From what I was told, the Atlas, Warthog and Vulture ship models were due to be replaced some time ago with new, cooler high-poly models along the lines of the Prom, Maud and Valk. So how come our Atlas is the same ship that graced Vendetta in the days of 2.x? Why is our Vulture even less cool than the one that was the first ship in Vendetta? Is this gonna happen or what? Even the Frigate existed in 2000...

http://web.archive.org/web/20000604121023/www.guildsoftware.com/wgafshot.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20000821193450/www.guildsoftware.com/wgafshot.html

Wow, way to start a thread on an advesarial note.

I actually don't recall any promises of higher poly replacements, but keep in mind that financial pressures have required an immediate push for Vendetta to sprout features and become marketable. Updates for art and features may have to wait until after the initial "go live" release.

Meh, I figured I'd try a new approach. Something rather more aggressive...

Incarnate verified that we won't see any new ships or any change to the current models by final release. All that stuff will be coming later. From what I've read a while back, it appears that most of the devs have taken up coding in addition to their regular jobs in order to squash bugs and make the game more feature complete. Because the emphasis has switched coding, the artists have little or no time to do any graphics work. If we see anything related to graphics soon, it'll probably only be minor changes to the interface.

features = good
art = good but slightly less important.


And yes at one time there I also remember talk of some of hte lower poly count ships being either replaced or significantly upgraded in polys, however i'd rather see content over eye-candy.