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Just noticed a BIG issue.

When mission running being able to see where your missiles are headed whilst zoomed out is very useful (makes volley counting easier).

The new effects are close to invisible at any sort of range, which as it stands will be real pain in the arse.

Missiles look awesome, but noticing a few minor issues.

(1) When undocking, for a few seconds I get the invisible ship with floating turrets bug.

(2) When an NPC defender missile intercepts a rocket, the rocket swarm effect still continues to run towards the target as though the rocket hasn't been intercepted, but the hit effect correctly doesn't show up.

(3) The missile explosions look awesome at a distance. But it is now no longer possible to track a missile's flight path. Would it be possible to have an option for players to see something like the old glowing missiles when zoomed out if they want to?

(4) The bottom-most torpedo in a torpedo launcher does not fire. Only the top two torpedoes are animated.

(5) Bomb explosion effect seems to be missing

(6) Bomb launcher needs a cycle timer.

(7) Bomb launcher reload animation doesn't work. The launcher shows a deployed and ready bomb even after a bomb is launched. The bomb launcher reload animation should cycle while the bomb launch timer is running. The bomb bay should remain closed if the bomber does not have a loaded bomb.

(8) Missile launchers such as torpedoes should be closed (as though the ship is in warp) if the ship does not have any missiles loaded.

1. Citadel missiles flies directly from laucher to target, instead of flying some distance off the launcher and then allign.
2. Effect of citadel torp explosion(scourge, at least) - when looking at the target very close, multiple explosions causes a major FPS drop. Something like from 30-40 to 2.

The arbitrator's 3rd turret slot is in a weird place - When adding the missile launcher in that third slot, it's kind of stuck to the front left hand side, whereas there's a perfectly good spot for a hardpoint in the centre behind the bridge. The current location just looks... wrong Wouldn't take much effort to move that hardpoint, no sir..

^^These. I can no more visually notice how many volleys are on their way to the target at the moment.

Just a question to Designers:

Guys you realy like how these launchers looks on ships like tengu, scorpion etc ? I just hope you are about to adjust its positions on ships, some of them like tengu would be enough to have only launchers that placed on wings (depend on sub ofcourse). We wanna Launchers but not so many at once on a single ship =)

And maybe that smoke, abit to much of it.

and again... launchers on BSs look so tiny...

The missiles are looking very promising and great, however a few tweaks here and there will make it even more EPIC.



- one thing i noticed and kind of bugs me is that the trails from the missiles whip/flap around too much "like a sperms tail" quote from some people on sisi lol, i agree less flapping around of trail smoke will look less 'out of control', dont make it completely straight, just minimal flapping about.


- also fix the proportional size of missile explosions based on the missile size i.e. rockets small explosions, light missiles slightly bigger, heavy missiles bigger, cruise Big and torps BIG, bombs MASSIVE etc etc (some explosions look the same size for different missiles). and change size of launchers based on ship size too if you can do, would look awesome.



- also when some missiles fire the animations are wrong or not really good, some fire backwards like the HML i think, and the CML (cruise) the missile turns too quickly and snaps towards the target instead of smooth curve like the torp missiles do when launched.


- will we be able to see the actual missiles themselves? so far its just the flame i believe for most missiles (i think yes?) and click on them/look at or follow them to target?


- i also agree with whats been said about the adaptive armor hardener and it should reset resists to default after 1 or 2 cycles when no damage has been taken during that time and re-adapt to new damage while active.



if something is unclear just say so and i'll edit :)

thanks CCP!

xD nice ending to that video.
I love how Tachyons are particles that move backwards in time, but CCP made them INTO A LAZER :3

This is a laser.

Have only I the impression that there is no explostion sound at all ? The vissuall efects are awesome .. really like them .. but size them a little bit more with the missle size pls...

The new heat boom is cool .. do them more in foreground .. and the after boom efect a llitle bit longer / stronger if I shoot EM missiles on a taget it just lighten up and the em effect is to short .. (lightings)

But anyway .. just polish them a little bit more and add sound to the explosions.. :D

btw.. the bombs doesnt explode at all :( BUg ?