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Burning_Monk posted:Rock and Roll: I recall bitching about not being able to do this years ago to DStahl. He challenged me to find a piece of footage where a starship did acrobatics. I found a clip where the Defiant did a loop, and then he quit talking to me.
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Burning_Monk posted:Nice! I was thinking a Risian Corvette, with defense maxed, called Can't Touch This Finally an update I can get behind.
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Baron Porkface posted:Which are the best and worst episode series-es?
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The Cardassian arc is pretty bad. It picks up at the end for the 2nd wave stuff, although that arc includes Of Bajor which is pretty crap. I'd say try everything except the early Cardie poo poo just jump ahead to 2nd wave.
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Fed/Klingon War arc is okay.*BONNIE KIN*BONNIE KIN* Neat going into the past and seeing old favorites. Romulan arc is pretty repetitive. Go here, shoot, go here, shoot, etc. Cardie arc starts bad, gets worse, and finishes pretty good starting with Second Wave. Breen arc is fun and puzzly, but you'll need a walkthrough to complete them. Borg arc got redone recently, still not terribly fun. Borg are a chore to kill even with buffs. Solanae/Dyson arc is worth it. Actual variation in missions and cool visuals.
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Once they started bringing the Trek voice actors onboard it feels like they increased the amount of busy work in the stories just to luxuriate in having oh my God it's Worf! available to them. The three recent episodes all feel like they start turtle-slow, become interesting, then end with a space battle that's at least twice as long as it needs to be.
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Sep 24, 2014 00:59
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There is nothing good in the Cardassian arc.
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All the missions in the Cardassian arc (except the ones from the 2800 feature episode) are basically the last remnants of the original vanilla launch missions and all of them are absolutely horrible, imbalanced, and buggy. Which makes it even more baffling that Cryptic chose that arc to be the one all three factions share. 
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Sep 24, 2014 01:53
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The Wastelands series is basically terrible,too. At one point I was wondering if it was some pubbie written bullshit that got its start in the foundry.
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Filthy Lucre posted:The Wastelands series is basically terrible,too. At one point I was wondering if it was some pubbie written bullshit that got its start in the foundry. It is. But that makes it so much more satisfying when you kill every single person in that "secret hidden base that's impossible to get to"... and also a really popular dance club.
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Asimo posted:All the missions in the Cardassian arc (except the ones from the 2800 feature episode) are basically the last remnants of the original vanilla launch missions and all of them are absolutely horrible, imbalanced, and buggy. Which makes it even more baffling that Cryptic chose that arc to be the one all three factions share. I know I've said it here before, and all, but I really wish they'd redone the Cardassian arc before Delta Rising - and that it'd featured Garak. A Cardassian expansion would be acceptable, though.
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Filthy Lucre posted:The Wastelands series is basically terrible,too. At one point I was wondering if it was some pubbie written bullshit that got its start in the foundry. With the ex-borg bartender and bar-owner. That might not have been so bad if they cut like, half of it. The scorpion and worm fights are trivial and just pad out everything without any decent payoff. Barfight is fun, Gorn canyon isn't too bad, Installation 18 is worth it for the creepy camera sceen, but the first half just drags.
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Xtern1ty pubbies complaining about not being promoted: http://pastebin.com/TX1gwVXX The fact that cadets, whom I'm assuming is their lowest rank, can't actually donate to the fleet is kind of funny.
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Mormon Star Wars posted:With the ex-borg bartender and bar-owner. Part of the issue is that the arc was supposed to double as a tutorial for the Nimbus adventure zone. So yeah they padded it with a bunch of crap to introduce you to all the tedious new poo poo you could do to earn a pittance of dil.
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Cryptic really does have a persistent issue with properly rationing time versus reward don't they?
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Asimo posted:Cryptic really does have a persistent issue with properly rationing time versus reward don't they? I imagine it looks a lot more balanced when you time things based off of a Standard Cryptic Fitting.
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There's no voice acting better than the DS9 Commander.
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THIS IS KURLAND
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SKY COQ posted:THIS IS KURLAND It's like the just got the UPS guy to talk into a trashcan with a microphone in it.
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The voice acting for the entire Second Wave arc is horrible, and if Cryptic had any decency they would've stripped all the voice clips out when they heard the results. Kurland is easy to pick on, the female Vorta that runs the station during the arc is another horrible, horrible feature. Also the writing is terrible and inconsistent, especially around Kara'kun. Also the final mission is a giant pit where you spend half of it slowly plodding along doing nothing but a memorization game for the first half. What I'm trying to say is that the Second Wave arc sucks and I'd rather have had another inexplicable romp through the Fire Caves.
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Conskill posted:The voice acting for the entire Second Wave arc is horrible, and if Cryptic had any decency they would've stripped all the voice clips out when they heard the results. Kurland is easy to pick on, the female Vorta that runs the station during the arc is another horrible, horrible feature. Yeah but the only voice acting they've ever had that isn't horrible besides TV actors returning is Tovan.
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T'Nae's VA is sketchy too- one moment it's like she's in the room next to you, next she's speaking through an old-timey radio- in the same scene Hakeev's awesome though; it's surprising his acting isn't preceded by a flashing Omega symbol for all the scenery he masticates. CommissarMega fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Mormon Star Wars posted:With the ex-borg bartender and bar-owner. I am unsure if I am correct.
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Most of Cryptic's VA are literally the Cryptic staff, programmers, and CMs.  I forget which one admitted to being Kurland... Geko I think? But there you go. 
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Asimo posted:All the missions in the Cardassian arc (except the ones from the 2800 feature episode) are basically the last remnants of the original vanilla launch missions and all of them are absolutely horrible, imbalanced, and buggy. Which makes it even more baffling that Cryptic chose that arc to be the one all three factions share. What, you don't like having your BOFFs fall off the bridges in the Cave of Fire?
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They hired Duke frigging Nukem for like one line.
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Asimo posted:Most of Cryptic's VA are literally the Cryptic staff, programmers, and CMs. Doctor Cooper may be the most annoying of the lot. Whiny little poo poo.
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People play this game with the voice acting turned on?
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How's the whole Temporal Warfare set roll up? Assuming I'm Antiproton to start with.
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Dootman posted:People play this game with the voice acting turned on? You can turn it off!?  Please tell me you can turn it off.
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Just Another Lurker posted:You can turn it off!? Options -> Audio -> Voice volume to 0
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Dootman posted:Options -> Audio -> Voice volume to 0 Does that also turn off things like the computer voice that alerts you to shields being down or your hull is at 75%? Because I find those useful.
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Hunter Noventa posted:Does that also turn off things like the computer voice that alerts you to shields being down or your hull is at 75%? Because I find those useful. Please tell me you aren't one of those people I thought was apocryphal, who only pop emergency to x when there's an actual 'emergency'. You should be spamming all the things, all the time.
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Hunter Noventa posted:Does that also turn off things like the computer voice that alerts you to shields being down or your hull is at 75%? Because I find those useful. No, it doesn't actually.
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IPCRESS posted:Please tell me you aren't one of those people I thought was apocryphal, who only pop emergency to x when there's an actual 'emergency'. Yeah but there's 'oh poo poo' buttons like Miracle Worker. Okay, mainly Miracle Worker.
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Reverse shield polarity too!
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Plus there's something delightfully trekkie about having the computer report stuff to you.
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MoraleHazard posted:Xtern1ty pubbies complaining about not being promoted: Oh poo poo. I have no doubt Xean set permissions like that to keep any more of those dirty SFD types from joining his fleet and tainting it with their filthy contributions again.
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Dootman posted:No, it doesn't actually. That's absolutely wonderful!  No longer shall i endure the pestilence of inept voice acting.
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