I've just started designing my own ships (well, copying ones I like) and so I've been trying to get the best views of battles. I'm getting very poor results with Cinematic battle mode, unfortunately.
Take the following example,
While the view starts out OK (the ship passing by in the foreground is a great shot and the focus on the first player ship to die is suitably impressive) it has a number of issues:
- Enemy missiles appear before the camera even shows what enemy you're facing.
- The first enemy ship is dead before any of them have been in view.
- The destruction of only 4 of the 15 enemy ships is shown.
- From about halfway through the battle the cinematic cam mostly shows empty screen.
- Hearing explosions and beam fire happening off-screen (it sounds like just behind the camera) while all you can see is a single ship maneuvering is kinda frustrating
If anyone wishes to reproduce this, my savegame is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45479330/Frederation%201B%20-%20battle.GC3Sav