The new cloaking effect reminds me of Star Trek or something similar.
Big thumbs up from me

I like that I can actually see my cloaked ship in space and where it points to, but I'm not sure about the transition effect. It's too slow and stutters on long range (smooth on short range view). The pixel dust around the cloaking fronts looks a bit 90s ... and I play on medium shaders. Finally the transition distracts more than it helps, especially the one you get from gate cloak to real cloak.

It still pops when the activation/deactivation is iinterrupted by another activation/deactivation (i.e. every time you go through a gate in a cloaked ship), and the way the hexagons move/scale with the screen rather than the ship looks bad.

In general, for this kind of thing, where you suspect a defect in the game, I'd recommend using the bug reporting tool that you can access on the window that appears when you press F12.

In the bug reporting tool, you can include a screenshot, and if you're on Windows it's probably a good idea to include a copy of the output of dxdiag, or on a Mac, your graphics system profile information (which you can get to via the About This Mac menu item.)

In this instance I can see the visual features of the cloaking effect that you're talking about, and I'll consult the graphics software developer and QA to see whether that's part of the design or if it's unintended.

Same here under linux

but under windows it looks fine:

Windows 7 Ultimate
GeForce GTX 770
Driver: 337.88

I have to say, the module cloaking looks better now :)

Will the jump cloaking change any time soon?

Also, are there any plans to put the cloaking center point at a non-random location ? Like at the front / tail of the ship ? I miss the pre-apocrypha animation :D