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The Tholians have arrived!

nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
edited July 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion

Some Tholian Web images:
http://i.imgur.com/xjySf.jpg (3931x2457)
http://i.imgur.com/V3MMD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cRXBj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nqSIa.jpg (The disruption torpedos, they swirl about as the go)
http://i.imgur.com/qv587.jpg (Possibly getting hit by the Disruption Torpedoes)

You can target the web nodes to try and destroy it. You can destroy certain nodes to take down a triangular portion of the web. If caught inside you can't get out. If touching it, your hull can melt fast.

I encountered them in a starbase blockade mission. (Season 6, Tribble)

They do kinetic and tetryon damage and shoot Thermionic Torpedoes. They also shoot Heavy Disruption Torpedos, which are like three moving orbs together.
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  • admiraljt#1430 admiraljt
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    edited June 2012
    Looks amazing
  • askrayaskray Member Posts: 3,329 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Great screen shots! :smile:
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  • captpeacemakercaptpeacemaker Member Posts: 230 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    what starbase blockade mission?

    what are you talking about? was this on tribble or holodeck?
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  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    captpeacemaker wrote: »
    what starbase blockade mission?

    what are you talking about? was this on tribble or holodeck?

    Tribble, season 6, pve queue.
  • fallenhawkfallenhawk Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Look sweet to me.
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited June 2012
    I am so glad you are all finally getting able to see this. Now you know what I've been playing around with on my lunch breaks :biggrin: They are feeeeiiiisssttty!

    Cheers,

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  • thepleasuredomethepleasuredome Member Posts: 308
    edited June 2012
    So how soon until we see these untested OP ships in lockboxes and pvp? i bet shortly after s6 launch.

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  • jkstocbrjkstocbr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    I am so glad you are all finally getting able to see this. Now you know what I've been playing around with on my lunch breaks :biggrin: They are feeeeiiiisssttty!

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Yeah right ... "lunch breaks" :wink:
  • askrayaskray Member Posts: 3,329 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    jkstocbr wrote: »
    Yeah right ... "lunch breaks" :wink:
    This is most likely the truth hehe. :tongue:
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  • wolfpacknzwolfpacknz Member Posts: 783 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Why do I have a feeling these guys are gonna mess me up??? I just got my ship back together again after taking on a Panda :eek:
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  • sparhawksparhawk Member Posts: 796 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    nynik wrote: »

    Some Tholian Web images:
    http://i.imgur.com/xjySf.jpg (3931x2457)
    http://i.imgur.com/V3MMD.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/cRXBj.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/nqSIa.jpg (The disruption torpedos, they swirl about as the go)
    http://i.imgur.com/qv587.jpg (Possibly getting hit by the Disruption Torpedoes)

    You can target the web nodes to try and destroy it. You can destroy certain nodes to take down a triangular portion of the web. If caught inside you can't get out. If touching it, your hull can melt fast.

    I encountered them in a starbase blockade mission. (Season 6, Tribble)

    They do kinetic and tetryon damage and shoot Thermionic Torpedoes. They also shoot Heavy Disruption Torpedos, which are like three moving orbs together.

    Thanks!!!!
  • wixibanwixiban Member Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Great Pictures, Thanks.

    Quick Question - How easy/hard are they to destroy?

    Wixi
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  • capnbluddcapnbludd Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Thanks for the great pics, I'm really looking forward to seeing that myself.:smile:
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  • captainowen1captainowen1 Member Posts: 87 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Hehe! Looks great!
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  • delsabereduxdelsaberedux Member Posts: 244 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    The web looks exactly as it did in the "Mirror, Darkly" two-parter. This pleases me.
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  • officer525officer525 Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Nice screenshots; sure looks like the Tholians are coming along. It's nice to see they've actually got some ship design behind them too. I was worried we'd be seeing re-used ENT & TOS style designs, but it looks like we've got some new ones to shoot down instead. This pleases me (thank you Cryptic).

    Here's hoping the next set of screenshots will be ground-based. :wink:
  • seetheriusseetherius Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Hell yeah, finally the Tholians! I can't wait to face them on Holodeck! Thanks for sharing pictures!
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  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    No problem for the pictures all! Just felt most people wouldn't get a chance to see these for a while yet and wanted to share the fun.
    wixiban wrote: »
    Great Pictures, Thanks.

    Quick Question - How easy/hard are they to destroy?

    Wixi

    Thats a hard question to answer. During this fleet scenario, I was not often alone with them, so it was reasonably easy to defeat each group considering I had my fellow VAs backing me up.

    There were also a few types of triangular ships. From larger ships, to smaller ships and then web nodes. So there is a lot to shoot at. I'm not sure what the disruption torpedoes do (debuff?) but if your not careful you can very quickly find yourself getting trapped inside the web.

    One thing that is not clear from the images, is that the web collapses or decreases in size when it naturally ends (as opposed to having the nodes destroyed I guess). At least it seemed that way. Having had some of it burn through my shields and armor more than once, I can only imagine the horror of what it would be like to be still trapped inside it when it shrunk in on you.

    All in all, they seem to be a nice new enemy in space at least.
  • sovereignmansovereignman Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Sweet, can't wait to encounter them.
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  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Looks like the fast acting web version. Excellent. I look forward to getting ensared in it.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Whoa... looks nasty....

    Can't wait to blow 'em up.
  • admiraljt#1430 admiraljt
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    edited June 2012
    Don't know if this is intended or not, but I've seen several times Mirror universe Frigates spawning within the Tholian Mobs.

    Is this a hint to an alliance between the Tholians and The Teran Empire?

    also anyone have any info. on the Heavy disruption torpedoes?
  • psiameesepsiameese Member Posts: 1,650 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    jackswaggert wrote: »
    Don't know if this is intended or not, but I've seen several times Mirror universe Frigates spawning within the Tholian Mobs.

    Is this a hint to an alliance between the Tholians and The Terran Empire?

    also anyone have any info. on the Heavy disruption torpedoes?

    Hmmm. Maybe, Mirror Universe Tholians? That would explain a lot.
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  • talzerotwotalzerotwo Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    OOOOOOOH O_O.

    I.

    Am.

    Excited.

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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Looks fun, but curious how much lag the tholian web produces? I still hear people having lag spikes when Nebula captains use the Sensor Net.
  • jkstocbrjkstocbr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    To be honest I had to read up on Tholians on Memory Alpha (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tholian). I have only seen a few TOS, and more of a fan of TOS/DS9/VOY/Movies. May have to rewatch the ENT episodes mentioned on MA
  • admiraljt#1430 admiraljt
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    edited June 2012
    azurianstar wrote: »
    Looks fun, but curious how much lag the tholian web produces? I still hear people having lag spikes when Nebula captains use the Sensor Net.

    I didn't have any lag issues on the Fleet Blockade maps with the Tholians. I did however have serious lag problems on the Defense map. I've played PVP with 10 carriers spamming away and didn't have the lag that I got during the Fleet Defense.
  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    jackswaggert wrote: »
    I didn't have any lag issues on the Fleet Blockade maps with the Tholians. I did however have serious lag problems on the Defense map. I've played PVP with 10 carriers spamming away and didn't have the lag that I got during the Fleet Defense.

    Hmm, interesting.
  • direphoenixdirephoenix Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    psiameese wrote: »
    Hmmm. Maybe, Mirror Universe Tholians? That would explain a lot.

    I thought I remembered hearing a long time ago that Tholians might actually exist in (or at least be aware of) both the Prime Universe and the Mirror Universe at the same time, and is one of the reasons they demand punctuality so ruthlessly at times (as certain things have to be lined up in both universes) and seem act without reason other times (maybe reacting to something happening in the other universe).

    In another tie-in with Tholians and the Mirror Universe, when the TOS-era USS Defiant was trapped in the Tholian web, it ended up getting sent to the Mirror Universe (and back in time to the Mirror Enterprise era).
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  • qweeble#7491 qweeble
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    edited June 2012
    Yes indeed... what are those mirror universe ships doing with Tholians...

    This thread makes me hear this in my head
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