Does anyone else kinda wish supercruise targets weren't as bright as suns?

drkaii · Oct 26, 2016

My main reason is that, seeing as they auto-spawn from planets, whenever I approach a planet in the bubble, I don't get to see the planet come in to view from a teeny tiny spec, and enjoy the moment. All I see is lots of bright weird glowing things :/

Kind of an immersion killer. It's a shame though because I like the concept of supercruise being some crazy state of physics and one of its effects is to make your light much brighter.

dutchy2000 · Oct 26, 2016

It helps to turn off bloom, my eyes were burning from it was so bright, after turning off bloom it was much better, but still pretty bright.

Aussiedroid · Oct 27, 2016

I tend to agree, although not an issue all the time, but some busy systems it gets a bit much. Blocks out your target sometimes.

I assume the effect was added to help highlight the ships in space, but brightness probably could be halved and still be clear to see.

Cmdr Aeries Hunter · Oct 27, 2016

drkaii said:
My main reason is that, seeing as they auto-spawn from planets, whenever I approach a planet in the bubble, I don't get to see the planet come in to view from a teeny tiny spec, and enjoy the moment. All I see is lots of bright weird glowing things :/

Kind of an immersion killer. It's a shame though because I like the concept of supercruise being some crazy state of physics and one of its effects is to make your light much brighter.

Yes that would be great!

syngyne · Oct 27, 2016

I wish they didn't look like comets, and left a little wave of distortion behind them instead of a tail.

Baby · Oct 27, 2016

Ship representation in SC is ripe for a graphical overhaul and I agree that the lights are too bright and too big. Maybe down the line they will get updated like the hyperjump animation.

DOCa Cola · Oct 27, 2016

And they look silly when ships are making sharp turns in supercruise and their tail behind waves around matching that turn.

defekt · Oct 27, 2016

Visual SC ship representation is definitely a weakness.

Too bright.

Tail spasms.

They jerk around like crazy when you get close to them (which is probably more of a netcode prediction failure).

isotone · Oct 27, 2016

Yeah I'd love to see them a lot smaller and a little less bright. It ruins the view coming in a lot for me at the moment. In fact if they are more realistically sized, perhaps the traffic could be bumped up even more in the busiest systems and look really nice, giving systems quite distinctive looks with shipping lanes etc.

xythum · Oct 27, 2016

Way too bright. I can park myself in front of a star and stare at it without discomfort while the light from a supercruising ship is too bright?!