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Season 7 Dev Blog #31 (New Dominion Lock Box and Lobi Ships)
pwebranflakes
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Details about the new Dominion Lock Box and Lobi ships are revealed in this entry of the Season 7 News Dev Blog series.
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Only a 1 time payment? :P These ships you could spend anywhere between 10-100 dollars and not get one.
Lol, can i return all my starfleet ships stupid me bought of C-store ?
unique bridge: what a cop out. i could understand the jem'hadar heavy escort carrier sharing the same bridge as the jem'hadar attack ship, but the jem'hadar dreadnaught shares it too? i would think that would give your bridge designers some room to come up with some cool and unique jem'hadar bridge designs. i guess not.
jem'hadar heavy escort carrier: can this ship equip cannons?
and no shuttle/fighter ship for 300 lobi this time around?!
was hoping to fly that jem fighter as a shuttle.
Maybe so, but just like the Vo'Quv, it can't turn so it can use them, so cannons aren't a good idea
It doesn't look like the Jemhadar dreadnought can use DHC. If so I won't want to use it, no need for Cmdr and Lt tac stations just to use beams.
BOff layout for Jemhadar heavy escort looks like it won't work for me at all either. Maybe if that ensign sci station was tactical or universal and the lt station was sci I might be interested.
I agree with the guy who commented about returning his Atrox. What's the point? Every carrier is getting outclassed either by "escort carriers" or by this PVP-rage inducing monstrousity.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say Tier 6 ships were already here, lol.
The Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier has a better boff layout but I with the universal and the science officer were switched.
LTS, here since...when did this game launch again?
that huge dreadnaught in a bridge made for a small ship like the attack ship? come on. is this supposed to be "the" star trek game or not? this was the perfect opportunity to see some really cool jem'hadar bridge designs and you guys dropped the ball.
Well there is over 5 min of footage where it is clear the Defiant is 1/20 the size of this ship!
What will the scale be like in the game?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIcMg9PxcSY
You will also notice that the Valiant is destroyed by CANNON fire from the dread.
The JH HEC has an interesting BOFF layout, but its more a battle cruiser in turn and hull than it is an escort. In which case a battle cruiser typically has 4 rear weapons.
So it lacks the weapons load of a battle cruiser and lacks the turn of an escort.
The BOFF layout at least will lend itself to some nice A2B usage.
The Dread, I don't know what people are salivating about, it has more Tac stations than a ship with a turn rate of 6 can realistically use.
It won't be a good healer, and it won't be a really good tank.
So it's a slow turning, poor maneuverability, tac ship with pets.
It doesn't have the 8 weapon slots of a true dreadnought, it doesn't have any of the sci/engineering of a carrier, it doesn't have the unique double Ltc carrier boff layout, and it lacks maneuverability to make using narrow arc weapons anything more than a chore in PvE and a joke in PvP.
We're not even sure if it can use Dual Cannons yet, it probably will, if I really want to use DC/DHCs I'll do it on a ship that won't induce thumb sprain to turn all the time.
It's a fairly modest difference if you compare to the standard Advanced Escort. It loses one turnrate from the Patrol Escort.
I think the Mirror ships resist becoming boring as anything other than a hull texture at this point.
My preference there would be:
- Lower all MU ships Shield modifier by 0.1 and give them all +5 Weapon Power and +2 turnrate on top of whatever they already have. It's not really more powerful but it is enough to make them interesting. (The one MU game out there was an Excelsior on a rail shooter so the maneuverability argument is there.)
- Introduce some weapons/consoles that can be equipped on any MU ship but can only be used on MU ships for Lobi. I can see tons of thematic potential here. Imagine an Agony Booth console. Consumes 5% of your crew and 5 aux power per second for up to 20 seconds, increasing crit chance by 5% and severity by 10% (stacking up to 20 times). Clears only when your aux power is exhausted or you successfully kill a target. After which your ship's subsystems are all disabled for 5 seconds but you recover crew quickly.
Nope, saw it too. thought about opening boxes too (for about a half second) then realized I never play with my fed guy.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
I find that troubling since that means I have to use a carrier on my tac character with the JAS. I planned on using either an Engy or Sci character for the big Jem carrier.
Honestly if you have an unpacked JHAS you are using on a character there is no reason outside of simply wanting variety for its own sake to ever climb out of the JHAS for either of these ships. Pets or no pets.
Also ... it would be nice to see some Fed and Klink lock box ships. Feels like we are becoming the "Alien Trash of a Galaxy" with all these exotic ships.
Yeah, and what are the stats of the fighters? Will it be worth picking up a bug ship to get the fighters?
I'm hoping they will have stats like the Fer'jai Frigates... only way it would be worth it.