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Eimi posted:I prefer Sompek to the Kobayashi for this event, though I'm guessing any new tfo is going to be stuck with the tedium of timers. Sompek is very fast and its great. But a Ground TFO with their current design philosophy? Not looking forward to it.
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So I've finally got the big event reward, but I can't decide whether I should grab the free lockbox ship token or the two C-store ones. I don't really give a drat about optimal builds or ugly-rear end alien melted-plastic ships, so the only premium ship I'd really like to have is the classic temporal Connie. On the other hand, I've done all right without the Connie for years, and two C-store tokens would probably set me up nicely for whatever dribbles Cryptic releases next year. Any advice?
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Marshal Radisic posted:So I've finally got the big event reward, but I can't decide whether I should grab the free lockbox ship token or the two C-store ones. I don't really give a drat about optimal builds or ugly-rear end alien melted-plastic ships, so the only premium ship I'd really like to have is the classic temporal Connie. On the other hand, I've done all right without the Connie for years, and two C-store tokens would probably set me up nicely for whatever dribbles Cryptic releases next year. Any advice? Fly what you think looks cool.
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Marshal Radisic posted:So I've finally got the big event reward, but I can't decide whether I should grab the free lockbox ship token or the two C-store ones. I don't really give a drat about optimal builds or ugly-rear end alien melted-plastic ships, so the only premium ship I'd really like to have is the classic temporal Connie. On the other hand, I've done all right without the Connie for years, and two C-store tokens would probably set me up nicely for whatever dribbles Cryptic releases next year. Any advice? It depends if you'd ever get the 10th anniversary bundle. If you do you get the miracle worker Connie which is just a better ship than the Temporal. Otherwise unless you're missing some REALLY critical trait like Emergency Weapon Cycle or Entwined Tactical Matrix I'd probably just say splurge on the fun promo ship. It looks like any good releases will be legendary ships which coupons don't work on, or bundles which same.
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Teron D Amun posted:looks like the next TFO is a ground one vs Mirror Universe forces: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11496633 quote:“Captain, I hope you’re ready. Have your team report to Earth Space Dock within the week. Training operations for an assault on the Terran Earth Space Dock will begin as soon as you arrive.”
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For people who are here for the Star Trek and not the top-notch MMORPG action that STO provides, GOG has some "new" ST games available. Including Elite Force I/II and Bridge Commander.
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Elite Force still holds up imo. I played it last year after ebaying the physical disk. If they made it work on modern systems that you don't have to jump through crazy hoops to get it to run, i'm going to buy it again.
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Oh poo poo someone actually put Bridge Commander up? I actually snagged that off an abandonware website like a week ago and assumed it was cast to the winds. I'll happily pay  for a GOG versoin.Also, bridge commander also holds up. Surprisingly well. Here's hoping that with a easily available version out there that we get some good mod campaigns (as opposed to the current crop of mods that just put in ships from other sci fi series or let you fly the defiant in the campaign etc)
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I hope someday they can get Armada 1 and/or 2 up.
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Bloodly posted:I hope someday they can get Armada 1 and/or 2 up. Armada really doesn't hold up. It's very much generic RTS with a star-trek flavor. Fun for what it is, but nothing to bother with today. I'll also take this moment to shout out the best Star Trek game out there right now, namely the Star Trek mod for Stellaris. It's easily one of the best modding projects out there today right now and if it was repackaged and sold as a stand alone, licensed game it would be worth buying.
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Bloodly posted:I hope someday they can get Armada 1 and/or 2 up. GOG is listed Armada I/II as "Soon". My guess is they couldn't get everything working right for Win10 before today, so we'll see them in the next few months.
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Is something wrong with pw’s servers? The steam client crashes instantly before I can launch the game and the arc client has blank panes when I try to load it.
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wdarkk posted:Is something wrong with pw’s servers? The steam client crashes instantly before I can launch the game and the arc client has blank panes when I try to load it. Apparently there is an identified issue: https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/1435669206909870080
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Oh Cryptic. Specifically, according to reddit and the official forums, if you try to use the insta-65 boost it will bring you to the Romulan choose a faction screen, and the character is then stuck there unable to be played because you can't actually choose a faction.
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g0del posted:Don't worry, they also have copy/paste errors in the actual items. In other news, 
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I will be shocked if it's not lockbox/promo. Hoping it isn't but :cryptic:
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I mean, I wouldn't say no to a lower decks-themed lockbox. But yeah any canon ship is basically guaranteed to be a promo box or $120 legendary bundle bullshit for maximum profits.
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Pity, the Calis are set up in-show to have Cmd/Sci/Eng variants, with specialty indicated by the color of the stripe. (No Tactical variant because they're explicitly meant to be support ships with slightly less tactical consideration in their design than an Oberth, but this is STO so they'll be gun toting.) A three-pack would be canonical. A three-pack would be actually canonical. I wonder if they're going to have the Parliaments and Calis as a mixable kitbashable thing. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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Lorak posted:That sounds about right. I don't have the TOS miranda but I did my Fleet Mala up to be a lil scoot scoot.  MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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Speaking of extra special cartoony nonsense I keep forgetting what sort of beautiful holocausts the tailor is capable of creating: It might be an anime character or something
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Oh, you can play with the TOS miranda parts in the tailor? Awesome! Federation TOS Romulan Bird of Prey, anyone? For bonus points: the worst ship 
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I assure you there are much worse ship kitbashes. At least that one has all its parts connected.
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Oh drat that post implies the Lower Decks uniforms will be lockbox too, drat. Also 'the weapons' which I have no idea about because it's all standard Starfleet. Maybe they just made them all look more cartoony. Asimo posted:I assure you there are much worse ship kitbashes. At least that one has all its parts connected. That's not even a kitbash, it's an as-intended Shi'kar, just has a Discovery hull material. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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MikeJF posted:Oh drat that post implies the Lower Decks uniforms will be lockbox too, drat. The way they've always done it in the past is the uniforms go in the lobi store. So not quite lockbox, but lockbox-adjacent. I don't see anything in the tweet to challenge that. Kit modules, ship weapons, the Parliament, and The Dog will all probably be locked in, though.
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For those wondering, since I saw some people worried in discord: temporal recruits get their transponder during the Welcome to Earth Spacedock quest after reaching the 25th century. With all the good level-scaling ground gear and space weapons and consoles I've gotten, I spent my level 10 temporal bonus gear thing on space gear. Gave a purple mk 4 shield, engine, deflector, and I think warp core, which are nice - don't think they've yet awarded good level-scaling stuff for those.
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All of these recruiting events make me happy that I picked up the tier 1 enterprise back in the day. 2 auto-leveling beam arrays every time you claim it means not really having to worry at all about space weapons.
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Taerkar posted:All of these recruiting events make me happy that I picked up the tier 1 enterprise back in the day. 2 auto-leveling beam arrays every time you claim it means not really having to worry at all about space weapons. Yup. Kitted my Sheshar out with those, the domino console for accuracy and phaser damage, the defense satellite for more bonus damage, the t6 risan corvette console for more speed and turn, and the Grissom console for the power transfer bonus, and I'm pretty much set for the moment, and everything scales. I should probably look and see if any of my other universal consoles from events and z-store ships are applicable.
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Cythereal posted:For those wondering, since I saw some people worried in discord: temporal recruits get their transponder during the Welcome to Earth Spacedock quest after reaching the 25th century. The synthwave event earlier this year gave a scaling space set for shield, engine, deflector, and warp core. They aren’t top of the line but definitely better then random gear while leveling. I used them with my Klingon recruit.
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Stonewalljack posted:The synthwave event earlier this year gave a scaling space set for shield, engine, deflector, and warp core. They aren’t top of the line but definitely better then random gear while leveling. I used them with my Klingon recruit. I skipped that one because gently caress Discovery/Picard poo poo and that one couldn't be afk soloed. 
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Honestly I kind of like using the random quest reward and pick up equipment on my event alts. It's fun to gently caress around with poo poo gear for those early missions and actually enjoy gear progression again. That said I always toss a T6 ship at them from the get go because eeehhh gently caress going to the space dock every few levels.
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Hey goons, brand new STO player here. I can't believe I've never tried STO before, its pretty decent! So I got some questions, and this game has no loving answers because it was built in the stone age so hopefully a goon can assist. I started playing last week and my federation character is almost lvl 40, and now theres this temporal stuff going on. I made a new ToS character and at lvl 10 it shoved me into modern time. Am I supposed to just regrind all the stuff I just played through? Going back to New Romulus is making me twitch. Why? What rewards are there supposed to be for making a temporal agent character person? (I've been looking around but I just see "Special rewards later, cash shop zen Ooooh Aaaaah" NuckmasterJ fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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Recruits are there to make you grind. However you snagged the best recruit to be. I would recommend just playing your recruit and redoing all that stuff. The big reward is that when you get 10 reps to tier 5 with them, instead of starting at mk12 and very rare, your rep gear will start at mk13 ultra rare which is a big upgrade. As well you can unlock the Improved Critical Systems trait and for a newer player that's a great trait, it gives you crit and crit sev on using an emergency to x power, and every build uses one. https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Temporal_Agent_Recruitment the wiki has the full breakdown of rewards.
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More importantly, everything (uniform, new "special issue" phasers, the T88 Kit module, and traits) according to the blog is going to be in the lobi store. The only thing being added to the Infinity Lockbox is the ship itself, which looks... okay. It's really light on dedicated Tac console slots, but with an X upgrade, you get two universals. I think it looks fun enough. The trait and console don't look over-powered at first glance, but the numbers could be too high before they get nerfed  NuckmasterJ posted:Hey goons, brand new STO player here. I can't believe I've never tried STO before, its pretty decent! Once you start to get the hang of it and get some account rewards, the first 50 levels are really pretty quick. Yea, the missions are long and potentially annoying, but understanding how to break the game means you can move fairly quickly. Additionally, post your @handle to get invited to TheNextGooneration, our in-game chat channel, and if someone is on, they'll get you into the Fed Goon Fleet, Starfleet Dental and get you some starting resources. And yes, the Temporal Recruiting Rewards are absolutely worth it. The rewards for the recruit themselves are some of the best in the game, and the account-unlock rewards are pretty awesome too. The big one is the rep gear quality upgrade, but other stuff like rep marks is a huge head-start for alts. Wizard of the Deep fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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The best I can say for the ship is it is miracle worker and that at least makes it better than most ships in the game but drat it has one hell of an awkward layout. The new kit looks like it has the potential to be strong depending on the numbers, though the risa kit will remain way easier to get even if this is good.
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bij posted:2 tac consoles and no lt.com tac seat on a cruiser? Is it 2012? It's c-store level of stats and power, which is hilarious.
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