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I had forgotten how amazingly well Nexus captured the thrill of space battles, so much better than EVE, I dare say.

Anyways, during the Duality test, even though there were no explosion effects dying ships drifted away in a very cool fashion. I thought those were part of the new explosions, because it did look way more dramatic than what we currently have, but alas, it seems it was only a bug or something. New explosions are indeed underwhelming.

P.S: Even Homeworld 2, with its ancient graphics, did it better. http://youtu.be/fBsyHDGAo5c?hd=1&t=5m15s

Yup, new explosions are not cool They look weak, and are to short, make them DAAAA BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

Unfortunately I hv to agree .. they are a little bit underwhelming. A little bit more Russhhhhshsh scraaaatch BAMMMMM would be cooler ..I mean reactor explosions should be LIGHTER, more light more blending effects ..

What happened to this? Seriously. This needs to make it into the game at some point. It would be great if every other ship had similar destruction effects as well: A cluster of explosions leading up to the final, major explosion. It would be great if you could see escape pods jettisoning out of the hull once you hit structure, and once the final blow lands, your pod ejects, thus leaving the exploding ship behind.

A lot of EVE's backstory suggests that there is crew aboard the ships and that you are not alone on board (though since you are locked inside the capsule you have no intereaction with them). Also several times before the subject of making the crew an asset with abilities and training etc. has been discussed, whereupon the destruction of the ship will leave part of the crew KIA.

However when it comes to the ship explosions, what I'd like to see is something like this:
Ship structure HP reaches 0 and the ship starts to explode, your pod is ejected as the ship drifts off (if you were moving, some indication of the ship spinning out of control woud be awesome here), it starts to break up and explode.
For small ships like frigates and destroyers it would happen very quick, while as the ships gets larger the process takes longer time with more smaller explosions and fires building up to a final, large and bright explosion as the capacitor and warp core melts down and blows.
For capital and super capital ships this should result in a epic explosion. They are huge behemoths of the heavens and they should go out with propper bang.

The effects that I've seen so far, IMHO are worse then the old ones... even the effect of a capital jumping in and landing on field gives a better sensation of a cool explosion, even though it isn't an explosion at all.

The new effect is....plane and simply....crap.
A titan blew up, a ship of 15km size, and it makes a "fart" in space. No shockwave to be seen, no big flash of light, no orgasmic sense of satisfaction when you kill that monstrosity.

This effect looks a lot like current missile effect only with more color.

I recorded 20 seconds on the second mission of advanced military tutorial on the test server, to show how frigates are exploding (same for NPC and player ships by the way).

For me, NPC explosions are good, but way too short and flat for a player ship. Without the "display empty modules" option (showing empty modules dissapearing 'cause the pod doesn't have any slot), and insurance mail, a noob would barely notice this destruction of his ship...

http://youtu.be/VliWVmslX90

Why have the explosions in eve been watered down? They use to be so nice and powerful looking, now they are crap... come on CCP really? WTF!? Like what the frack is going on for real totally!? They need to be bigger! Like they use to, bring back the blue explosions that look like a nuke went off for every ship. Now it just looks really sad. Explosions without a huge flash and giant ball of blue heat are not pleasing anymore. I actually enjoyed that.

Great thread.

Hope to see some updates from devs soon about this. To be honest I think that they can improve a lot the new explosions.

While I agree with the opinion that the new explosions are a bit underwhelming, I expect them to look better once we've got the new hull damage effects as well (as shown during fanfest). Also I think seeing wrecks drifting a bit might look awesome instead of having the ship gone within a split second.