Since all the crap I've accumulated in my /fs2 directory has been blocking a fair bit of the improvements over the last several months, there's a lot I haven't seen that's probably old hat to most of you. I can see nebulas now, for instance.

However, at least on my rig the new Shivan beam effects look pants. The AAAf is a jarring combination of red and white polys that looks like it's missing a glow, and the larger Shivan beams look much worse (to my eye) than the new TV ones. The new beamglows all kick ass, and I like the new Shivan one, but the beams themselves seem to be broken.
I tried to get a screencap, but the jarring appearance isn't really obvious unless it's moving. I can only describe it as a jumble of solid-white and solid-red sections, without the 'red beam with white core' effect the old ones (and the new TV ones) had. I'm not 100% on when these new effects came in, and the damn search is broken anyway, so I apologise if this is a dead horse.