As the smoke clears from your decimated capsule your terminally wounded corpse will now be shown gently spinning as life slips away and your camera drones offline. You have a moment to reflect on your unfortunate demise and take in the scenery one last time before a new clone is activated and your consciousness is transferred.

This is cool :)

open space does tend towards the cool end of the temperature spectrum.
Pod's are nice and cosy and warm

So will the death animation add to the amount of time it takes to re-gear and un-dock to re-join the fight? I only say this because I've met a few interdiction fields. I imagine it wouldn't take forever but time is ISK. I still can't wait to get podded on SiSi though.

So will the death animation add to the amount of time it takes to re-gear and un-dock to re-join the fight? I only say this because I've met a few interdiction fields. I imagine it wouldn't take forever but time is ISK. I still can't wait to get podded on SiSi though.

I think one of the main points the development teams have been hitting in regard to these new transitions is that they either reduce time or they take the same amount of time as they currently do on Tranquility. It will never take more time than it does now.

Yes, they have been doing that. I would guess that they would continue that trend here. They also disabled the UI during the warp sequence, which might cause problems during the ship to pod transition (since you may be frantically trying to escape before you are warp disrupted). So far the transitions have been good, and I am also looking forward to a new undocking/docking transition as well.

did you also work on the UI freezing issues? For example if you don't spam warp before you explode you have almost no chance anymore to get out since the UI is frozen for a short moment. Thats one of the WTF moments for new players who do not know how to beat the client in addition to the game ;)

edit: not to mention that you really don't care about the insurance mail notification in the moment you are in the pod and 25 ships are around you

It's okay, we aren't disabling the UI during the ship-to-pod transition. That would be silly :)

Um, do some of you get your ships and pods blown up so often that the transition times are a major issue?

Read this thread for the details about the mass test on Thursday. It will start at 17:00 UTC in FD-MLJ.

It's okay, we aren't disabling the UI during the ship-to-pod transition. That would be silly :)

Probably never happen, but it will be really cool if that corpse will be based on actual player model. Generate low-poly player model beforehand, apply grayish-dead-skin shader, store it in cache (like T3 ships), use in the moment of death - something like that.
Also model generation procedure can also be used in frozen corpses 3d preview for exciting corpse spinning.

Had similar thoughts myself

In the last moments of being blown up your ship UI/HUD will look a lot more like it does in the EVE Origins trailer (at 3:23)

- CCP Masheen. x

I'm hoping for a V3 of the corpses if we're gonna be looking at them more. They do look a bit sorry in their current state. With a bit of rework they could be truly grotesque!

... I heard some stories about disgusting bodies in the art department...

They won't be changing in Odyssey, but I heard some stories about disgusting bodies in the art department.... let's hope they are working on new corpses for us

They won't be changing in Odyssey, but I heard some stories about disgusting bodies in the art department.... let's hope they are working on new corpses for us

To bad you can't use corpses to lower the costs of clones... you know a discount for providing your own biomass.

But any way, may have to take a look at this tonight when I get home..

Dearest space-faring colleagues,

If you thought all the secrets of Odyssey were revealed at Fanfest then it is my pleasure to tell you they were not. Team Pony Express are planning on dropping some seriously exciting changes onto the Singularity Test Server for a Mass Test on Thursday (Watch for posts from CCP Habakuk for exact time + details)

- CCP Masheen. x

Damn! For a moment I thought you were going to say there was going to be a fully functional scanning system like on TQ. Oh well, the eye candy will be nice I suppose.

For a moment I thought you might really surprise the eve community and open the door.

Have we now heard it all, or is there still more to be revealed?

There is as always a very large number of 'smaller' changes that do not warrant a full dev blog. We often find that it is the little things that are of most importance to many in the Community so I hope that you like what Odyssey brings

Reykjavik art department, we be producing corpses aaaaaall day long.

open space does tend towards the cool end of the temperature spectrum.
Pod's are nice and cosy and warm

it's not so much the temperature--it's the vacuum!

I'm assuming a patch is going to hit between now and this test? I tried getting podded yesterday and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

There is as always a very large number of 'smaller' changes that do not warrant a full dev blog. We often find that it is the little things that are of most importance to many in the Community so I hope that you like what Odyssey brings

It is a good day to get podded.

We're working on the build currently, it should be on Sisi in the next few hours

Edit: BTW. When You guys redesign ship control panel?

Pod death is as it should be : minimalist, yet extremely dramatic. I love the duration, no need to shorten a transition as anyway being podded means that you can't join back the field immediately again.
Eventually, as the screen remains black for a long time with only a little text, adding a "Memory transfer in progress" with three dot alternatively fading or something like that, in the middle of the screen, could be cool to show that the game hasn't crashed or anything. (And it would definitely be cool ! :D) I admit, it's useless !

Perhaps you are seeing something that is way more minimalist than you should be seeing... do you just get a black screen?

Perhaps you are seeing something that is way more minimalist than you should be seeing... do you just get a black screen?

It's okay, we aren't disabling the UI during the ship-to-pod transition. That would be silly :)

And yet it seemed perfectly reasonable to you that it should be disabled for the new jump animation? Or has that been re-thought after ppl who actually play the game told you it was not the greatest decision...?

Yep, that was it. Just had my alt podded by CCP karkur and I get the proper transition.

We also play the game.

i demand the cheatcode

"it's a good day to die"

to be added to the game to test this :P

(vet gamers know that cheatcode )

affect: insta podded

Getting podded was pretty awesome, although it seemed to take a lot longer to show up in the clone station than on TQ.

The "clone grade alpha, upgrade needed" in the lower left was a bit confusing, since I knew I was going into an omicron-grade clone. I get that it's there to remind people to re-upgrade after getting podded, but it could maybe be phrased a bit better to make that obvious.

Transition from ship->pod is nice, although at one point I experienced the camera zooming all the way in to the pod even though I had been zoomed all the way out on my ship. Probably would be best to not move the camera around like that.

Edit: Just tested by self-destructing, and the camera zoomed in on the pod again, so it looks like it does that every time...

10 second timer for the corpse view to fade away.
press any button to skip :)

The "clone grade alpha, upgrade needed" in the lower left was a bit confusing, since I knew I was going into an omicron-grade clone. I get that it's there to remind people to re-upgrade after getting podded, but it could maybe be phrased a bit better to make that obvious.

10 second timer for the corpse view to fade away.
press any button to skip :)

Oh, heh, I forgot this in the main feedback thread, but seeing "Clone Grade Alpha: Upgrade Required" *did* give me a brief panic as I wondered if I'd forgotten to activate. It might be worth putting the clone grade which is being activated in smaller type above that so people don't worry too much.

Hey guys. I just had a chance to see the ship/pod kills. AWESOME! Very nice work! It would be nice if the bodies were actually modeled on our characters, even if it was just on our screen :) I mean, you guys did spend all that tech and goodwill capital on creating avatars and WiS. That'd be a good way to use some of it.

Are there any plans to have a clone exiting a clone vat afte being killed, it seems strange to just appear fully clothed on the walkway .N

Or maybe just have the CQ door open and have a fresh clone walk in.

Reykjavik art department, we be producing corpses aaaaaall day long.

SC1 corsair.

Please remodel blackbird hull instead. And some others.

i could not find the highly configurable warning system i was looking for :(

there were some options, but it was far away from being highly configurable

we might be working on that :D

can you give us a better idea of "highly configurable"?

this is a feed back from this thread

[url]https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=237367]thread[/url]


I cant seem to locate a setting to turn off the flashing "hull critical" off without turning off the sound alert. i would like to keep the sound alerts.

I also file a bug report about code appearing on screen after my ship was destroyed and i entered a pod. Did you guys receive it as i made a mistake when loading?

Someone wanna fraps and youtube it for who haven't got the test server running :D

How about a cinematic waking up in your new clone inside its stasis chamber and getting out, like in one of the trailers. right now we go from corpse to fully clothed on the balcony.

Dearest space-faring colleagues,

If you thought all the secrets of Odyssey were revealed at Fanfest then it is my pleasure to tell you they were not. Team Pony Express are planning on dropping some seriously exciting changes onto the Singularity Test Server for a Mass Test on Thursday (Watch for posts from CCP Habakuk for exact time + details)

CCP Nimbus, CCP karkur and the ever-sarcastic CCP PrismX have been furiously coding new Ship & Pod death sequences that we're hoping will be ready in time for Odyssey's release on June 4th.

In the same vein as the new seamless stargate jump transitions, this work is a part of our drive to "fill in the gaps" in the flow of common EVE gameplay. The goal was that your ship would better inform you when it is in serious peril. It never felt very 'Sci-Fi' that your ship wouldn't make much of a fuss out of being blown to smithereens so we've fixed that.

In the last moments of being blown up your ship UI/HUD will look a lot more like it does in the EVE Origins trailer (at 3:23)

These new animated UI elements are tied to the existing Audio Alerts. We have created this feature with extensive player customization, some features we choose to be pre-calibrated but with this feature you will have options. You can set the thresholds at which you are warned or disable them completely and the new UI has been designed to fit with all other existing HUD elements.

Pod death will never be the same again either, before now it has always been somewhat underwhelming . You are immediately removed from the fight and a couple of seconds later you're back in station. This experience has been replaced by this new sequence:



These features are a work in progress and we'd like to get your feedback, please log into Sisi on Thursday to try them out for yourself.

- CCP Masheen. x

So.. I saw the pod sequence on YouTube and is this final? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sbVgqejD00

When our pod gets incinerated by huge spaceship pew-pew, we see a naked grey plastic mannequin floating where our pod used to be? Being podded should destroy everything.

Am I the only one who hates this sequence? I'd much rather a cool explosion and just have the camera slowly pull back from the scene, perhaps some floating debris.

Gate jump FX:
I would like to see just few more frames of zooming in on - or through - the gate, before the switch to jump animation. The transition from gate zoom to the jump space animation is abrupt, I think it could use a bit more time down the gate and some transparency fade in the last frame(s), to smooth it more.

So.. I saw the pod sequence on YouTube and is this final? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sbVgqejD00

When our pod gets incinerated by huge spaceship pew-pew, we see a naked grey plastic mannequin floating where our pod used to be? Being podded should destroy everything.

Am I the only one who hates this sequence? I'd much rather a cool explosion and just have the camera slowly pull back from the scene, perhaps some floating debris.

Typhoon model.

Please.

The Developer Hivemind collectively uses the keyboard shortcuts rather than waste time on moving the mouse around. I know this because I'm individually linked with the Dev Hivemind Collective.

I would like to see the text display your current clone grade upon death, this way you know by the UPGRADE NEEDED message you need to, and displaying the grade allows quick reference for what type to upgrade to :)

Vacuum isolates pretty good, actually. You'd loose body warmth/fluids on a very slow rate in deep space... you would have suffocated, be fried by radiation or shredded to peices by micro particles long before you'd even begin to freeze to death.

Being podded has never destroyed everything. Your frozen corpse is always left behind and that's what you see floating.