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DancingShade posted:I think so*. There is a list of ships you can't use in the patch notes from May and I don't see it in there. I don't have any of the flagships, but my Romulan was able to grab the Fed Tactical Command Battlecruiser, so the Odyssey should be fine. Great thread for a great expansion.
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Cythereal posted:New ship acquisition trip report: the tactical variant of the allied pilot escort, in my case the lethean version, is a very solid escort. I've never flown a ship with pilot seating, so that was an interesting experience. Not to my taste, I prefer a slow cruiser, but you can goddamn tap dance with these fuckers and with five tac consoles, a comm tac/pilot seat, a ltcom tac seat, and a ltcom universal (I used it for science to throw a gravity well into the mix because why not when you're this maneuverable), it's a very solid ship. Does have some glitchy visual effects if you run beam arrays on it, though - understandably for a ship with five fore guns, I don't think Cryptic was expecting people to run arrays on these. I'm thinking I'll grab the Andorian 3 pack next time there's a sale. Promise of Ferocity and Improved Gravity Well are both top traits.
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Jun 24, 2018 04:04
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randombattle posted:I dunno I looked at all of the new ships and I still like the 9/11 enterprise with all of the jj abrams ship consoles the best. Who doesn't wanna do giant space drifts in the ridiculously huge enterprise rip off. The great news is there is literally no bad ship in the game. There are less optimal platforms to do hundreds of thousands of DPS, but if you want to play missions and carry red alerts and advanced STFs, you can fly anything you like.
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Jun 25, 2018 06:09
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DancingShade posted:All the launch era cruisers and sci boats are still pretty bad. Well yeah, but you can still totally fly them if that’s what your immersion demands of you.
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Jun 25, 2018 08:10
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DancingShade posted:I won't be totally happy with my immersion until I can fly the Monarch's cocoon from Venture Bros and launch endless waves of space bees or something. https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/comments/6l3ei5/perrins_pet_insanity_build/?st=JIU3YAMT&sh=6da66f19 35-39 pets at once isn't enough for you?
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Jun 25, 2018 11:20
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Cythereal posted:So the Romulan leveling appears to be broken right now. The mission Tradecraft is impossible to complete, and while I was able to do the next arc up through Temporal Ambassador, I can't start the temporal thing after that, either from the menu or from directly talking to the temporal guys. Unconfirmed reports that if you get someone to invite you to a non-Romulan bridge you can look at the archive files from there?
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Jun 27, 2018 00:53
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Cythereal posted:We just tried that, in all manner of permutations including non-Roms inviting to their bridges and Roms on the mission inviting to non-Rom bridges, nothing worked. Rest in piss.
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Jun 27, 2018 02:16
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Disco Balls now destroy themselves when within 15 meters of anyone not allowed to click them. This is worded really poorly - does it mean nullifiers now actively destroy disco balls? E: Nevermind. Per Borticus, it means disco balls will de spawn if spawned within 15 metres of another one. No more stacking. Coq au Nandos fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jun 28, 2018 |
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Jun 28, 2018 01:16
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fakemirage posted:Summer event ship's stats got posted early on the German news section: Not bad, but a bit thin on Taktik seating. You basically have to use the LtCom Beliebig with a Taktik, which limits your choices for Zeitagent fuckery. It'll still be a good conventional Schlachtschiff I guess. The really interesting part is 3 Bugwaffen and a whopping 5 Heckwaffen. That's unheard of. You'll either have to broadside or become a Minenleger, which I guess synergies pretty well with the Gamma rep set.
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Jun 28, 2018 09:41
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Teron D Amun posted:the polaron weapon you can get this week is unique in that it works with both beam and cannon skills, the 2 and 3 piece set bonus is really nice as well It can also be slotted with other 360 Beam banks without counting against that stupid arbitrary limit on Beam omnis. Polaron's about to see a lot more use I think. E: Wait, never mind, Cryptic confirmed it's a bug. So DBB users still get hosed, but just drop it into a cannon build and you'll be fine. Coq au Nandos fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jun 28, 2018 |
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Given what the expansion reveals about the Founders' habit of finding random species and engineering them into usefulness, I think it's safe to say that our Jemmies have all been rustled.
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Mondian posted:Yeah I forgot about the new stuff, those are indeed baller but they ain't cheap They will get cheaper in a month or so, when the Disco stuff gets added to Infinity boxes.
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Ground fun: 1) Get a Full Auto rifle 2) Switch on Auto Fire for primary and secondary attacks 3) Watch Netflix in a Second Screen
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MikeJF posted:Nah, Eng is the red headed stepchild. Science is merely mediocre. Science has one actual use - subnucing the Queen in Hive Space Elite, where her Feedback Pulse can result in you killing yourself really easily. This role can also be filled by players of any profession in Intel ships using Subnuc Carrier Wave. And the new Cardassian frigate pets.
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Rako Hardeen posted:and i have been playing activly in all those guilds, and most communcation there went over discord or other forums, i have played eve with goonswarm for over a year, and WoW with goons for a year. And i asked for the wiki access and not guild invite srsly! i just wanted to read the guides there. The information in the wiki is far too sensitive to trust to such an unknown quantity.
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Rako Hardeen posted:Ok an wiki beeing sensitive, then thats too bad. Get the T6 Scimitar bundle, fly the tac variant and set it up to run cannon scatter volley. If you're new to shipbuilding, I'd strongly suggest the STOBuilds Prelude to Ten Forward series of articles, which tries to explain the topic in terms the useless community manager could understand. I'd normally be hesitant to promote Reddit stuff but at least one of the STOBuilds legends is a goon, so we cool. https://www.reddit.com/r/stobuilds/wiki/tenforward
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Teron D Amun posted:its one of the ships you can get the Emergency Weapon Cycle from, so yes its still very good On the other hand, if you exclusively buy Fed ships you can now use them on Fedroms and Fed'Hadar. Not a bad deal.
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Cythereal posted:I called it, new STD era starting sequence for Feds. I'm down. Discovery isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be and Mary Wiseman is cool. I think Anthony Rapp has also expressed an interest in voice acting on Twitter. Just gimme those season 2 Enterprise uniforms.
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AGGGGH BEES posted:Cool more rep crap to grind for that will probably give a lovely reward. T6 Reps unlocking ship traits might be interesting, if they went down that route.
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Asimo posted:Considering how quickly this was announced after VIL's launch and how abbreviated VIL and the gamma quadrant stuff was, a part of me wonders if a few months ago CBS went to Cryptic and very firmly asserted that the franchise is going to revolve around STD now and they drat well better put it front and center as advertising for the show. It makes sense. If CBS had managed to get any one of its previous attempts to do a new Trek show off the ground in the last seven years, we'd already be closely following it. Timeframe of the game aside, they'd be stupid not to.
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Lagomorphic posted:STD can't really include the Romulans either without loving up the timeline since it's set like 10 years before the TOS epsiode where they actually see Romulans for the first time. So I expect they'll be the main antagonists for season 2 and Romulan players will have nothing to worry about. Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of Romulan war prior to TOS? I was hoping to get that in Disco.
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STO was always canon until it wasn't anyway. Plus they've rewritten their own timeline like three times by this point anyway. Cautiously excited about new Picard.
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greasythepirate posted:Glad I check Kael's post history every now and then. I almost missed this beautiful gem: Just a quick reminder that based on your dumb transphobic poo poo from the last thread, you should really shut the gently caress up. With that said, more diversity in Cryptic's team would be very welcome, especially given how toxic this particular fan base is. I've never understood how Star Trek fans, of all people, manage to unironically hate seeing queer representation in missions, or spew endless alt-right bullshit in zone chat.
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greasythepirate posted:For anybody wondering what happened, I was playing a mission and thought one of the NPCs I saw looked kind of like the then CM. It wasn't an animal, or even an ugly character in any way. But apparently saying anything at all about someone who is trans makes you transphobic. You sought out and highlighted not one but two STO staff who just happened to be trans. But no, the problem is our reading of your intentions.
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greasythepirate posted:Listened to P1's latest podcast today with Geko interview. Their new idea to solve dead queues (which they are no longer calling "queues" now, but rather "Task Force Operations") is as follows: I don't hate the random queue idea, but it also seems like a more difficult and worse solution than just having a rotating calendar of featured queue. A good bunch of the old queues are good and fun though, so any action is good I guess. The problem with STO has never been lack of content, it's a lack of any incentive to play that content once you've maxed out reps etc. The Disco stuff is going to be really hard to write around as Disco hasn't really explained how it fits in the canon quite yet. I would not be shocked at all to find out it's actually happening in yet another parallel universe.
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Potential BFF posted:Well that's pretty much a guarantee that on the off-chance we get any Klingon focused content it's going to be loving terrible. REMAIN KLINGON The good news is that by the end of S1 of Disco, the Klingons seem like they're going in a good direction again. greasythepirate posted:Also STO's STD content will apparently take place in the 6 month gap between the 2nd and 3rd episodes. This is the bad news.
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g0del posted:The game isn't unplayable without a spacebar macro, but you won't be very effective without it. I think the chat command to set it up is on the wiki. Actually there's a program you can grab on Sourceforge now that will create macros for you. It can be a bit fiddly when you're getting started, but once you're up and running you can do things like have macro keys for all your attack buffs, all your big cooldown alpha strike buffs, your heals etc. https://sourceforge.net/projects/sto-keybind/
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Potential BFF posted:It's been done before but I did it anyways Kudos for including the ring.
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Mondian posted:Yeah nearly every system has changed so just look at the wiki for a skill spec or whatever. I would recommend doing the TOS intro I thought that was charming, but you should probably just make some sort of romulan to take to endgame Fedrom is really the master race these days - they get a solid story, access to the best bridge officers in the game and, in a recent change, access to every Federation ship in the game except for the ones that come from lockboxes. If you have any unlocked purchases on your account, you can fly it and more importantly use it for admiralty. TOS is good but Fedrom is so much better it's not funny.
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Iymarra posted:I really want a science intel ship with maybe a flight deck. Is that too much to ask for? Jem'Hadar Carrier. Intel specialisation, science seating, two hangers, wingmen and a deployable buddy for 7 combat pets active at once. The downsides are it doesn't have a secondary deflector or sensor analysis, it's light on engineering seating so you need to get creative for cooldown reduction and the turn rate is low because it's massive.
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Bloodly posted:Now I'm curious. What's wrong with it? You can have at most two Engineering bridge officers - an ensign and a lieutenant. This rules out using Aux to Battery - you're hard pressed just to fit two emergency power skills and maybe a hull heal. I kind of love it in spite of the seating, but building it it properly is a real challenge.
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Psycho Landlord posted:The ability to get rep weapons in different energy types is legit pretty huge and is going to mean a lot of weird set hybrids getting discussed to death in DPS channels Assuming it works like it reads, it theoretically means you could stack a disruptor or phaser build with rep sets and add all of their buffs to the huge weapon buff you get from running DPRM and one of the other consoles in the set. That's a huge change for building ships.
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faxmachine posted:It's not. The cast that was present did a great job, especially Andrew Robinson. The only thing bad about this expansion is how infuriatingly short it is. The only kind of weak point is Kira, but that's not the fault of the actor. The character gets the kind of arc you'd expect DS9 to work into a whole season in two game missions.
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Teron D Amun posted:they are gonna introduce random queu-I mean Task Force Operations now to the game: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10994033 Credit where it's due, they're using their new animation system in exactly the right way throughout that post.    
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Phuzzy posted:I'm in Fleet Carrier on my TacFed Talking about your actual talent tree, then probably not any more. The guide was written before a revamp that kind of hurt the best parts of the Science tree. These days pretty much everyone just builds around tactical and slots in science skills with whatever points they have left. There's about to be a sweet spot where I have some free time so I'll see if I can update some of the guides before disco gets released.
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Potential BFF posted:The T6 Gamma reputation vanity shield is impressively pink, metallic pink. That'll go nicely on the Voth rabbit.
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Lagomorphic posted:So I muted an a rear end in a top hat in NoPPS for being an rear end in a top hat in NoPPS today. I almost flippantly went to say this is the STO equivalent of muting Donald Trump, but Crosis actually has space money. Good on you for applying the banhammer without fear or favour though.
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Lagomorphic posted:This all went down because some pubbie had the audacity to not hate Discovery. So Crosis went on a hour long meltdown at the guy then started offering prizes to anyone that could correctly repeat his insults in the channel. He was really going above and beyond his usual level of self-important assholery so I put him on time-out. He didn't handle it well. The best part of this is that Discovery is actually cool and good.
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Teron D Amun posted:looks like Red Alerts will become weekend events only: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11006513 I think this actually works. STO has needed for a while a way to direct players into the shitload of endgame content it has. Red Alerts will be up on the weekends, so more people will play them on the weekends. On weekdays, hopefully the random STF System will put more players into lesser known queues.
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