Test Server Feedback

I like the bastion modes so far. They are simple but elegant. You don't need fancy art work to look aesthetically pleasing. However, The Golem looks horrible now. The wings are ok but the cockpit ruins the whole ship. As others have pointed out it looks like a fat duck. Please CCP don't make the Golem the ugly duckling of marauders. Can we compromise and keep the new wings but bring the old cockpit back please ?

Clicking on "View full body" causes the character portrait to move to the left side of the screen and a grey background engulfs the entire client.

Like:
Eos Model/Texture
Acceleration changes
New warp bubbles
New client design and ship tree

Neutral:
Bastion mode is slightly lazy, but I have faith in the art depart.

Dislike:
Golem/duck model

Great work CCP

I tried out Rapid Heavy Missile Launchers on a Rattlesnake, and discovered that the horizontal missile racks on directly adjacent launchers were clipping through one another when not being aimed at targets, or when in the "retracted for warp" position. The problem seems to be that the launcher is wider than the hardpoint on the hull, and there isn't any separation between the adjacent hardpoints, which isn't a problem with torpedo or cruise launchers, which have a "silo"/"vertical launch" animation instead of the swiveling box launchers for all smaller missiles.

Without really thinking what I was doing, I wiped a duster over my screen while watching the video. Really. Felt stupid when I realised it was actually the background stars. Bubble needs to be more opaque to obscure the stars.

In Sisi -
Preview icon of all ship and rat are broken noise image.
I cleared all cahe files but still broken.

The icons in the ship viewer look fuzzy. My guess is they aren't scaling to certain resolutions well. Also it would be nice if the details were just a bit bigger.

As an aside I really like the new streamlined look of the required skills pane for the item info window.

Also can we get all the cargo attributes (except drones) grouped together. It would even be okay if they're under the same header.

For drones it would be nice if bandwidth and capacity were under fitting instead.

Just a heads up about an issue regarding the Rubicon build from the test server: when i started the test server client, after patching, the client's resolution was set much lower than it was before, and i was unable to reset it to the previous setting;
it was set automatically to 1024x768 and when i tried to set it back to 1366x768(or anything bigger than 1024*768) the screen kept flickering while alternating between black screens and screens of different resolutions - i was not able to click on the "keep these settings" option;
in the end it stabilised after around 12-15 s at a much lower resolution of 640x480; all this while in fullscreen;

if i try to change settings while in windowed mode, i can only set it to 1024x768 which then changes to 1366x706 when i maximize the window; if i try to change the resolution to 1366x768 while in windowed mode, it lets me do it, but if after that i change to fullscreen, the client resets to 1024x768;

one thing that is also different compared to the current TQ build(and that might be relevant and usefull) is that now, in the client graphic settings screen, the graphic adapter is detected differently - i have a laptop with Nvidia Optimus technology, that switches automatically between an integrated Intel HD GPU and and a dedicated Nvidia GT 610M GPU - the current TQ client displays in the settings screen the name of the Intel GPU, while the test server client displays the name of the Nvidia GPU;
both TQ and test server builds are displayed by the Nvidia GPU, as proved by the Nvidia Contro Panel

i know there were issues in the past with some graphical card from Nvidia - is this a bug normal for this unfinished state of the build or an issue cause by hardware/drivers?

The bastion animation meh has more to do with the generic meh of all ship models. A kronos, for example, looks like a 40m long ship generously judged at tops. The generator coolant transform vents look a couple meters tall.

If the ship models had the actual bulk looks of hundreds of meters lenght, the transforming would be majestic. The only ship that really looks in scale is the apocalypse. I bet paladin transform is good.

Get rid of 50X50 meter "windows" please. Re texture everything, starting with those hundred meter long looking stations. Get the texture and model scale right.

I'm having issues with lines as well, sometimes they're there, sometimes they're not, depending on my zoom and map orientation.

usually when ccp makes new ship model it improves on the old one, more details better textures more life like. In golems case, it has gone backwards i dont know why.