Less is More

[Corey]

We've not shown too many individual screenshots lately, however there's a lot going on behind the scenes. We've had a lot of focus recently on updating some of the older content, including putting some of our newer Ascendancy assets into ICW (including the Venator, Acclamator, TIE Fighters, ISDs, etc), on top of reworking some particles and the skydomes in the mod. These aren't just meant to look better; they also have a net decrease in polies, particles, and filesize, meaning better visuals, better performance, and better load times.

[Mr.Puerto]

It looks nice and crispy.

[tlmiller]

I do love the Venator.

[StarBornMichaelh165]

I love the Venator Good job.

[Illidan Stormrage]

We've not shown too many individual screenshots lately, however there's a lot going on behind the scenes. We've had a lot of focus recently on updating some of the older content, including putting some of our newer Ascendancy assets into ICW (including the Venator, Acclamator, TIE Fighters, ISDs, etc), on top of reworking some particles and the skydomes in the mod. These aren't just meant to look better; they also have a net decrease in polies, particles, and filesize, meaning better visuals, better performance, and better load times.

Does that Ventor have rotating lasers?

[Vons Barador]

Does that Ventor have rotating lasers?

IIRC, turreted hardpoints are, along with deathclones and other such minutia, queued for later work after updates on the GCs, heroes, models, etc. I could be wrong but I remember hearing that from Corey or someone somewhere.

[Corey]

Death clones and damage particles are things we're working on, but we have no current plans to do rotating turrets. That's a ton of extra stuff for the CPU to track and ultimately would be a significant drain on performance. We'd have to test it a lot more before we were comfortable doing that (it may not seem like a big deal, but when you have multiple ships onscreen with multiple tracking turrets, especially some of the Fractalsponge designs like the Bellator or Praetor where there's literally dozens per ship, it adds up quickly).

[Lord Xizer]

neat