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| 8s | expansion I've been working on visual |
| 10s | updates for the Empire crickets in total |
| 13s | there are 68 of them and they all got |
| 16s | beautiful updates except the rifter that |
| 19s | was updated last January |
| 22s | we decided to update the cricket class |
| 24s | rather than other class in the beginning |
| 27s | because those ships are mostly used in |
| 29s | the game very popular basically all new |
| 33s | players start on those ships and we |
| 35s | wanted to make sure that those ships |
| 36s | were up to date and as beautiful as |
| 39s | possible when they start the journey in |
| 42s | space |
| 43s | what I'm most happy about is basically |
| 45s | how we managed to bring those ships even |
| 47s | better to life and that is achieved by |
| 50s | tying the effects to what is happening |
| 53s | to the ship so many of those effects are |
| 55s | tied to ship speed the state if it's |
| 58s | going in or out of war and that is the |
| 61s | player absolutely a valuable feedback |
| 63s | but not just for a player but also the |
| 66s | others that are looking at the ship when |
| 68s | making the new missile impacts we really |
| 70s | wanted to focus on differentiating them |
| 74s | and making sure that each archetype |
| 75s | really tells you what it is so a thermal |
| 78s | explosion will be you know it'll look a |
| 81s | lot more like heat |
| 82s | electromagnetic will you know have some |
| 84s | crackling energy and you know lighting |
| 86s | up their surrounding areas |
| 88s | of course trying to make them beautiful |
| 89s | at the same time but making sure that |
| 91s | like gameplay readability is much better |
| 93s | than before you should be able to tell |
| 95s | it is what it is you know you can see oh |
| 97s | they're attacking me with this because |
| 99s | you know that's what it looks like in |
| 101s | this Viridian expansion we have actually |
| 103s | uh when we're delivering to the gambling |
| 106s | teams uh eight you know base clouds uh |
| 109s | with 43 uh variations so what are the |
| 113s | possibilities with these new uh |
| 115s | volumetric clouds well this is really |
| 117s | the first time we're bringing this kind |
| 119s | of quality clouds into the gameplay |
| 123s | space you know Eve has always been known |
| 124s | for these beautiful background nebulas |
| 127s | and this is kind of the first time you |
| 128s | get to almost that level inside the |
| 131s | gameplay space and that will make these |
| 134s | new home front operations dungeons a |
| 137s | much more |
| 138s | immersive and exciting and beautiful |
| 141s | places to uh visit you really feel like |
| 144s | you're passing by uh you know to this |
| 147s | these filaments of uh Cloud debits and |
| 149s | you know cloudy cloudy bits and uh this |
| 153s | is then something you're actually like |
| 154s | you feel a lot more that you're flying |
| 156s | through them and around them and |
| 158s | inhabiting the space of these clouds is |
| 160s | just you know it's a game changer |
| 162s | honestly |
| 163s | so the main goals for us when we were |
| 165s | updating the Marauders is to really kind |
| 167s | of help push the the aggressiveness and |
| 170s | the kind of powerfulness of these holes |
| 172s | when they enter their Bastion mode which |
| 174s | is a module that can be fitted on the |
| 175s | ships so typically at the moment you'll |
| 178s | see that the ship will change State and |
| 179s | it will animate an exposing like a |
| 181s | reactor core to the to space we really |
| 184s | need to kind of push that look and that |
| 186s | feel of power so we've used particle |
| 189s | effects a lighting pass on the hull |
| 191s | holographic paneling to really kind of |
| 193s | push how powerful these ships are |
| 194s | especially when they change State and |
| 196s | they're kind of doing extra damage to |
| 197s | everybody around them from a gameplay |
| 199s | perspective being able to see the ship |
| 200s | when it's entered Bastion mode even when |
| 202s | you've just warped onto grid and you can |
| 204s | see it these will be a lot more |
| 205s | noticeable it's uh it'll have obviously |
| 208s | a lot of a sharper Brighter Image around |
| 210s | itself so you'll be able to spot it on |
| 212s | the battlefield a lot clearer and then |
| 214s | obviously seeing the particle effects |
| 215s | and everything kind of rolling off the |
| 217s | ship yeah you'll know what it's doing |
| 218s | when uh when you're viewing it from afar |
| 220s | anytime we receive any updated tools or |
| 224s | any kind of enhanced visual effects |
| 226s | packages that we receive from our |
| 228s | internal engine team we'll be always |
| 230s | looking to kind of roll these out across |
| 232s | all the ships in Eve it just takes a |
| 234s | little bit of time and we're slowly |
| 235s | working our way through them but uh yeah |
| 237s | rest assured we'll get through them all |
| 239s | eventually |