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Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


DonDoodles posted:

I was really dragging my feet on this, but with the realization that the future of Disco hangs in the balance, I spent the day finishing the Dental summer event video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Gj5vy9fA0

Also -- finally solved the issue with video degradation in youtube, so it should look a lot better than my previous videos.

Looking good. Although how were those hackers running in the hoverboard race so fast???

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Quaan
Aug 15, 2001
Thanks for the advice, it's already noticeably helping.

Aleth
Aug 2, 2008

Pillbug

DonDoodles posted:

I was really dragging my feet on this, but with the realization that the future of Disco hangs in the balance, I spent the day finishing the Dental summer event video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Gj5vy9fA0

Also -- finally solved the issue with video degradation in youtube, so it should look a lot better than my previous videos.

Fabulous work as always. Shame you didn't catch the heroes deploying safety shields in the races or neutralising undine infiltrators disguised as dance instructors, though.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

DonDoodles posted:

I was really dragging my feet on this, but with the realization that the future of Disco hangs in the balance, I spent the day finishing the Dental summer event video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Gj5vy9fA0

Also -- finally solved the issue with video degradation in youtube, so it should look a lot better than my previous videos.

The claps really make it. Best video yet.

the Pixies fukken SUCKED
Jul 16, 2003

Figure 2 in a series of 3

Tunicate posted:

Nope, some assignments are just buggy. The first one in the ferasian chain is as well, as is scanning for chronometric traces.



My 'respond to subordinate's challenge' mission has been running for a week without completing. loving cowards.

I have at least half a dozen of Telekinesis doffs yet the Very Rare mission to use it for assassination doesn't seem to ever detect that I do. I was wondering about this.

AfroSquirrel
Sep 3, 2011

I've been away from STO for a bit, and trying to catch up on what's changed since March or so. It looks like there's another lockbox, some new crafting system (R&D?), and a revamped Patrol Escort Refit.

If I already had the old Fleet Patrol Escort, does it get a free upgrade to the revision?

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

Nope. On the other hand, the old FPE doesn't exist anymore, so you have a legacy ship now, if you care about that.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

AfroSquirrel posted:

I've been away from STO for a bit, and trying to catch up on what's changed since March or so. It looks like there's another lockbox, some new crafting system (R&D?), and a revamped Patrol Escort Refit.

If I already had the old Fleet Patrol Escort, does it get a free upgrade to the revision?

I had long since discharged mine so I can't first hand verify, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it worked yes. It was a complete replacement for the existing in-game ship.

It's also a pretty good escort now. If you want to be a special snowflake it also makes a pretty good double Aux2Butt DEM beamscort too.

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




Did Cryptic finally fix its website's images breaking on Chrome?! :aaa:

Burning_Monk
Jan 11, 2005
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know

DancingShade posted:

I had long since discharged mine so I can't first hand verify, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it worked yes. It was a complete replacement for the existing in-game ship.

It's also a pretty good escort now. If you want to be a special snowflake it also makes a pretty good double Aux2Butt DEM beamscort too.

As Psycho said, Nope. I've still got the old one.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Burning_Monk posted:

As Psycho said, Nope. I've still got the old one.

I'll stand corrected then.

AfroSquirrel
Sep 3, 2011

Psycho Landlord posted:

Nope. On the other hand, the old FPE doesn't exist anymore, so you have a legacy ship now, if you care about that.

Alright, so the best thing to do with it is go on the forums and brag about 'how OP it is', and remind everyone that this variant is completely unobtainable now?

AndyElusive
Jan 7, 2007

Lagomorphic posted:

Time to start your rep grinds. Ask in chat and we'll carry you through the queues worth running.

Sounds good. I'll bug Dental when I get home from work today. I also started a Tac Romulan on the side so I can start another level grind all over again. :suicide:

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



re: doff fuckups, my Suliban aid missions just don't start any more. Cryptic, let my creepy lizard-cat dude people go.

Technical Analysis
Nov 21, 2007

I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.
Should be fixed on the next patch, but don't count on it.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Tribble changes:

Beam Overload:
Beam Overload attacks are now always a Critical Hit.
Their tooltips have been updated to indicate that they always Critically Hit.
Beam Overload no longer drains Weapon Power.
Beam Overload's base damage has been reduced by 25% under the hood.
Its damage will be higher on average due to 100% Critical chance.
Related powers changes:
All Power Level drain from Lance-type powers has been removed.
For example, the Auxiliary Disruptor Array no longer drains Aux power when fired.
Damage and critical chance of all Lance-type powers remains unchanged.

Zarc
Jul 25, 2014
Do ground missions still suck with the latest patch?

Also, I'd like wiki permisions enabled, I registered with the same name 'Zarc'.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Sir Coq of Nandos posted:

Tribble changes:
They're trying to make Beam Overload the PVE single target beam skill and still not quite getting why everyone uses BFAW instead. I guess removing the energy drain is a good start... :geno:

Hilarious for PVP though.

Asimo fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jul 31, 2014

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten
I wonder if that "always crit" part will apply to the proc version that crafted beams can have.

Mondian
Apr 24, 2007

Asimo posted:

Hilarious for PVP though.

Just getting ready for Season 10, the season of Pv.... errr, TBD.

kafziel
Nov 11, 2009
Huh, so gankboats can just ignore CrtH and go entirely for CrtD, huh? How high is it possible to get that?

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

wdarkk posted:

I wonder if that "always crit" part will apply to the proc version that crafted beams can have.

That combined with the lack of power drain means those beams are potentially super good now. Course, I still haven't seen what the proc chance is on them, or whether or not they're unique equips like the arc beams :v:

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Mondian posted:

Just getting ready for Season 10, the season of Pv.... errr, TBD.
It's absolutely loving hilarious sometimes how bad Cryptic is at their own game.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

kafziel posted:

Huh, so gankboats can just ignore CrtH and go entirely for CrtD, huh? How high is it possible to get that?

They didn't remove the big accuracy penalty from it AFAIK so you'll probably still want some [acc] mods.

Devian666
Aug 20, 2008

Take some advice Chris.

Fun Shoe
So what's been going on for the past 7 months?

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Disco balls nerfed, game's still poo poo.

Devian666
Aug 20, 2008

Take some advice Chris.

Fun Shoe

Asimo posted:

Disco balls nerfed, game's still poo poo.

Did the 10 millionth disco balls are raping me thread finally work?

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

I hope the disco nullifier also blocks nerve tonics, that would be worth the loss.

Hal_2005
Feb 23, 2007
It's been 5 years since I logged in, but why not. Since apparently ARC linked my Swordsman online account up to my old account, I'd like to join the goon fun. @Hal2005 is goon name in crypticspeek.

On average how many guys still play this game still ? After they nerf the disco balls, what is there to do ? Can we still invade other people's bridges and roleplay sessions ?

Devian666
Aug 20, 2008

Take some advice Chris.

Fun Shoe

Hal_2005 posted:

It's been 5 years since I logged in, but why not. Since apparently ARC linked my Swordsman online account up to my old account, I'd like to join the goon fun. @Hal2005 is goon name in crypticspeek.

On average how many guys still play this game still ? After they nerf the disco balls, what is there to do ? Can we still invade other people's bridges and roleplay sessions ?

I'm assuming a new season won't be too far away so that will draw a lot of people back. I haven't played for 7 months but given that there's quite active discussion there'll be some goons around getting up to mischief.

Acer Pilot
Feb 17, 2007
put the 'the' in therapist

:dukedog:

Zarc posted:

Do ground missions still suck with the latest patch?

Also, I'd like wiki permisions enabled, I registered with the same name 'Zarc'.

Nice try, spy.

Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


Hal_2005 posted:

It's been 5 years since I logged in, but why not. Since apparently ARC linked my Swordsman online account up to my old account, I'd like to join the goon fun. @Hal2005 is goon name in crypticspeek.

On average how many guys still play this game still ? After they nerf the disco balls, what is there to do ? Can we still invade other people's bridges and roleplay sessions ?

You're invited.

Hal_2005
Feb 23, 2007

Korgan posted:

You're invited.

ok, excellent. the game has finished downloading i'll hop into the game shortly

g0del
Jan 9, 2001



Fun Shoe

Devian666 posted:

I'm assuming a new season won't be too far away so that will draw a lot of people back. I haven't played for 7 months but given that there's quite active discussion there'll be some goons around getting up to mischief.
There tends to be more goons active during holiday events and the release of new content. It's a little quiet right now because the summer event ended, and the latest new content is a crafting system which combines the worst parts of meaningless grinding with mobile-style pay to speed up the process. Also everyone's overloaded with dil to refine thanks to the recent dil weekend. You can probably scare up enough idlers to run a few STFs if you want, though. It'll get busy again once they release playable Cardassians Season 10.

DonDoodles
Aug 18, 2010

by general anime
Thanks for all the feedback on the new video, guys. It's been great. I especially like this one:

quote:


Holy poo poo, you fucks have a channel too? Also you can't do poo poo here, you have no power, all you can do is delete this comment, soooooo...

NEEBRISKI IS A RAPIST AND A COCKSUCKER AND LOVES DICK IN HIS rear end!!


That was from former Banished Orion Girl member Lytha, who also wants to remind us he is definitely NOT a dude and has NEVER joined in an ERP session with his Veridian Harem friends.

Insert name here
Nov 10, 2009

Oh.
Oh Dear.
:ohdear:
Woah what does he have against dicks in butts that's pretty rude

DonDoodles
Aug 18, 2010

by general anime

Insert name here posted:

Woah what does he have against dicks in butts that's pretty rude

The blatant homophobia in that post is very troubling, but is apparently lost on the pubbie.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Hal_2005 posted:

It's been 5 years since I logged in, but why not. Since apparently ARC linked my Swordsman online account up to my old account, I'd like to join the goon fun. @Hal2005 is goon name in crypticspeek.

On average how many guys still play this game still ? After they nerf the disco balls, what is there to do ? Can we still invade other people's bridges and roleplay sessions ?

There isn't much to do except shoot the same borg over and over, stab the same dinosaurs over and over, annoy the same RPers over and over, switch over to a Klingon to steal contraband. On rare occasion you'll be able to afford a ship that's actually fun to play.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

g0del posted:

There tends to be more goons active during holiday events and the release of new content. It's a little quiet right now because the summer event ended, and the latest new content is a crafting system which combines the worst parts of meaningless grinding with mobile-style pay to speed up the process. Also everyone's overloaded with dil to refine thanks to the recent dil weekend. You can probably scare up enough idlers to run a few STFs if you want, though. It'll get busy again once they release playable Cardassians Season 10.

Yeah this week I've been logging in to refine some of the dil stock pile, queue up crafting xp, realize there's nothing I want to do and log out.

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Devian666
Aug 20, 2008

Take some advice Chris.

Fun Shoe

Lagomorphic posted:

Yeah this week I've been logging in to refine some of the dil stock pile, queue up crafting xp, realize there's nothing I want to do and log out.

They pretty much mastered this level of inspiration amongst players when they introduced the dinosaurs. Having some objectives that are interesting would go a long way to help.

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