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Greetings Capsuleers,

We are currently hard at work on renovating the explosions seen in game and we would like to welcome you to come and blow things up on Singularity so you too can bask in their glory. We are still working on polishing them so please do not expect them to be in a finished state at this stage. Changes may occur over the next few weeks as we work out any issues and take all of your feedback on board.

What to expect on Singularity:
• Very small explosions for Pods.
• Small explosions for Rookie ships and Frigates.
• Medium explosions for all ships sized between Destroyer and Battleship class.
• Large explosions for all Capital ship hulls.
• Titan explosions for the Titan hulls.

Before racing to file a bug report, please consult the list of known issues below.

• The Fresnel on the low shader settings version of the explosions is not working correctly, and the initial ring from the explosion will linger longer than intended.
• The smaller explosions have stretched sections.
• Audio has not been hooked up yet.
• One of the Capital ship explosions is missing its local explosions.
• Several ships are using the incorrect explosions for their size.
• Wrecks will appear in the incorrect position post explosion if the ship was moving at the time of death.
• 'Look at' command does not hold its gaze for long enough.


This list will be updated as testing continues, but do feel free to comment and report any additional bugs via the F12 menu in game.

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Bahaha YeeeeeAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Edit: I'll post something constructive when I get home later.
I'm legitimately exited for this.

was going to bed... then saw this... ccp why you hate me





EDIT


CCP you dun good.... you dun real good



I would like to ask one thing. the flames that erupt during the explosion any way you could use that during hull damage so we can get flaming hero ships again?

that would be great nothing beats the feeling of warping off in flames

So here's how this works:
There is a probability factor on the individual explosions, and there are 3 explosions in the explosion bucket for a battleship, one with a probability of 6, one with a probability of 4 and one with a probability of 1. This means that basically that last explosion comes one in 10 times a battleship explodes, on the lore side, we could say that the blue one is some kind of specific technology/state of matter on the ship getting ignited in a bad way, versus the others being regular thermal/explosive explosions.

That's roughly the rarity for most explosions on sisi at the moment, this may change. I'd definitely like to have at least one explosion which shows up super rarely, as in maybe 1 in a hundred ships is going to blow up that way.. but something like that would have to come in a later patch, due to time constraints.

Also, these explosions are not racial, but that doesn't mean we can't play with that where we want to, as the system can support it, we just feel this is a better start. We did however decide to go with racially colored explosions for the titans, just because as the pinnacle of ship size, that's pretty insanely epically cool.

that blue one though MMMMMMhhhhhhhg!

Im going to against the crowd a bit here and say that the combination of the small initial orange hull explosions and then the secondary gigantic blue explosion looks a bit weird.

I think the blue explosion should have some orange mixed in. Because the initial small explosions along the hull are orange.. and there would still be orange fire shooting into space during the secondary blue explosion.

fully agree that blue explosion looks awesome its just the combo with the initial orange explosions that is strange/could be improved. IMO.

Small blue hull explosions and then large blue secondary explosion would also work.

And when I see them now, I noticed there are few black squares on those little preexplosions, they appear for a moment. But the preexlosions themselves are very good.

The bigger "arms" part of explosion is made up of a few planes/textures extending rapidly and it look pooooor. The bubble explosion was a lot nicer. The "center", main explosion, this medium sized that lasts longest is very good, leave it as it is.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6661985#post6661985

http://i.imgur.com/tHDgfO4.jpg example from that link above.


Also, please watch this: Its a fire in space.


Like in that old video on fanfest, it had this bubble explosion, very nice.

EDIT: Oh now I know why did you stop doing that explosion. From Reddit:

It was definitely worth keeping, but with bug removed. Not the visual effect.

I have to admit, the blue one is really really damn cool.

Does that mean the "old", faction-colored ones with bits flying out everywhere, although not looking as impressive (except for the sleeper ones, they looked cool as hell, even being smaller) have become obsolete already? How long was that, 2 years? Well, at least now they do rupture and spray pieces of scrap metal everywhere before finally succumbing to the plasma cloud of their exploded reactor or whatever.

In regards to a post above, i saw the spinning explosion on several occasions myself. I am not sure if it is one exact animation (I noticed it with the one with a lot of smoke trails) or a problem in general.

is it blue?