Will you, please, put better textures, and make a better particle sistem, for the high-end graphic cards ? Take a look at EVE Online. P.S. more polygons at ships and stations would be nice too.

Hmmm, the graphics are pretty damn good here. Does the game look like the screenshots when you play? If not, hit ESC, then Options and max out your graphics and video settings.

Perhaps he has Maxed it out.. Isn't that the issue with the Level of Details slider?
that 1 is highest and 20 is lowest?

Yea, for a long time I kept wondering why my frame-rates were so incredibly bad...
Then someone mentioned that 1 was best LoD as opposed to worst as I thought.

Some of the roids need better textures.. like the ugly ones in s9...

I want more detailed textures... and PS 3.0 support (for the roids)...

Come to think of it... the particles do need a tad of work, but they are acceptable.

I just dont like the AA bug (nvidia's drivers?) . Where the ice roids lose their bump mapping (and other textures also disappear, EX: Lights on s11 station, cargo..).

Vendetta's graphics were excellent for when I started playing, (bit over a year ago) but are now showing their age. Texture resolution, ship models, and lack of some more detailed skyboxes are the biggest culprits. Warp animation looks kind of kid-ish too.

I have already maxed the graphics from my graphic card and from the game. I have the latest video drivers from ATI (mine is 9500 PRO) and I'm playing with OpenGL (1024x768x32) because Direct3D works only in 320x240x16 resolution. Sometimes the textures dissapear, they turn to black as i approach the roids and stations. Then I have to log off and back on. It's strange.

P.S.: The game looks better than i see in screenshots. Put a gamma slider in options menu, please...

there is one.

Dont forget that you can slide down in the menus.

cheers

There is a gamma slider for the DirectX driver only...

As for gfx, well, I like 'em just like they are. Here's some I took just last week (no post-processing except format conversion used):

http://www.roguelazer.com/vscreens/

PS: Okay, I convess, the frigate one is a -little- older.

rogue, are you saying that you don't want the gfx to be better?

I have everything maxed out (rglow off). I expect more :P. If this game is coming out this summer, Id expect amazing, jaw-dropping graphix... which is what I expect for any game coming out this year.

Vendetta's gfx are OK, but there are some things that really ruin the look... like the background, ugly roids... low-quality looking textures on stations (s11), very pointy roids (s9), and some other things.

IMO the graphics here are great, however many games coming out this summer have excellent graphics. For another year or so I think the current graphics will be good yet, eventually they will need to be upgraded.

PS MonkRX- what exactly is an ugly roid?? I though roids were just hunks of rock and ice...

The roids do seem dated. Almost like the ones from Freelancer. When I think "asteroid" I don't think "object with ten faces." I usually thing of something rounded with craters.. only about half the asteroids in vendetta fit that bill.

Since the roids don't really effect gameplay I don't mind their simplicity. I can, however, see where others are coming from when they say "Hey, this game looks old."

All I have to say is if they take the high-poly roids from 2,3,5,6,12, and 15 and put them elsewhere, it'll become impossible to play on either of my machines. I get REASONABLE fps with no backgrounds. As soon as I turn it to the low setting the fps plummets and the game skips around when I'm near those roids.

What graphics card do you have? It runs fine at 1024 x 768 on a 32 meg ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility...

It doesn't work with 1024x768x32, only in 1024x768x16 :((

My Mobility 7500 runs at 1024x768*32 if textures are set to medium...

most ppl do not even play with the min requirements and I remember once Incarnate thought they were going to raise the mins b4 the release, dunno if that has changed. If so, they may be doing some graphics upgrades to serv the higher end machines.

I personally don't even notice roids except if there in my way. I can see how you would think they are outdated though. Truthfully they are 2 years old and so are getting a bit up there in age.

i've got a hornet !!! but it is very ugly...

it's very old as well. one of the first models in the public version of vendetta.

Besides, why do space ships have to be pretty? Look at goa'old (sp?) ships or the borg cube.