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I've always held out hope for a return of the old gate-jump effect. At this point, the only place I could find an example is in the original Clear Skies video.

https://youtu.be/5285kr1J4xE?t=8m4s

It looks like your ship is gradually torn away, atom by atom, before being shot between systems at light-speed.

I can't remember why exactly this effect was scrapped. I think it was because it was too resource-intensive during multiple subsequent jumps? But it's extremely similar to what we now have as the cloaking effect. If the game can now handle this effect for multiple people cloaking at once, why not jumping?

Like the effects, though one effect looks too bleak - new Gate warp FX. The background animation looks good but the ship just dissapears, maybe a distortion/fade out effect on the ship would cure it

My only gripe with the new effects is that the webifier effect pulses which is a bit misleading because it is indeed a continuous module
also it could be a bit more "flashy" add some slow moving lighting sparkles, something that makes it look more like the ship is actually being gripped and held down by big energy hands more powerfully if you know what I mean

I love that the eccm effect has finally been toned down. The smartbomb effects are a tad underwhelming and personally, I was kinda hoping to see the explosive smartbomb be a series of explosions around the ship (a little more BSG-ish I admit!) Otherwise, the new effects are brilliantly subtle. I hope to see autocannon and artillery effects updated to the same calibre one day soon (pun intended!)