Too bad...
SotS looks very nice. Maybe if IC does the right things with their shaders for sins, then it will look similar. If the particle effects are lacking then I can certainly fix it up for them.
The only effects that I have problems with are TEC missiles... Those darn things get spewed out by the thousands, so making a nice effect or making an optimizable effect is hard to balance...
(WHY CAN'T THE JAVELIS ONLY FIRE ONE OR TWO MISSILES???)