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I just wish one could play as the Borg. Throw up the party ball and shout in zone, "Resistance to party is futile".
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MoraleHazard posted:I just wish one could play as the Borg. Throw up the party ball and shout in zone, "Resistance to party is futile". With the Borg Cooperative coming I wouldn't be surprised if they become a C-store race.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:00
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MikeJF posted:With the Borg Cooperative coming I wouldn't be surprised if they become a C-store race. The lifers would scream endlessly about losing exclusivity over their perk of playing liberated Borg. Not that it shouldn't happen, just that the rivers would overflow their banks from the tears if it does.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:13
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Conskill posted:The lifers would scream endlessly about losing exclusivity over their perk of playing liberated Borg. Oh, so that's how people were playing as liberated borg. I was wondering how people were doing that. What the game really needs is playable androids or holograms. In a game, when given the choice to be a robot, I am never not a robot.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:27
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The ability to play as a hologram would be hilarious in ground STFs when the group was getting mauled by the monsters-of-the-week. "Later shitlords!" *deactivates myself*
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Sep 3, 2014 16:54
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It always kills me when I think about how The Doctor got his personal holo-emitter from none other than Ed loving Begley Jr.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:57
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In addition to playable Holograms, the game really needs an Abraham Lincoln costume option so I can play as space Lincoln. And have a ship that is just Abe Lincoln sitting on his Lincoln throne flying through space.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:59
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Melchior posted:The ability to play as a hologram would be hilarious in ground STFs when the group was getting mauled by the monsters-of-the-week. Computer, replace the image of Captain Melchior with a V-Rex. Oh hey since we're doing Voyager there was that psycho hologram that nearly killed Torres by reaching into her chest and grabbing her heart to stop it beating I HEAR SPECIAL RACIALLLLLL SKIIIIILLLLL 
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Sep 3, 2014 17:06
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Melchior posted:The ability to play as a hologram would be hilarious in ground STFs when the group was getting mauled by the monsters-of-the-week. There IS a 'Photonic Lifeform' trait. At the moment it exists only on a Bridge Officer. Several resistances and immunities(Including to injuries, which means they will probably never actually give it out to players), a malus to Tetryon damage, 20% stronger shields, -20% healing taken. http://sto.gamepedia.com/Trait:_Photonic_Lifeform Bloodly fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 17:22
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Gammatron 64 posted:In addition to playable Holograms, the game really needs an Abraham Lincoln costume option so I can play as space Lincoln. And have a ship that is just Abe Lincoln sitting on his Lincoln throne flying through space. Holy poo poo, yes. I would call mine the USS GAY BAR.
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Sep 3, 2014 17:33
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Acer Pilot posted:Ok, I logged in to ESD and some guy was talking about how people who take vaccines are dumb. Ah yes, Smainstream Science, the excellent subset of Smetaphysics... Over the years, the number of people on the internet who type with their faces has gone up at least 300% [citation needed]
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Sep 3, 2014 18:08
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Bieeardo posted:Holy poo poo, yes. YOU! I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR GAY BAR GAY BAR GAY BAR LET'S START A WAR START A NUCLEAR WAR AT THE GAY BAR GAY BAR GAY BAR
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Sep 3, 2014 18:14
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Bloodly posted:There IS a 'Photonic Lifeform' trait. At the moment it exists only on a Bridge Officer. Several resistances and immunities(Including to injuries, which means they will probably never actually give it out to players), a malus to Tetryon damage, 20% stronger shields, -20% healing taken.
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Sep 3, 2014 18:15
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Flagrant Abuse posted:I'm sure they could rework the "no injuries" thing to be "injuries by another name." Call them "mobile emitter damage" or something. Your ship now takes damage instead of your ground guy.
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So I played Borg Disconnected on Advanced and.. hahaha. Spheres have 980k hp, Vila Bioships 1.2mil and the Borg Diamond has 6.1mil. It's an epic clusterfuck of a stf, the bastard child of Hive and Azure Nebula Rescue. The mission is entirely timer based and you are "racing" to collect points. Four distinct phases: 0) Get greeted by a liberated Sphere with 7 of 9 on board.  1) You arrive in the mega-Unimatrix near several glowing bits. As we all know, glowy bits are important.   From all over the map, liberated Borg probes enter and are compelled to camp on the green bits, being reassimilated. Click on them to stop them from doing so and shoot the Borg that try to stop you. If you fail to do so, of course the newly assimilated probes attack you too. 2) Species 8472 arrives! Do as you did in #1 (free liberated Borgs, kill assimilated Borgs), but also shoot Bioships and close rifts!   3) A loving Voth Cityship arrives! Do as you did in #2 (free liberated Borgs, kill assimilated Borgs, kill bioships, close rifts), but also shoot Voth ships and destroy those Voth-killing torpedos (also you can only destroy them by ramming them). Thankfully, they are both slow, big, red, and also have an additional marker so you know exactly what stuff is resistant to antimatter and assorted energy weapons but gets stopped by good old steel and machismo.    4) Dreadnought showdown! A Borg Diamond, Voth Dreadnought and 8472 Dreadnought duke it out! Kill them all!    And what do you get for that?   ..9 Delta Marks. gently caress. In summary: ß
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Bloodly posted:There IS a 'Photonic Lifeform' trait. At the moment it exists only on a Bridge Officer. Several resistances and immunities(Including to injuries, which means they will probably never actually give it out to players), a malus to Tetryon damage, 20% stronger shields, -20% healing taken. And yet they're still affected by environmental hazards.
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Atrayonis posted:So I played Borg Disconnected on Advanced and.. hahaha. Spheres have 980k hp, Vila Bioships 1.2mil and the Borg Diamond has 6.1mil.  I don't think the idea of it is too bad, though at the moment it's basically impossible to actually complete objectives and earn marks yeah.We need to get a normal going just to see how that's scaled. Right now it's really obvious that Advanced is aimed for 60's (since everyone's scaled up) but also that current gear is basically useless for it too.
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They'll never make liberated borg a zen store purchase because the people legit buy the lifetimer pack just for that and the lifetimer pack still sells.
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Asimo posted:Hey, the Voth dreadnought only has 5.5 million!
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I thought that was pretty much the only reason why Galor prices skyrocketed up to jhas levels.
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g0del posted:So, do pissbeams and screechy phasers scale up to level 14, or are they now officially useless?
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g0del posted:So, do pissbeams and screechy phasers scale up to level 14, or are they now officially useless? I read somewhere (maybe a tooltip, or the sto wiki), a long time ago (and this could be completely inaccurate or no longer true today), but it was my impression that most of the "mark infinity" items scaled to Mk X and stopped. I think I remember reading this in regards to some lobi items, and I'm not sure if all mark "infinity" items are created equal so maybe Spirals still scale.
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Atrayonis posted:So I played Borg Disconnected on Advanced and.. hahaha. Spheres have 980k hp, Vila Bioships 1.2mil and the Borg Diamond has 6.1mil. It's an epic clusterfuck of a stf, the bastard child of Hive and Azure Nebula Rescue. That actually sounds pretty cool if it wasn't for Cyptic's attempt at "balance".
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I read a dev post on the forums and their explanation for the massive HP is that players have been bypassing a lot of enemy abilities simply by killing them super fast with AoE attacks; their idea is that by forcing players to concentrate their fire on individual threatening enemies instead, enemy abilities will be able to come more into play than they do now.
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 It's one thing to have high-HP enemies and all, but the whole point of stuff like Probes is that they come in large numbers and die relatively quickly. Also, the best way to show off your grindy new enemy scaling isn't really in a mission with time limits when everyone's ten levels and two gear tiers below the expected. Oh yeah, some Reddit comments from CaptJamJamz (Cryptic's ship designer) on the T6 designs. quote:You will be able to use faction-appropriate (veteran included) matierials on Intel ships. The Intel material (which is nearly identical, other than color between the factions) is just the default. quote:There will be an option to fill in the saucer [of the Scryer] (though it's not a force field, instead simply more plating). quote:The Intelligence ships (all 5 of them) actually have a fairly matte hull material. Lighting information is diffused widely across the surface, rather than focused. Similalrly, high levels of reflectivity is reserved for things like various glowy bits, as well as glass-like overlays on top of visible sensor arrays. Asimo fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 23:11
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All those new fed ships remind me of that crazy transforming armor fromt he last ep of Voyager, but I haven't seen that particular ep in years so...
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I can make omni beams now, so if you want one mail the poo poo to T'Troika@-Troika-.
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Atrayonis posted:So I played Borg Disconnected on Advanced and.. hahaha. Spheres have 980k hp, Vila Bioships 1.2mil and the Borg Diamond has 6.1mil. It's an epic clusterfuck of a stf, the bastard child of Hive and Azure Nebula Rescue. This sounds like a bad foundry mission. "And then...and then...TRIPLE DREADNOUGHT SHOWDOWN"
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Berke Negri posted:This sounds like a bad foundry mission. "And then...and then...TRIPLE DREADNOUGHT SHOWDOWN" Cryptic writing and plotting has always been on the level of bad fanfic so this isn't really surprising in the least.
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-Troika- posted:I read a dev post on the forums and their explanation for the massive HP is that players have been bypassing a lot of enemy abilities simply by killing them super fast with AoE attacks; their idea is that by forcing players to concentrate their fire on individual threatening enemies instead, enemy abilities will be able to come more into play than they do now. That's a direct result of many ships not being able to slot as much as they'd want, so they go with AOE because you'll need that more and is in technically limited supply, and damage because killing faster always works. When you think about it, a lot of officer slots are basically 'locked in' to certain things. Tactical ideally must have Tactical Team and a AOE blast. Then attack patterns if there's room. Engineering wants 2-4 Power to Xs to keep that buff rolling, maybe an Engineering Team. Science it's Hazard Emitters, and a shield heal. That's 6-8 minimum, with an even split. Most ships have 12 slots, and the split up between the three officer types usually means most of them are filled with little room for single-target frippery.
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There's also the simple matter that if you have two or more targets, AoE is always going to be faster and more efficient anyway. The only time it hasn't been is when they've thrown on abilities that punish damaging the "wrong" target, like the Voth reflective shields, and all that usually accomplishes is gibbing the pubbies who don't pay attention.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VoCt2cO6jR4bj7J_vmJ_7vlU2deeyRlFQ9-XhnAl_Zc/edit?pli=1 Here's a bunch of Intelligence boff powers from Tribble. It's being updated by pubbies, so feel free to troll it at your leisure.
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Ibanez Murderface posted:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VoCt2cO6jR4bj7J_vmJ_7vlU2deeyRlFQ9-XhnAl_Zc/edit?pli=1 Heh. They had to be on tribble to find out about this poo poo. 
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Korgan posted:Heh. They had to be on tribble to find out about this poo poo. Goons + publicly editable Google doc Clearly it needs more Xean
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On ESD today I was giving a lecture on the hagiography of STO. the patron saint of the space poor, Olivia. the patron saint of farmers, jkname the patron saint of scientists and journalists, dukedom the patron saint of cash money hot boys, crosis and i thought, what could the founder of SFD be the patron saint of? I thought "helping people, fixing things that are broken, and cleaning things that are dirty." And then I received my enlightenment. Who is it that does all three of those things? A dentist.
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I must guiltily admit that I kind of like the look of the Phantom Intel Escort, even though I, too, can see how it basically looks like a Defiant/Bugship hybrid... though my first impression of it was that it seemed like they were trying to make "The Defiant, but more awesome" and... did not really succeed. Really, the Eclipse looks a bit Voyager-y/Enterprise E-y, too, and the Guardian, now that we see what it looks like, brings to mind the Enterprise-D... and maybe the Scryer looks a little like the NX-01 Enterprise... but in each case, it still seems like they were misguidedly trying to evoke the idea of these ships being "better" versions of the TV ships (but without having as good people doing the design work as any of the TV series had).
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hakimashou posted:
Being a lil bitch. 
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Tactical Officer in a Cruiser – still viable? I just want to beam broadside poo poo.
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CobiWann posted:Tactical Officer in a Cruiser – still viable? Very viable. Tactical goes well with anything, really.
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I'm a tac in a science boat. Still kicks rear end.
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