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Season 8 Dev Blog #57: First Contact Day is now Live!

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  • dalmaciusdalmacius Member Posts: 106 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I don't mind having my pet walk with me whenever I take a stroll on DS9 for example. I, however, would like to take all my pets at the same time along with me...targs, birds, etc...
    However, pet shuttles, I find useless, except for the Gekli.

    As a Klink, however, I would like to have a War Targ with me when doing ground combat. I think this may be coming in the future.
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    The entire purpose of First Contact Day is to showcase the spectacular bugs that persist over absurd amounts of time, thus making it a grand success. Right? Right?

    No? Oh. Well, then in that case...it's what you call your basic steaming pile. Multiple ways into the mission, only 1 of which actually work properly. Borked instructions, glitchy sound, the list goes on and on- and Cryptic proudly puts this out as an "event."

    With apologies to Stealer's Wheel...
    "Bugs to the left of me, glitches to the right, here I am-
    stuck in the middle with Cryptic..."

    Seriously, if anything deserves to be put through the latest Cryptic marketing buzzword ("revamp"), it's this malfunction-riddled mess. Pull it, since it's obviously not ready for prime time, and "add it back in later" when it's at least up to the quality of a half-assed first-time Foundry attempt.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    prechar wrote: »
    I love this mission 3 mins a day on 3 toons that get 35 Marks each (Romulan Marks for me) and 10 lobi once a day.

    Grinds like this I can handle just a shame the secondary prizes outshine the Main ones that Cryptic have given us for the 3rd time in a row.
    So devs please take note FCD grind=Good but MU grind=Bad imho anyway :P

    on the contrary, if i had a little interest at this point, i would be on the game doing the first contact even with such as the rewards. but as it is, not now.
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    My favorite part of this event is watching Scimitars try to escape from the swarm of ships outside of Sol. I just watched one of them try for a good 2 mins. He eventually tried backing up and then going around the ship that was in front of him only to get stuck on another Scimitar. He spent at least another minute trying to get away from that one. So funny.
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  • beerxhyperbeerxhyper Member Posts: 676 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Seems to be an audio bug for romulan republic characters. It's happened both to my reman allied with fed and romulan allied with KDF.

    Upon entering the republic day mission I hear what sounds like a gorn's voice saying "you will not die thisss day". It happens again when I beam aboard the LLeiset and again when I enter the system to do the mission. This is not related strictly to the mission because after I complete the mission I heard the voiceover when spawning in the Tau Dewa sector, entering the new romulus system, and again when beaming down to new romulus command. :confused:

    Edit: It happened to my KDF Orion when starting the day of honor mission. There seems to be some voiceover leakage somewhere.

    Edit: And for the Bortasqu' ship you command for KDF characters, it has cannon: rapid fire and cannon: scatter volley but the ship isn't equipped with any cannons or turrets of any kind.

    thats nothing i did the nimbus space fights with the voice overs from the pirates and i had them spamming me with the voices in drozana station NOWHERE near nimbus lol was funny as heck.


  • stohansonstohanson Member Posts: 106 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I thught, for the Fed side, the first contact day mission was lame. It really could have been a non combat mission actually relatingto first contact day..

    I've been playing this game since closed beta, and i'm still not blown away..
  • sentinel64sentinel64 Member Posts: 901 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    This is definitely a weekend mission; the bugs and glitches in the mission do show how the devs only needed it for a few days. The Rom ships just want to cluster and run into each other, I never saw a cut scene for the Oddy, and the Bort does not have dual or dual heavy cannons (only the single shot mega cannon).

    The 35 mark reward is OK for replay, and the shortness of play makes the negatives bearable. I still spend have of the play time rearranging the menagerie on the power panel (this has always been a mess when playing a mission generated ship).

    The KDF get the standard Klingy reward, the Fed get a nice souvenir ship, but the Rommies get calamari pet????

    Oh well, another lackluster weekend celebration event... at least it wasn't a grind-fest. :rolleyes:
  • gooddaytodie39gooddaytodie39 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Just wanted to say thanks for this. Definitely an improvement over last year. I enjoyed the mission and the extra rewards were nice. The mission was a nice lead into Season 9 and it was fun flying the Odyssey and Scimi.
  • sarvour0sarvour0 Member Posts: 382 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I was enjoying these events, but hated how the overlap with the MU events and RL time constraints forced me to pick and choose what to do as cutthroat as I had to.

    Sadly a comp-issue prevented me having the last 9 hrs before the event ended. I was really looking forward to it.

    other, yet related concerns:
    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=16217331&posted=1#post16217331
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  • argent007argent007 Member Posts: 220 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    you know Cryptic, it would have been nice to advertise that Marks packages were up for grabs from this event as well; i avoided running the event because i already had the phoenix pet and the bat'leth, and didn't really want the romulan's ground pet....but if i knew about the marks package, i would have gladly participated
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Not only the marks, but the free Lobi as well. If you didn't run the event, you missed out on 50 free Lobi.
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    argent007 wrote: »
    you know Cryptic, it would have been nice to advertise that Marks packages were up for grabs from this event as well; i avoided running the event because i already had the phoenix pet and the bat'leth, and didn't really want the romulan's ground pet....but if i knew about the marks package, i would have gladly participated

    Then, next time, RTFM! Seriously, blaming Cryptic because you were too lazy to read what the rewards were?! C'mon!
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  • argent007argent007 Member Posts: 220 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    Then, next time, RTFM! Seriously, blaming Cryptic because you were too lazy to read what the rewards were?! C'mon!

    oh, excuse me, i've been over that blog entry a few times already, and no mention of any additional rewards





    so point out to me where it mentioned marks packages and lobi crystals.....otherwise, shut up
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