Yep you read right, appearently CCP put some VIP Launcher models into the client allready, viewed with TriExporter

Labelled : Assault
http://s1.directupload.net/images/120302/aqoxn6yx.jpg

Labelled : Siege Missile & Launcher
http://s14.directupload.net/images/120302/svoa3my3.jpg
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120302/wdky5cwb.jpg

Labelled : Test, looks a bit like the cruise launcher to me.
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120302/7aasdjbd.jpg

The graphical quality is quite bad, buts thats an issue of the TriExporter rendering.

they look more like something for dust

doesnt dust use a different mapping method that doesnt invovle .reds?

What happens when we group missiles together? Will we see all launchers fire simultaneously or will we only see one missile fly out of one turret?

They look like turrets. WHy not just create bay like doors opening and closing for all ships that utilize missiles.

People really turn up their graphics and effects while fighting and zoom in on their ship?

In what game does this happen?

They look like turrets. WHy not just create bay like doors opening and closing for all ships that utilize missiles.

Next up damaged states and hits!

oh no!

Missile ejection bays! Very cool!

Missile launcher look like turrrets? Omg, facepalm.

WHy dont' they look like mining laser instead?

GǪsince v3 apparently supports decals and on-the-fly retexturing, it shouldn't be that far off (unless you want them to always match the damage with the actual hits).

It has been brought up before, but I would hazard a guess that it would involve more work to modify the model of the ship to accommodate a "bay" that opens as opposed to a turret that is simply added to existing hard points.

It also is complicated by how to handle different numbers of missile launchers added, although they could simply make it a matter of "anything more than one missile launcher added gets the same bay graphic"... which would be a little under whelming.

[Well animated particle junk flying off when strikes are made against the hull and acutal more holes and the sort but yeah just reskins in a damaged state.

Crossing fingers to get new torpedo explosions!

First of all we need the hybrid rebalance.

Crossing fingers to get new torpedo explosions!

People really turn up their graphics and effects while fighting and zoom in on their ship?

In what game does this happen?

They look like turrets. WHy not just create bay like doors opening and closing for all ships that utilize missiles.

What did you expect they'd look like, port holes?

Port holes, fixed, solid ejection bays, no moving parts, just openning and closing. Manticore has beautiful launchers.

http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/graphics/ids/1024/1881.jpg

This turret thing is rubish.

So CCP...
why are you guys so silent about this? :p

HAVE MY GAY ABORTION. Finally we get missile launchers. And it was good.

How will torp launchers scale with stealth bombers though, I wonder?

I am thinking that certain ships like the Drake would have to be redone entirely for this? Curious to see how they are going to handle that part.

The Drake already has missile launcher graphics built into it. They don't DO anything but just be there but they are there.

The launchers look cool! I do like the style of the siege launcher. Perhaphs now it will be called a torpedo launcher. To those complaining about the launchers most sci-fi games and space ship type stuff has launchers in pods on hard points along the hull even battleships now had external launchers for the cruise and tomahawk missiles.

I so hope that this is inbound as I want to see my missiles going outbound from a launcher and not the belly of my ship!

Come on Dev's...let's be having some chatter on this eh :0)

terrible disco phoon nerf :(

They should add big fat guns all over turret ships that don't do anything. MOAR DAKKA. Even if it's not actually affecting gameplay.

Look at this pic from EVE front page:
http://web.ccpgamescdn.com/eveonlineassets/misc/frontpage_expansion_livestream_march22_24.jpg

Do i see missile launchers on that scorp???

Possibly. But the Scorpion's an ECM/rail boat, AFAIK. They're more likely to be Large railguns.

While I like the Torpedo, I'd be careful putting that much detail into a missile.

When everyone starts firing, there's going to be a lot of them.

While I like the Torpedo, I'd be careful putting that much detail into a missile.

When everyone starts firing, there's going to be a lot of them.

Yet another crappy render http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUaMn3-8uo

Yet another crappy render http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUaMn3-8uo

Yet another crappy render http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUaMn3-8uo

Yet another crappy render http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUaMn3-8uo

What about Standard launchers?

Skipped because at the moment they dont have all textures. You can see model in animation video.

The current Manticore model is going to look LOLTASTIC judging by the current turret models that 'hang' off of some ships turret points...

Yet another crappy render http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUaMn3-8uo

AWESOME STUFF!


What was that about Stealth Bombers being redesigned? New models? Please clarify and/or link.

In the video devblog about the new noobships and the art process in general, there were several shots which included the white board which was used to track the process of projects.

This is where the first "proof" of missile launchers came from (as they were on the board), stealth bombers were also on the board, so was the drake IIRC. This is why we think stealth bombers are getting remodeled (that and it makes sense with the new launchers)

Thanks for the link and here is some detail to the launchers in this video, enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUaMn3-8uo&feature=related