Test Server Feedback

Hey folks,

We'd like to just say thank you so far for all the feedback we have received, its been incredibly helpful!

We have made some changes to the visual damage system, which can be found underneath, and we'd like to get your feedback on them. Singularity has just been updated to include these so please do let us know what you think.

As always if you do find anything that you think is a bug then please submit a bug report via the F12 menu or via the website at the following link - https://community.eveonline.com/support/bug-reports.

Changes:

• Tech 3 Strategic Cruisers now receive the new visual damage FX
• Boosters will no longer flicker when at low structure health.
• Brightness on Armour Hardening FX increased.
• Armour and Shield FX have had their colour saturation levels reduced

Defect Fixes:

• Shield impact FX reduced in scale on all shield types.
• Impact FX reduced in scale on XL turrets damage.
• More distinctive colours used to define high and low shield health for Amarr hulls.
• Drones attacking a ship will now cause visual damage to their targets.

Known Issues:

• Decals & Kill marks are unaffected by armour damage.
• Doomsdays & Smartbombs do not cause any visual damage to ships.
• Ships that have animations (e.g. Svipul) do not receive armour damage in the correct locations.
• No DX9 support - Yet
• Sound FX is still not final
• Sleeper vessels do not receive shield FX – by design
• New FX is not optimized but is being monitored
• Damage FX only works on ships

Just to be clear since we've been burned on this before, but is this "still in development." for Macs expected to be done for the actual release of this feature, or a year or two down the road?

Does that mean that we are getting new armor effects too ? i mean the Shields effects look great but i usually armor tank, so i would love to see holes in my ship or something similar, also GJ CCP :D its nice to see all this new stuff going on.

Correct, we will have this for the initial damage VFX release.

Testing on SISI -

Armor effect doesn't cover sieged guns
Drones dont cause the shield impacts to appear

All the multi boxers still want to be able to play, on minimum settings with 10 PCs

DX11 features are one thing (tessellation for example) can be a performance hog for sure depending on the implementation.

However the baseline performance of DX11 without all those DX11 specific features is still faster than DX9 and has much better resource management which you'll see in your assigned VRAM memory. So, if you know anyone on DX9 encourage them to upgrade ;) you'll make my day and I'll buy them a beer at Fanfest!

Hi devs:

some things regarding shield/armor/proportion effect

-Armor
Looks amazing, the on hit zone is perfect on the ships but the hit should do an anim projects matter/lil parts of the ship project backwards. (Like the current rocket hits particles but smaller scale) The hit aint that significant after it arrives. :(
Hardeners: Ive come to a conclusion that if hardeners are on after the ship got hit, the damage animation slowly fades(donno why)
Repair: Awesome job on the method animating on only the damaged aeras.
BUG: the armor effect gets on the default lights of the ship and its flicker prematurely(see below on propoltion bug)

-Shield
-As goes for shields its look awesome with rockets!!!
-Vs other weapons, ive checked mostly in anoms sometimes the shield just trigger while there is no incomming hit shown visually (im playing on max graph with high end setup) mostly vs npc stationary guns
-The flux in the shield should look roundwards from the inpact position (add a watery layer in the current animation and it would be fine concidering you take multiple barrages and you could see the fluxes after inpact)
But simply still it looks sexy
Hardeners: the on activation is fine, on capitals its looks kinda strange , but subcap its awesome, also noticed the hardener cycle while shield is on strain, the hardener rounds . its really nice
Booster: its good tho i would ad a lil more flux behind the current layer (and not only activation) and make the shield boost smoother(more transparent) atm its looks like youre smartbombing :o too dominant
-Also an interesting idea of shields should be always elyptic?
-penetration animations required on shields
*in effect of full shield loss in 1 shot
*Skill based penetration chance

-Proportion:
-Ive noticed that in warp all drives looks the same: the bluish color . Is it intended?
Tho i would like that each races warpdrive tech would be on different colortone(green/yellow/current blue) concidering the different fuel system they have :)
(edit: you can see the change really badly when you align to a position(lets say a procurer) its yellow and then when you press warp it changes to blue...looks awkwardly strange that from yellow it swaps to blue after reloading the other anim in few milisecond)
BUG: when propoltion gets hit(armor and hull hits), seems a layer gets on the drive and blocking the light animation of the engine, and its flickering really awfully bad. Pls fix somehow that propoltion zone on ship cant get damaged or it still shows the engine burn anim(test it with a hulltank battleship, shoot it near death and you can see these also)


Really nice job tho, keep em up
Anah Sarlai
PC:(Tested with i7,16gigs mem, asus strix 950 ) full graph setting manually
edited(2015/11/20 11:18)

Keep the feedback coming, the rest of the team will be eager to read all these comments on Monday morning! :)

I would like to ask that if you have visual feedback continue to comment in this thread, if you think you'd found a bug then please file a bug report using either the in-game bug reporting system (F12) or on the website: here screenshots and good reproduction steps are very much appreciated!

Few things I noticed right of the bat, will investigate more tomorrow:

Armor
-NPC (maybe player controlled aswell) frigates dont show armor DMG if you shoot right through their shields. I put a few frigs in deep armor but only the shield effect showed and then they popped. Which is sad because I'd love to see the effects of a large energy turret tearing through a frigate
-Even if my armor repair is not running the "breached" armor still regenerates, which just feels wrong. If a BS shoots at my BS the impact is substantial, my apoc model shows the entire front damaged, and it still generates without repairs! Please change this so it either does not regenerate or that the impact increases over time instead of breaching large sections right away.
-I havent tested this yet but how do remote repairs apply to damaged sections? If you have to apply them to the right spot and it has to be visualized, doesnt it create extra serverload?
-Armor DMG begins to show when I drop under ~5% shield, is this intended? This also generates.Skill at level 4
-Armor hardeners effect all have the same animation colour. Would be nice if the the DMG type was shown directly or blended with the ships natural shield/armour colour effect.
-Bastion module gives active status resist across the board but no visual effect, except for the shipmodel, is to be observed. Same goes for the damage control module. The Reactive armor hardener DOES show it.

Shields
-The effect of for example the adap invul field only appears at the first activation of the module. All other cycles it does not show. Maybe change this to every cycle? Now it looks inactive after 1/3 of the cycle, unlike the armor hardeners which are continious. Even if I activate a different module at 2/3 of another module cycle it will not show again. It also feels like a fast animation sort of?
-Bastion module gives active status resist across the board but no visual effect, except for the shipmodel, is to be observed. Same goes for the damage control module.

Visuals
-Did you guys ninja change the Paladin (Top is SiSI, bottom is Tranq)? EDIT: All apoc models (apoc/napoc/paladin/imperial apoc) have this extra red. On the paladin it looks good but on the the other models the colour is just out of place.
-Was the Amarr statue always this close to the station?
-Frigate rogue drones and normal drones show no damaged armor or shield impact, they do move when hit with missiles
-Dont know if this is a visual thing but when I jumped through a stargate with the shiptree open and a providence model open I could not move the camera anymore or click on my overview, just locked camera position. Only fixed upon relogging.
-When opening the old star map the entirety of New Eden is turned 45 degrees, putting Jove empire in the top middle instead of top right. When I press unflatten and then flatten it resets to normal
-The DL mark on the side (not the full text that is slightly higher up the model) of the Kronos is really vague now for some reason.

Hull
-The thrusters flicker when you hit hull, what seems odd about this is that if power were to "shoot" through the propulsion system it would not create a full sized trail/cone right away, but it does. Because it is so sudden it also becomes a tad annoying after a while. Maybe make this more smooth/slower?
-The hull repair animation did not change, any plans on this?


Thoughts
Visuals are awesome so far! Any news on the explosion change? Because I am REALLY looking forward to those together with the new visuals!