Egads, look at the size of that thing. The Adapted Battlecruiser is probably the largest playable ship in the whole game, and the Scimitar dwarfs it. Both those ships are farther from camera than the battlecruiser, too!
All this speculation of a "green ship", "excitement next week", etc.... has led up to this garbage barge called the Risian Corvette.
Like I told you guys before the Scimitar is at least 2-3 months out, think of how long it took them to make the Andorian ships?
Considering how annoying the Corvette will be to get, I hope it really sucks so I dont have to grind for it.
..anyway back to the Scimitar, they are still working on it, but it is something they are going to tuck away for a rainy day, when they are broke, if you want to make the Scimitar happen sooner STOP BUYING ZEN!!! The adapted ships are garbage anyway, why are you still buying keys? Turn rate of 11 on a destroyer???? You might as well fly a Vor'Cha its got more weapon mounts. (or Fleet Excel)
As long as you keep feeding them money for the crappy stuff they put out, they will continue making crappy stuff. Starve them and you might see another ship the quality of the JHAS someday.
Yeah, and were the Andorian ships really a priority? Not to mention they made the Andorian ships from scratch and we already have Scimitars in game.
They're testing the ships now and soon enough we will see that stats, they're not about to release a ship three months after they released the stats.
<snipped>..anyway back to the Scimitar, they are still working on it, but it is something they are going to tuck away for a rainy day, when they are broke, if you want to make the Scimitar happen sooner STOP BUYING ZEN!!! The adapted ships are garbage anyway, why are you still buying keys? Turn rate of 11 on a destroyer???? You might as well fly a Vor'Cha its got more weapon mounts. (or Fleet Excel)
As long as you keep feeding them money for the crappy stuff they put out, they will continue making crappy stuff. Starve them and you might see another ship the quality of the JHAS someday.
I'm simply going to say that as a sane, calm, intelligent individual that actually enjoys playing and supporting Cryptics STO, I have to disagree with the above person.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
A update from twitter Brandon (branflakes) said there won't be article on the webpage the ship until probably next week.
I looked, saw no mention to anything on Scimitar. You must be seeing something I don't.
Edit: Found Link on next page. I see I was right on this month... Well, atleast the Devs talked about the Broken Promises. Thats a start in my opinion. And yes Dstahl talked about it in a podcast interview.
Interesting... That person only ever launched two drones, a dual hangar ship would be able to throw out four, though I thought I saw a second hangar flash/pew on the first launch, so maybe it was smaller pets in the other hangar, which are hard to see without the person filming having show friendly fighters/mines on.
Edit: Rewatching in higher quality it seems definite that the person in the video only ever used one hangar, pending the Drone hangar can still launch two wings as the earlier hangar text described.
I was hoping for a dual hangar ship, perhaps one of the variants is.
On another note, we know that they were flying a Scimitar, but the wings looked like a new model. Perhaps there was some cross customization going on there?
The Thalaron(sp?) Pulse looked sexy, and a faster charge then NPC ones too.
Interesting... That person only ever launched two drones, a dual hangar ship would be able to throw out four, though I thought I saw a second hangar flash/pew on the first launch, so maybe it was smaller pets in the other hangar, which are hard to see without the person filming having show friendly fighters/mines on.
Edit: Rewatching in higher quality it seems definite that the person in the video only ever used one hangar, pending the Drone hangar can still launch two wings as the earlier hangar text described.
Please note the speed at which the hangar(s) launched their ships...two drones in close sequence = two hangars
1 drone launched and then 15-20secs later 2nd drone launched = 1 hangar
Drones are frigates that launch 1 at a time like the bug ships.
Being able to fire while cloaked and secondary shielding? Awesome!
Least its a temp buff and not permanent, could be quite the powerful ship but at least it doesn't look like its going to be the end all be all ship of the game.
honestly better then I thought was going to happen with consoles though I'm sure this subject to change just like anything in testing or in the game period
I, for one, can't imagine having more fun with the Flying Door Wedge (Scimitar) than the Vesta. The Flying door wedge doesn't do anything THAT spectacular! I mean, let's look at it - the Scimitar has:
Carrier abilities: Vesta does that too
Uber Shield Abiliities: Vesta does that too (quantum Shield from three-piece set, Graviton shield, healing fermion field)
Special Weapon: Vesta does that too (quantum focus phaser, Aux phaser cannons unique to ship)
Granted, the Vesta can't cloak by design but, whilst it is EXTREMELY limited, the T5 Romulan Rep reward allows brief battle cloak useage.
So, whilst the Vesta is undoubtedly weaker in terms of shield and hull (well, it's a sci ship for goodness sake!) and the Scimitar's 'uber weapon' will undoubtedly do more DPS, there are a LOT of similiarities in the end product.
Scimitar looks good, vesta is ugly.
Let us wear Swimsuits on Foundry maps or bridges please! I would pay zen for that.
I, for one, can't imagine having more fun with the Flying Door Wedge (Scimitar) than the Vesta. The Flying door wedge doesn't do anything THAT spectacular! I mean, let's look at it - the Scimitar has:
Carrier abilities: Vesta does that too
Uber Shield Abiliities: Vesta does that too (quantum Shield from three-piece set, Graviton shield, healing fermion field)
Special Weapon: Vesta does that too (quantum focus phaser, Aux phaser cannons unique to ship)
Granted, the Vesta can't cloak by design but, whilst it is EXTREMELY limited, the T5 Romulan Rep reward allows brief battle cloak useage.
So, whilst the Vesta is undoubtedly weaker in terms of shield and hull (well, it's a sci ship for goodness sake!) and the Scimitar's 'uber weapon' will undoubtedly do more DPS, there are a LOT of similiarities in the end product.
I have been lobbying for a Vesta battlecloak for a long time. it only needs that, to know everything.
actually thats a good idea. give the vesta a lobi store battlecloak!
Wow, the secondary shielding lasts for 15 seconds? That's a major letdown... God forbid they make something passive.
It looks like they are all limited time then CD abilities, which kinda sucks... But whatever. I would've taken a hit to the strength of the abilities in exchange for one of them being passive.
Wow, the secondary shielding lasts for 15 seconds? That's a major letdown... God forbid they make something passive.
It looks like they are all limited time then CD abilities, which kinda sucks... But whatever. I would've taken a hit to the strength of the abilities in exchange for one of them being passive.
Rapid maneuvering thrusters? Ok, sounds cool.
Thalaron Pulse? Yeah baby!
45 seconds, not 15.
Let us wear Swimsuits on Foundry maps or bridges please! I would pay zen for that.
Once again I am right to put my trust in the players of this game, rather than the devs.
I like the consoles, unique but I don't think overpowered. The shield one is only going to be useful if someone finds you when cloaked and you need to buy some defence.
Secondary shields, yeah, to an escort that will last, what two seconds? Being serious on that by the way, if people can get cruisers to do 10K DPS, your average escort will chew that extra shielding in no time.
Cloaked Barage, it this is on the usual three minute cooldown, looks like you get 15 seconds of fire, and then you're weapons power is done. Good for a quick first strike or a last strike on a damaged enemy. The Placate might be too much, since this doesn't seem to disable cloak at all, I don't know why you need it, thought if its like the B'rel fire through cloak, the placate does cover that moment of time when you would be targatable.
Thalaron Pulse, I'd like to see some damage numbers and range. If you have to sit still and wait for it, it had better be massive, not one hit kill, but a good coup de grace.
Personally I'd really like to know about the Rapid Maneuvering Thrusters and the Drones. Does maneuvering thrusters do what it says on the tin? Is this a perminent passive boost to turn rate, or something like evasive? And what about the drones? How do they change into other ships? Is it random, can you choose? And this is the first carrier we have had with a cloak. Can we launch our fighters, and then cloak and keep on directing them to attack?
Also, does this ship immeadately go into self destruct mood if hit by a assault cruiser under ramming speed?
I also think that the Scimitar is a pointless, hideous, waste of time; a flying door-wedge which someone stuck stupid wings to, and an extremely uninteresting and unoriginal design. That's MY opinion, which I am equally entitled to.
And even though I freakin LOVE the Scimitar, your post made me chuckle
My point still stands, make it passive and allow us to heal the shields. Otherwise it's just another copy of our singularity power that buff our shields. Which in end game is useless...
We have a few facts and some questions. I noted the ship displayed 52,000 hull on the info panel for that player. That?s way more than I anticipated. I thought it turned a little better than an Oddy or a D?D unlike some others but that might have something to do with the set bonus (2) as we saw the special weapon (set 3) in action. The wings do fold up and out for special weapon firing. The special weapon reminded me of a shotgun blast in that it seemed short range and a very wide cone with a kind of dinky looking green graphics effect (particularly dinky with the awesome wing folding.)
I can?t tell for sure if it has one or two hangars? Based on the number of drone ships I want to say one but there was a hiccup there in the launching that made me wonder. It may just be a battle or escort carrier rather than a full carrier.
And good lord, it has a nearly 16K secondary shield usable for a full 45 seconds. I wonder what the cool down is? Three minutes would be err... interesting and lead to some tears.
Cloaked Barrage has a 1.2 second placate associated with it. Minus 50 weapons power after use. Now whats the cool down there? A full 15 seconds of firing time. It's interesting for a "cloaked alpha" or stealth kill. If its BOFF layout is similar to an escort then there is huge tear potential. I mean if you thought being killed by invisible Borg torps was bad, how about being killed by players you literally never see?
I am not sure how useful the singularity distributor is. Shields while cloaked may let you not worry over a minefield or something and nerf some science powers but otherwise?
Honestly, I don't know how I feel about the ship right now. It?s way more a sneaky battleship with a hangar bay than the carrier many expected based on the old NPC ship. As such I am thinking it has a 5 BOFF layout.
Wow, the secondary shielding lasts for 15 seconds? That's a major letdown... God forbid they make something passive.
It looks like they are all limited time then CD abilities, which kinda sucks... But whatever. I would've taken a hit to the strength of the abilities in exchange for one of them being passive.
Rapid maneuvering thrusters? Ok, sounds cool.
Thalaron Pulse? Yeah baby!
Its a good thing that it isn't a permanent buff, they gave everyone all of the shiny powers the ship had in the movie except they aren't permanent which would've made the ship way over the top.
I'm happy with the consoles and now its just a matter of when they'll release it.
Its a good thing that it isn't a permanent buff, they gave everyone all of the shiny powers the ship had in the movie except they aren't permanent which would've made the ship way over the top.
I'm happy with the consoles and now its just a matter of when they'll release it.
Dev Blog might be next week per Brandon in another post I think. So probably the 4th or the 11th. Whenever they are A) done with testing, and when they think the hype has worn off the Risa event.
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check the stats, the new blogs up with them.
Naw, maybe he shouldn't check out the stats on the corvette because then he would be living up to his name. :rolleyes:
I do so love that reality is such a hard, heavy, difficult thing for so many to take in such liberal doses.
You have the link, I follow his twitter and haven't seen a post like that, and just looked through and still can't find it.
Yeah, and were the Andorian ships really a priority? Not to mention they made the Andorian ships from scratch and we already have Scimitars in game.
They're testing the ships now and soon enough we will see that stats, they're not about to release a ship three months after they released the stats.
I'm simply going to say that as a sane, calm, intelligent individual that actually enjoys playing and supporting Cryptics STO, I have to disagree with the above person.
https://twitter.com/PWE_BranFlakes/status/349568965900632065 hopefully this link will work.
Awesome!!! its total TRIBBLE, that saves me a lot of time. Thanks for the info!!!
:eek:
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
I looked, saw no mention to anything on Scimitar. You must be seeing something I don't.
Edit: Found Link on next page. I see I was right on this month...
You sir, earned a cookie!!!
Interesting... That person only ever launched two drones, a dual hangar ship would be able to throw out four, though I thought I saw a second hangar flash/pew on the first launch, so maybe it was smaller pets in the other hangar, which are hard to see without the person filming having show friendly fighters/mines on.
Edit: Rewatching in higher quality it seems definite that the person in the video only ever used one hangar, pending the Drone hangar can still launch two wings as the earlier hangar text described.
I can't wait and I hope it gets 2 unrestricted hanger for 3 flights of Elite Scorps.
LTS, here since...when did this game launch again?
I was hoping for a dual hangar ship, perhaps one of the variants is.
On another note, we know that they were flying a Scimitar, but the wings looked like a new model. Perhaps there was some cross customization going on there?
The Thalaron(sp?) Pulse looked sexy, and a faster charge then NPC ones too.
Please note the speed at which the hangar(s) launched their ships...two drones in close sequence = two hangars
1 drone launched and then 15-20secs later 2nd drone launched = 1 hangar
Drones are frigates that launch 1 at a time like the bug ships.
GG Cryptic, GG.
Being able to fire while cloaked and secondary shielding? Awesome!
Least its a temp buff and not permanent, could be quite the powerful ship but at least it doesn't look like its going to be the end all be all ship of the game.
honestly better then I thought was going to happen with consoles
Scimitar looks good, vesta is ugly.
no?
I have been lobbying for a Vesta battlecloak for a long time. it only needs that, to know everything.
actually thats a good idea. give the vesta a lobi store battlecloak!
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
Wow, the secondary shielding lasts for 15 seconds? That's a major letdown... God forbid they make something passive.
It looks like they are all limited time then CD abilities, which kinda sucks... But whatever. I would've taken a hit to the strength of the abilities in exchange for one of them being passive.
Rapid maneuvering thrusters? Ok, sounds cool.
Thalaron Pulse? Yeah baby!
45 seconds, not 15.
I like the consoles, unique but I don't think overpowered. The shield one is only going to be useful if someone finds you when cloaked and you need to buy some defence.
Secondary shields, yeah, to an escort that will last, what two seconds? Being serious on that by the way, if people can get cruisers to do 10K DPS, your average escort will chew that extra shielding in no time.
Cloaked Barage, it this is on the usual three minute cooldown, looks like you get 15 seconds of fire, and then you're weapons power is done. Good for a quick first strike or a last strike on a damaged enemy. The Placate might be too much, since this doesn't seem to disable cloak at all, I don't know why you need it, thought if its like the B'rel fire through cloak, the placate does cover that moment of time when you would be targatable.
Thalaron Pulse, I'd like to see some damage numbers and range. If you have to sit still and wait for it, it had better be massive, not one hit kill, but a good coup de grace.
Personally I'd really like to know about the Rapid Maneuvering Thrusters and the Drones. Does maneuvering thrusters do what it says on the tin? Is this a perminent passive boost to turn rate, or something like evasive? And what about the drones? How do they change into other ships? Is it random, can you choose? And this is the first carrier we have had with a cloak. Can we launch our fighters, and then cloak and keep on directing them to attack?
Also, does this ship immeadately go into self destruct mood if hit by a assault cruiser under ramming speed?
Nouveau riche LTS member
And even though I freakin LOVE the Scimitar, your post made me chuckle
Yeah, I accidentally put 15 seconds...
My point still stands, make it passive and allow us to heal the shields. Otherwise it's just another copy of our singularity power that buff our shields. Which in end game is useless...
I can?t tell for sure if it has one or two hangars? Based on the number of drone ships I want to say one but there was a hiccup there in the launching that made me wonder. It may just be a battle or escort carrier rather than a full carrier.
And good lord, it has a nearly 16K secondary shield usable for a full 45 seconds. I wonder what the cool down is? Three minutes would be err... interesting and lead to some tears.
Cloaked Barrage has a 1.2 second placate associated with it. Minus 50 weapons power after use. Now whats the cool down there? A full 15 seconds of firing time. It's interesting for a "cloaked alpha" or stealth kill. If its BOFF layout is similar to an escort then there is huge tear potential. I mean if you thought being killed by invisible Borg torps was bad, how about being killed by players you literally never see?
I am not sure how useful the singularity distributor is. Shields while cloaked may let you not worry over a minefield or something and nerf some science powers but otherwise?
Honestly, I don't know how I feel about the ship right now. It?s way more a sneaky battleship with a hangar bay than the carrier many expected based on the old NPC ship. As such I am thinking it has a 5 BOFF layout.
Its a good thing that it isn't a permanent buff, they gave everyone all of the shiny powers the ship had in the movie except they aren't permanent which would've made the ship way over the top.
I'm happy with the consoles and now its just a matter of when they'll release it.
Dev Blog might be next week per Brandon in another post I think. So probably the 4th or the 11th. Whenever they are A) done with testing, and
Nouveau riche LTS member