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Season 7 Dev Blog #43

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited June 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Systems Designer Jeremy "BorticusCryptic" Randall reveals details about the upcoming Crystalline Catastrophe event in this entry of the Season 7 News Dev Blog series.


Link to the blog.
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  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I must admit, I thought I jumped forward in time quite a bit until I re-read the Season 7 bit. :eek:

    Nice job art team on the updated graphics! That fiend looks beautiful. Like a moth to a flame we go. And a further thanks to the dev team for their community consultation on tuning it, as well as hosting a fun test event a while back!

    This is going to be fun!
  • mrkollinsmrkollins Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Holy reward Batman!
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  • captainmal3captainmal3 Member Posts: 436 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I, like a lot of people, wasn't terribly fond of the crystal entity before, but these changes sound like they'll make it much more fun without making it TOO easy. Plus, it seems like I'll have a reason to use my jem heavy escort carrier over my fleet defiant, since the jemmy has better non-tactical abilties which sound like they'll be more important.

    Depending on how well this works out, will this mean we might see more content in the future which makes non-tactical abilities worthwhile again? That might go some way to balancing escorts without just plain nerfing them.

    Honestly, while I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy that massive dil reward, I already have 60000 I can't even refine, so more ore isn't really doing much for me.
  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Member Posts: 2,248 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Nice opening story! Very dramatic and entertaining to read!

    I had only ever participated in the old CE a couple of times, and found it ... wanting.

    This revamp sounds interesting. I look forward to giving it a try.

    I'm also intrigued by the new Event Rep Sys. I look foward to that as well.

    :)

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  • atatassaultatatassault Member Posts: 1,008 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    For what is probably a 10 min encounter per character, getting 50k Dil for a little more than 2 hours work per character is *Awesome*.
  • brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Welp, that's all of my max level characters I'll be running this event with, each day for 3 weeks :o
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  • neos472neos472 Member Posts: 580 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    all hands on deck time with the I.S.S. Zekrom leading the charge looking forward to fighting against the CE again since i have a few new toys to use against it >=).
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  • vsilverwings1vsilverwings1 Member Posts: 572 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I really like the idea of the event reputation and encourage people to play a given event but not feel restricted to a given hour so I really hope Cryptic expands on this.

    The only question mark I have about the whole thing is the contribution threshold; 14/21 to some might be a bit too much. Perhaps 50% of the event would be better than 66% but that's just me I. Some may not necessarily have premade/private teams to rely upon.
  • cptskeeterukcptskeeteruk Member Posts: 559 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Any reason why we need to shoot the thing when all we have to do is make a high pitch sound like that women did with the Enterprise in tng to blow them things up. :D
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  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    this is impressive, im certanly going to participate in this. the model for the entity looks perfect too, well done
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  • atatassaultatatassault Member Posts: 1,008 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    vsilverwings1 wrote: »
    I really like the idea of the event reputation and encourage people to play a given event but not feel restricted to a given hour so I really hope Cryptic expands on this.

    The only question mark I have about the whole thing is the contribution threshold; 14/21 to some might be a bit too much. Perhaps 50% of the event would be better than 66% but that's just me I. Some may not necessarily have premade/private teams to rely upon.
    The CE will no longer uber heal itself. The worst case scenario is it accumulates a bunch of small shards and gets massive Damage Buffs, but there are a few Sci Skills that will strip that buff.

    A PUG will win it, it might just take a little while.
  • eisenw0lfeisenw0lf Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Does this event feature mixed teams of both Feds and KDF? If not, there could be a shortage of players on the red side. We barely manage to start 5-player events, but 10 or more is pretty much out of our reach most of the time.
  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Interesting. Looks like a fair amount of effort into being more than just a DPS fest, which I certainly like, particularly how its got some specific use for lesser-used sci powers. Gonna be a pain for alting though. Definately glad to see new events that are both teamwork-emphasis AND have good rewards. Looking forward to it.
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Is this going to be limited just to the federation side or is it co-op?
  • helvetiamatt81helvetiamatt81 Member Posts: 112 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Dear Cryptic, will we get the trophy for the ship interior, too?
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  • partizan81partizan81 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will the CE event be cross-faction playable?
  • borticuscrypticborticuscryptic Member Posts: 2,478 Cryptic Developer
    edited April 2013
    zeuxidemus001 wrote: »
    Is this going to be limited just to the federation side or is it co-op?

    The queue is cross-faction. It will allow KDF and FED players to team together to take it down.
    Jeremy Randall
    Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
    "Play smart!"
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    borticuscryptic wrote: »
    The queue is cross-faction. It will allow KDF and FED players to team together to take it down.

    Ah cool I thought I might have missed where it told that but good to know :)
  • partizan81partizan81 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    borticuscryptic wrote: »
    The queue is cross-faction. It will allow KDF and FED players to team together to take it down.

    Thanks!

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  • backyardserenadebackyardserenade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Will we be able to earn the Trophy with this encounter?
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    All Hail the Tholion Deity, we shall send it a bounty of organic sacrifice to please it.
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  • general1devongeneral1devon Member Posts: 298 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    USS Renegade Destroyer Armed and ready
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    The new Crystalline Entity looks gorgeous. It's gonna be a shame to blow it up.
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  • xelene13xelene13 Member Posts: 222 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Very much looking forward to this, and thanks for the tactical info!
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Looks good.

    I just hope that STO isn't starting down the path CO went with limited time content. It didn't go over very well and sparked some rather nasty threads. Anyways everything looks good except for the limited time thing. Not a fan of taking away substantial content, not counting the fun little seasonal events and the like.
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  • brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    borticuscryptic wrote: »
    The queue is cross-faction. It will allow KDF and FED players to team together to take it down.

    The dev blog could be edited to reflect this perhaps. Maybe some KDF ships warp in for a glorious battle with the CE and in the process save the Byzantium because it fought so valiantly.
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  • kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Why can't we just shatter the thing like the revenge-filled scientist did from a console on the Enterprise D?

    What is explanation?
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  • felderburgfelderburg Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I like the look of the Entity - looks like the remastered TNG version!

    I hope there will someday be an option to try to communicate with it. The whole point of its final episode was that communicating with strange new life like the Entity was preferable to destroying it. I guess the Tholians got to it first, but that doesn't mean we can't try, right?
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    kirksplat wrote: »
    Why can't we just shatter the thing like the revenge-filled scientist did from a console on the Enterprise D?

    What is explanation?
    Well, that was in part something that it left itself open to. At first they were trying to communicate, then the scientist increased the amplitude of the carrier wave until it shattered it. IF the CE hadn't tried to communicate, that would have been impossible.
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  • edna#7310 edna
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    edited April 2013
    dontdrunkimshoot wrote: »
    this is impressive, im certanly going to participate in this. the model for the entity looks perfect too, well done

    you'd probably ask homeone to use a CE holoemitter and pvp it :D
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