EVE General Discussion

What really needs to be looked at is the way gas clouds and stuff like that is displayed. It's pretty glitchy.
However, this is the change that's gonna be the nastiest for hardware, I believe.

Agree that higher resolution textures should be there. Other than that, the recent shader updates and the promise of tessellation and better Direct X 11 support is great progress.

After seeing the new destroyer models however, I'd say CCP need to hire new artists as well as present that art using more modern technology.

Agreeing that higher textures should be made available. I also understand that Eve is a DirectX9 game and in truth theres only so much you can do with old technology so I cant see the game becoming greatly better visually until DirectX10-11 is written.

Which would probably take a heck of a long time so it wont ever get done.

I also agree with a previous poster, on full HD resolution with everything on high, Eve looks nice very nice but there are things which need updating big time.

1. Asteroids look god awful

2. Gas clouds look really nasty & rubbish - in truth you should be using actual particles to create these clouds.

Personally I can live with the actual graphics very well because they are looking good enough for most of the situations. In fleets fights I mostly run scaled out and by overview and brackets only. Updating the graphics of EVE is a big, really big task. Especially when you want to keep it on different levels for slow and fast cards.

What I like to see for this game is a Battlerecorder. It's on the community wishlist for ages now and there were several threads about cool features and ideas. It also was discussed with CCP by the CSM a while ago afaik. A Battlerecorder saving the action to a script would be simply awesome. We have a lot of people with high skills in editing and animation and such a tool would give us a completely new dimension of presenting the game content people create. PvP videos would be on a new visual and cinematic level with different pov's and great camera work. Rendering this in higher quality with better effects would give CCP the best ads out there for their game.

I would like to play without ugly "mist". Does anyone know how to get rid of it from client?

Alright now a Xenuria post is happening.


I play games because they are fun but the degree to which they are fun is influenced heavily by how "real" or "immersive" they are. EVE needs some work in the graphical department.

CCP needs to realize that not everybody who plays eve is doing 400+ ship blogs. Some of us like to take screen shots of ship engagements up close and others of us simply enjoy immersing in the world of New Eden.


Perhaps a compromise?

When you zoom in the game seamlessly loads a sharper texture for screenshots and other such things. Then when you zoom out it goes back to the normal texture.

If I had my way they would just pile on the "OPTIONAL" HD ENHANCED SUPER MEGA HOLY **** graphics.

That way nobody complains about anything. The people that want a high end experience can get that and the people that don't can simply ignore the extra option in the graphics menu.

The new Sins of a Solar Empire would like to have a chat with you.

X3:Reunion (2005) and Terran Conflict would like to have a chat with you.

Star Citizen would like to have a chat with you.

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident (FROM ******* 2003 and it still has the best effects I've ever seen in a space game so far, sound AND visual!!!!!!) would like to have a chat with you.

A lot of the people talking in this thread should just stop talking out of their ass because it's obvious that they either have a **** PC, they have never played anything but Eve OR they have never played anything but Eve and WoW.

Meanwhile, real gamers like me who have seen pretty much everything the industry has to offer in terms of effects, design, gameplay, sound and graphics will know for sure that Eve looks outdated as **** by comparison to other titles out there, MMO or not.

Some of the replies in this thread remind me of the morons I encountered in WoW / SWTOR day in day out when I used to play those, that swore that WoW / SWTOR were the best looking games ever.

Meanwhile, WoW is losing players by the millions and SWTOR is going F2P.

If CCP wasn't dedicating most of their resources to dust and World of Darkness instead of Eve I wouldn't mind, but when they use MY ******* sub money to fund other **** I am not interested in while letting Eve basically stagnate in it's own **** over the past 3 years, it PISSES ME OFF.

I believe the real point is not when is EvE gonna get an upgrade but when is your spelling gonna be upgraded from 4th grade 1995 to H.S. Graduate 2012

The graphics are fine, the problem is your own conviction that everything needs to be crysis or it sucks.

Eve will likely get an engine update at some point, but its not super necessary as of now. Look at CQ, the graphics are pretty darn good, in my opinion.

Because if you were not utterly clueless, you would know that modding your Eve client is against the EULA and TOS.

And yet you call me clueless.

Also, why the **** not compare Eve to Crysis?
Just because idiots say that an MMO can't look good because "insert bullshit hilariously misinformed reason here"?

Only real reason why MMOS are not made to look like the Crysis / Metro 2033 standard is because most people don't have aweseome computers and that would really **** the player base up, not because of some ******** bullshit technical limitation like "it's online" or some ****.