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Cause you have skills that under 5% shield you have chance to get penetration

The hardener is on passively and when you recieve hit and its just recycleing you can see the anim only on the active shielhit spot.

I like the flickering, except the bit where the engines do that.

At very low structure your ship looks a slight bit silly when warping.

http://i.imgur.com/IYtxPJi.jpg

Hey, so if CCP is going to push us all into DX11, does this mean they're going to try and fix the issue of DX11 just outright chewing peoples memory until it's completely unusable?

I guess they have little hardware reports showing that lots of people are still reliant on DX9 ... people like me!

Confirming substantial engine flicker is a thing. I thought it was a bug at first but I guess it's related to heavy damage affecting engine output? The effect is a bit too strong, like staring at a strobe light. Perhaps keeping the engine trails active while the engine effects themselves flicker (less often would be nice) would resolve this. Even limiting it to half the effect instead of shutting off completely would help.

Love how shield boosters and hardeners only show once, then when you're being hit. Subtle!

Incredible how damage shows where weapons hit the hull, looks just amazing.

Armour hardener effects are a little underwhelming - I sort of miss the glowing edge-effect of the old style (gleaming armour etc).

The armour repair effect is excellent, actually repairing over specific holes in the hull. It really does look like nanobots regenerating hull plating, fantastic.

* In my test I had both hull and armour damage, and even when armour was restored to 100%, visible damage remained - I assumed this was hull, until I ran the armour reps and the visual effect appeared, despite having no armour to repair, technically.

The hull repair effect seems the same as before which is okay, nothing wrong with it... I don't suppose I could request some welding sparks here and there? Yes I know, it's all nanobot tech in the Spacefuture™ but they still have to weld hull, right? It just might add something to the hull repair bit is all. Or, maybe sparks from the hull simply when it's at low hull! Yes, that'd be sexy, sorta missing the flame'n'smoke of the old system a little for low hull states.

Just noticed the hull repair effect flickers in unison with engines as the hull accrues damage. Intentional? Seems to be connected to the flickering lights so I guess it is. That's fine

Otherwise an amazing technical achievement all around!

did anyone else notice the fact that when you are being armor/structure shot your modules take damage? have it always been like that?

Shield Effects:
The shield damage effect feel generally a bit too big on smaller ships and far too big on capitals, battleships seem to have it about right, imo it looks better to have many small shield ripples then one big one, It would be nice if it scaled on the ship doing the damage
On some ships, the Rorqual is a prime example, the shield bubble is much larger then the ship itself.
Also I just wish it looked more like water less like a spiderweb but I guess that space warping effect is quite expensive resource wise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhZlccoI8c @50s that's what I wish it looked like more



The shield booster effect looks good although maybe a bit faint and it has a very abrupt end to it.

The shield hardener effect seems barely noticeable, very faint compared to the shield damage one and the, I assume hexagon, pattern Is too large to be clearly visible.

Armor effects:
The armor hardener effect feels too hectic and not massive, like bees swarming around and not armor being hardened also its very fuzzy looking, maybe make it look more like a slow moving glow with a slow version of the current effect on top

The armor damage effect looks much more like fried circuit board then molten armor plate it feels like it would fit hull damage more then armor damage
It should look metal like and silver with some bright red parts and warped looking bit like exploded playdoh

The repair effect is a bit too orderly for my taste and could also be a bit slower moving, I'm thinking more like streams of nanites

Please God more videos. I'm playing on lowest settings and I don't even have room on my laptop for install singularity (20gb hard drive so G A Y).

Anyways, I found this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uttGzINhG6A

Does the size of the armor damage effects scale with weapon size? Like what happens if a Phoenix shoots an armor tanked Confessor? And vice versa, if i shoot an Avatar with my Ibis, what happens?

Really like the shield effect, I've always wondered why there wasn't a sphere of protection. Love the way the force of the impact dissipates into the shield.

Idk about the hardener effects going away after the first activation, but I do see how it would be silly for it to happen every cycle if you aren't taking damage. What if was every 3 or 4 cycles? Then again, if you're not taking damage you're doing it wrong or a kiter (also doing it wrong)

As for the engine flickering, I didn't mind it in that video, but I could see it being a little much if you're desperately aligning out with a heated mwd. Not sure how much can be done in between the two poles of "all lights stay on" and "all lights flicker". I also really like the deadened look that the domi (i think it's a rat but whatever) in the video gets when its just about to die, which wouldn't be the same if the engines were on. Almost like the crew on the inside is mostly dead/panicking while the capsuleer hops into his pod and gets ready to gtfo

At the end of the day, this is pretty amazing. CCP well done; one of the reasons I love this game is because of how beautiful it is, and I find the illusions and tricks that you use to do it really interesting.

I'm pretty sure that our changes for this new damage feature are purely visual. They should not affect your gameplay.

Looks bretty good, you guys did a hell of a job. Flickering got me a bit nuts though. Also the armor repairing visual could be more intense, for my liking.

Question what's the status on the weapon lighting effects? The one with the 'oh this mjolnir cruise missile explosion is lighting all across my starboard' or the 'wow this bright red laser really reflects its lightning nicely on me'

Those one.