EVE General Discussion

Yeah, they are all quite minimalistic, mostly one or two parts moving a little bit. They should have gone all out on this.

However, i don't quite get the point of immobilizing marauders, what would that be good for?

Marauder animations are kind of funny... one can almost figure the Captains...

Vargur animation: "Closing the blinds, aye, Sir!"
Kronos animation: "First mate, aren't those armor plates a tad loose?"
Golem animation: "All hands, grab a hold! Deploy airbrakes!"
Paladin animation: "One more joke about body orifices and you're all fired!"

We are only seeing the beginning of this awesome animations right now. In the future, when we have more time and have finally stopped doing drugs all the promised awesome parts will be added. Just be patient, it will come soon^tm

Are you really surprised someone has found something to whine about? Really?

Bastion allows you to roll with a 2 slot tank letting you fit more damage and projection mods. You can fit 4 damage mods, a TE and a tank on a Kronos/paladin. You also certainly don't need your rigs for tanking either so you can fit a burst aerator on there for 5 damage mods. The freed up tank gave it more damage and more projection. You can omni tank against explosive with a kronos/paladin with a 2 slot tank. It's strong as hell. Plus it gives a nice projection boost, tachs and pulses with scorch are ridiculous.

Too base the animation is from the 90s

Oh wait
Alone in the dark has more animation

Pretty much this. The way the DEVs were hyping this up I was expecting some real transformers **** (or at least something like the Rorqual).

Granted... it all is probably a big deal from the DEV's perspective... but really, it's better to underplay a new feature like this a little bit "just in case." Expectations meeting reality can be dangerous.

Well, to be sincere, CCP's animators faced a serious challenge, because of the way EVE ships are designed.

There are two "schools" for futuristic spaceships design: "Shape is the function" and "function makes the shape".

The old school, classical approach, is "shape is the function". Those ships are shaped freely in order to look cool. The actual function of the ships as spacefaring machines is not considered.

Then, in the 60s, was born a second school, whose artists considered that spaceships were machines with a function and so they attempted to represent that function to create ships which, on top of being cool, also made some "engineering" sense. in those ships, the shape is dictated by their function, to a point.

Now, EVE ships were designed on the school that "shape is the function". This is true to the point that they didn't even had a "true size" and still now it's very difficult to convey scale (the CQ is a clear instance of sizeless ships in a sizeless hangar, being displayed at a sizeless distance from the beholder).

So, how do you add a "function" animation -bastion mode- to a function-less design? The answer is simple but underwhelming: you try to make it cool and dismiss the possibility that it makes a functional sense.

Then you hire some zen animators and pretend that a spaceship developing a body orifice is a "going tough" mode and swallow Black Death until nothing matters.

Well if you can recall when they first announced Bastion CCP Ytterbium stated and I quote "In deployed mode (we call it bastion), their hulls transform (they will have fancy visible animations like the Rorqual does when deploying) "

See CCP Ytterbium post about the Bastion mode here https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=273500&find=unread.

The way CCP Ytterbium worded his post/description of Bastion left people feeling that the animations would be allot more complex then some parts or panels of the ships opening and moving about. So that is why allot of people including my self were/are disappointed by the animations when it came out.

Still looks a lot better then the kronos one.