[FEEDBACK] Explosions

[Fazmaster]

WOOOW! Didnt know that the explosions looked that awesome!

They truly do. These shots have neither been taken from a specific angle nor in a very special moment. It just how it looks ingame. Fantastic!

Ship starts burning more and more after taking severe hits, getting covered in smoke, explodes sector for sector blowing hull parts in space and this ending up in a big explosion followed by a flashing emp shock vanishing your shields away if you stand too close nearby. And all that while the massive battle around you going on.

The mechanics are there. The game engine is there. It's "just" about implementation.

That said, I really appreciate that the main focus has been put in UI, scale, economy, faction wars and the many other improvements we can already see in X4!

Still enjoying X: Rebirth while waiting for the linux build

[reanor]

Agreed, FXs are very underwhelming in X4... These explosions effects are from like 80s... little puffs of fiery smoke and it's a wreckage... I guess something to look forward to in SC. They got the idea right and implementing it well too. But like people said, X4 is like X2 except modern graphics, but not modern effects at all.

[marksnake]

Hello

Yes, the current explosion effects are terrible...please devs, just put a little love in your game here. It´s a shame having these lousy explosions.

That said, thanks for the coming updates and DLC.

[Socratatus]

Just don`t have the wreckage vanish afterwards. I love good randomise detonations with secondary explosions of giant metal beasts- But I hate it when they vanish into completely nothing afterwards.

Which objects are doing this specifically?

Sorry, I didn`t see this question until now.

None of them are and I didn`t say any were. I`m just getting ahead of it before someone makes it happen to add more explosions. I`ve seen too many sci-fi games that just vanish away the destroyed ship. Very unimmersive.

[tomchk]

I agree that porting over the XR explosions at least (I hope you can port over even more content!) would be such a great improvement. Please do this, Egosoft!

[bl3ek]

The more I play and get in to battles, the more I think this is an issue.

The battles feel a little less exciting and I think it's because of the lack of effects.

I really don't want to use the word stale, but...

[DeFragMe]

The more I play and get in to battles, the more I think this is an issue.

The battles feel a little less exciting and I think it's because of the lack of effects.

I really don't want to use the word stale, but...

yes.. killing ships just feels like iam cooking them, and not causing them to explode... but maybe we do this these days with our weapons. just a short "puff" and than a charred wreacked ship hits my hull and bounces off.

[bl3ek]

The more I play and get in to battles, the more I think this is an issue.

The battles feel a little less exciting and I think it's because of the lack of effects.

I really don't want to use the word stale, but...

yes.. killing ships just feels like iam cooking them, and not causing them to explode... but maybe we do this these days with our weapons. just a short "puff" and than a charred wreacked ship hits my hull and bounces off.

Fire after fire in to a larger ship equates to not much in the way of visual feedback. That really does drain the fun out of battles.

I think fighters have smoke trails when heavily damaged, which is nice, but we need to see bigger ships with fires, smoke, mini-explosions, visual failures, etc. etc.

Rebirth really did do that well and hopefully it can be cherry picked for these parts (explosions and effects).

[DeFragMe]

The more I play and get in to battles, the more I think this is an issue.

The battles feel a little less exciting and I think it's because of the lack of effects.

I really don't want to use the word stale, but...

yes.. killing ships just feels like iam cooking them, and not causing them to explode... but maybe we do this these days with our weapons. just a short "puff" and than a charred wreacked ship hits my hull and bounces off.

Fire after fire in to a larger ship equates to not much in the way of visual feedback. That really does drain the fun out of battles.

I think fighters have smoke trails when heavily damaged, which is nice, but we need to see bigger ships with fires, smoke, mini-explosions, visual failures, etc. etc.

Rebirth really did do that well and hopefully it can be cherry picked for these parts (explosions and effects).

yeah, for the bigger ships, but in X4 it kind of allways feels the same? no difference if i destroy a giant station , a XL ship or a S ship. Even the Moduls of a XL ship/station feel... boring ... to kill.

But yeah, at least the S ships have smoke trails, wich is funny.

[karjak]

After destroying a Xenon I i hit my trusters to get to a safe zone to not get hit by the blast, which was a bit disappointing since there was none so please devs if you could make it a bit shiny

[Tomahawk-NYC]

Yes, and randomize the explosions. LIke 5 different kinds, random etc. With some nice sound effects of course

Many of them include randomisation already.

thank you!!!!

[Buzz2005]

I agree that porting over the XR explosions at least (I hope you can port over even more content!) would be such a great improvement. Please do this, Egosoft!

This assets from rebirth explosions are in the game (there is a mod that brings them back, at least for L ships) so I hope its not that they left them there bc devs "lazy" rather they will implement them back after performance is flashed out

[Tomonor]

I agree that porting over the XR explosions at least (I hope you can port over even more content!) would be such a great improvement. Please do this, Egosoft!

This assets from rebirth explosions are in the game (there is a mod that brings them back, at least for L ships) so I hope its not that they left them there bc devs "lazy" rather they will implement them back after performance is flashed out

I can't speak for Egosoft (obviously), but it's most likely that the new explosion effects were created for long term purpose and are here to stay.

[zebai]

I would like to see a little more realism personally. An explosion in space should be more about the air/gas in the ship with bulkheads blowing out than a fireball. Fireballs would be brief and soundless but alot of debris being blow out. Although a true ship blowout in space would be very brief and visually uninspiring for a more entertaining option it could happen slower in multiple locations. I think it would be perfect if the ship with hull damage would show it visually along with air leaking from the hull of a still working ship.

[Thecrippler]

i agree the game is lack of Explosions weapons sound effects animations effect and this is a kickstarter game has 150% better effect what x4 has to offer ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXJnueIiPs) steel cracking when capitals ships go down aka sinking ships ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxzdmLMKidM )

[Dread Quixadhal]

My favorite explosions are the ones from the Babylon 5 TV series.

Specifically, they factored in details like the color of the explosion being based on the race of the pilot and crew. Red-orange for oxygen breathers, green for methane breathers. Small ships tended to look like "normal" explosions as the atmosphere that allows combustion burst out in semi-random patterns as it snakes around the twisting metal of the ship that's breaking apart.

OTOH, big ships would explode in brilliant white globes of light, as their reactors went critical and created brief miniature suns that half melted the wreckage as the heat and hard radiation flooded outward.

[mr.WHO]

I must say that best ship explosions (in overall design and FX) I saw were the exploding capships in Freespace 2:
https://youtu.be/dRqn0hzoy4c?t=1260

[Buzz2005]

here is the mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations ... ?tab=files

if current explosions are here to stay that would be just sad

what is so wrong with this:
https://i.imgur.com/DYgCkDe.gifv
https://i.imgur.com/g8UEoMk.gifv

[Kintanar]

I would like to see a little more realism personally. An explosion in space should be more about the air/gas in the ship with bulkheads blowing out than a fireball. Fireballs would be brief and soundless but alot of debris being blow out. Although a true ship blowout in space would be very brief and visually uninspiring for a more entertaining option it could happen slower in multiple locations. I think it would be perfect if the ship with hull damage would show it visually along with air leaking from the hull of a still working ship.

Well, what is collapsing is the reactor core, the leaving spaces in the interior of a big ship are just a little percentage compared to the big machinery and components of the whole ship, so explosions from the air/gas in the ship bulkheads are negligible.

[Thecrippler]

here is the mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations ... ?tab=files

if current explosions are here to stay that would be just sad

what is so wrong with this:
https://i.imgur.com/DYgCkDe.gifv
https://i.imgur.com/g8UEoMk.gifv

wow i didn't know it existed ty