Normally I get ~30-40 fps but I noticed it dropped to sub-20 regularly, especially during combat. At first I figured it was due to weapon effects or something but after a while I noticed it always happens when I got the "thanks for defending us" message. Then I started noticing it during other communication as well.
Maybe it would be possible to add an option to disable those visuals, just leaving the audio cue? I'm not in the camp that finds them hideously ugly, but if they're costing me frames that's a different story
