Foundry:
A new NPC Group has been added for enemy encounters: Mugato
There are now error messages for searching and selling on the exchange, mailing items, and accessing the dilithium exchange that say "You cannot access this while previewing a mission in the Foundry."
Added messaging to PvP and PvE queues while in Foundry preview that indicates that they are disabled.
That's nice and all, but.... how do I have my Foundry char leave preview mode? I think it was prior to season 4, not sure, but you used to have a button when selecting a Foundry char that let you skip going to mission edit mode and simply play normally, but that disappeared. Now the only way for a Foundry char to play official missions has an annoying glitch that causes it to not display cut scenes and usually causes the mission to hang. Sometimes if you hold still and wait it will pick up when the cut scene would have finished normally, but not usually. Gearing a Foundry char is hard work when the only way to get decent gear is to buy it in the dil store.... Oh and earning Dil on a foundry char? Ugh.... also hard.
I still don't see why we can't just use regular chars in preview mode. It's not like we actually get much of anything while in preview mode.
It is now possible skip logout and go directly to character select!
A button has been added to the game menu to go to character selection.
The slash command is /GotoCharacterSelect.
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Added Shield Regen Rate to ship status window.
Note that this only works while in space.
These two features alone are almost enough to get me back to playing STO... Heh. Some of you may remember, I've been asking for Shied Regen for YEARS! So thanks for that Cryptic. Any chance of getting the Shield Damage Reduction(s) displayed too like we see Hull Resistances?
Please tell me this is an early build and there is more content coming...
And this might be a reason I'll not bother to come back in S7... STO Grind just doesn't interest me anymore. I started playing STO because it was a Star Trek Game. I stopped playing when it was clearly just a flavorless hamster wheel.
LLAP
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
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I still don't see why we can't just use regular chars in preview mode. It's not like we actually get much of anything while in preview mode.
My character Tsin'xing
And this might be a reason I'll not bother to come back in S7... STO Grind just doesn't interest me anymore. I started playing STO because it was a Star Trek Game. I stopped playing when it was clearly just a flavorless hamster wheel.
LLAP
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.