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You will be happy to know CCP has said they are looking into adding this effect to jump bridges, jump drives, and wormholes soon :)

I'm sure this has already been said, but it's worth saying again--hiding the game UI during jump transitions is a bad experience. I could be in the middle of a chat conversation, or browsing the market, or anything, and going through the gate completely interrupts that by hiding everything--even if I had to briefly pause what I was doing during a jump with the previous method, it interrupted my flow less to have the stuff stay on screen.

Please dont touch my camera angle nor zoom level.

If you insist on the swivel transition instead of a much cleaner direct cut scene version of the jump animation, at least reset my camera when the transition is done with a direct cut. (Or swivel back if you REALLY have to. Urgh.)

I always travel zoomed out. TBH honest I always play zoomed out. Having to zoom out after each jump is beyond annoying.

Pretty please. (As a bonus you will avoid getting threadnaughted by your players after the patch. Yes, it is THAT annoying...)

Wormholes don't "point" anywhere like the stargates do. I'd imagine the effect relies on having two points, or one point an an axis, to align itself on.

my orca character doesn't look at the gate after jumping, and the only thing I did differently was toggle C a couple/few times during warp. it's the only client that doesn't do the final "look at the gate" after jumping.

Or just the line from the ship to the wormhole...

+1

I know CCP wants everyone to enjoy their new gee-whizz-bang effect, but it'll still look great with the UI in front of it and we won't have a disjointed UX.

Aside from that the removal of auto-tracking camera on the gate is great, but I'd like the game to maintain the original zoom level if possible.

The jump sounds are changed.. why they sounded really good in the first odyssey patch on sisi.. There is huge gap with no sound in the middle of the jump transition and then there is always two or three similar sounds with bass.
There has been more diversity in those sounds before the latest update of odyssey now they they sound a bit same :P and it almost seems that all of those different sounds are muffled to three or four different jump transition sounds, before I ve registered at least 10 awesome different ones for every jump :P. I ve really liked the sound which was new to jumping sounds and its now really muffled down with two sounds which overlaps it.

Maybe just having those sounds more full again, I miss the energy of those sounds before these.. It allways started with ready stage where it was preparing for the boom which was the middle stage of the transition now theres really no sound, and then it ended with awesome brake(decelerate) sound which totally finish the transition and gave you the nerd boner.. Now I dont know but those sounds are quite empty and without energy to me but still all sounds pretty awesome its just badly put together. Though the odyssey first shown jump sounds on fanfest were probly really best :)

But overall great work on all CCP, thanks!

From flying around a bit (a lot) on sisi It seems to me that, if the tracking camera is off, the camera shouldn't turn to look down the gate as you go through it. If tracking camera is on, it should - like how it now tracks back on jump exit, and is behaviourally consistent with how the tracking camera works. If it's not supposed to track, that camera has no business moving of its own accord. I like the effect, and I can manually spin the camera in 'jump' anyway - this just puts it back in players' hands, without adding any more options selections or tickboxes than already exist.

There was an update not so long ago that kept zoom levels constant between changing ships in space. And yet the current jump cam does. When I'm not using tracking - I don't mind it pulling the zoom in, so much as it changing direction. This is not comfortable for a sense of preserving orientation when there's no visual reference, but I'm not going to pretend it's making me sick.

I care about vanishing UI less than some, as I basically fly everywhere manual. But it'd be nice if it were possible for it not to.

One more thing, the discovery/new sensor overlay visual when it's running gets cut by the system transition 'hole' like it were foreground (except, transparent parts of the hole still cut; some overlapping alpha thing). To reproduce allow for the scan running behind the direction the camera will look down the gate, then jump.

Just reporting that I checked out the changes in the system transition aka jump animation and at its current state on 5/17/13 and it no longer makes me dizzy or hurts my eyes anywhere close to the degree that it did previously and it's within tolerable limits.

CCP - Thank you very much for addressing this major concern rather quickly.


To give additional feedback, in current design the camera snap to is a bit quick and fast and that is the only thing I would improve upon at this point. Wouldn't want anyone to get whiplash, lol. However, if this is the final design I know I'll be able to continue enjoying Eve and be able to view the animation too!

Kudos CCP!