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CCP - bring back the old cloaking effect
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Amy Farrah FowIer
SKULL AND B0NES
#1 - 2014-09-30 19:59:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Amy Farrah FowIer
Sorry I cant understand you put work into, what does not need to be changed?

The new cloaking effect is in my view a lot to conspicuous, flashy and kitschy.
In short - it looks frightening from bad. Cry

It looks like water, after every jump it reminds me of an submarine. Cry

Really scary CCP!
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-09-30 20:07:11 UTC
Amy Farrah FowIer wrote:
Sorry I cant understand you put work into, what does not need to be changed?

The new cloaking effect is in my view a lot to conspicuous, flashy and kitschy.
In short - it looks frightening from bad. Cry

It looks like water, after every jump it reminds me of an submarine. Cry

Really scary CCP!


Didn't you know your ship is underwater anyway?
Amy Farrah FowIer
SKULL AND B0NES
#3 - 2014-09-30 20:11:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Amy Farrah FowIer
Discomanco
We pooped on your lawn
#4 - 2014-09-30 20:11:23 UTC
The art/fx team needs something to do, right?
Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#5 - 2014-09-30 20:16:20 UTC
This is a stealth cloak nerf. Blink More to come in that regard.

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Komi Toran
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-09-30 20:29:39 UTC
I've been waiting for them to bring the old cloaking animation back for years...
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#7 - 2014-09-30 20:38:13 UTC
Komi Toran wrote:
I've been waiting for them to bring the old cloaking animation back for years...

They still haven't.
Alundil
Rolled Out
#8 - 2014-09-30 22:08:45 UTC
Rivr Luzade wrote:
This is a stealth cloak nerf. Blink More to come in that regard.

huh? How so?

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Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
#9 - 2014-09-30 22:16:13 UTC
I like the new cloaking effect.

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Mag's
Azn Empire
#10 - 2014-09-30 22:54:44 UTC
Alundil wrote:
Rivr Luzade wrote:
This is a stealth cloak nerf. Blink More to come in that regard.

huh? How so?
Wondered that myself tbh. What?

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Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2014-09-30 23:00:01 UTC
Stop living in the past and move on with the new. As said when Rubicon was released "There's no turning back" not now, not later... We are going straight forward without looking back.
Jean Luc Lemmont
Carebears on Fire
#12 - 2014-10-01 00:14:30 UTC
Oh no something changed that has absolutely no effect on game play (yet) but I don't like it. Quick, to the ***** and whine mobile!

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Jack Carrigan
Order of the Shadow
#13 - 2014-10-01 00:52:04 UTC
You cannot be ****ing serious. It doesn't affect anything, and neither does this thread. Can we get on with life and let this die now?

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Athryn Bellee
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#14 - 2014-10-01 01:44:36 UTC
It's easier to tell which direction your ship is facing with the new effect. There is literally no reason to like the previous over the new version.
Jatok Reknar
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#15 - 2014-10-01 03:18:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Jatok Reknar
Supported. This new effect looks really ugly at least for me. I am not certain if this is a bug - I am filing one as well to track.

Details:

I am running a high end system with GTX Titan and fairly recent 340 series NVIDIA driver. The new cloaking effect is quite ingenious, but unfortunately there is a graphical bug here that makes it game-breakingly ugly for me. I have shaders (and all settings) maxed.

The problem seems to be that the hexagons are rendered sometimes in very large size compared to the ship making it look more like graphics corruption rather than a pretty effect. These then pop back to a finer hexogonal mesh which looks fairly fine (though I would personally prefer if it was even finer, or not have these hexagons at all). Occasionaly (say on moving or warping back or decloaking) the shaders pop back sometimes to the large hexagons which is really visually disruptive and ugly.

Please see the screenshots below:

Just on cloak up - hexagons are huge and ugly on my viator : http://prntscr.com/4rykyi
After cloak animation completes - size drops and looks better : http://prntscr.com/4ryl4m
On moving to a station : http://prntscr.com/4rylgp <- this one is really bad!!!

Please consider providing an option to disable this specific effect without me having to turn down my shader setting for everything else while it is being looked at?
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#16 - 2014-10-01 03:53:52 UTC
Jatok Reknar wrote:
Supported. This new effect looks really ugly at least for me. I am not certain if this is a bug - I am filing one as well to track.

At least you got hexagons; mine displays as a 2D grid of "u"-shaped squares.

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Barton Breau
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2014-10-01 04:20:58 UTC
Arthur Aihaken wrote:
Jatok Reknar wrote:
Supported. This new effect looks really ugly at least for me. I am not certain if this is a bug - I am filing one as well to track.

At least you got hexagons; mine displays as a 2D grid of "u"-shaped squares.


Yes, it looks quite crude, and stupid in the regard that the squares stay the same size regardless of zoom...

Shouldnt the art team be redesigning the domi or something? Maybe station interior recolor finally so that we have more than four?
Tabyll Altol
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#18 - 2014-10-01 05:53:54 UTC
I like the new effect.

-1
Amy Farrah FowIer
SKULL AND B0NES
#19 - 2014-10-01 06:09:21 UTC
Celthric Kanerian wrote:
Stop living in the past and move on with the new. As said when Rubicon was released "There's no turning back" not now, not later... We are going straight forward without looking back.


It does not make sense (in my view) to use this homicide argument. To make something new does not mean,
its now better. Okay, the new cloaking effekt is clearly a matter of taste - for me its a huge step backward, for me
is the new cloaking effekt the past.
Aakkonen
Yoyodyne Industries
#20 - 2014-10-01 12:52:09 UTC
Well this didnt take long... Whining started bit more earlier than the jump animations... This is good addition and ppl likes it. I dont like gallente ships but I havent posted any threads in forums about that (yet) Pirate Anyways, I dont like the thing in new cloaking that first its big hexes then its small but we cant get all we want cant we? P

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