So how did Star Trek turn out?

Metalzoic said:

Good? Great? Hellishly, horribly hideous?

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It's a COMPETENT table release the ugly textures prominent in Vita releases are back , particuliarly on the launcher boxes I noticed . But turning my Vita on here are some quick notes:

*coin door texture blurry / low resoloution (who cares it's a static graphic not relevent to gameplay)
*playfield in front of table is in higher resoloution than middle or rear playfield (Farsight uses this trick to save time on renders and increase frames per sec )
*bumper side railings are very fuzzy resoloution (laziness, those front side rails in better resoloution should not affect frames)
*playfield art texture of aliens is low resoloution

in short they basically did the same as Scared Stiff and Twilight Zone, a focus on making the game intro show off high res. backglass , high res. table pans , it's only when you start the game that the TRUE GRAPHICS are shown . There's a lack of shadowing , lack of dynamic lighting , and model textures are in basic colors .
I'd rate the table graphically a C + . Below par of what the PS Vita is capable of rendering , but worth owning .

It is my estimate that when they discovered a formula to make 30 FPS , they render all Vita games the same way.
+ front bumpers high res models
+ balls high res
+ everything else low res.(most models, rails, toys)
+ game intro pans of backglass and playfield high res.
+ 2-4 lighting effects
+ no shade rendering/ no relflections

Farsight makes their Ps Vita tables like painters paint oil paintings , you dont paint in every detail and it's best enjoyed as whole package , when we play the game and the ball is flying , you dont notice everything. In short this is a better translation than TwilightZone was , but could be better?

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Metalzoic said:

Thanks for the update. Glad I passed on it.
It may look great on PS3, but I'm so sick of these guys that I'm no longer giving them my support.

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Sinistar said:

FarSight is just borrowing their PS Vita version from a template they made for mobile devices . Which is why they dont use advanced PS Vita GPU or multicore CPU

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Sinistar said:

whoa hold your horses Metazoic from out of the darkness tonight a ray of hope . Version 1.10 on Vita came out , which has from what my old eyes are seeing upped the details of several tables , Scared Stiff still not great, but you see they are making strides with the classic tables and some of the old tables were improved.

I think the PROBLEM is FarSight optimises the game for people using the mostly discarded vertical field view , that forces you to use touch screen to use the flippers , the game always looks better that way, BUT no one can get good ball control by turning Vita on it's side for game playing, so we play it horizontally naturally.

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