little things

[INCC74656I]

Hello, I have been following this game since 05 when i first heard about it, i'm very glad cryptic got it as it has turned into what looks to be an extremely good game. From watching the videos and seeing the new screen shots the phaser shots appear to be disproportianly large, in teh shows the phasers from ships were relitivly thin beams while in the screen shots they appear to be nacell diameter. is it just me or has anyone else noticed this as well?

[Sunborn]

Perhaps it is the ambient light from the phasers, the glow in other words. I expect they will look much different in play. It may also be that thinner phasers are to difficult to see. I seem to be seeing a variety of phaser width though. We'll have to see when the game is being played, how it all works out.

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[ryuto]

There's also the fact that they don't completely emit from the emitters as they do in the show with the charge visible moving over the emitters until they reach the firing area but I can see why they had to keep that out of the MMO due to graphics clutter and possible slow down in game.

[Kaybok]

NCC74656, The phasers look good to me. I didn't really notice anything strange about their size.

Welcome to the community. I smell a Voyager lover! :p

[tenchi314]

I wouldn't worry too much about graphics at this point in development unless something is grossly wrong art direction wise. Most of the graphics will be tightened up with better textures and what not as we get closer to release. Right now they are probably mostly dealing with core game mechanics to get the game into a working state so they can test and gradually phase in all they plan on having in the game.