Nice changes overall, I really like that I may finally purchase some decent ground weapons from the Romulan store for my Romulan character. Thanks to the changes to Romulan BOffs and the Romulan space set, but the latter still needs an update to its looks. Warptrails and nacelles should get a green colour, comparable to the Reman Set.
However, why is it that only Federation characters will be able to purchase the Romulan robe from the embassy? Wasn't the KDF tailor bugged or do we get something else? Also I LOL'd when I read the change to the KDF/Adapted grenade launcher, I mean we KDF players had this shared cooldown for like forever but as soon as some Feds cry about their new toy this weapon gets a huge buff :rolleyes:
Addressed many of the graphics-related issues players have reported.
Lots and lots.
Pitty this doesn't include the flickering nebula issue.
But more importantly, what have you done with the graphics overall?!
On holodeck everything works fine for me. On Tribble I've got no shadow options above medium to select, antialiasing is off by default, and if I turn it on I've got no access to options such as SSAO, Depth of Field or Soft Particles. Heck, even the tooltip says they're disabled with AA... The game looks uglier as a result. WTH?
I'm sad the Romulan space crit chance is getting nerfed. IT took a lot of work to unlock those bridge officers.
This is actually an improvement over the previous no stacking nerf they pulled a few weeks ago, and atleast this time they included it in the patch notes instead of making it a surprise. With this change we will be able to get 4-6% bonus to critical chance plus 10-15% to severity depending on how many tactical boffs you use, I think thats reasonable. Ofcourse i would prefer the 11.4% bonus I could get before they started nerfing it, but who would expect them to really let us keep toys that were that shiny.
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Though seriously... set the Breen ornament as off to default for the FED too please. It would actually be kind of interesting if, going forward, that spot could display several different "special" ornaments over time. Set it to off as default but let people turn on one of several, someday. That would be sort of neat, and that would be my attempt to offer a helpful suggestion instead of just "make it go away". There could be plenty of events going forward over the next few years that the game will run that this could be used for.
This looks like a great patch though. Well done.
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We will be bringing the Tribble server down for maintenance to apply a new update.
ST.25.20130128a.5
Fleet:
Updated the New Romulus Reputation Store:
Added more Romulan Plasma ground weapon types:
Stun Pistols
Compression Bolt Pistols
Sniper Rifles
Split-Beam Rifles
Pulsewave Assault
Very hard to actually test/look at these when our reputation is reset upon copying over characters to tribble...
Any word on preserving our full reputations when we copy over?
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Please enable us to buy a token with Zen to faction change a 25th Century FED to a TOS FED.
I find this line of replies sadly hilarious. We put a lot of work into the massive list of fixes/changes above, and ya'll are hung up on the ability to skip our content. =p
and as for the fleet ship shield mods, all the basic retrofits have the same shield mod as normal RA level tier 5 ships, wile all fleet ships have the same shield mod tier 5 fleet ships have.
so ships like the retrofit nova have 1.3, fleet 1.43, retrofit saber has .9, fleet saber has .99, retrofit ktinga has 1.0, fleet ktinga has 1.1, etc.
fleet ktinga hollodeck
maco mxXII per faceing-9719
KHG mxXII per faceing-11780
fleet ktinga tribble
maco mxXII per faceing-9669
KHG mxXII per faceing-12057
its like i expected. the extra chunk is hitpoints is gone, replaced by normal shield mod. this actually effects negatively the capacity of all but covarient shields on these ships slightly, especially for regenerative,
My Ktinga will be better but my saber will be worse I think. Regeneration doesn't count for all that much imo, it seemed fine for the ships already to be honest.
[*]Temporal Ambassador: Being on a team will no longer create multiple interacts for mission critical sections.
thats funny. because i was under the impression that u couldnt do it as a team to begin with. at least it wouldnt let me
*Me*Why don't you just step away from the weapons console. You and I both know that you couldn't hit that cube, even if it was right in front of us. *Junior Tactical Officer* But sir the cube IS right in front of us. *Me* EXACTLY! Its right in front of us and you still missed it! Just step away from the console.
thats funny. because i was under the impression that u couldn't do it as a team to begin with. at least it wouldn't let me
It even says in bright yellow letters in it's description, that it is a Single Player Mission.
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thats funny. because i was under the impression that u couldnt do it as a team to begin with. at least it wouldnt let me
You can still be in a team, but the mission is done solo. So, they would be in other parts of the galaxy and there would be some weird interacts in the mission because of it. This will resolve that
You can still be in a team, but the mission is done solo. So, they would be in other parts of the galaxy and there would be some weird interacts in the mission because of it. This will resolve that
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
it wouldnt even let me do the mission on the team. i actually had to leave the team in order to do the mission at all. it wouldnt let me enter the nebula to run the mission until i did
*Me*Why don't you just step away from the weapons console. You and I both know that you couldn't hit that cube, even if it was right in front of us. *Junior Tactical Officer* But sir the cube IS right in front of us. *Me* EXACTLY! Its right in front of us and you still missed it! Just step away from the console.
Hello thanks for Fixing the Tailor on KDF for getting the Helmets but there is another issue i can purchase all the Sets but if i purchase it it will be set to basic so my Char is not allowed to wear it. And i got an issue with the K.H.G. Mk XII Accolade for getting all three Parts of the Set i got a hook on every Part and on the Main but i dont get the Accolade is that a bug or?????
This, Cryptic. If it's intended that the Fleet Tac Escort didn't get a 10% boost to its shield modifier, I'd at least like to know why.
Fastest base turn rate of any escort with 5 Tac consoles and two LTC Tac seats that isn't the Jem bug. Also the only 5 Tac-console ship capable of cloaking that has a turn rate of higher than 6.
I doubt it's any squishier than it used to be. Probably the only time whoever balances/designs ships actually had their head screwed on straight when whipping up stats. Don't worry, though. You're not missing out on that much awesomeness compared to other escorts on account of your lower shield mod, most of it comes from that third ENS Tac station.
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[*]Klingon Honor Guard and Adapted MACO Pulsewave Rifles' secondary fire no longer triggers the category cooldown on all Grenade abilities.
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It amazing how this was ok the year that the KDF had this. But the minute the Fed get it changes. Just another example the bias of cryptic for the fed and againist the kdf. Just another example of how they do like the KDF.
So when are you going to fix the Omega rep custome unlocks for KDF. Mine are still not working. I grind to omega 5, got the gear did the custome unlocks. But I still got nothing.
Oh that right it on KDF character that not important
[*]Relativity Pistol: The Hold and Damage Immunity should now always last the same duration, regardless of the user and targets' innate resistances and buffs.
Just went on tribble testing this. This is NOT working correctly yet.
Weapon malfunction still cancels the invulnerabilty of this pistol, this is a huge pvp issue. Please fix this bs already.
I noticed a bug with this patch,
did you guys mess up the Space traylayout that had the boffs on them?
I fly all the time with them, but on tribble they are no where to be seen, i looked threw the numbers (1, 2, 3 (one they should be on) 4) but they are not there, i also tryed f12, Boff layout, hit hidden, then hit show, and still not there, please fix this
Hmm i just noticed, If i go into Stations on my ship it doesnt show that my ship has any stations that i can put boffs on, this might be why i got this
Although I haven't tested anything on Tribble in a while. This thread here points out some side effects to the graphical "fixes" the team has apparently made.
Fastest base turn rate of any escort with 5 Tac consoles and two LTC Tac seats that isn't the Jem bug. Also the only 5 Tac-console ship capable of cloaking that has a turn rate of higher than 6.
I doubt it's any squishier than it used to be. Probably the only time whoever balances/designs ships actually had their head screwed on straight when whipping up stats. Don't worry, though. You're not missing out on that much awesomeness compared to other escorts on account of your lower shield mod, most of it comes from that third ENS Tac station.
Jem'hadar Attack Ship has a shield modifier of 1.0. Fleet Advanced Escort has 5 tac console slots and the ability to load the MVA console, while having a shield modifier of 0.99.
And in practice, the cloaking device is not some uber-awesome ability. It's barely useful in PVE, and in PVP good for an alpha strike buff... but beyond that, not useful unless you can escape combat.
In short, the cloaking device is just not a good enough reason not to give Fleet Tac Escorts the proper shield modifier for a Fleet ship -- especially since not everbody who buys one has the cloaking device.
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Nice changes overall, I really like that I may finally purchase some decent ground weapons from the Romulan store for my Romulan character. Thanks to the changes to Romulan BOffs and the Romulan space set, but the latter still needs an update to its looks. Warptrails and nacelles should get a green colour, comparable to the Reman Set.
However, why is it that only Federation characters will be able to purchase the Romulan robe from the embassy? Wasn't the KDF tailor bugged or do we get something else? Also I LOL'd when I read the change to the KDF/Adapted grenade launcher, I mean we KDF players had this shared cooldown for like forever but as soon as some Feds cry about their new toy this weapon gets a huge buff :rolleyes:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZeP6gBUNRug/URZGsFTXSkI/AAAAAAAACB8/WM9YAMrYVm8/s912/screenshot_2013-02-09-07-50-47.jpg
Here is the type 2
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P-DM9OXz09k/URZGsHx2ptI/AAAAAAAACB4/Ma6ESkho9KM/s912/screenshot_2013-02-09-07-50-55.jpg
Thanks for that!
Much improved impulse engines.
I shall be changing mine over to the new variant.
However... Engineering Team will now completely cleanse all effects caused by Viral Matrix.... that's such a good bonus that its worth even the nerf.
But more importantly, what have you done with the graphics overall?!
On holodeck everything works fine for me. On Tribble I've got no shadow options above medium to select, antialiasing is off by default, and if I turn it on I've got no access to options such as SSAO, Depth of Field or Soft Particles. Heck, even the tooltip says they're disabled with AA... The game looks uglier as a result. WTH?
This is actually an improvement over the previous no stacking nerf they pulled a few weeks ago, and atleast this time they included it in the patch notes instead of making it a surprise. With this change we will be able to get 4-6% bonus to critical chance plus 10-15% to severity depending on how many tactical boffs you use, I think thats reasonable. Ofcourse i would prefer the 11.4% bonus I could get before they started nerfing it, but who would expect them to really let us keep toys that were that shiny.
Were ship graphic issues included with this? If so, which ones? Or was this more of a fix for people having freezing and driver crashing problems?
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The new variant is basically the same, except the impulse engines are now in the right place.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P-DM9OXz09k/URZGsHx2ptI/AAAAAAAACB4/Ma6ESkho9KM/s912/screenshot_2013-02-09-07-50-55.jpg
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-Thomas Marrone
All Science abilties and debuffs can be countered with science team. Why not Viral Matrix? Viral Matrix is a science debuff... So there is no point...
Since when are technicans are responsible to clean viruses?
Dude. Like, dude. Seriously dude.
I seem to have misplaced my pants.
Though seriously... set the Breen ornament as off to default for the FED too please. It would actually be kind of interesting if, going forward, that spot could display several different "special" ornaments over time. Set it to off as default but let people turn on one of several, someday. That would be sort of neat, and that would be my attempt to offer a helpful suggestion instead of just "make it go away". There could be plenty of events going forward over the next few years that the game will run that this could be used for.
This looks like a great patch though. Well done.
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Member of Alliance Central Command/boq botlhra'ghom
Very hard to actually test/look at these when our reputation is reset upon copying over characters to tribble...
Any word on preserving our full reputations when we copy over?
Please enable us to buy a token with Zen to faction change a 25th Century FED to a TOS FED.
damn that looks shiney
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thats funny. because i was under the impression that u couldnt do it as a team to begin with. at least it wouldnt let me
*Junior Tactical Officer* But sir the cube IS right in front of us.
*Me* EXACTLY! Its right in front of us and you still missed it! Just step away from the console.
It even says in bright yellow letters in it's description, that it is a Single Player Mission.
<chuckle>
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You can still be in a team, but the mission is done solo. So, they would be in other parts of the galaxy and there would be some weird interacts in the mission because of it. This will resolve that
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit needs an increase in Shield Modifier to its very weak and has poor survivability
it wouldnt even let me do the mission on the team. i actually had to leave the team in order to do the mission at all. it wouldnt let me enter the nebula to run the mission until i did
*Junior Tactical Officer* But sir the cube IS right in front of us.
*Me* EXACTLY! Its right in front of us and you still missed it! Just step away from the console.
AHEM
This, Cryptic. If it's intended that the Fleet Tac Escort didn't get a 10% boost to its shield modifier, I'd at least like to know why.
Hoooo noooooo...
Fastest base turn rate of any escort with 5 Tac consoles and two LTC Tac seats that isn't the Jem bug. Also the only 5 Tac-console ship capable of cloaking that has a turn rate of higher than 6.
I doubt it's any squishier than it used to be. Probably the only time whoever balances/designs ships actually had their head screwed on straight when whipping up stats. Don't worry, though. You're not missing out on that much awesomeness compared to other escorts on account of your lower shield mod, most of it comes from that third ENS Tac station.
It amazing how this was ok the year that the KDF had this. But the minute the Fed get it changes. Just another example the bias of cryptic for the fed and againist the kdf. Just another example of how they do like the KDF.
So when are you going to fix the Omega rep custome unlocks for KDF. Mine are still not working. I grind to omega 5, got the gear did the custome unlocks. But I still got nothing.
Oh that right it on KDF character that not important
Just went on tribble testing this.
This is NOT working correctly yet.
Weapon malfunction still cancels the invulnerabilty of this pistol, this is a huge pvp issue.
Please fix this bs already.
Think about that... Think really hard. Do I call the CDC to treat a COMPUTER virus?
did you guys mess up the Space traylayout that had the boffs on them?
I fly all the time with them, but on tribble they are no where to be seen, i looked threw the numbers (1, 2, 3 (one they should be on) 4) but they are not there, i also tryed f12, Boff layout, hit hidden, then hit show, and still not there, please fix this
Holodeck Layout <<< Picture Clicky
Tribble Layout <<< Picture Clicky
Hmm i just noticed, If i go into Stations on my ship it doesnt show that my ship has any stations that i can put boffs on, this might be why i got this
Ship Without boff layout <<<< Picture Clicky
Cat Carrier btw if u needed to know (cryptic)
Jem'hadar Attack Ship has a shield modifier of 1.0. Fleet Advanced Escort has 5 tac console slots and the ability to load the MVA console, while having a shield modifier of 0.99.
And in practice, the cloaking device is not some uber-awesome ability. It's barely useful in PVE, and in PVP good for an alpha strike buff... but beyond that, not useful unless you can escape combat.
In short, the cloaking device is just not a good enough reason not to give Fleet Tac Escorts the proper shield modifier for a Fleet ship -- especially since not everbody who buys one has the cloaking device.