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Overall, I am not a fan of the new character sheet. I do like the horizontally aligned tabs. They are simple and everything is easy to find. However, the Skills tab is a big downgrade from the previous version. It looks "cool" but is confusing and provides less information than the old version. Secondly, the character portrait is terrible. I know there is an option to close it, and that is what I have done, but I liked having the portraits that I spent time on being shown. Not some default view of my character staring off into space like an idiot. Get rid of the live picture or have an option to switch between that and the character photo and do something different with the skills tab and the new character sheet will be much better.

Also, the new voice. I really do not like the new voice.

Character sheet top banner with half-cropped, pixelated and un-interactive character model is terrible UI design. Hiding the top banner is a cop-out. My character deserves to be seen.
I'm just going to quote myself from another thread:



- Re-order the character sheet tabs so 'Character' is before 'Skills'
- Aura vocal samples are cringe-worthy
- T2 and T3 icons on ship icons in hanger are very indistinguishable
- Ship fitting simulation mode needs a 'reset' button


I will admit the ship fitting simulation is a great, and well-waited for tool!!

Bio deleted and Cerebral accelerator boost gone -_-

The new voice (warp drive active voice, not the tutorial voice) does not fit in at all with Eve universe.
The prior voice was perfect, you could make it as an option in the audio section, you made sliders for every sound in the game, why not add the option for the old one?
There are many players that identify that voice with Eve universe, there really is no need to replace it with a completely flat and uninspired voice. Again, i'm talking about "warp drive active" voice.

Likewise.

I don't particularly hate the new aura voice, but I liked the old one a whole lot. In fact, funny as it is, that warp drive active sound was what got me into the game.
It probably isn't feasible to get the old one back, but I'll ask anyway.
Failing that, can you at least release the warp drive sound somewhere? IIRC it was the only one missing from the soundcloud.

A hamster, you say?

I thought it was K9.

Either way, the old voice was 1000% better.

Some randomly assembled Ascension feedback from my POV:

Launcher
Launcher forgets added accounts by default, noticed that when I had to restart the launcher after email verification (why exactly do I need to restart the launcher for that??). Should remember the accounts (not the password) by default. Should also not have to restart the launcher after verification.

New Aura voice
Holy s... The old Aura wasn't the best voice acting in world but calm and fitting to the game. The new voice is.. I really don't know how to describe it... the worst I ever heard in any game. That jumpy, pseudo-happy voice combined with the filters is 100% annoying and 100% not fitting the game. "WARP ACTIVATED OH HELL YEAH!!" That's how it sounds like. I feel real pain when listening to that, and the first thing I had to do was to deactivate it. I have no idea what you guys were thinking releasing something like that?! Please add an option to go back to the old voice ASAP!

New character window
- Very unorganized and confusing.
- Window size is way too small/squeezed. Tough to use when your skill queue is >1 month. Training queue should be an extra window at the right side as before.
- Default setting on skills filter is unclear in the German translation at least: "Voraussetzung für" = "Requirement for" ... for what? Who? When? What do you want from me??
- Can no longer see how much of a specific skill was trained already towards its next level.

Fitting tool
- Good to have that in the game, but much to do you have.
- Unintuitive AF. Too many clicks necessary to get to what you want, which is the ship and a list of all possible modules you could add right now. That should be the default setting. Many icons don't really tell what they do, so you need to mouse-over and memorize them.
- Passive shield HP regeneration is all wrong. I compared several of my old ships with the EFT values and in all cases the numbers are about half of what they actually are. Guess you forgot resistance values. Which is why we...
- Need profiles for incoming damage for mission fitting.
- I cannot see the mining amount of my lasers and/or drones. There should be a per minute and per cycle view.
- Recommendation would be a great thing to have. I.E. you right-click on defense and select "Filter modules that increase passive shield defense"
- Also show ship bonus in info window according to my current skills, like "+10% drone damage and HP per level (+40%)"
- Add option to show ship/module stats if I had a certain mastery set completed.
- Module left-click should not include offline mode, because we don't offline modules on a regular basis. The button in the radial menu can handle that.
- Modules should also include DPS/HPS values, i.E.: remote shield booster.
- Again: German translation is sometimes very strange, example: Mining Preservation charge applies the effect "Bergbaukristall-Schwankungsbonus" = "Mining crystal sway bonus" ... what?!
- "Buy all" is ignoring rigs.

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eh no.. there is no email so.. ccp what happend? :(

New explosions are nice, but i don't think i'll be spending much time watching them.

Character sheet seems awkward but i guess that's just a case of getting used to it.
Ditto for the ship fitting window.

Where did my Blood Raider booster go?.....can i have it back please.
Where did my Bio go?.....Can i have it back please. (if you had said you were going to delete them beforehand, we could have saved them elsewhere.)
What have you done to Aura's sexy voice? Please bring it back ASAP. The new one sounds like the annoying voice on Google maps and my wife won't let me play with the volume up now.

Not really sure about the email verification requirement. I resent having to provide my RL details just because some previous Eve quitters might return to the game now that its F2P and not remember the names of their chars....lame.

Telling me that i am now training skills at 2x speed is a misnomer. I am training at the same speed as before. I may be training at 2x the speed of Alpha clones but hey, that's their choice.

Looking forward to giving you more of my hard earned cash in the NES sale. My ships will now dazzle gankers and admirers alike across the cluster.

Overall you seem to have put considerable effort into enhancing new player experience for the F2P brigade, whilst not putting quite as much in for the hardcore, pay to play, everyday existing players.

What happened to the redeemable items that were promised to players with fully paid up subscriptions?

Looking forward to the interaction with the new NPC mining fleets. Well done on improving the AI in that respect. Hope to see this expanded to all NPC interaction soon.

Initial impression 6/10 but hoping that this improves soon.