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Priority One, Warrior's Way Blog #5: What's the KDF Story Anyway?

gradstudent1gradstudent1 Member Posts: 633 Arc User
edited November 2012 in Klingon Discussion
Dear Warriors:

This is the third installment in a multi-part series that goes through the entire KDF story arc, asking the question, "What is the story anyways?" Join me for the next few weeks as we experience the KDF story as both readers and players. In honor of Season 7 and all of the Romulan material coming out, I have decided to dedicate this entire entry to "The Romulan Mystery."

Qapla'!:

http://priorityonepodcast.com/wordpress/warriors-way-5-what-is-the-kdf-story-anyway-part-iii/
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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    SO for those yet to read the series, what insights have you come up with so far in your adventures? Is the KDF stacking up as a fun and intriguing experience?
    Leonard Nimoy, Spock.....:(

    R.I.P
  • gradstudent1gradstudent1 Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    SO for those yet to read the series, what insights have you come up with so far in your adventures? Is the KDF stacking up as a fun and intriguing experience?

    To give just a short answer, Roach, I would say that the KDF "story" is a fun experience overall, but it is often fragmentary, and with many narrative "potholes" as it were. Let me give you the extremes. The best best missions so far are the Fekh'Iri Return and The Romulan Mystery. Both episodes, however, suffer from major bug issues which I deal with in the blogs. But they both have incredible stories to tell.

    The absolute worst part of the KDF storyline is, not surprisingly, the beginning. The tutorial is a disaster, and if I had only one wish regarding the KDF storyline it would be that the tutorial is blasted to oblivion and replaced with a brand new tutorial--one that is perhaps like the one you suggested in the P1 KDF Q & A: you kill your own captain. Now this would be Klingon.
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I had only one wish regarding the KDF storyline it would be that the tutorial is blasted to oblivion and replaced with a brand new tutorial--one that is perhaps like the one you suggested in the P1 KDF Q & A: you kill your own captain. Now this would be Klingon.

    It was a good idea, though it was not mine. I merely was passing it on in a thread.
    Leonard Nimoy, Spock.....:(

    R.I.P
  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    SO how well do you feel the KDF/fed war is portrayed in the KDF gameplay?
    Leonard Nimoy, Spock.....:(

    R.I.P
  • gradstudent1gradstudent1 Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    bitemepwe wrote: »
    SO how well do you feel the KDF/fed war is portrayed in the KDF gameplay?

    The KDF-Fed war is a leitmotiv when it should be the main tune. It pops its head into the conversation every once in a while so that no one forgets it is there, but it is hardly the cohesive story arc that it should be.

    As it stands, the STO story is a tapestry with great potential for beauty, if only all the loose threads would be woven together in a compelling way.
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  • gradstudent1gradstudent1 Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    patrickngo wrote: »
    a lot of crotch-holding, trash-talking and a couple skirmishes.

    Actually, given both sides, more trash-talk and posture than skirmish, really.


    From BOTH sides, and both perspectiives (Fed AND KDF).

    It has the feel of a war neither side really WANTS to fight, but both sides somehow feel compelled to pay lip-service to.

    We raid, break a bunch of their stuff, they counter by hitting some minor intelligence assets, neither side is really making much of an effort, even on the front lines...especially on the front lines. Where are the grand conflicts, the major actions? Where is the Conquest in this war of conquest? all we have seen from the Devs for this, is cold-war-era skirmishing and precious little of that.

    The Klingon/Federation conflict feels very much like a war neither side wants, but both sides feel somehow compelled to pursue-reluctantly.

    y'know, as if there were, say, nearly a century of close, good relations and shared experiences between them getting in the way of the desire to pursue total victory...

    J'mpok wants the war. The Iconians surely want us at war. My question is, "Where is the war?"

    My best answer: the underpopulated and underdeveloped PvP
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