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Witnessed this too. A rat was stuck on some mission geometry. I put in a bug report, but I don't recall the ticket number for it right now.

they are purdy!

Awesome! Completely awesome!

Just, for the love of God, when you put sound in make sure it sounds as epic as the explosions look! Groaning and shearing metal, runaway reactors, crewmen screaming, okay maybe not crewmen screaming, but you get my drift. A good visual effect begs for a good sound effect.

A couple of ideas:

Listing / Loss of Control of the ship after reaching zero hull: I think this would push the effect a little further, especially if the control loss is proportionate to mass of the ship. In other words, a frigate could begin tumbling out of control when its hull reaches zero, while a titan would list a bit. It would add to the sense of having mass and show you more of whats happening to the ship without having to move the camera, both of which would complement the explosion effect.

Secondary explosions when taking hard hits to hull: Pretty self-explanatory, if your ship is in hull and you take a hard hit, it causes small explosions to ripple off. It would add to the "Survived by the skin of my teeth" feeling if you did happen to survive.


Seriously....Good sound effect.

Great stuff, I really love it!

Personally I prefer random explosions rather than racial, unless racial also get some randomness .

Some stuff i don't like - wreck drops at the beginning of the animation and that delay looks really weird, especially when zoomed out. Personally I'd prefer it drop after last explosion. Also the "Look at" camera warps back after wreck is dropped. Unless I didn't find the right camera for that, there is no way of staying focused on the exploding ship.

I have one word for you: InternetSpaceships.



Awesome. Do this CCP.



Maybe they could also make the screen flicker in and out or add get that gore-tunnel-vision FPS style? Na. Quite enough going on already when busy being about to explode.


I was thinking about the sounds and first thought maybe a real THUMP to give EVE a reason to be hooked up to a subwoofer (it really hasn't earned the one I have it on), but as single addition it seems like a petty thing to ask for.

THUMP, muffled explosion.. *pelted with Vo'rian Eumenes's particle splatter idea*. Now that would be a cool effect to pair with fancy new explosions.

nice loop-hole/deux-ex-machina CCP with the sound if there is the lore thing ( like tesla making an engine start sound when it needs not, just to improve awareness)

if there the lore has mention of materials or tech used then an accurate explosion color can be made using actual science.

Make it more real and logic.....
woudnt it be more funny
then ships take damage from near explosions, depending ship size or capacitor size or something like that.

Is it against the TOS for me to admit that I had both tears of joy and an erection watching these explosions?

This is just... wow. Incredible.

My first feedback item is speed them up a bit. The cascading explosions prior to the big boom feel like they move a bit slow. Perhaps.... 40-50% faster.

And I second feedback suggesting that the pilot doing the exploding (hell I will want to find gatecamps just to blow up....) get a bunch of new alarms blaring... some kind of abandon ship klaxon or something. Totally for immersion purposes.

The last request would be to have small escape pods trying to escape. You probably couldn't even see it, given the scales that we're working with, but that would be fantastic if we somehow could. Even better if the big explosion wiped them all out in little secondary explosions. Yes I'm reaching for the stars here. I imagine it would be incredibly hard to do, and that development time is precious.

You must admit, even if you were the one losing a super, it would be arousing to see cascading explosions cover the hull of your ship as pods start ejecting, a klaxon signaling the crew to abandon ship, followed by a massive shockwave that owns all the escape pods.


mm.

B:
I imagine some technobabble could be implemented about the distinct colouration (or perhaps even process?) of explosions, based on the reactor unit used (at least for T2 hulls)?

E.g.:
- Antimatter Reactors (Amarr) cause the ship to explode in a blinding off-white light as antimatter escapes and interacts with matter, releasing absurd amounts of energy, generating the blinding light.

- Nuclear Reactors (Minmatar) run amok, generating enough heat to ignite the in-ship atmosphere, mixing with the fernite (we assume this is akin to ferrite) to produce a deep orange/red flame.

- Fusion Reactors (Gallente) breach, causing the magnetic field keeping the plasma in place to whip around the inside of the hull, eventually lacerating and tearing into the Ion Thruster units before collapsing completely. The explosion is a mix of plasma, residual magnetic waves ionizing oxygen (fuel/atmosphere), and fermionic condensate from the thrusters, resulting in a green/blue-ish explosion.

- Graviton Reactors (Caldari) fail catastrophically, causing a wave of gravity to tear through the hull of the ship, crushing and ripping apart the titanium diboride of the hull as it goes. The rapid repulsion of internal atmosphere leaves little flame in the resulting explosion, with only the shredded hull - the dust and debrif thrown away as well as the bits caught in residual gravity pockets - are thrown clear, causing a grey-ish explosion.

Of course, it could then be argued that only hulls that specifically used the reactors when manufactured would have these colourations, leaving T1 ships with the "standard" type(s).



And of course, variations could arguably be explained by one or more steps in the explosion not occuring (or other steps taking place):
- Antimatter:
1. Reactor doesn't fail completely at first, causing a bright light to tear through the hull first, "cracking and slicing" the hull open.
2. The explosion catches the EM pulse generator and Tesseract capacitor units first, causing arching electricity to jump across the hull pre- and post-explosion.

- Nuclear:
1. Atmosphere doesn't reach ignition temperatures, but hull does, causing it to become red-hot before bursting apart.
2. The initial explosion breaches the deflection shield emitter, causing it to polarize and invert, resulting in a much more violent explosion that leaves somewhat less atmosphere to burn in the explosion, but where debris from the hull is propelled at greater speeds.

- Fusion:
1. The magnetic field falters but doesn't fail completely, causing a slower leak of plasma into the atmosphere, the interaction converting the atmosphere itself to plasma, before the hull fails entirely, resulting in a greener and more "liquid" explosion.
2. The magnetic field fails critically, causing the torus (again, assumption that they use magnetic confinement like this) of the reactor to snake randomly throughout - and outside - the hull, resulting in the explosion being accompanied by a "fountain" of plasma eating its way across the hull, like a worm in an apple.

- Graviton:
1. The reactor supercharges, crushing the hull rather than repulsing it (think miniature black-hole, but not really), causing the hull to falter under its own weight, ever, ever, ever so slightly bending the light around it in place of an explosion.
2. The sustained shield emitter maintains function long enough for the graviton pulse from the generator to be caught inside of it, causing the debris to hurl around inside momentarily before it too gives way, resulting in an explosion that contains larger chunks of debris, that in turn are hurled along more curving trajectories from the hull itself, rather than simply perpendicular to it.

Either way, I do agree some Empire-specific colouration would be a cool addition, but I also understand completely that they want to get "the basics" down before they start thinking about that, as Myrkur explained. :)

That awesome tilting is by design.

There are some great ideas coming out in this thread, we'll be aiming to discuss them all internally as potential for a second pass on the explosions once we've released. My personal favorite though is the escape pods, the idea of having the crew abandon ship as the smaller explosions rip through the hull is amazing.