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I forgot the hydra is intel primary. Def a great choice for surgical strikers
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:I forgot the hydra is intel primary. Def a great choice for surgical strikers It's basically a slower adamant so should work well.
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Feb 16, 2023 04:44
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The Hestia was already pretty close to a total equal to the lifetime subscription Destroyer, and now it has a mirror version that totally surpasses it unless you’re trying to find a mediocre torpedo boat.
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Feb 16, 2023 05:25
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Noticed this in the end credits of Picard 3x01: looks like they're gonna canonise the pioneer class
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Feb 16, 2023 11:21
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We'll know if STO has truly infiltrated official canon once we start seeing 100 wacky miranda variants with mismatched parts in in the background of every space scene.
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Feb 16, 2023 11:23
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Isn't there a good chance that the PIC S3 will have Elachi as one of the antagonists? Before STO their only appearance was unnamed and mute mystery aliens in one episode of Enterprise.
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Der Kyhe posted:Isn't there a good chance that the PIC S3 will have Elachi as one of the antagonists? Before STO their only appearance was unnamed and mute mystery aliens in one episode of Enterprise. I hope so. Auralnaughts (if anyone doesn't know please watch their parody videos, they're amazing) suggested Evil Bad Lady was Soren's daughter. As in the fellow who killed Kirk. (may not be spoiler, IDK) If that's remotely true I have less than zero idea but it sounded neat.
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DancingShade posted:We'll know if STO has truly infiltrated official canon once we start seeing 100 wacky miranda variants with mismatched parts in in the background of every space scene. TNG kinda has you beat there.
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Feb 16, 2023 12:06
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Yeah, part of the reason we have so many Miranda variants is because CBS kept redressing the models for the show. 
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Feb 16, 2023 13:19
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DS9 too. Once you got into the Dominion War era and they just needed a fuckload of background poo poo you start to see some weird crap, both practical models that they physically kitbashed and CGI stuff where they basically did what we do in STO. One of my favorites is the "USS Yeager" which is where they took the saucer from an Intrepid and stapled it to the rear end-end of the Maquis Raider model that they used for Chakotay's ship. There's another Intrepid kitbash where they gutted out the hull/engine section of a F-14 model of all things, backwards, to create a kind of double-lower hull/deflector dish (the engines of the F-14 model if you can picture that) and then glued on some TOS-movie era warp nacelles and misc other greebles.
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Feb 16, 2023 14:11
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Asimo posted:with teratogenic third nacelles. A search brings me: "Teratogens are substances that cause congenital disorders in a developing embryo or fetus. A teratogen is anything a person is exposed to or ingests during pregnancy that's known to cause fetal abnormalities. Drugs, medicine, chemicals, certain infections and toxic substances are examples of teratogens." I don't see the relation.
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Feb 16, 2023 14:20
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It's a superfluous nacelle. It's a mutant ship that shouldn't exist in a healthy ecosystem. 
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Feb 16, 2023 14:34
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Cyrano4747 posted:
The thing about those ones is that they weren't originally intended to literally be what you can see in detail photographs, they were built to be 5-pixel-high roughly Starfleet looking shapes you can barely make out in the background. Publishing photos and details on them later was a mistake, in my opinion.
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Feb 16, 2023 15:30
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MikeJF posted:The thing about those ones is that they weren't originally intended to literally be what you can see in detail photographs, they were built to be 5-pixel-high roughly Starfleet looking shapes you can barely make out in the background. Publishing photos and details on them later was a mistake, in my opinion. Like how on modern DVD you can clearly see the cardboard and wood cut-outs on old classic doctor who sets. Looks laughable. At the time it was plenty good enough for broadcast TV because people generally couldn't see the fine details like that with the resolution quality available. Or more recently (kind of) on Stargate Atlantis when they swapped production methods for more high-res and "water damage on the walls" was suddenly and very obviously just badly applied paint complete with visible brush strokes.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:34
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If, for some reason, you want to use MVAM mode on the new Hydra, fear not- the HYDRA console has a bonus built-in MVAM mode for all Prometheus variants. There is no need to buy the T5 Multi-Vector Advanced Escort, ever.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:51
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Preechr posted:If, for some reason, you want to use MVAM mode on the new Hydra, fear not- the HYDRA console has a bonus built-in MVAM mode for all Prometheus variants. There is no need to buy the T5 Multi-Vector Advanced Escort, ever. Naturally, this happens after I got the t5 with the anniversary coupon. -_- Which I suppose means at this point no t6 coupon for the anniversary like last year. Pity.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:58
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^^If it makes you feel better, the T5 MVAM console lasts longer and lets you pick which section to fly, the new mini-MVAM in the Hydra doesn't.DancingShade posted:Like how on modern DVD you can clearly see the cardboard and wood cut-outs on old classic doctor who sets. Looks laughable. At the time it was plenty good enough for broadcast TV because people generally couldn't see the fine details like that with the resolution quality available. Or more recently (kind of) on Stargate Atlantis when they swapped production methods for more high-res and "water damage on the walls" was suddenly and very obviously just badly applied paint complete with visible brush strokes.
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g0del posted:^^If it makes you feel better, the T5 MVAM console lasts longer and lets you pick which section to fly, the new mini-MVAM in the Hydra doesn't. You can usually clearly see the screws holding in the various lcars screens on the Ent-D bridge, certainly in almost all of season 1
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Feb 16, 2023 22:12
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The wood veneer on the tactical station was pretty rough looking towards the end of TNG too.
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Feb 16, 2023 22:26
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The real obvious stuff in HD for me is all the matter painted corridors and rooms and such that were just a tiny little set with a background matte painting. It looked fine on tiny old CRT TVs! Same thing with all thr excessive clown makeup so the facial features would be visible across the room from a flickering 13" screen.
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Feb 16, 2023 22:31
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Cyrano4747 posted:There's another Intrepid kitbash where they gutted out the hull/engine section of a F-14 model of all things, backwards, to create a kind of double-lower hull/deflector dish (the engines of the F-14 model if you can picture that) and then glued on some TOS-movie era warp nacelles and misc other greebles. I believe you are talking about the USS Elkins: https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/ds9tm.htm
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When I've been hanging out in SOL I've heard some ships warp in that sounds like the Discovery engine. Is that a specific ship, or is it an engine, or just something for discovery characters?
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fullTimeLurker posted:When I've been hanging out in SOL I've heard some ships warp in that sounds like the Discovery engine. Is that a specific ship, or is it an engine, or just something for discovery characters? It’s discovery characters on most ships, and any other faction character transwarping out or in while in one of the various crossfields.
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I still have my "Even Campaign IV" reward box and I'm trying to decide between 1 -> Voth Carrier so that I have all 3 pieces of the Voth set for some reason 2 -> Ba'ul Sentry Vessel for some silly sci shenanigans (although I already have a fully kitted SciToon Alt) 3 -> Styx because it's new and shiny? or is there a better option than these three?
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fullTimeLurker posted:I still have my "Even Campaign IV" reward box and I'm trying to decide between It’s hard to answer that question without knowing everything you already have from that lockbox, along with how much you’re invested in maximizing your DPS, what sort of builds you like, etc. There’s probably a list of 3-5 ships that could be listed as “best” if you’re just scrounging for traits or consoles. And after that, maybe another 10 that have situational value. But if you have a lot of those and/or don’t care about completing TFOs like 5% faster, then not much anyone can advise you on aside from everyone’s personal opinions about which ships look best.
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Here’s a post I did back in August about good meta traits/consoles in the latest campaign lockbox. I think there some other good posts about that topic at that time as well. But all of this is contingent on a lot of what you have, what you’ll pay for, and what you actually care about. Fidel Cuckstro posted:Just scanning the promo and infinity boxes for stuff that tends to come up as 'meta' (realized/forgot that the Arbiter was also C-store)
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:It’s hard to answer that question without knowing everything you already have from that lockbox, along with how much you’re invested in maximizing your DPS, what sort of builds you like, etc. Thanks for the helpful post, narrowing it down to a few really helped. There's just so many on that list, makes it a little overwhelming. As far as traits go, I have most of the Store Buyable traits. The ones I use most are: Calm Before Storm Target Rich Environment Critical Subsystems The Best Diplomat Emergency Weapon Cycle Withering Barrage Entwined Tactical Matrices Superweapon Ingenuity Improved Command Fequency Spore Infused Anomolies Improved Gravity Well Preferential Targeting Overpowered Overgunned Peak Efficiency For gear I have fully yellowed15 Cannon and Beam setup. Think I'll probably go for the Terran Goodbye trait. I'm sure I can find space for it
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Just checking in on this game after a long hiatus - feel like smashing out a few patrols while my new baby drifts off to sleep. Did they ever put in a way of transferring purchases from PC to console? I have an Xbox but my computer is an iPad now.
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Nope, PC and console are still entirely separate economies.
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If you're solo AFKing the current event with Defense of Starbase One, can you gently caress off right away, or do you need to defeat some initial stuff?
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MikeJF posted:If you're solo AFKing the current event with Defense of Starbase One, can you gently caress off right away, or do you need to defeat some initial stuff? SB1 you can just cloak and gently caress off to some corner immediately.
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Hunter Noventa posted:SB1 you can just cloak and gently caress off to some corner immediately. I guess just don't talk about doing that in chat. I know someone who just picked up a temp game suspension for "AFKing" because he complained in chat that server lag was making his solo-AFK run take longer than it should. In other words, Cryptic has heard players complaining about bots AFKing and is handling it in the worst possible way - banning players (the ones who talk about it) instead of bots (who never chat because they're bots).
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I finally did The Fujiwhara Effect because I wanted the digitizer weapons. It was surprisingly decent, I think the first time I've seen a 'fly into a hostile megastructure to take it apart piece by piece' thing I've seen in this game since The Breach.  
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Cythereal posted:I finally did The Fujiwhara Effect because I wanted the digitizer weapons. It was surprisingly decent, I think the first time I've seen a 'fly into a hostile megastructure to take it apart piece by piece' thing I've seen in this game since The Breach. ... Except for the fact it should have been two episodes. There's just way too much going on in this, it takes like 30 minutes even if you're rushing through dialogue and skipping cutscenes, and there's no reason they couldn't have split the space stuff and ground stuff into two different episodes (or split the defensive battle stuff from the megastructure assault/ground battle.) It's another loving example of someone on the team or at gearbox or whatever being obsessed with making sure people log in for twenty minutes a day for metrics no matter what. 
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Asimo posted:Yeah it's honestly a pretty good episode overall. Yeah, I was skipping all the dialogue and cutscenes because I don't give a poo poo. They're space Nazis, and the only thing I desire from them in a story role is to explode them. Still, credit to Cryptic for making the first story episode I've done since the end of Victory is Life because the fancy death animations from digitizer weapons made me fit out an alt around them. I wish this game did more megastructure assaults, or even something like raiding Mirror Utopia Planitia. Go on the offensive and put players into a target rich environment to blow poo poo up piece by piece.
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Raiding Mirror Planitia would be good. The best part of the Mirror story lines is we get to blow up a bunch of space nazis. Never stop blowing up space nazis.
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I don't think I could handle the amount of belly-aching that would happen if they released another mirror universe episode. (I don't mind mirror universe shenanigans)
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Really wish if you were a TOS captain they made the inquisitor and their away team direct copies of your existing characters but with sashes and also black goatees, regardless of your actual hair color or gender. To be fair, they at least made my inquisitor wear the Zeon helmet, so it kinda worked out.
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revtoiletduck posted:I don't think I could handle the amount of belly-aching that would happen if they released another mirror universe episode. (I don't mind mirror universe shenanigans) Isn't it heavily implied we're doing Mirror Borg next? No doubt we'll have to team up with the space nazis for that.
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