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My favorite by a long shot has to be the warp effect from the 2009 Star Trek movie. It's a shame they only got one good shot of it. In the sequels they added those dumb sparkles and it significantly detracts from the effect, IMO.  For a while I was partial to the "jump" from Battlestar Galactica.  It makes for a great visual when performed by a large fleet, especially jumping in. I don't think it has the impact of the Star Trek warp, tho.
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The FTL effect from the CGI Captain Harlock film gets points for creativity, but I think it's too drawn out to be top tier.
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Applewhite posted:The FTL effect from the CGI Captain Harlock film gets points for creativity, but I think it's too drawn out to be top tier. That's pretty awesome. I like the jump effect for capital ships in Elite Dangerous. The noise they make and the dark clouds it generates is foreboding. You don't wanna get near one when it jumps in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTwtZrtmOCU
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May 15, 2018 04:01
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Nothing will ever top going to plaid. MY BRAINS ARE GOING INTO MY FEET
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When I was 6 there was a cartoon I watched every day called “Starblazers”. In one episode they use a warp engine and the effect was almost scary, the ship dissolved and existed in all times at once, like flying over cavemen and dinosaurs. As an adult I found out it was a Japanese cartoon and they edited out the fact the the warp engine made the girls be naked for some reason.
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May 15, 2018 04:31
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TopHatGenius posted:That's pretty awesome. Oh that's pretty cool. That's a good one for when you want suspense. Like "oh poo poo, what's gonna come out?"
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May 15, 2018 04:32
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The Collector ship jumping in from Mass Effect 2 startled the poo poo out of me when I first played it.
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May 15, 2018 04:38
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May 15, 2018 04:40
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The hyperspace effect from Star Wars is pretty good. Very basic and minimalist but still packs a lot of punch. It shows FTL doesn't need to be flashy to be cool. 
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May 15, 2018 05:01
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I remember this being way cooler but still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us3j3n_QMWw&t=96s
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Was going to share the warp effect from Star Trek: The Motion Picture as my least favorite because it's so busy, but watching it again I guess it isn't as horrible as I remembered. The flash at the end makes up for a lot of the gaudy nonsense. Still I think it's way overdone.
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May 15, 2018 05:49
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Of course there's a supercut of all the Star Trek starships going to warp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-1kkB_qF28
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May 15, 2018 05:51
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Enterprise E had a pretty good one.
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May 15, 2018 05:54
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Applewhite posted:The hyperspace effect from Star Wars is pretty good. Very basic and minimalist but still packs a lot of punch. Yeah, Star Wars ships going to hyperspace is good, but I always preferred when they arrived. Rogue One did a great job when the rebel fleet arrived above Scarif. I like the stutter as the fleet pops in. It was well handled in the X Wing games, great tension to finish your objective near death and frantically close the S foils and mash the H key.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah, Star Wars ships going to hyperspace is good, but I always preferred when they arrived. Rogue One did a great job when the rebel fleet arrived above Scarif. I like the stutter as the fleet pops in. Watching the fleets in star wars popping in like popcorn is really fun. I also enjoy watching a fleet arrive in Sins of Solar Empire, especially when it's mine.
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i just realized ftl = faster than light
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Speaking of Sins, their in-game FTL effects were okay, but they looked really hot in the trailer for Rebellion
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Applewhite posted:Speaking of Sins, their in-game FTL effects were okay, but they looked really hot in the trailer for Rebellion Individual FTL was meh. But maxing out fleet size and jumping as one in formation to war was always great.
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Considering how it works, the Warhammer 40k Warp Travel in Dawn of War 2 looks rather awesome. They're not flying in - they're being PULLED in. Here's how it looks when a ship goes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW9BPyXkPmM And very briefly - when a ship (after being lost for hundreds of years in the warp) comes back out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9znmTuV4U Soul Reaver has a new favorite as of 07:53 on May 17, 2018 |
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So which is your preferred type of FTL? Instantaneous jumps or zooming from one place to another really fast?
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WH40K FTL owns because rather than humanity discovering a cool technology to provide some novel method of transportation they have hosed up psychics who die at like age 30 from doing this open a portal to a crazy demon dimension that coincidentally is faster to travel through than normal space. if something goes wrong chances are extradimensional horrors will torture and murder everyone on board and the ship will get spat out somewhere filled with flesh-beasts and just drift in space until somebody tries to retrieve it. everyone assumes the god-emperor has their back or whatever while they're in there but also they're hoping all the warp-demons don't just one day decide to test that en masse. drat I wish I had discovered this poo poo when I was 16.
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Kinsky posted:WH40K FTL owns because rather than humanity discovering a cool technology to provide some novel method of transportation they have hosed up psychics who die at like age 30 from doing this open a portal to a crazy demon dimension that coincidentally is faster to travel through than normal space. if something goes wrong chances are extradimensional horrors will torture and murder everyone on board and the ship will get spat out somewhere filled with flesh-beasts and just drift in space until somebody tries to retrieve it. everyone assumes the god-emperor has their back or whatever while they're in there but also they're hoping all the warp-demons don't just one day decide to test that en masse. drat I wish I had discovered this poo poo when I was 16. It’s still bitchin when you’re 30. :foreveralone:
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Kinsky posted:WH40K FTL owns because rather than humanity discovering a cool technology to provide some novel method of transportation they have hosed up psychics who die at like age 30 from doing this open a portal to a crazy demon dimension that coincidentally is faster to travel through than normal space. if something goes wrong chances are extradimensional horrors will torture and murder everyone on board and the ship will get spat out somewhere filled with flesh-beasts and just drift in space until somebody tries to retrieve it. everyone assumes the god-emperor has their back or whatever while they're in there but also they're hoping all the warp-demons don't just one day decide to test that en masse. drat I wish I had discovered this poo poo when I was 16. FYI the movie "Event Horizon" is sort of like WH40k fanfiction.
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Heres a good one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPrtQ9AdoM0&t=296s
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Applewhite posted:For a while I was partial to the "jump" from Battlestar Galactica. I loved the "Adama Maneuver".
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Super Waffle posted:Heres a good one that's what I needed, thank you oh and I guess if I am to sorta contribute maybe this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2hM1tyEL0U&t=79s incoherent light has a new favorite as of 02:50 on May 17, 2018 |
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Kinsky posted:WH40K FTL owns because rather than humanity discovering a cool technology to provide some novel method of transportation they have hosed up psychics who die at like age 30 from doing this open a portal to a crazy demon dimension that coincidentally is faster to travel through than normal space. if something goes wrong chances are extradimensional horrors will torture and murder everyone on board and the ship will get spat out somewhere filled with flesh-beasts and just drift in space until somebody tries to retrieve it. everyone assumes the god-emperor has their back or whatever while they're in there but also they're hoping all the warp-demons don't just one day decide to test that en masse. drat I wish I had discovered this poo poo when I was 16. They have technology that keeps the demons off of them while they're flying through Hell to get to where there going. The craziest thing about FTL in 40K is that that's literally the only way to do it. Every form of meaningful space travel has something to do with the Warp in one way or another as the setting assumes that relativity completely, totally holds as a hard and fast rule of the physical universe. The Warp, though...poo poo's different there. Anyway, the books tend to talk about things like Geller Fields that keep the Warp at bay so they can travel through it safely. It usually works. You know...usually. The other snag is that you can't even look at the warp without special protection without completely losing your mind or getting corrupted by it so the ships themselves don't tend to have a lot of windows. The Warp is also how the Imperium handles galactic-scale communication. Specifically trained psychics with special equipment are hooked into a network of other psychics that send messages through the Warp to each other. Only, well...this is Hell we're talking about. Sometimes what you get back, uh...isn't the message, the psyker explodes, and now you have a huge loving demon on your ship just itching to bring some friends with him. For all their uses psykers aren't exactly loved and respected as their powers are literally channeling the power of Hell into the real world and that can have consequences.
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When playing a Psyker in the 40k RPG, you have to roll on this table every time you use an ability:  
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40k always just sounds so tryhard edgy grimdark, but god drat I love their take on it
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Super Waffle posted:When playing a Psyker in the 40k RPG, you have to roll on this table every time you use an ability: It wasn't every time you used any power. At least not the version I played. Even so anybody playing a psyker really, really didn't want to use the big powers even if it would solve the situation completely because the stronger the power the more likely bad poo poo happened. Granted you didn't even want to be spamming weak powers because even minor stuff could potentially leave you clawing your own eyes out while you vomit demons. Sentient Data posted:40k always just sounds so tryhard edgy grimdark, but god drat I love their take on it It's a fun setting because it knows how completely absurd it is and just kind of revels in it. It's not trying to pretend that it's some masterpiece of anything. It's just standing there like "yeah I'm totally loving ridiculous and I like it. Deal." It doesn't even play itself entirely straight or act like it's super duper cool or anything. It's just kind of there, doing its thing.
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i feel like i'd stop using my smartphone if every time i shitpost on twitter there was a 1% chance of it turning into a demon and a .25% chance of it getting sucked into a black hole
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Soul Reaver posted:FYI the movie "Event Horizon" is sort of like WH40k fanfiction. Same with Chronicles of Riddick. The Necrons are all kinds of based off 40k. I cant find either clip but they talk about the warp and going mad looking into it as well as using Psychers for communication through the warp.
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Soul Reaver posted:Considering how it works, the Warhammer 40k Warp Travel in Dawn of War 2 looks rather awesome. They're not flying in - they're being PULLED in. In Homeworld they open a gate that envelops them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BcZ5rgs_Us&t=710s The artists said it was a placeholder effect they never totally finished but liked enough to stick with. Just imagine it's anything else. 
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TopHatGenius posted:That's pretty awesome. In the same vein I like the ones from Freespace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGyDbzLwX0&t=745s Usually you just see smaller lights as fighters or lighter cruisers come in but when a massive one pops open with the schweeeeEEEEEEE, it's like... poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zXnTKkEr54&t=863s e; about 12:30 and 14:25 for each video respectively, if I hosed up the timestamps
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The craziest thing about FTL in 40K is that that's literally the only way to do it. Every form of meaningful space travel has something to do with the Warp in one way or another as the setting assumes that relativity completely, totally holds as a hard and fast rule of the physical universe. The Necrons have FTL that doesn't use the Warp at all (seeing as warp travel requires a soul, which the Necrons lack). Except they're Clarke's Third Law: The Faction, and they refuse to explain their technology to any of the fleshy races. 
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:The Necrons have FTL that doesn't use the Warp at all (seeing as warp travel requires a soul, which the Necrons lack). Except they're Clarke's Third Law: The Faction, and they refuse to explain their technology to any of the fleshy races. Warp travel actually doesn't require a soul. The warp exists whether you have a soul or not but things without souls don't interact with the warp. But yeah the necrons don't explain themselves so who the hell knows how any if their poo poo actually works? Even the Tau use part of the warp for space travel and they have no presence in it at all. They don't have psykers because they can't.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Warp travel actually doesn't require a soul. The warp exists whether you have a soul or not but things without souls don't interact with the warp. But yeah the necrons don't explain themselves so who the hell knows how any if their poo poo actually works? No explanation offered for why none of the other races in their commune can’t cover down.
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Applewhite posted:No explanation offered for why none of the other races in their commune can’t cover down. I think they were playing with a new variety of space dwarf that could be psychic that the Tau were bros with but I have no idea if that idea actually took off. Haven't paid much attention to the fluff in recent years. The Tau used to have a non-Warp way and were really nice dudes but that got retconned away to fit the setting better. Now the Tau don't go full on into the Warp to do space travel but they basically dip their toes in. They know what psykers are because they exist all over the rest of the galaxy but the Tau themselves are never psykers and don't register in the Warp. But that, you know, doesn't stop a demon from tearing a Fire Warrior in half or from a psyker puking lightning all over them. Even if they can't interact with it personally they know it exists.
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I dunno if it's my favorite effect ever but I absolutely love the presentation of this one.
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