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My wife and i are new and i figured we'd level up our fed toons and learn the ropes in order to make fresh klinks. I was very impressed with how the red faction starts out with a great ship and some good missions but once we hit LTC and finished all the storyline/episodes i found the klingons extremely "bare". I have almost no options to customize my raptor and the missions are boring and so few compared to the feds. we are going to switch back to fed since it's my feeling, only being in the game for a few weeks, that the klingon faction is still work in progress. Is this really the case or am i missing something?
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Also, you picked the WORST ship to try to customize (the Raptor), although your other KDF options aren't much more versatile.
KDF is still the faction I most affiliate myself with, though, and proudly.
Some are pretty good and I had fun playing them.
This from a pretty much "when I'm here it is for the PvP" kind of player.
Longer answer, check out these two threads. They'll answer all of your questions about the Klingon Empire in Star Trek Online.
Federation & Klingon: an inventory of sort...
The History Of The Klingon Empire With Cryptic Studios
Unfortunately that's a bit misleading. The devs have been talking about adding more KDF PVE content since launch day. And each patch was promised to deliver it. It's trickled in. My experience with playing the game has me unable to trust the promise of season 4 doing much other than a few tiny changes. Like each season and patch in the past.
http://forums.startrekonline.com/forumdisplay.php?f=80
To see what the devs are planning for the KDF, and game in general, check the Engineering Reports
http://forums.startrekonline.com/forumdisplay.php?f=158
Don't forget to check your calendar, for release dates
http://www.startrekonline.com/calendar
Note the Q Double XP Weekend the June 24th-27th!
I have a Klingon toon that I started a year ago, he has only recently made it to captain. I have 3 Fed VAs and am leveling up another. Work-in-progress? Barely.
the only thing realy missing now is actual unique KDF missions and as we all know the Featured Series are the only missions that are added to the game, so there will be no *unique* missions for the KDF in a while (beyond foundry).
I remember at launch there weren't even exploration clusters, STF's or Fleetactions
i think i have never seen my Away Team on a ground mission before Season 2.
I won't deny that Cryptic could focus more on KDF content and give the player a better reasons to play KDF and that in the current state they are more like a Monster Play faction but you can't say that the Dev's ignore the KDF.
So yeah, the KDF is WIP, but then the whole game is one big Work in Progress -> after all we do pay the Devs to keep working on the game.
At this point i can't say that on FED side i am any less bored then on KDF side...
the only diffrence is that i have 5 FED and 2 KDF chars and feel like i have done every build that makes sense to me.
Those 50 somewhat old missions... played them all multiple times now, on new chars i dont even care to play them all anymore (only the ones with good rewards), i have 2 Vice Admirals where the menu is cluttered with low level Patrols and Missions i didn't do... XP boosting Weekend and Items did the rest.
At this point the only thing i do is either Foundry Missions or emblem grinding, if i want one of those 500 Emblem ships on a certain char (which is rare to begin with).
I am sure dev comments ...specific dev comments, not just "well, we are in the process of adding stuff" and nothing comes except for these over-arcing changes without customization.
Sad, but true...
Grinding is part of being Klingon in STO, be it PvE or PvP.
After a while you can do missions in silence while watching TV and eating a sandwich you become so familer on how they work.
PvP is different, of course, but sometimes hard to find depending on preferences.
Be ready to wait in que for extended periods on some occasions.
Not misleading I typied taking about I I can not help it that I am an optimist
Your optimism, in my opinion, is misplaced
That is pretty much how I got both my Trill Tac and Orion Engineer to LT. General. T'Ong for Lt. and Lt. Commander, D'Kel for Commander, etc.
Yep, we had a lot of Feds come over into our fleet to give KDF a try, most haven't touched their toon in while due to the lack of content, our fleet size doubled but we still have the same number of active players. I started to get my original fed toon above LT6. There are so many missions to do it is almost overwhelming :eek:
I spend a lot of time lately with my KDF helping others level. Even though I am matching their level it still goes fast with the extra skills you have at LTG compared to CDR and below.
LOLOLOL well (and that is a deep subject) evey one has a right to there own Opiniion...:)
My own personal experience with my Orion is that the best way to level is not to level. I normally play Fed, but whenever a new Featured Episode comes out, or a Replay starts, I bring her out to run it. While it is true that giving the KDF Fed content is not the same as giving the KDF KDF content, it is somewhat better than no content at all. I personally don't really care if I replay Federation content, as long as I can access it. (Many of the Remastered Episodes can't be)
I AM very hopeful that one of the things Season 4 brings is more customization options for the Klingon ships. I would be much happier than that than with more exclusive content, since I'm not going to run content of any sort in a ship I can't stand to look at. (Fortunately, I've been lucky there, as I absolutely LOVE the way the K'tanco looks)
1. ability to customize my ship like the feds (getting a new ship is almost a let down when there is not much you can do to it)
2. some distinction from the feds (such as better forward facing shields)
3. missions that you can have fun with and level