Aesthetically which version of Elite Dangerous is your favorite.

[Tettric]

I've been looking at all of the old Newsletters recently and I've realised that Premium Beta 2.02 was by far my favorite version as far as aesthetics go. Obviously I'm not talking about the resolution of textures on planets or anything but the overall graphics style seems a lot more spacey to me than what we have now.

In PB2 space was a very sharp, cold seeming place. A place of high contrast between light and dark. One of the biggest differences is the graphical style of planetary rings. Sure before Beta 2 came out I looked at the preview of the rings and got excited but now looking back I find I prefer the old style (I also had a much better framerate with the old style ).

I also preferred the render of the Galaxy for the background star field. It seemed a lot more convincing.

So, what version of Elite Dangerous has been your favorite as far as visuals go?

Is there an outright winner?

EDIT:

Here are pictures of Premium Beta 2, I'll try to add more of other versions as I find them and verify the versions they came from!

Premium Beta 2

Spoiler

http://www.elitedangerous.com/images/newsletter_2014_05_30/Screenshot_0205.jpg
http://www.elitedangerous.com/images/newsletter_2014_05_30/Screenshot_0303.jpg
http://www.elitedangerous.com/images/newsletter_2014_05_30/Screenshot_0066.jpg

 

[Tettric]

Probably worth mentioning that this doesn't include the HUD style, the physical world in the game.

 

[cptzipzap]

would help if you included some pictures / screenshots...

here are some 3.05 ones:

 

[euclydian]

The current beta looks the best to me so far. I remember beta 2 having rather horrid purple sky (though I did suffer lighting bugs). It also had those twinkling stars which I wasn't fond of, but they look great now.

 

[Tettric]

I was thinking of including screenshots but I haven't got any of my own in anything before Beta 1. If I were to use someone else's I may not be able to accurately list them according to version!