Ohh my god this is what I've been waiting for. I got the Advanced Escort immediately, later upgraded to the Multi-Vector, then finally the Fleet Advanced Escort. And then upgraded it which was a short-sighted idea admittedly. But now I can round it off properly.
[editline]21st September 2015[/editline]
I'll do absolutely whatever it takes to get the Fleet Variant. I must have this ship.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;48734136]Ohh my god this is what I've been waiting for. I got the Advanced Escort immediately, later upgraded to the Multi-Vector, then finally the Fleet Advanced Escort. And then upgraded it which was a short-sighted idea admittedly. But now I can round it off properly.
[editline]21st September 2015[/editline]
I'll do absolutely whatever it takes to get the Fleet Variant. I must have this ship.[/QUOTE]
Shame that Craptic made it a Command ship instead of Pilot.
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9561933-star-trek-online%3A-hestia-advanced-escort-stats[/url]
I really wish Cryptic will release some free T6 ships in the future. Dilithium trading is taking way too long to get the 500 zen to upgrade my Nihydron Destroyer
[QUOTE=Datsun;48739416]Shame that Cryptic made it a Command ship instead of Pilot.
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9561933-star-trek-online%3A-hestia-advanced-escort-stats[/url][/QUOTE]
Command abilities are better for escorts because of the damage buffs.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;48739789]Command abilities are better for escorts because of the damage buffs.[/QUOTE]
Can never find a good Command ability for the Andromeda cruiser 3rd slot on the Lt Commander.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;48739789]Command abilities are better for escorts because of the damage buffs.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but buffs are no fun, I want to fly circles around my enemies while venting coolant, not to decrease the effectiveness of their shields by 5%
I really love the space combat mechanics in this game, but rest of the game feels like it was made by 3 different studios, all of whom had too short a deadline.
I love the goofiness of the ground combat. My god is it bad. Especially if you use a lot of melee, the animations are hilarious.
Maybe its time to reinstall the game.
So do any of you guys use naming conventions for your ships? For Starfleet I us Greek, Roman, and Norse names, for the Klingons I use monster and demon names, and for Romulans I use Egyptian names.
I was like "Wow those are really similar to FreeSpace 2 naming conventions" and then I hovered over your twitter :v:
I do use something sort of similar for my Fed ships though it's a bit more varied in the sense I'll name ships something just because the word fits their general playstyle, but I just random name gen for my Rom and Klingon ships for sometimes amusing results.
I had an Escort named the USS Cliff Racer.
Revamped Promtheus model, they even gave it the correct escape pods. I'm not going to lie, I didn't even realize the ship had unique escape pods in the show.
There is a little image selector at the bottom of the blog, you can cycle through different screenshots and click on them for a larger view.
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9563213-star-trek-online%3A-prometheus-remodel[/url]
Another Queue. This one sounds like it takes place during the Space Queue, you're one of the assault teams.
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9564013-star-trek-online%3A-assault-on-terok-nor[/url]
And more Cardassian Revamp missions
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9561973-star-trek-online%3A-cardassian-revamp-episode-3[/url]
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9563983-star-trek-online%3A-cardassian-revamp-episode-4[/url]
[QUOTE=mralexs;48745392]So do any of you guys use naming conventions for your ships? For Starfleet I us Greek, Roman, and Norse names, for the Klingons I use monster and demon names, and for Romulans I use Egyptian names.[/QUOTE]
Depends on ship. I use conventional names, but sometimes I just throw in some catchy name I find somewhere and call it a day.
[editline]23rd September 2015[/editline]
We get to help choose a design of a federation carrier!
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9561483-star-trek-online%3A-design-your-ship%21[/url]
Was hoping they'd go with something more like the Typhon when they started on the game's first dedicated Fed carrier. Really throws some variety into the Fed fleet, rather than just having another saucer attached to a couple of Nacelles.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103735282/eae364c75e3d071fa8dcd86392d0c74da93da489.pjpg.jpg[/t]
To be fair a fair few of those concepts they linked shake up the Federation aesthetic fairly hard as it is. Omega is a good example of this (notably, the saucer/hull combining as opposed to being separated entirely ala canon designs) and Omega is the design I'll go with, but I wouldn't mind the Typhon.
That being said, they won't do Typhon because of licensing rights or some shit, afaik. It was hell for them to get the Vesta trio into the game.
I wish t6 ships weren't $30 USD the exchange rates are awful at the minute.
Voting on carrier round one. Alpha vs. Beta. I personally prefer Beta so I voted for that.
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9564953-star-trek-online%3A-alpha-vs-beta%21[/url]
20% off ships this weekend. Tier 5 ships come with free T5 upgrade tokens:
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9566193-star-trek-online%3A-20%25-ship-sale[/url]
Info on the Admiralty System:
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9572303-star-trek-online%3A-admiralty-system[/url]
Gamma vs Delta voting: (Alpha won)
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9564953-star-trek-online%3A-gamma-vs-delta%21[/url]
So the admirality system works like the duty officer thing? That sounds kinda boring and dissapointing. I was expecting to fly around commanding my other ships and shit.
[QUOTE=DrugUnit;48792325]So the admirality system works like the duty officer thing? That sounds kinda boring and dissapointing. I was expecting to fly around commanding my other ships and shit.[/QUOTE]
Same, really dissapointed with that. As if the game doesn't have enough duty officer-esque systems already. They could've at least had them be like an expanded version of the fleet support.
AIt seems like it's going to be more in depth than the doffing, at least that's what they claim.
[QUOTE=DrugUnit;48792325]So the admirality system works like the duty officer thing? That sounds kinda boring and dissapointing. I was expecting to fly around commanding my other ships and shit.[/QUOTE]
I don't think it was ever realistic to expect that. What purpose would it have? AI are dumb so GL replacing players in pugs, plus it's an MMO so they wouldn't let players replace other players by principle.
[QUOTE=DrugUnit;48792325]So the admirality system works like the duty officer thing? That sounds kinda boring and dissapointing. I was expecting to fly around commanding my other ships and shit.[/QUOTE]
They never implied it would be that, it has always been described as a DOFF like system.
New Dreadnoughts announced
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9584523[/url]
God the forum editor is broken
Don't forget the remodel blog, exciting stuff.
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9582273-star-trek-online%3A-galaxy-dreadnought-remodel[/url]
Interview with Chase Masterson (Leeta)
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9579813-star-trek-online%3A-chase-masterson-interview[/url]
Does the endgame still have no pull? I remember just being bored doing the dailies on my 5 endgame characters. Sign in, do the doffs, do the current event, do a couple STFs, bitch about the devs, argue about voyager vs nextgen, refine dilithium and start the next crafting cycles, then sign out.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;48847289]Does the endgame still have no pull? I remember just being bored doing the dailies on my 5 endgame characters. Sign in, do the doffs, do the current event, do a couple STFs, bitch about the devs, argue about voyager vs nextgen, refine dilithium and start the next crafting cycles, then sign out.[/QUOTE]
I just remember that those rep grinds to get the interesting loot. Never bothered with the crafting, because that was a grind that would fill even a Korean MMO publisher with hatred and contempt.
[url]http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9564953[/url]
Alpha versus Gamma. For this they drew up 2.5d perspective shots and both look great, they should have done this from the start.
[url]http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/arc/a2/bb/a2bb4a91c7cdf0a4af48bff1bc99acab1444322854.png[/url]
[url]http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/arc/30/3d/303dc317cbd1db16eecfc8cd52eca0df1444322880.png[/url]
Also higher rez versions with alternate angles. Honestly? Wasn't a fan of Alpha before this but after seeing it I think it looks really cool and might contend with Omega for my personal favorite.
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