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Stargazer, Excelsior II, and Sh'vhal are all ships I actively want to fly. Even if I've yet to pick a ship from last years, so I could pick up the Mirror Crossfield and Deimos and that'd be "better" but also gently caress it. (still have no idea what to pick from last years)
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I forgot half of those even came out last year since they're hideous disco/picard boats. Also the Deimos is fun as hell and looks decent and has absurdly broken console, get that.
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Jan 30, 2023 19:47
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Asimo posted:I forgot half of those even came out last year since they're hideous disco/picard boats. I'm tentatively saving my dilzen to get the Mudd pilot bundle next time it's on the 50-75% off sale since it includes the Deimos and the t6 Nicor.
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Jan 30, 2023 19:50
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Asimo posted:I forgot half of those even came out last year since they're hideous disco/picard boats. The Sh'vhal is from Lower Decks and the first new Vulcan ship in ages, so I rank it a lot higher than the Picard ones, tbf. But I think the main problems with the Stargazer are it's interior.
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Jan 30, 2023 19:59
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Cyrano4747 posted:I'm curious if you're going to need an understanding of what happened in S2 or if it just gets memory holed. There's really nothing to memory hole, the entire season is a stable time loop caused by Q. Very much like ST4 Voyage Home it clearly tries to pay homage to in a couple of places. Only thing that changes is that "there now is one volunteer-driven Borg collective living inside Federation and Picard knows their Queen from time before her assimilation". They basically shoplifted Borg Cooperative from STO and sat them to a federation space. EDIT: I am going to go on record saying that under than 10 hours of bad-to-mediocre episodes there is a completely passable ~3 hour Star Trek movie if someone put the editing effort to make it so. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Jan 30, 2023 |
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Jan 30, 2023 21:05
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I could see myself taking the Acheron this year. I haven't used last year's rewards, and T6 coupons do sound good.
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Jan 30, 2023 21:14
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Eimi posted:The Sh'vhal is from Lower Decks and the first new Vulcan ship in ages, so I rank it a lot higher than the Picard ones, tbf. But I think the main problems with the Stargazer are it's interior. The Sh'vhal is about the only thing I'm looking at myself. Unless some great new Z-Store ships come out between now and then. But even then, I have the Lego Glenn, which is a slightly worse Sh'vhal.
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Jan 31, 2023 02:45
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Cythereal posted: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. Maybe I’d pick up the Excelsior II, because I generally liked it’s look. But also two T6 coupons might be nice to pick up some traits/consoles off that heavy frigate and light escort from earlier this year (or potentially something they release on the zen store this year)
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Jan 31, 2023 05:09
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Asimo posted:I am not going to watch Picard S3 even if multiple goons give it a good review. S1 was such an unmitigated aimless clusterfuck which made the interesting and promising start to S2 even more disappointing when it eagerly made the worst possible plot and pacing decisions humanly possible. It would have to have something like Mandalorian-level word of mouth to get me to bother and even then it would only be after the entire season's out so early hype has been killed by the expected disaster of a finale. I picked up a copy of Picard S1 on blu-ray from a bargain bin. I have yet to watch it. I bought it some months ago. I'm just not that bored yet. I may never be. May wait for a rifftrax style commentry track to make it work, if there is such a thing.
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Jan 31, 2023 11:07
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Cythereal posted:I'm tentatively saving my dilzen to get the Mudd pilot bundle next time it's on the 50-75% off sale since it includes the Deimos and the t6 Nicor. the only time they'd ever do a 75% discount again is if they do Mudds Bundles with only ship choices and no keys in them (good idea would be a pick-your-ship choice of 3 ships bundle at 75%)
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Jan 31, 2023 13:38
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Teron D Amun posted:the only time they'd ever do a 75% discount again is if they do Mudds Bundles with only ship choices and no keys in them (good idea would be a pick-your-ship choice of 3 ships bundle at 75%) It's Cryptic, who the hell knows. But even 50% would be fine. I'd prefer to spend zen, even far less efficiently, on getting these weird and wonderful ships than getting the latest reskin of Federation ships from the shows even if the reskins are mechanically far better and more zen-efficient.
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Jan 31, 2023 13:42
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Der Kyhe posted:
Wasn't the cooperative a voyager thing? edit: just checked and yeah, but STO enlarged upon it significantly. It was basically a bunch of borg refugees on a planet when Voyager left them.
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Jan 31, 2023 14:16
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I don't think there's anything from the past year that I want; the Courier does have Pilot/MW but nothing else going for it really over the Deimos (though Courier is kinda cute for a ship). I'll probably go for the Crossfield Science Spearhead to get that trait
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Jan 31, 2023 15:54
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The Deimos is a great ship in general and the console is obscene, definitely a good pick. I used the last token on the Amarie because I wanted it, drat it!
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Jan 31, 2023 16:28
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Available from the SteelSeries GG app on PC Terran Space Pack: Approaching Agony space console Experimental Ship Upgrade Token Elite Services Pack Small XP Boost Note: You have to download their dumb app and go to the giveaway tab to get this one. With the solid console and experimental upgrade token, it's totally worth the hassle for anybody lacking tokens and phaser consoles. The console is 4.5m on the market. Approaching Agony is a lockbox Phaser console https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Console_-_Universal_-_Approaching_Agony. +15% Phaser Damage +1.5% Critical Chance Approaching Agony AoE Agony Phaser Damage Creates a level __ Agony energy hazard for 40 seconds at foe's current location that follows the closest foe. To all Foes within 3km: * ____ Phaser Damage every half sec * -25 All Damage Resistance Rating * to target: 25% Chance Disable 2 min recharge
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Wizard of the Deep posted:More free stuff from Alienware: https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/s...ck-key-giveaway Thanks, I missed that one. I also missed the anniversary giveaway for the boff tokens so this was a pleasant surprise to stumble across. Newish player alert: Ambush Turrets are awesome for the non-stop Operation Wolf events and other events where you stand around blasting waves of NPCs while a timer counts down. x1 Universal Kit Module - Ambush Turrets x2 Elite Bridge Officer Upgrade Tokens x1 Elite Services Pack x1 Small XP Boost
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Feb 3, 2023 05:44
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First ad for the 13th anniversary bundle just posted to Twitter. The mirror Hestia and Southerland are confirmed. https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/1621916620280025090?s=20&t=TK2qDkoRaUL5kISF0na-Uw
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Feb 4, 2023 18:21
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For the Mirror Sutherland, I’m starting to think they’d maybe go with an intel spec? Can’t remember the last intel science ship we got. Was it the legendary Vesta?
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:For the Mirror Sutherland, I’m starting to think they’d maybe go with an intel spec? Can’t remember the last intel science ship we got. Was it the legendary Vesta? Yeah, that was last May. The last C-Store sci-intel ships before that was in Balth/Somerville combo in 2019.
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MisterOblivious posted:Available from the SteelSeries GG app on PC Thanks for this tip, needed that'un! Do the fleets still exist by the way? I'm fairly new
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Yeah the fleets still exist, you'll probably want to post your name here though because it's unlikely someone will be on to invite you whenever you're playing. Edit: That Approaching Agony console is really good too, it's a staple of Phaser damage builds.
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Awesome  Name would be Sapphira Te'Laemara@telaemara
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Sapphira posted:Name would be Sapphira Te'Laemara@telaemara OGS-Remix posted:Yeah the fleets still exist, you'll probably want to post your name here though because it's unlikely someone will be on to invite you whenever you're playing.
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Heh, apparently they built the improved Inquiry-class 3D model for PIC season 3 using the Star Trek Online model as a base because it was better quality than the original. I recognise those window textures. Hope we get those parts at some point, although knowing cryptic it'll be legendary.
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Feb 6, 2023 13:50
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I'd actually use mine more if it had a proper deflector.
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Eimi posted:I'd actually use mine more if it had a proper deflector. I just slap the Avenger skin on it. Although that one has a not-great deflector, but it's still better than the grille.
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MikeJF posted:Hope we get those parts at some point, although knowing cryptic it'll be legendary. I've got similar worries about the upcoming terran nebula. The existing T6 nebula is probably the best pure science ship in the z-store, since it's ltc eng seat is shared with temporal so it doesn't have to run useless eng abilities. For the new nebula, cryptic's options are basically "copy the verne" or "make it worse than the existing one".
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g0del posted:The existing Inquiry is so stupidly over-powered, any legendary version is pretty much guaranteed to be a downgrade. I think it'll almost certainly be worse than the prime version, since they are very unlikely to give the mirror any Temp-Ops seating (has there been any case where they've had a prime and mirror ship share a specialization?) And once you drop Temp-Ops off a science ship, you lose all that EPG/Control boosting synergy, and people start to write it off.
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Pilot spec refresh and minor changes to some ENG shield powers: https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11536183 The ENG stuff isn’t going to win anyone over, but the AP:lambda and engines-to-weapons changes might make those less forgettable on escorts and raiders
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:Pilot spec refresh and minor changes to some ENG shield powers: https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11536183 Very interesting detail: they're changing the pets from one ability to scale based on your stats. This could portend changes to other pets, summons, and abilities like saucer separation and multi-vector attack.
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Cythereal posted:Very interesting detail: they're changing the pets from one ability to scale based on your stats. This could portend changes to other pets, summons, and abilities like saucer separation and multi-vector attack. Would definitely be a boon to carriers, which I think are just generally too weak regardless of anything else
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I'm not sure any of the tweaks there will help change the Pilot Sucks meta much, but I'm willing to be wrong. At least taking most pilot skills now won't be an entirely dead slot.
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Asimo posted:I'm not sure any of the tweaks there will help change the Pilot Sucks meta much, but I'm willing to be wrong. At least taking most pilot skills now won't be an entirely dead slot. The reinforcement squadron change is buff for a trap skill, can be ignored. The reroute engines to weapons thing looks promising but without numbers and testing I make no judgements. I suppose make pilot good isn't necessary anyway. Even mediocre would be a large upgrade from its current state. If a bunch of ships change from "trash ignore" to "suboptimal but whatever" that's a change for the better.
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Klingon Recruit running again starting next week. For those who haven't made one, it's worth doing but the rewards aren't worth grinding for. The notable prize here is the t6 account-unlock bird of prey.
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Cythereal posted:Klingon Recruit running again starting next week. Some of the rewards are pretty easy, its mostly the grinding melee and cloak ambush kills that's a pain in the rear.
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Cythereal posted:For those who haven't made one, it's worth doing but the rewards aren't worth grinding for. The notable prize here is the t6 account-unlock bird of prey skin/mod that you can use on the otherwise excellent Disco BoP to make it actually look like a klingon ship instead of its god awful hideous base model.
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The melee is easy to grind once you get to that one mission where you're locked in the arena with the Ferengi in a forcefield fish bowl and infinite spawns until you hit the little switches. Also a Klink recruit is good for griding the Endeavour points. They get some free ones in the process which makes it a little easier.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:The melee is easy to grind once you get to that one mission where you're locked in the arena with the Ferengi in a forcefield fish bowl and infinite spawns until you hit the little switches. Yeah, the +10% universal is very nice to get, although it means that you will be spending a lot of time with your Klingon recruit so choose wisely. And that guide to autogrind the melee unlock still works, although it is janky enough that you will need to somewhat oversee that it keeps working.
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Hunter Noventa posted:Some of the rewards are pretty easy, its mostly the grinding melee and cloak ambush kills that's a pain in the rear. DancingShade posted:The reinforcement squadron change is buff for a trap skill, can be ignored. The reroute engines to weapons thing looks promising but without numbers and testing I make no judgements. It also sounds like we're probably getting another proc for uncon from pilot abilities, and possibly an anomaly - Herlache said he places a lot of importance on standardizing stuff like that.
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