I love the explosions in the game. It is one of the systems that gets my dopamine running.
The wrecks however are pretty anti-climactic, especially when killing larger ships.
Would it be possible to get ship specific wrecks? I’d love to see the skeleton or frame of the destroyed ship, which resisted disintegration, remain floating in space.
I think it would be worth the investment, but maybe I am too sentimental and underestimating the hurdles of implementing such a change.
While I’m at it I might as well add that it would be really cool to have unique explosions based on the weapons used. Lasers could cause the ship to burst from a pinpoint spot before exploding from the puncture location. Projectile guns could cause the ship to burst from many spots with large flames, with full explosions only happening on occasion to simulate the fuel or ammunition being hit. Hybrid guns could have a higher chance of explosions, but being similar to projectile guns. And missiles could just guarantee explosions. Breacher pod damage could prevent explosions altogether, due critical systems and crew being taken out causing the ship to be incapacitated. And I am sure the team could figure out what to do with the other types of weapons like disintegrators and whatnot.
Factions could have their own color for explosions, to simulate specific technology and fuel/ammunition.
Maybe improve the ship tracking to track the explosions as well, since I feel like sometimes my camera resets too fast when my target blows up. Maybe I am resetting the camera with my own input though. It’s not very intuitive, since I sometimes try to view the explosion from multiple angles, but I don’t think it’s possible.
I’m asking for a lot here, and I am just shooting ideas, but I think CCP could pull this off. I am not sure about the technical limitations, but the game has evolved so much in other areas that I am pretty confident in their talent. Again, I might be underestimating the technical limitations however, and the investment cost as well.
I do think the upside is significant though. It would make for absolutely AMAZING trailers, and specific content creators could make really nice videos with this. I am convinced that this would get more players to undock and do more pve.
In any case CCP is doing amazing work overall, even if they can’t make this dream a reality. Keep up the good work!