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Mind you there's like five people insane enough to seriously PVP in this game so build resources are slim at best. You're best off just asking someone in Kerrat if they have a discord or something for tips. Unrelatedly, the new episode and TF are... okay? There's nothing really wrong with either except the usual cavalcade of Cryptic bugs and that just like a lot of content the past few years they're too drat long. The episode could have easily been split into two parts of a reasonable length and you could cut entire segments out of the task force without affecting the plot at all. I don't know why they're obsessed with making every task force take like 20 minutes and every episode something like 40 with all the mandatory running, talking, and time gated fights.
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Yeah I don't know why they make the new-er missions endurance mode long instead of breaking them up into more actual missions. Maybe they're chasing a particular metric on a whiteboard set by some manager?
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Jan 26, 2023 11:36
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If they split the missions up into two distinct parts, they have to give out more free things to the player as rewards, obviously can't have that.
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Jan 26, 2023 13:51
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Asimo posted:'s nothing really wrong with either except the usual cavalcade of Cryptic bugs and that just like a lot of content the past few years they're too drat long. I'm still something like 8 episodes back (I think the last one I did was the one where the elachi super weapon gets turned on that klingon world) for exactly that reason. I just don't want to sit down and plow through something that long most days. poo poo, just create a cliff hanger and put in that great "to be continued" and "last time on Star Trek" at the beginning of the next one. Hell, release two episodes at once so people who want to do them right now cna do that! Just let me put it down half way through and come back in a bit.
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Jan 26, 2023 14:01
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MREBoy posted:Guess you got your wish! Hooray! I'm trying to kit an alt out in the Competitive Wargames set for aesthetic reasons, and getting stacks of Competitive marks is a pain without an event like this running. The Competitive PvE TFOs are among the task forces I still have never seen.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I'm still something like 8 episodes back (I think the last one I did was the one where the elachi super weapon gets turned on that klingon world) for exactly that reason. Well most of them have break points you can resume from, it's just not totally made clear when.
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Jan 26, 2023 15:53
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Cythereal posted:Hooray! The only time anyone ever plays them are when one of them is a universal endeavor. Even then, the queues only pop for the first few hours after the endeavor goes up.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:59
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There was an actual PVP endeavor a few weeks ago and it was hilarious. I haven’t actually done any PVP since Delta Rising, and it was great to find out that average pubbie teams somehow die even more easily than mobs against the scihole.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:16
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More free stuff from Alienware: https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/s...ck-key-giveaway Remember, you can still use the website to redeem the keys: https://www.arcgames.com/en/code-redemption
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MikeJF posted:Well most of them have break points you can resume from, it's just not totally made clear when. 
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Birdcage TFO trip report: It's not good. It's not bad, but it's too long, has two annoying "do this thing" minigame sections, and ends with two simultaneous bosses with 52k and 67k health respectively. That are also spamming science exocomps, so I was having flashbacks to the hell that was early STO ground combat where you literally couldn't damage some enemies faster than they could heal and resurrect themselves. It definitely feels like it was meant to be a single-player mission, but they realized 1) they didn't have any TFOs for this launch and 2) BOFFs are dumb as loving rocks. At least humans only occasionally get stuck on level geometry. Also, I got "Defeat Terrans (Ground)" as one of my personal endeavors for today, and the roughly 500 I killed in that didn't count. lol good job cryptic. It took ~20 minutes total, and I was getting bored before halfway through. Running two patrols will be faster.
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Jan 26, 2023 23:20
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Wizard of the Deep posted:More free stuff from Alienware: https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/s...ck-key-giveaway Ooo, elite boff tokens, this one's worth it.
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Jan 27, 2023 02:01
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After finishing the new story mission I guess it's ok that Emperor Wesley isn't killed off but I think he should have been made to wear his counterpart's ugly sweaters as punishment for his crimes
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Jan 27, 2023 03:29
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That we were never allowed to tell the Emperor to shut up is a failure of writing.
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Jan 27, 2023 05:11
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Preechr posted:That we were never allowed to tell the Emperor to shut up is a failure of writing. I mentioned this same thing earlier and was schooled that Will Wheaton hates that meme, so it basically had no chance of showing up.
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Jan 27, 2023 09:05
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So? His lines are already in the can, and we’re unvoiced. What is Wheaton going to do, stop trying to get attached to a Star Trek product?
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Preechr posted:That we were never allowed to tell the Emperor to shut up is a failure of writing. Cryptic just isn't interested in letting us kill villains anymore, either. I haven't done a single new story mission since the Discovery stuff started, aside from my token STD Fed alt, and by all accounts this has been an excellent move.
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Cythereal posted:Cryptic just isn't interested in letting us kill villains anymore, either. When was the last time we even killed a villain? The end of the Vaadwaur arc with Gaul? We made peace with the Iconians, we put Future Guy in jail, the infamous female changeling got killed by a Hurq...
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Hunter Noventa posted:villain? Gaul?
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Jan 27, 2023 16:30
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Star Trek is about killing the bad guy
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What’s the consensus on obliviating phasers? Stats look interesting but I’m not seeing much about them.
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:Star Trek is about killing the bad guy It sure as hell has been since 2009!
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Jxforema posted:What’s the consensus on obliviating phasers? Stats look interesting but I’m not seeing much about them.
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Jan 27, 2023 20:15
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I did yell shoot him in the back! shoot him in the back! at the screen during that final Wesley cutscene. Even though this is the "finale" of the arc they had to tease more Terran poo poo so of course we'll see him again
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I appreciated Mirror Leeta trolling Shon over how he only puts out pubbie-level DPS.
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Cythereal posted:Cryptic just isn't interested in letting us kill villains anymore, either.
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TNG made up for that by killing Enterprise in its final episode.
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Asimo posted:To be fair, now that I think about it Trek itself just doesn't really kill villains. I mean sure the antagonist of the week was totally ganked in TOS, but from TNG on up they're usually running with their tail between their legs, arrested by <relevant local authority>, redeemed by the light of space liberalism, or left in some sort of ironic cumeuppance circumstance. Only real exception is Dukat and that was during the finale of the series and trek's only series-long story arc. It's not exactly satisfying in a game but at least it's on theme? Also, Dukat’s probably not dead 😈 (If Sisko didn’t die but instead ascended or whatever, entirely likely Dukat isn’t dead but in purgatory or something)
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I picked up the new shotgun-pistol from the lockbox...as someone who loves pistol sidearms for characters, and likes cone-attacks, it's pretty great.
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Preechr posted:So? His lines are already in the can, and we’re unvoiced. What is Wheaton going to do, stop trying to get attached to a Star Trek product? Its not an ideal approach to start short-changing the actors who lend their likeness and voice just so that you can cram one meme into your game's writing. They all are SAG members after all, no matter how insignificant their career after Star Trek has been.
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considering some of the horrible poo poo I've read about him going through as a child actor I'm inclined to cut him some slack on him asking "hey maybe don't do this"
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Jan 28, 2023 22:42
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Wesley shouldve yelled "Shut up, Picard!" at the MU Picard
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Which would also be why MU Picard doesnt say anything because you cant get Patrick Stewart
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Been mucking around with an alt lately.   Fluidic Space is gorgeous and doesn't get used anywhere near enough. And I miss missions that are just 'go to where the bad guys live and gently caress some poo poo up.'
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My new laptop has a faulty network card, so I’m going to have to ship it in for repair. Means I’ll likely have to spend some zen on the anniversary ship. That sucks.
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I wish they'd make vanity shields of all of the new era hull types (Type 0, Galaxy, Sovereign, etc) so we can apply them to other ships that don't have them. Toss 'em up on the dil store for a little cost.
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Even though I have a paramount account still, I am 100% not risking my sanity on Picard S3 until at least two trek goons in good standing post here to confirm the story and plotting make sense.
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:Even though I have a paramount account still, I am 100% not risking my sanity on Picard S3 until at least two trek goons in good standing post here to confirm the story and plotting make sense. I'm curious if you're going to need an understanding of what happened in S2 or if it just gets memory holed. Basically I really don't want to watch S2 if I can avoid it.
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:Even though I have a paramount account still, I am 100% not risking my sanity on Picard S3 until at least two trek goons in good standing post here to confirm the story and plotting make sense. I mean I may play STO do but I do maintain some level of pattern recognition.
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I've been thinking. Cryptic noted in the last ten-forward that they'll keep doing the yearly meta, but... I'm strongly considering the t6 z-store coupons rather than a lockbox ship. I feel like I've got more ships I like the looks of than I actively want to fly, and I think I'd prefer account-wide new stuff now. Nothing's come out last year that made me go yes I'll take that now. Edit: For those curious, if patterns hold here will be the new choices this year: 
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