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Cyrano4747 posted:Which rifle is this? I could use a ludicrously OP new hotness The newer one being talked about was the Portable Phaser Cannon Special Issue, also from the lobi store. revtoiletduck posted:Same here. I'm fuckin terrible at ground combat. The current meta loadout right now is Burnham's CQC Armor from the Disco rep, with the environment suit version being just as good, and the Na'kuhl Temporal Operative Personal Shield from the Temporal Front task force, paired with whatever absurd lobi weapon (or the tommygun or whatever if you're fighting borg) as your primary weapon and the Na'kuhl Temporal Operative Minigun as the secondary; the minigun is poo poo but the two-piece set bonus is exceptionally good and you don't need to weapon swap if you have a good enough gun anyway. As for kits... gently caress there's a billion modules and it's pretty obvious which ones are decent or not when you play with them, medium cooldowns and quick activations with limited animation locks seem to be big things. The general meta is to stack kit performance/KitPerf on the kit itself since it's the ground equivalent of EPG and everything you do is space magic, with the best option right now being the Risian Kit from the summer event since you can re-engineer it to be nothing but KitPerf and it has a decent straight weapon damage boost, but that's a pain to get outside the season so just use whatever meanwhile. It's a personal preference but the Ball Lightning module from the summer event is a bit crazy if you have decent kit performance since it deletes everything vaguely near you, beyond that I uh have no idea just mess around until you find stuff you like?
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Depending on your prof there are lots of things that are great to get. In particular Mudd's Time Device which just owns. Chain Conduit Capacitor is chain lightning on a short cd if you like spamming. Collective Will is the big borg lightning.
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Oh yeah the Assimilate kit is pretty fun too. Not for the drone spawning gimmick, they're pretty weak and have horrible AI even by Cryptic standards, but the actual primary effect is still a three-minute mid-damage DoT with an AOE and is free fire-and-forget damage against TFO bosses and the like.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:ETA: Like almost everything else in the lobi store, they're bind-on-pickup, so not available on the exchange. You've got to open some gamble-boxes to get the lobi necessary. Quick guesstimate is 20-25 boxes. At current key prices, that's probably 200-250m EC for both. I thought the average lobi per box was 5, did they change that? That's a lot of boxes to open for 40-50 lobi.
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Well poop I’m running the staff. What are your ground traits set up as? My ground game is so sad.
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Lol missed a ton of replies. I have half this poo poo. I need to get it together and build my ground game right. Bur ground  
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Burnham armor, Nakhul 2pc, Kelvin Timeline Pistol (just cause I like it), Mudd's Time Device, Motivation, Graviton Spike, Trajectory Bending, Ball Lightning, and then the Agony Turret Ambush from the giveaway just because I don't know what to put in the 6th slot and it seems to be doing pretty good for itself. e: Traits wise Creativity, Dulce et Decorum est, Upgraded Gear, Adaptive Offense, Pistol training, Soldier, Strike Team Specialist, Hive Mind, Vicious, and Terran Vision. Eimi fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Sep 17, 2021 |
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Sep 17, 2021 23:39
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Cyrano4747 posted:Well poop I’m running the staff.
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OGS-Remix posted:I thought the average lobi per box was 5, did they change that? That's a lot of boxes to open for 40-50 lobi. I was thinking the average was 4 per box, and the price quoted was for both cannon and staff. Key prices are still crazy, though. And I'm sure they'll only get worse.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:I was thinking the average was 4 per box, and the price quoted was for both cannon and staff. The Lower Decks stuff being ALL lobi when obviously a great part of it should've been lockbox is some dark vision of the future poo poo. I can easily see them shift to only giving out traits via lobi, INSANELY more expensive for the player, promotes lootbox opening, and they can say it's not gambling since lobi is guaranteed.
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Eimi posted:The Lower Decks stuff being ALL lobi when obviously a great part of it should've been lockbox is some dark vision of the future poo poo. I can easily see them shift to only giving out traits via lobi, INSANELY more expensive for the player, promotes lootbox opening, and they can say it's not gambling since lobi is guaranteed. Honestly? I'm kinda OK with that. It's a grind you can calculate. Anyone can do the math and figure how how many EC that is, how much dil/zen THAT is, etc. It's not half as predatory as the slot machine BS they use to hook in people with gambling addictions. At the end of the day all the lockbox only poo poo is already insanely overpriced if you don't want to gamble for it. Ships so expensive you have to do it through trade channels because the exchange can't handle that much EC etc.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Honestly? I'm kinda OK with that. It's a grind you can calculate. Anyone can do the math and figure how how many EC that is, how much dil/zen THAT is, etc. It's not half as predatory as the slot machine BS they use to hook in people with gambling addictions. It's possible to earn large amounts of EC while playing, but the conversion rate of keys to lobi is pretty loving terrible. Like what getting 50 lobi is how many dollars? 10$ if you're lucky? 40$ for 200? That's a pretty grim conversion rate. Sure there's less gambling but it's way less accessible. Buying a lockbox trait is like 20-30mil, which is 3/10 of the cost of 50 lobi.
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Eimi posted:It's possible to earn large amounts of EC while playing, but the conversion rate of keys to lobi is pretty loving terrible. Like what getting 50 lobi is how many dollars? 10$ if you're lucky? 40$ for 200? That's a pretty grim conversion rate. Sure there's less gambling but it's way less accessible. Buying a lockbox trait is like 20-30mil, which is 3/10 of the cost of 50 lobi. Sure, but my point is that if they just flat out say "it's gonna be $350 worth of STO FunBux" that's something different than saying "It's an item in this box and it only cost $.30 for a shot at winning it! Give it a shot and by the way we're blasting winner announcements across your screen in ESD unless you find the setting to turn that off!  holy poo poo look at that another BIG WINNER!" odds of winning are 1 in 10000The value is garbage either way, but at least one is a value that someone can make a halfway rational calculation about, the other is intentionally preying on people with gambling problems.
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this isn't just a STO thing, either, I feel the same way with EA sticking slot machines in sports games with a billion in one shot of getting an ultra super gold mega legendary Neymar or LeBron etc. IDGAF if someone is dumb enough to pay $500 for the diamond super delux elite+ legendary Dennis Eckersley with the ultra rare mullet of +5 pitching, but it's bullshit when they con people into dumping major cash on one more pull of the gacha. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Sep 18, 2021 |
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Honestly, you're right. I was just reacting from the selfish position of what lets me get poo poo the cheapest, instead of what's probably better overall. Of course it's cryptic so they aren't going to find a nice equilibrium for this poo poo, but it would be better if they stopped preying on people with gambling addictions.
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FYI, it looks like the game has changed to not track ship mastery progress if you've discharged a ship. I thought I might grind out mastery traits I don't have on my main, but now the only way to see what mastery traits I have is to check my unlocked traits and cross-reference with the wiki to see where those traits come from, if I just get a ship out of a box it lists mastery at zero even if I've previously unlocked the trait.
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Eimi posted:Honestly, you're right. I was just reacting from the selfish position of what lets me get poo poo the cheapest, instead of what's probably better overall. Of course it's cryptic so they aren't going to find a nice equilibrium for this poo poo, but it would be better if they stopped preying on people with gambling addictions. It seems like it’d inflate the price of traits that aren’t as good, like the boff buffing one. I’d have grabbed that if it was a lockbox booby prize.
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So yeah I just ran the new TFO using a max level gold Lower Decks Phaser Cannon and hoooly crap is this thing OP. Even as a only slightly optimized for ground Eng guy this things primary fire was blasting 1k chunks out of stuff  . I thnk I solo melted Quinn at least once using a full charge secondary shot  .
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I finally got around to playing the new mission and I actually enjoyed it. The base interiors look fantastic, it's a shame there's not more to do with all the fancy new assets.
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Asimo posted:I assure you there are much worse ship kitbashes. At least that one has all its parts connected. skipping ahead a couple pages but i dearly hope some folks have posted awful poo poo 
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The new Leeta model looks like she has been hitting the Kanar a bit too hard and a tad too often. EDIT: And looks less than the old model like Leeta that they have on their promo materials. Bravo with the art direction and coordination, Cryptic! Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 19, 2021 |
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Every time I play a new mission and see the latest fancy new space portal I just wish they'd copy/paste it to replace the transwarp effect.
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Der Kyhe posted:The new Leeta model looks like she has been hitting the Kanar a bit too hard and a tad too often. They went with a more detailed look that the decade old champions engine struggles to deliver. Originally it only had to deliver simple cartoony superhero/villain characters. Given what they had to work with I think the artist did well. IDK, not a visual artist.
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I think the main problem is her eyes are now like anime big. If they shrunk them down a bit shed look oddly more detailed than everyone else but fine.
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Intel has an older giveaway for STO that's still going: The Star Trek Online Alliance Reborn MatHa Bundle Giveaway. If you haven't already claimed it, it includes:
It's a decent expansion of some limited resources in the early game. The Mat'Ha, like the Paladin, is an older T6. It's way out of meta for top-tier DPS, but it's still a solid performer. It's got innate cloaking, and a chunky design that I don't hate.
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 Welp, looks like we're due for a big z-store sale or a new bundle.
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Cryptic: "What's that? You can only pay cash money for zen, not use in game resources for it? That's a shame really, we'll fix it eventually, honest."
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It usually shows empty (at least to me), but all dill to ZEN transactions I leave in when I quit for the evening have gone through by the next day. ...But what I have also noticed is that because of the timecop recruit thingly, every f**king thing in the Exchange costs at least 100k EC.
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I finally gave in and did Operation Wolf out of curiosity. It was surprisingly not bad for a ground TFO.g0del posted:
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The Operation Wolf I did earlier featured at least three of us using the herald staff. It was a massacre.
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To wit, the current rumor mill is: New 3 ship bundle consisting of T6 Nova (pilot spec, possibly pilot maneuvers and raider flanking ala the Vulcan science vessel) T6 Saber (miracle worker spec) T6 Steamrunner (command spec) And the next meta event starting in October with the Borg TFOs on the menu and the reward being a t5 ship coupon.
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I'm surprised we haven't gotten a new Mudds, cause I assumed a TOS dread one would have sold insanely well, especially during TOS recruit.
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Eimi posted:I'm surprised we haven't gotten a new Mudds, cause I assumed a TOS dread one would have sold insanely well, especially during TOS recruit. there will be one either next week or early october to keep in line with the 3 month release schedule of Mudd bundles and then a full sale (and return of all previous bundles) for christmas/new years
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wdarkk posted:I’m anticipating/dreading a Mirror Mudd bundle.
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Well, the #1 white knight/troll got shadow banned from the official forums today: https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/profile/somtaawkhar It may not mean much if you dont read those boards, but if you do it will make a world of difference 😅
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Cythereal posted:To wit, the current rumor mill is: The T6 Steamrunner (Appalachia-class) was shown off on this week's Ten Forward (screenshots by someone in the r/sto Discord):    The seating is Commander Tac, LtCdr Tac/Command, LtCdr Eng, Lt Uni/Intel, Ens Sci. So far it's being sold for 3000 Zen by itself or in a Ship of the Line Bundle (T1, T5, T6 versions plus one T5-U token and two T6-X tokens) for 5000 Zen.
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