Shipped today...

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Originally Posted by unholydog

For example take the saturn rings (I assume it saturn) which look like a bitmap at first, however fly to it and it develops into proper individual detailed asteroids (actually impressive the first time you do this).

Hehe.. I was admiring that just long enough to fly smack into an asteroid.

Originally Posted by LtJamesWatts

Thx for the tip on the gamma setting, I'll keep that in mind for when I get the game.

I haven't had that trouble, so it might be specific to some graphics cards, or a driver issue.

Highest settings shouldn't be a problem, got a really good config.

Shouldn't be a problem for many; space sims are rarely that demanding and this is a lot less so than X3, for example.

First possible 'issue', and a question for unholydog, though. Communications. At the end of the battle that concludes the tutorial mission I called up the messages history to see a load of what was obviously battle cockpit chatter, none of which I either heard or saw as pager messages. It's obviously completely useless after the event, so am I missing something? I'm guessing the original voice chat was in Russian (like the sample when setting the voice volume level) and that was never included (or translated and included) in the English language version(?), but is there really no way of seeing it on screen as it's generated? None of the subtitles or pager options seem to do the trick. It's not essential as the 'objective' messages tell you what you really need to know, but even the text would really add to the atmosphere. After the battle is finished, a couple of portraits appear several times top left, obviously supposedly with messages - but I can't hear them, and those ones don't seem to appear on the pager list. Any ideas, m8?

BTW, request to 1C if any of the devs ever read this board.. if Russian cockpit chat was left out (?) is there any way of enabling it, or making the files available? I'd rather have Russian than silence. Indeed, if the English version ever gets a patch I'd rather like to have a Russian language option throughout with English subtitles.

BTW (again), having had a poke around the install directory there seems an awful lot of configuration settings you can mess about with. Something who is into that sort of thing might have a lot fun.