This was one of the first VFX created for the Aru faction – so a sort of benchmark of the style and quality for these kinds of VFX.

As usual in RTS game VFX there was a balance to strike between the cool factor and it not producing too much visual noise as there are usually many things happening at once. With Immortal (special playable avatars the player embodies) abilities a lot more leeway is given for that.