Asimo posted:

Not... really, though I think I've heard a few other people mention it. What OS? STO's always had some weird driver issues and such and a lot of little unfixed bugs, like the DX11 mode having missing textures for things here and there but only on some computers and the devs haven't ever replicated it internally.

Mondian posted:

Did you ever install that old UI mod that changed the icons for Data Samples to something more easily distinguishable? Its old, but if you had I wouldn't doubt it would result in this sort of bug, what with all the changes that have been made.

NurhacisUrn posted:

That is incredible. What did you name yours? Mine is Kukalaka Kaliki-Alihi.

Preechr posted:

Technical Analysis posted:

Less clunky, less useful, more bullshit, and of course dice rolls!

Woolie Wool posted:

Something needs to be done about the Tholian red alert because the success rate for them is abysmal and unless you get lucky you're basically throwing your time away.

Mondian posted:

Actually the Gatway usually shreds you with a cutting beam. Gozertorps are generally high yield torpedoes fired by cubes that aren't rendered visually. They're called that because Gozer, the cryptic dev that redesigned the STFs the first time, thought that instakill bullshit like that is exactly what STO needed and defended that position until he left to impose his idiocy on Ubisoft.

Berke Negri posted:

Cryptic should really hand out free pharmaceuticals with the monthly zen stipend because everyone on this game is insane.

g0del posted:

Yeah, rom tacs are still the most over-powered race/class combo. However, 99% of the content is easy enough that you don't need to min/max, so play whatever makes you happy.

Cyberball 2072 posted:

Didn't ds9 already have an update at some point?

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DonDoodles posted:

A little over a year ago there was a purge of inactive players to make room for new goons, so most likely that's the reason why. Just ask in channel and someone will get you in.

Edit: In addition to Marq and Xean, someone got the furries flipping out.


They are just all coming out of the woodwork this week.

For reference (though I suspect the thread will be removed shortly):http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1201741&page=1

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I'm pretty sure you are not flamed because you said arc and cryptic's customer service are bad. It's common knowledge.

I'm sure there are other reasons why you have been flamed, if you had been. Maybe because of your ego ?

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id thought of that and can understand it can seem that way sometimes, but people with egos arent able to make fun of themselves or look at others opinions to weight both sides, due to their egos. im loose enough to be able make fun of myself and my faults all the time #1934, what i have and display is confidence!

MoraleHazard posted:

It is amazing how bad some players are at this game. I've been playing the fleet mark and omega mark fleet actions and parsing the damage dps. Even with my Level 40 Mirror Qin with Mk X and XI Uncommon and Rare gear, I've come in second in every fleet action (except maybe my very first one). Now I just got to figure out how to macro some chained skills.

Also, in working toward a Level 50 ship for my klank, I have a dilemma about whether or not to get the fleet Somraw or the fleet Mogh for my tac captain.

Asimo posted:

It's more the hilarious bad decisions that Cryptic Geko made for Delta Rising have been coming home to roost. There was a pretty massive bleed during the month after it came out, and there hasn't been new content in a while. With the queues being pointless or frustrating for your average pubbie, most people stilll "playing" are logging in to do doff jobs, run CCA once for the event, and logging off. There's some maybe-content coming next week, but the core problems of intolerable queues and lovely XP grinds haven't been fixed, so it won't actually solve anything or draw anyone back. And in the meanwhile Cryptic's getting more and more desperate with sales and promotions (to the point of undercutting their future profits for short term gains by doing things like a T6 bugship ) to further alienate anyone who isn't a crazy whale.

Things could have been fixed early on if the lead developer wasn't a manchild grognard, but by this point the game dying is the new normal and everyone realizes it. And instead of replacing STO's leadership, PWE is doing the (perhaps wiser) move of pulling the competent people off of STO's staff to other games, just making things worse in the long run. Or in other words,

Burning_Monk posted:

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9313623

The horrible looking Feregni summer ship has been announced.

Xy Hapu posted:

I'm honest-to-god convinced a bunch of the things in this game are only there to mess with the players. A lot is probably just incompetence, but I find it hard to explain stuff like the nerve tonic part of that one mission, or the borg diamond that runs away from you forever, or the titillating 'bury the tox uthat in some sand' minigame.

Seems only natural that some rogue dev over at cryptic is snickering to himself at the thought of players using a bread and butter skill only to find it now turns enemies invincible instead, while simultaneously furiously masturbating to printed out chatlogs of the battlezone, a veritable Homeric epic consisting entirely of people screaming at newbies to stop using grav well for god's sake please god please, repeated for all eternity.

Psycho Landlord posted:

Redshirt Grenadier Division was pretty much the only time I've ever legitimately enjoyed ground combat in this dumb game since launch, so

Psycho Landlord posted:

Well, since you haven't caught on yet, the idea is to move people away from constant AoE builds - Spartan expressly stated that part of the mission statement driving this rebalance is to produce longer encounters and normalize the time spent in a given combat between the tryhards and the more casual crowd a bit. FAW was BIS because if the player using it could follow a cookie cutter shipbuilding guide, they were able to end any encounter in the game in ten seconds. Those same players would then complain that the game was too easy/missions were over too quickly and that STO was always the same.

Now, Cryptic had three options here - buff the enemies, nerf the players, or make understanding game mechanics easy for new players THEN buff the enemies. They already tried option one with Delta Rising, and it was bad, 10% of the player base complained about fights taking a couple minutes instead of a couple seconds and the remaining 90% complained that they couldn't actually finish missions because they're all in shitfits they think are serviceable. So that was nixed, over time.

This is now option 2 going into effect. I actually don't think Cryptic is going to gently caress with the math on display overmuch. They want FaW to only work on smaller ships and fighters, and for anything bigger than a frigate to require focusing down one at a time, much like how combat was portrayed in every fight that wasn't any of the major ones in DS9. They want Escorts to come back into their original role, IE murder that one important ship as quickly as possible in team instances. They want cruisers to be good fire support but not the complete area denial they have been for the last few years. I dunno what the gently caress they're doing to science beyond making sure Tacs can't use it as well as Sci captains, except Sci captains also suck at science now so whatever. They also want carriers to have their pets actually be a factor in any decisions regarding whether or not to fly them, and that's actually pretty great.

Now, is any of this going to be fun? I dunno. Usually mass shake ups of a game's meta are more annoying than anything, especially when a company that has a pretty bad track record with balance in the first place is doing it. But the whole point is looking at new abilities and combinations, not doubling down on flying the same poo poo but with FAW one rank higher and then just lamenting the DPS loss.

On that note, gonna be interesting to see how Grav Well/Timeline Collapse paired with Distributed Targeting stacks up after all this poo poo goes into effect.

MikeJF posted:

Part of the issue is that FAW isn't a proper AoE. It picks two targets and does 5 high-power beam attacks each against each in short order, with random targeting if the selected target is out of arc. So it'll happily concentrate fire for you, making it good to use in both crowds and single-target situations. Which is poor game design.

They shouldn't be trying to steer people away from AoE, they should just change FAW so it's not a weird always-great hybrid AOE/Single-Target super-ability. But they probably don't know how.

MikeJF posted:

I still think they should give a bunch of escorts a dedicated eighth rear weapon slot that's limited to mines. Just a little extra fun slot.

Mondian posted:

Uhh... wait a minute I'm still not seeing the value of science. Everything they get except for SNB is totally useless and now they don't even get that. Next best thing is scattering field and that's neither great nor necessary and science fleet... I suppose it gives you some shield resists that's nice, but with epts, even post-nerf leech, supremacy, the shield power nrg wpn doff, and a million other things you're probably sitting close to the cap anyway if you know what you're doing.

That Deflector Overcharge will need to be amazing to give sci the barest breath of life.


e: Just to be clear, I don't give a single gently caress either way. Looking at the numbers changing and the game as I know it, I 100% expect to not give a single poo poo about changing my current build at all and just eat the incremental nerf to my OP ship and still faceroll the garbage content in this game because its dumb and easy and I'm fortunate enough to have already done the grinding for my QOL traits/equipment.

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Best part is he probably didn't want you to - a lot of the current leet dps meta revolves around abusing a few traits in order to stay at 0 hull for a few minutes and pair that with Go Down Fighting. He probably would have been more dangerous if you weren't healing him.

super sweet best pal posted:

I can't believe they're only now making pets immune to warp core breaches.

Asimo posted:

Well they continuously tried to fix it by making the AI attempt to avoid warp core breaches. The problem is, it's the hangar pet AI and thus things like "actually keep up at full impulse" or "actually attack the target" aren't even guaranteed, so that never worked as intended.

Psycho Landlord posted:

If you're talking about shattered universe, you're mis-remembering. Every fighter in that game universally moved like a pig covered in molasses which then had yet more molasses-pigs taped to it.

Aleth posted:

Why. WHY?

If you're going to do that with your zen you buy keys and sell them on the exchange so you can buy the ship for EC, never gamble on the packs expecting to win the ship. Never.

Psycho Landlord posted:

This is really sad to read, because if you had that much Zen lying around you seriously could have just sold those dumb packs or some keys on the exchange and gotten more than enough EC to just get this ship off someone directly. Trading Channels exist for a reason, and you'll notice that the people advertising the things for a bil and a half never sell, because all of the actual transactions happening are in the 800 mil - 1 bil range.

Asimo posted:

And people wonder why I say that gamblebox gacha bullshit in MMOs and mobile games is so laughably exploitative of players. "But Asimo," they said, "nobody in this thread would be vulnerable enough to flush $40+ on the game for a minuscule chance to win something! It's not a problem!"

And yet, here we are.

Asimo posted:

Asimo posted:

No, you didn't waste $40. You instead wasted $300 on a lifetime sub, and then blew eight months worth of the stipend of that on basically nothing because you were a sucker and fell into a gambling trap, and now are trying to defend it because you do not comprehend what an "opportunity cost" means. This does not in fact make you look better.

You hosed up. You were a sucker. Own up to it, shrug, and learn a valuable life lesson.

Psycho Landlord posted:

I think I'm the only Dental flying one. I did not get it out of a box.