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Uziduke posted:Watching way to much TNG this week makes me want to do Star Trek things. How bad is this game? As someone who only started playing a few weeks ago I'd say the game is only "OK" at best. BUT the Star Trek nerd factor keeps me playing anyway. For now at least...
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It's an okay game that has one of the least offensive free-MMO models out there.
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Mar 30, 2017 02:59
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Technical Analysis posted:It's an okay game that has one of the least offensive free-MMO models out there. It's surprising how much better STO did F2P than most other offerings. Ironically it's developed later cousin Neverwinter Online was an unrepentant wallet gouging piece of poo poo where literally everything cost real money and lots of it.
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Mar 30, 2017 04:37
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Yeah I suspect that the main thing that saved STO is that it started as a subscription MMO under someone other than PWE. That kind of moderated how much bullshit they could get away with, and insured at least a vaguely functional amount of inventory space and character slots and all that sort of quality of life stuff. Neverwinter was built from the ground up to be F2P with a vast assortment of bullshit to force you to spend money and it's just intolerable. I swear to god what got me to quit that early on was inventory space of all things, where you had like twenty item slots, everything dropped dozens of different types of crafting/augmenting trash, and they wanted like fifteen loving dollars for a single-character bag purchase.
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Psycho Landlord posted:Wrong Romulan poo poo. Is Romulan poo poo green?
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McSpanky posted:Is Romulan poo poo green? Only if they have hemmerhoids
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McSpanky posted:Is Romulan poo poo green? Green space booze and nutrient goop does that to anyone. You'll never even notice using your green Romulan toilet in your green Romulan room.
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Mar 30, 2017 11:15
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Catscort is the best god drat thing. Cryptic hosed the math hard on the heavy rail gun or whatever. poo poo heals enemies. It's the best gift I could ever receive. I take back all the terrible things I've ever said about Cryptic.
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Mar 30, 2017 18:03
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The greatest game company. 
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Mar 30, 2017 18:24
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It deals negative damage, which in STO's engine is a heal. The best QA.
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Mar 30, 2017 18:31
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FuturePastNow posted:It deals negative damage, which in STO's engine is a heal. You mean the players on Tribble? I agree.
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Mar 30, 2017 18:32
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The GM wants you to tell him about your first time. Also, a corporate inbox (or an alias) is oh so hard and expensive to get running, so you better contact him over his gmail address.
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fakemirage posted:The GM wants you to tell him about your first time. Dear Penthouse Magazine, I never thought anything like this would ever happen to me...
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Mar 30, 2017 19:29
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Aleph Null posted:You mean the players on Tribble? I agree. I don't think you can blame the Tribblers for this either, as they never released this ship on Tribble AFAIK. Anyway, ambassadorK just posted they will fix this tomorrow morning. Racist bastard blamed it on Aenar engineers.
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Mar 30, 2017 19:44
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MikeJF posted:Aka the only pilot ships except the D4-X. What makes the sci pilot the best...is it a trait or the lt com sci slot? Probably only have enough imaginary points to cash in for one of these.
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Mar 30, 2017 20:12
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Pioneer42 posted:What makes the sci pilot the best...is it a trait or the lt com sci slot? Probably only have enough imaginary points to cash in for one of these. I believe the Sci Pilot escort has the best starship trait. The engineering and tactical ones aren't that great.
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Pioneer42 posted:What makes the sci pilot the best...is it a trait or the lt com sci slot? Probably only have enough imaginary points to cash in for one of these. Yes. There are some gimmick builds where you might want the tactical pilot escort but zero builds where you specifically want the engineering version over the other variants.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:01
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A big part of the sci pilot ship being top was having extra science console slots for embassy consoles, and that will be pointless after the space rebalance patch. But having access to grav well and the best trait still makes it the best by far yeah.
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Asimo posted:A big part of the sci pilot ship being top was having extra science console slots for embassy consoles, and that will be pointless after the space rebalance patch. But having access to Fixed that for the incoming Gravwell nerf. Also FYI for anyone still playing this game. The new event queue has no afk penalty, cannot be failed and nothing you do in it actually affects the reward you receive.
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Not my screencaps https://imgur.com/a/1emzx The heavy weapon railgun thing looks kind of bad TBH. A 360 degree "torpedo" for lack of a better word with 20% shield bleedthrough that costs -10 weapon power to fire and doesn't work with any skills.
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Having dicked around with it, the weapon power is hardly noticeable, it has a 4 second cool down, and if it's currently bugged healing numbers are anything like it's damage numbers are going to be, it'll be a drat fine addition to any escort. EDIT: Also, the rail gun upgrades with cannon upgrades, so it's entirely likely it's one of what will soon be multiple options for the heavy weapon slots. Heavy torpedo launchers, light beam lances, that sort of thing. Technical Analysis fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 23:14
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They did say in the announcement that they're adding more heavy weapons down the road. I would expect it to be after they've added the slots to the older models though.
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Yeah the real question is whether they'll add more "interesting" heavy weapons down the line. Like stuff like lance-style weapons with narrow firing arcs is basically a given, but there's a lot of potential room for more esoteric stuff too, especially since you'll only ever have one of them on a ship. Hell a lot of the lobi ship weapons (like the elachi heavy single cannon or that hirogen 12km gun) would've made more sense as heavy weapons. But knowing cryptic they'll probably just all be turret-style things, maybe with whatever proc du jour is on the weapons in that patch. 
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I'd be very surprised if it didn't come with Season 13 this month.
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One of the heavy weapons should just be an autofiring version of that Armitage torpedo console that occupies the entire instance with explosions
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Asimo posted:Yeah the real question is whether they'll add more "interesting" heavy weapons down the line. Like stuff like lance-style weapons with narrow firing arcs is basically a given, but there's a lot of potential room for more esoteric stuff too, especially since you'll only ever have one of them on a ship. Hell a lot of the lobi ship weapons (like the elachi heavy single cannon or that hirogen 12km gun) would've made more sense as heavy weapons. Not that that's especially foul. And there's still the potential for oddity. Picture some 'Super Tetryon Cannon' that's murder on shields, but foul on hull. It's but not .
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[Zone] Mach_Destroyer@Arcos: i got my tablet in [Zone] Mach_Destroyer@Arcos: it disolves in my mouth [Zone] Mach_Destroyer@Arcos: sapris What is Saphris? Saphris (asenapine) is an antipsychotic medication. It works by changing the actions of chemicals in the brain. Saphris is used to treat the symptoms of psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic depression) in adults, and for bipolar disorder in pediatric patients (ages 10–17).
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Psycho Landlord posted:One of the heavy weapons should just be an autofiring version of that Armitage torpedo console that occupies the entire instance with explosions .. Nah the real answer is because they're in a new slot and this probably horribly breaks their skill code.
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Asimo posted:You know this makes me wonder if the reason heavy weapons aren't affected by skills is because Cryptic's planning to add some AOE ones later. It can be both.
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Mar 31, 2017 07:19
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I've been waiting for the deflector dish beam from Best of Both Worlds forever but it won't be the same if isn't coming from a Galaxy. 
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Finally played the Cochrane anniversary mission. It was ok and the music was a nice touch I wasn't expecting. Now we need mirror universe Cochrane day where we shotgun the Vulcans and steal all their poo poo.
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It's a cute little gimmick mission but I'm glad you only need four days of it since it's ten minutes of faffing about with what's essentially entirely RNG to determine a placement that doesn't affect the rewards at all. 
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DancingShade posted:Finally played the Cochrane anniversary mission. It was ok and the music was a nice touch I wasn't expecting. The first thing I did when I got in was whip out my Vulcan-hello shotgun and start celebratory fire.
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I thought the Steppenwolfe song was the best audio addition to STO recently. I was wrong. Very, very wrong: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10453933 Its genuinely worth a brief log-in to mess about with the new sounds - particular highlights include full impulse, transphasic bombs and beam-in sfx.
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It's legitimately the best update Cryptic has released in something like two years.
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I'm playing today for the first time since release and I was so confused about the sounds.
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I'm sure they did it last year, too.
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Last year was relaunching STO launch edition
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Yeah, for all the poo poo we give Cryptic it was a good reminder of just how staggeringly bad the game was at launch in every respect and how much they managed to turn it playable and profitable.
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A new round of Tribble patch notes are up. Season 13 shaping up to be great. http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/s...086070+hmacsha1
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