Fat lasers AKA bounty hunter skill

Darkorbit had "fatties" or "fat lasers" perfect when they first came out, they looked awesome! Brighter, thicker, and way more intimidating. I know this is way late, but i was curious as to why they changed them to a much less cool looking size and shade of color. Does anyone know why?

 

They caused visual issues with players, I'm not sure of all the reasons, but that was part of it.

 

I never had an issue with them .they changed it because the client changed and they almost never listen to us players .we all liked them better and it was suggested so many freaking time to change them back or at least allows us to have 2 options to switch to any one we like so players can see them as they like .but no bigpoint always does what they want

 

If you remember the lasers would often go in a different direction then the way of the target.

But yes, the old team never listened to us players.

 

Yeh, i want old fats back, but simply they won't even fit in this new game resolution. And the new laser design was created, to reduce server load and also increase the overall fps.

 

I only ever saw the old lasers when I played Uridium Wars. In comparison to the new lasers... hell I don't have a problem with my sparklers! pewpew!

 

As far as I remember, the reason given back then was to reduce lag. However lag got worse after the fat became skinnier.

 

The change in laser graphics was made to reduce server-lag, which it did. Before the change, there were some severe issues when there was a lot of laser-fire on the screen at once (especially in large-scale PvP combat) which would frequently lock up the game server-side - meaning that EVERYONE would lag out for a few seconds or longer. Users may still experience some lag when there is a lot of graphic activity onscreen, however it will not affect the entire server simultaneously. The severity of any graphics lag will depend on the settings and capabilities of your computer set-up.

 

I never saw a lot of laser fire cas when I fired my fats everyone popped

 

I also don't really like it that they changed it... Earlier there was a way to get the old lasers back but that's patched now.. If it was me I'd vote to put old lasers back in the game, they looked better

 

It's not that I don't mind the new fats but, they're a little dull just to say so. I did love the old fats, but I don't see any difference in the lag though.

 

I would Die just to have the old fats back i really miss it