just in general ...

[Kuze]

To be honest I allways hated and hate the weapon effects in Freelancer. They look like a clown vommiting a rainbow...**** fireworks they are. Sometimes you can not see the enemy becouse of the useless fancy effects. I think that simple, small and less colorful effects are much more better than the ones in game and mods now. Take for example the Star wars mods. They have simple effects for weapons and it is really a joy to have pvp with them. Sure some big and powerful battleship weapons looks good with fancy effects, but that is all.

About the models. Well look at the sci-fi games nowadays, the majority of the ships are sophisticated and hi-tech and it not allways means they needs to be aerodynamic (useless thing in space anyway) or steamlined.

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