What does it mean when the star 'pulses' when you first enter the system after jumping?

[VR andysonofbob]

Am I right in thinking it is the fuel star
if and only if
you have been jumping and doing nothing else e.g. getting from A to B ASAP?
Thanks!

 

[Zieman]

What do you mean with that 'pulsing'?
Is it visual? Audio?

 

[Arioch]

Am I right in thinking it is the fuel star
if and only if
you have been jumping and doing nothing else e.g. getting from A to B ASAP?
Thanks!

I’ve always thought it’s a graphical glitch related to the new lighting in the game. I think I started seeing it after that game upgrade, not when the star texture ‘upgrade’ happened (this shortened hyperspace loading times but meant a pizza-like low quality texture on arrival. It’s much improved now).

 

[varonica]

What do you mean with that 'pulsing'?
Is it visual? Audio?

I think it's a lighting effect caused by texture loading, it used to happen on my old vid card but when I upgraded it stopped happening.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

Stars do what now?

 

[Dr. Nagi]

I have no idea what you guys are talking about o.o

 

[Gibbon]

Pulsing? Que?

 

[BradHann]

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[Morbad]

Sounds like HDR/tone mapping being applied.

Could be explained in-game by the cockpit windows/Remlok adjusting the luminance they allow through.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

I think some people have been out in the black too long. Has anyone ever analyzed the symptoms of early onset Space Madness?

 

[VirtueXOI]

raxxla signal

 

[bobilon]

i think your connection is simply too fast, you are entering system before client completely draws all system bodies