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Season 8 Dev Blog #9

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited October 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Content Designer Sean "Commander Ander" McCann reveals details about the upcoming Solanae Dyson Sphere Battlezone in this entry of the Season 8 News Dev Blog series.


Link to the blog.
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  • jeffel82jeffel82 Member Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I've been avoiding the Tribble content because I want S8 to be new and fresh when it launches, but I must say this looks fun as heck. :D
    You're right. The work here is very important.
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  • locutusx5locutusx5 Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Hehe cant wait for the voth etc :D

    all i keep thinking now is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucjEy7UhyUU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSrOTphD9M&list=FL60ljmWWf3pHFCoJZckgoPg&index=26
  • mosul33mosul33 Member Posts: 836 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Thank you, awesome stuff.

    I must say I am excited about this aswell, looking forward to play this :)
  • fauxgreyfauxgrey Member Posts: 24 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    20 Players + 2 bridge officers each + enemies? Well this isn't going to be a total lagfest...:rolleyes:
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  • tilartatilarta Member Posts: 1,801 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Did we start playing Champions Online and nobody told us? :confused:

    To explain that comment, CO has fallen into the trap of "no-content" updates.
    What this means is when they do an so-called update, it's just a new queue.
    Which isn't terribly interesting.

    And to me, it looks like STO is repeating that error.
    This Voth update is all about queues and mark grinding.

    And that's not enough to keep me interested anymore, given that I've done the Reputation mark grind 9 times over now (3 times per character). :cool:

    In addition, I really hate the 20 player actions because nobody seems to understand the concept of teamwork and they're all out to fight each other for the top spot on the leaderboard or whatever.


    So, this update will most likely be me just logging in to play the Voth 5 player queue 3 times a day and going away again once I've earned my marks during bonus hour.



    It's sad that STO has come down to this.
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  • jeffel82jeffel82 Member Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    tilarta wrote: »
    To explain that comment, CO has fallen into the trap of "no-content" updates.
    I swear I'm not trying to be rude...what's your definition of "content," and what would you like to see more of in the game?

    It's a legitimate question; I don't play a lot of MMOs.
    You're right. The work here is very important.
    tacofangs wrote: »
    ...talking to players is like being a mall Santa. Everyone immediately wants to tell you all of the things they want, and you are absolutely powerless to deliver 99% of them.
  • matchstick606matchstick606 Member Posts: 233 Arc User
    edited October 2013
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  • malkarrismalkarris Member Posts: 797 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    jeffel82 wrote: »
    I swear I'm not trying to be rude...what's your definition of "content," and what would you like to see more of in the game?

    It's a legitimate question; I don't play a lot of MMOs.

    Not the one you asked the question to, but for me, I'd want something that makes me want to log in each day becuase its fun, or leads to fun, not because I have to or I fall behind on some progress bar.

    Yes, all MMOs have grind, but I would say the better ones have grind that you do to get something that you can use how you want to use it. I would grind missions to get in game credits of some sort to get a ship that I could then use to fight other players, or explore, or whatever.

    STO seems to be more and more grind, so that you can get things that help you gind more. Personally, my perfect update would be allowing you to explore the galaxy, and each system would have a space and/or ground map that you could wonder around and see, and then, if you wanted to, you could have a mission there. It wouldn't have to be a big mission, just a simple random mission to go here and do this with some experience and dilithium for reward. Like Nimbus, but better. Add in better crafting and a better market, and I think I would be happy.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I've tried it twice so far...

    Despite the current BUGS, it's a lot of fun.

    I don't think it's going to be a que type of thing, it seems to be a 5- 20 man instance that can be joined at any point.

    Once the over-all goal is achieved the particular instance you're in, re-sets itself and ya start all over again.

    :cool:
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  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited October 2013
    matchstick606 wrote: »
    (as the gates open) "and welcome to jurassic park" .......queue music

    Sorry, we couldn't afford John Williams. . .
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Sorry, we couldn't afford John Williams. . .

    ROTFLMAO...

    More appropriate anyway!

    (Just need to add a bit of a banjo in there)

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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I have to admit, I didn't believe that you guys would actually put REDACTED into this game. Don't get me wrong, I think that REDACTED is cool, but I guess I'll have to see how you implemented it. At the same time it does make sense than the Voth would want REDACTED. I mean, who doesn't want REDACTED?
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  • solidneutroniumsolidneutronium Member Posts: 510 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Sorry, we couldn't afford John Williams. . .
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    The last time I got REDACTED, it took a full course of antibiotics to get rid of it.

    <chuckle>

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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    I've tried it twice so far...

    Despite the current BUGS, it's a lot of fun.

    I don't think it's going to be a que type of thing, it seems to be a 5- 20 man instance that can be joined at any point.

    Once the over-all goal is achieved the particular instance you're in, re-sets itself and ya start all over again.

    :cool:
    And you get ambushed by the respawning enemies... :D Hehe.... Oh well. The [redacted] built by [redacted] are definitely a new experience to fight against.

    What? you didn't really think that the Voth and their pet dinosaurs were the only enemies did you? :D

    Speaking of which, some of the Voth enemies really do require carefully thought out tactics and not just "shoot it until it dies" Sure "shoot it until it dies", does kinda work, but it's not the most efficient method.
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    This looks good, I will try it out when its live.
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  • wrathofachilleswrathofachilles Member Posts: 937 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Can we make it so that all team ground combat lets us have at least one bridge officer or two like this new adventure zone does? One of the big reasons I never liked doing ground borg stfs or other such ground combat was that I've never found hyposprays/shield charges sufficient to stay alive, I need my heal...erm... polite phrasing... buddies? yes, I need my heal buddies. Maybe I just don't know how to do it right, maybe the sci on the team wasn't properly being the heal buddy or maybe the eng on the team wasn't properly being the uber tank or whatever... but yeah, no matter what career I've gone into ground combat on, I've always found I need my heal buddies. I need 'em bad.
  • giliongilion Member Posts: 686 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    man, this looks awesome! It's taking so much effort to stop myself from going on to Tribble!

    And at this point most people know what "REDACTED" actually is, but I wonder if the Devs chuckle a little every time they write it :P
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  • usskeystoneusskeystone Member Posts: 19 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    These [Redacted] silos sound like they could be comparable in destructive power to certain ring-shaped installations in other fiction... What fun I'm about to have!
  • tlamstriketlamstrike Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I think the link from the 1st image is broke, I keep getting this error:
    Service Unavailable
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.

    Reference #6.146490c6.1382478358.16453d1a

    Edit the last photo is also giving the error.
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  • saekiithsaekiith Member Posts: 534 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    With all this redacted Info...
    Has the Foundation arrived in the Delta Quadrant? ;)
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    gilion wrote: »
    man, this looks awesome! It's taking so much effort to stop myself from going on to Tribble!

    And at this point most people know what "REDACTED" actually is, but I wonder if the Devs chuckle a little every time they write it :P
    Well, I have to guess a little. [redacted] is used for several different things. :D
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  • wayofderawayofdera Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Super stoked for Season 8!
  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Will there be a list of missions which tell us where you can earn what? Still not getting commendations for completing the daily in the battlezone....
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  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    jeffel82 wrote: »
    I swear I'm not trying to be rude...what's your definition of "content," and what would you like to see more of in the game?

    It's a legitimate question; I don't play a lot of MMOs.

    The games that I enjoy the longest are the ones that simply provide a framework for player interaction and then get out of the way. Trading, diplomacy, PVP, these things only need a framework and do not use premade content that must be repeated ad-infinitum as a substitute. I want to engage with the universe, not replay the same structured queues over and over and over.

    edit--I enjoy adventure zones a fair amount, they are fun to explore and dink around with. They seem to be generally popular until they are turned into queues then they empty out (cf Nukara)
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  • johnny111971johnny111971 Member Posts: 1,300 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Had the opportunity to play on Tribble... played once... don't want to burn out (although I don't see how)... looks like a fan-freaking-tastic fleet event!
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  • kintishokintisho Member Posts: 1,040 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    wish I still had the time as years passed for tribble testing.. cant wait for this to go live!!! I will make my new recipe for Bacgorn now with Voth flavoring!!!
  • thedoctorblueboxthedoctorbluebox Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    jeffel82 wrote: »
    I swear I'm not trying to be rude...what's your definition of "content," and what would you like to see more of in the game?

    It's a legitimate question; I don't play a lot of MMOs.

    I'll answer that, more missions, more storyline missions, FE's, etc....

    Not more ques IMO, there are enough que's right now, and they are drying up with players cause, if you keep adding more, it's just going to spread out players even more and be harder to get a que going
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  • jeffel82jeffel82 Member Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    ursusmorologus wrote: »
    I enjoy adventure zones a fair amount, they are fun to explore and dink around with. They seem to be generally popular until they are turned into queues then they empty out (cf Nukara)

    I share your pain when looking at what's become of Nukara. Sad that the queue was in all likelihood successful at increasing the number of players playing the missions, at the expense of the adventure zone.
    thedoctorbluebox wrote: »
    I'll answer that, more missions, more storyline missions, FE's, etc....

    I would appreciate more story missions and FEs as well.
    You're right. The work here is very important.
    tacofangs wrote: »
    ...talking to players is like being a mall Santa. Everyone immediately wants to tell you all of the things they want, and you are absolutely powerless to deliver 99% of them.
  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    An unbelievable number of STO players turn into total crybabies when asked to do ground combat. Which causes me to fear that, despite how awesome it is, this zone is going to be mostly deserted once the novelty wears off. Most of the encounters can be handled by a couple of people, but the bosses can't.

    I hope the rewards are high enough to drag people in who might otherwise be unwilling.
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