AssumedPseudonym wrote: …Is the Svalbard Explorer supposed randomly to show up in the intro screen as of 1.6…? o.O
Real Men show up randomly in the intro screen.
....and Kate Morgental, apparently. She can duke it out with the 330M Mule swarms.
In terms of actual feedback: the new background effects make the black edges on the little "mylar" pieces that fly away from exploding ships look a bit ugly....while it shouldn't be a high priority, re-rendering these without the edging effects will likely make ship destruction look even cooler than it does right now.
This is actually a thing in general with stock (Ie: Truespace) rendered stuff, particularly older renders....it has a black edges around parts of it that blended in reasonably well in the old background system, but really, really
doesn't in the new one. Wolfy's TSB ships tend to have the opposite effect....before they looked a little too 'clean'....now they fit in with the starscape rather excellently. The effect is most obvious on smaller stuff, so the big spectacular stuff mostly doesn't suffer too badly.
This release has been pretty fun so far, with relatively few issues (apart from the broken missions that everyone has). Between that and the fun ministry tickets I've been able to file today, it's been a nice evening.
I ran through a few systems and I'll try the Battle Arena later, but absolutely amazing graphics!
