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I'm not seeing the missiles but juss the trailers. It that suppose to be? Who knows considering i'm rocking a 4250 HD :'(. But still the effects are very nice looking. Tested the tengu and purifier. 1 question though, why is it tha the torp launcher gfot 3 on it yet only 1 fires? Why not match the cruise missile launcher but change the look at the skin. The tengu firing missile after missile is awesome instead of firing them together lol.

But all and all good job CCP Team. Also the new looks for the bombers is to die for! My purifier was worth flying for once. I feel bad for the hound though. Its just got curves lol while the others look smoking hot! LMAO

Tonight i test the battleships and see how the cruise fans out (even though it look decent on a Sansha tyrant)

Oh and another thing, the missiles dont appear to actually hit the ships. It that how it should be? AND FIX THE TORP EXPLOSIONS PLEASE!!!!

I was going to post this in a new topic until I saw this thread and decided to post here since most of my feedback is on missiles =)

Anyway, I got a chance to take a look at the new inventory and missiles. Overall, me likey very much. BUT, there are a few things I hope help the devs out =)

Inventory

• It's hard to tell which ships are which without some sort of graphic when you have them named something other than the default after-assemble name. Maybe add in a mouse-over with the icon and name of the ship?
• There's some lag when looting wrecks because the inventory switches from your cargohold to the wreck then back to the cargohold after hitting Loot All. When you have a lot of wrecks to loot, this becomes quite distracting.
• The Estimated Price is awesome =) I love seeing that number going up while looting.

Missiles

• The smoke trail is hard to see against dust clouds (like in The Blockade).
• No missile impact sound, but I imagine that's coming (I had my sound turned up, so should have heard it if it was there).
• NPC missile's path seems to suddenly shift on approach then correct. This isn't like when the missile goes into the "burn" stage after it has been ejected from the ship, it happens close to the player's ship. It seems to only happen when the missile is approaching close to head on. I don't know how your axis' are set up but if the forward axis is -Y and right is +X (+Z = vertical), the shift might be happening when the missile crosses from +X to -X relative to the player's ship.
• Missiles get hard to see once they get about 40km away from my ship. I think the smoke trail occludes the bright fire plume. Maybe up the alpha on the smoke texture to make it a bit more transparent? Or, maybe add a lens flare that fades in as the missile gets further from the ship? Missile fights look great up close, but it's hard to keep track of them when fighting at range.

Anyway, awesome stuff! Keep it coming CCP!

I think the main holdup for the drake would really only be the skins at that. For the model, the drake itself I think needs to pretty much stay as is, not really much to do with it aside from launchers. For that, make the recessed launcher port in two rows, 4 on top, 3 on bottom similar to now but with the bottom row offset. 8th fitting point would be more rearward or midhull?

Smoke trails especially from cruise need to dial down a bit looks a bit like gunpowder rockets rather than advanced propulsion systems.


Oh and you cant see missiles from a distance which is a shame as in most fleet battles you will be zoomed out and lose all that missile goodness. How about add a brighter light to the missile propulsion system.

Tal

Launchers and their missile effects generally look great. Variation in flight pattern is well done, as are the different explosions. That being said there are some rather glaring issues though... First is going to be the placement of your missile hard points. On some ships everything looks great however many ships have random placements as well as clipping issues (raven).

I'd approve of a new blast ring, but not the gigantic 30km one. That was more suitable for citadal torps than anything else, maybe a 5km one or so.

I thoroughly enjoy the new launchers and effects. My only disappointment are the cruise launchers. They seem to have gotten the short end of the stick compared to the torpedo launchers. The torpedo launchers close up nice and wonderfully, while the cruise missile only really retracts the missile making it look like it's just not loaded.