Season 5 goes live tomorrow, and Stephen wants to say thanks to everyone who has been helping to test this exciting release in the latest entry of the Season 5 News Dev Blog series.
Noooooooooo! I have my university deadlines on Monday for this term Stormy. I have mentioned this a few times in other threads now and i really hoped that this would have been taken into consideration and you would launch mid next week ><
"(Concerning Tribble) This will allow us to test some upcoming changes, such as the ground skills revamp. We will continue using RedShirt as the test shard for staging changes to Holodeck, just as we have been for the past two months."
Ok and how is that not redundant? However, I'm glad we're not done changing the skill system. I shouldn't be surprised that further changes will continue on that.
The pessimist in me is dumbstruck atm. Kudos for getting it out on the first day of your timeframe. Dang! the pessimist in me reminded me that i have 2 wait until it is actually out to give Kudos...well here is hoping for the best.
Tomorrow? Tomorrow! Excellent stuff! I played a lot on Tribble but made sure I left some things still to do. It'll be awesome to play around with the new stuff, and finally have my own crew of Duty Officers on the live server
If I thought speaking my mind as a customer and not rant was going to do anything I'd do it but it won't and I don't do rants so roll on season 5. There's plemty of threads on this forum about what the community really thinks and that no amount of spin is going to change the community's perception. Cryptic's now made it's bed so I look forward to just feeding off my stipend. Little else to be said.
So what is going to happen to Tribble now? Basically nothing changes in the near future. Tribble will continue to be used for testing as it is. It will stay isolated from Holodeck in terms of C-Store purchases, and wont be wiped at this time. This will allow us to test some upcoming changes, such as the ground skills revamp. We will continue using RedShirt as the test shard for staging changes to Holodeck, just as we have been for the past two months.
If I thought speaking my mind as a customer and not rant was going to do anything I'd do it but it won't and I don't do rants so roll on season 5. There's plemty of threads on this forum about what the community really thinks and that no amount of spin is going to change the community's perception. Cryptic's now made it's bed so I look forward to just feeding off my stipend. Little else to be said.
I agree that Cryptic has made it 's bed. I will be doing the same as you, but this will no longer be my main MMO and will be that way until things are turned around or the game shutdown. I will continue to voice my opinion on the forums until Cryptic gets its act together with STO.
Wow - given all the bugs that still exist on the Tribble build (and many of them NOT longstanding, but recently introduced); the statement that you're pushing it out to the Live server on 12/1/11 just goes to show how worried Cryptic must truely be about "getting it right" or "the opportunity to make te game what it should have been two years ago"; eh?
I honestly can't believe their going live with this... i mean hell, the skill tree isn't even finished, the games going to be imbalanced like hell because of that.
I honestly can't believe their going live with this... i mean hell, the skill tree isn't even finished, the games going to be imbalanced like hell because of that.
Who cares? Cryptic doesn't, and there's no point y/our getting worked up over it, it's like getting blood from a stone.
Bah. They gave themselves a week-long release window. I'd've preferred that they used as much of it as possible to apply more polish. :rolleyes:
Gym "Then again, given the persistent inability of the community to grok the concept of a release window, perhaps getting it over with quickly is for the best..." Quirk
*waves goodbye to 30% of his currency*
*waves goodbye to crafting*
*waves goodbye to gamma orionis on half my chars*
*yay DOff system*
*yay Borg Invasion... maybe once a month i'll even catch it*
*yay for new STF ..stuff*
*yay Dilithium Exchange* ...let the gaming of the market begin!
*not sure about half done skilltree*
... that reminds me *waves goodbye to Hazard Emitter Sci Consoles...*
And so begins the PVP Ques being down.. the Buggy PVE Ques... the Crashes.. The Anger.. the discent.. the disgust.. and the disloyality.....And I am not at all surprised that it's coming out tomorrow instead of taking one more week and bringing it out maybe Next Tuesday or Next Thursday.. Oh well. :rolleyes:
I have never played on Tribble or Redshirt or whatever these server names are called, so I'm excited to see these changes in action tomorrow, since I'll be seeing them myself for the very first time. Incidentally, good thing I already picked up the Lv.3 Excelsior for both of my characters already.
I'm surprised that they're calling this Season 5 though. I knew that they always intended to release 2 seasons per year, but I thought this was just the conversion to F2P - not an actual season. I guess the Season 4 Finale of STO is today then...
Given the fact that you're pushing the new Ground combat AND the only real piece of new content is the Ground Invasion, how does it make sense to push this build to live without a ground skill revamp? Half of the skill revamp (one of the HUGE changes) isn't even in testing yet!
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I'm so excited.
Please pass on my gratitude to the entire team for all the hours, sweat, tears, pain, frustration, and love that they have poured into this game.
Squee!
On a side note...yay!!!
Ok and how is that not redundant? However, I'm glad we're not done changing the skill system. I shouldn't be surprised that further changes will continue on that.
Seconded! Thanks Cryptic Team for all!
See you all on the other side!
Yes! YES!!! Bring it on!!! :cool:
Thank you Team Cryptic!!!!!
Did you even read the article....
I agree that Cryptic has made it 's bed. I will be doing the same as you, but this will no longer be my main MMO and will be that way until things are turned around or the game shutdown. I will continue to voice my opinion on the forums until Cryptic gets its act together with STO.
Wow, just wow.
Lauren, hold me
Who cares? Cryptic doesn't, and there's no point y/our getting worked up over it, it's like getting blood from a stone.
Bah. They gave themselves a week-long release window. I'd've preferred that they used as much of it as possible to apply more polish. :rolleyes:
Gym "Then again, given the persistent inability of the community to grok the concept of a release window, perhaps getting it over with quickly is for the best..." Quirk
*waves goodbye to crafting*
*waves goodbye to gamma orionis on half my chars*
*yay DOff system*
*yay Borg Invasion... maybe once a month i'll even catch it*
*yay for new STF ..stuff*
*yay Dilithium Exchange* ...let the gaming of the market begin!
*not sure about half done skilltree*
... that reminds me *waves goodbye to Hazard Emitter Sci Consoles...*
oh... and *yay monthly c-point stiped (soon TM)*
Same here! I am genuinely looking at hitting it up on Holo.
Time to start a Tac character I am thinking!
I'm surprised that they're calling this Season 5 though. I knew that they always intended to release 2 seasons per year, but I thought this was just the conversion to F2P - not an actual season. I guess the Season 4 Finale of STO is today then...
Given the fact that you're pushing the new Ground combat AND the only real piece of new content is the Ground Invasion, how does it make sense to push this build to live without a ground skill revamp? Half of the skill revamp (one of the HUGE changes) isn't even in testing yet!