The beams from the lucifer fs1 non-port were just horrible. After that, you have vanilla fs2 with the vanilla beams, and the shivans ones are just horrible. They have that wavy tearing apart look to them, which just looks ugly. Especially considering that the wavy parts don't move forward, they just stay looking horrible for the whole 7 second shivan beam barrage. It looks even more horrible for the shivan AAA turrets. I mean the terran and vasudan beams look a ton cleaner and even superior to shivan beams. When shivan beams got the tearing apart ripping thingy going on, it's ****ing ugly. What's more menacing is a clean coherent red beam coming from a lucifer. That's why i at least liked the shivan animated beams a lot better, but the high resolution scp beams for terrans and vasudans on the other hand are really great. But, i am a fan of the animated beams more, can't wait till the newer beams come out.