Amon Shirr
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Posted - 2009.03.26 19:33:00 -
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SOUND SOUND SOUND!
The new "feature" of diminishing sound with the distance does absolutely and undeniably NOT work. For my part, I am now not playing, since its simply boring for me now, and to the point where I'm considering not paying too. All the new sounds need either an overhaul, or even better, revert it to pre-apocrypha, and try again in a few years time. By then you (CCP) might have had a chance to understand what the playing community wants from the game 
That beeing said, I personally have a pressing issue with the new turret sounds (when you can acctually hear them). The ones that have -not- been changed are fine, as far as I am concerned, but the ones you -have- changed are for the absolute worse. 200mm, and 250mm hybrids sounds for example, sounds like someone spitting in a bloody can! These simply have to be returned to what they once were, pre-apocrypha.
The same goes for their animation... They look insignificant as they are now.. no sence of power, no sense of "boom". The sound and visuals of turrets hitting a taget is acctually quite good though, but if you don't fix the above mentioned, it really doesn't matter.
Another thing with turrets is that they now have a bad habbit of shooting through your own ship... As far as I remember, this was never an issue before. Again, bad, fix, never should have happend!?!
New module effects are equally unimpressive, and while I do see the idea in them, they just don't work. Not soundwise, nor grafics-wise.
The grafics seem to have taken a step in the wrong direction aswell (again, can only speak for myself, my computer, and my experience of the game). The grafics pre-apocrypha were great for my part, and the game ran smoothly, and yes, they were full flegded premium, all settings at max. Now, I don't know, something is wrong, things look odd, even on max settings. And aside from this, the game is horribly unstable when I have the settings where I used to have them. I don't think this is in anyway intentional, but please... if you change something, that makes such a small difference, make sure it doesn't force the clients to downgrade their experience of the game. I really can't figure out who CCP were trying to satisfy with this change tbh.
Stability has taken a serious blow since patchday, and this latest patch to the patch doesn't seem to fix it fully. I still experience (and hear of alot of others aswell) an astounding amount of crashes and freezes. Again, it worked pre-apocypha, there is no reason it shouldn't work after. If you have truely changed the game so much, that our systems aren't good enough anymore, you have effectively alienated quite abit of your playerbase, and that is not very nice of you.
As a last feedback from me, to the ones who care, the new fitting screen is still a horror. Give the option for the old one, please....
I would suggest that you never ever change anything in the game to something less impressive, because as of yet, this expansion has been a great dissapointment on too many aspects. This may sound like common logic, but apparently, for you CCP, it isn't. Any new content and new things to try, see, or explore is effectively mute (pun intended) for my part. hehe soon you'll have us begging for an "eve-clasic" server, need I say more? 
Slowly loosing hope
-Amon
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