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Season 9 Dev Blog #15: Surface Tension

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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    You forget one thing hot pants: There is me between your tongue and Trendy.

    oh wait.. :eek:

    Bah! I shall send my Jaffa to remove you, and then Trendy shall be MINE!!!!! ALL MINE!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA!!!!!

    How d'you like THAT Responsible Government Cackle (tm)?

    Hail Ba'al!
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Bah! I shall send my Jaffa to remove you, and then Trendy shall be MINE!!!!! ALL MINE!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA!!!!!

    How d'you like THAT Responsible Government Cackle (tm)?

    Hail Ba'al!

    I cant believe you just used the word cackle

    you have no chance against my Power Rangers Mystic Ninja Rescue Zeo Mighty Morphin Shogun Force
  • fyathyriofyathyrio Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Do you ever have nightmares...
    where you're trapped in a dark, damp maze...
    lights flickering...
    cliche creepy sounds...
    the feeling that somebody's chasing you...
    you know that something's behind you...
    that it's caught up to you...
    you hear the voice whispering, "Kurland here..."
    and wake up screaming?

    Some of us do. :P

    Um... is that's the undine talking in you?
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  • klaituklaitu Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I'm really, really hoping that this is not the *only* new content provided as part of the new season.

    This game desperately needs more mission content, having only gotten 2 new missions in the last year.
  • amosov78amosov78 Member Posts: 1,495 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    It's a nice bit of progression for Tuvok's character, with him trying to broker peace between the three factions, in contrast to his initial stance concerning Spock and the peace initiative he brought forward for the Federation and the Klingon Empire in 2293.
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I cant believe you just used the word cackle

    you have no chance against my Power Rangers Mystic Ninja Rescue Zeo Mighty Morphin Shogun Force

    I shall stroke my Grand Vizier Goatee in the approved Totally Not Evil At All fashion.

    Plus, my Jaffa have Death Gliders. I win.

    Hail Ba'al!
  • vonhellstingvonhellsting Member Posts: 543 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Do we get Tuvok and Worf working together? :D

    A Worf and Tuvok team up hmm...I can see it right now.


    Worf "We must encircle the enemy cutting them off from their supplies then destroy them!"

    Tuvok "A sound plan but no. Logic dictates that...blah blah blah....when I was security officer on voyager....blah blah blah....up hill in the snow with one shoe on...blah blah blah....So in conclusion we will fight the Undine my way.

    Worf"Grrrrrraahhh the only fighting you seem interested in doing is with your mouth we will decide this by hand to hand combat!"

    *Vulcan battle arena music plays*:P
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  • sirsinjinsirsinjin Member Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I don't understand, are you inferring that Tuvok is some kind of shepard to the various Factions and that Worf just wrecks everything up?

    I see what you did there.

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  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,165 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    10k says there will be an Undine Infiltrator in there somewhere.
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    Thank you for the Typhoon!
  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    thay8472 wrote: »
    10k says there will be an Undine Infiltrator in there somewhere.

    Player character is Undine and will be shot by Tuvok.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    One might be tempted to say that Arc is an Undine plot...hrmmm.
  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    One might be tempted to say that Arc is an Undine plot...hrmmm.

    Wrong.

    The Undine are an Arc plot. :eek:
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I don't even know where the Klingons and Federation stand they're supposedly at war and yet they're not.:confused:

    They have an armistice, I think. They're still technically at war, but there is a loose cease-fire in place. Kind of like North and South Korea.

    I'm really looking forward to this update. That screenshot is very intriguing ...
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2014
    Fantastic looking episode.
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.

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  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    "The tenuous alliance created to handle the Solanae Dyson Sphere threatens to tear itself apart as the friction and hostility between the various powers of the Alpha Quadrant comes to the fore."


    ...more then half of the sector blocks in this game are in the beta quadrent. all of the klingon and romulan territory is in the beta quadrent only. the sirius sector block, and everything to the right of it, is beta quadrant. the only accessible blocks in the alpha quadrant are the cardasian blocks. stop following DS9's bad example of always saying alpha quadrant this and alpha quadrant that, this game is beta quadrant online
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    "The tenuous alliance created to handle the Solanae Dyson Sphere threatens to tear itself apart as the friction and hostility between the various powers of the Alpha Quadrant comes to the fore."


    ...more then half of the sector blocks in this game are in the beta quadrent. all of the klingon and romulan territory is in the beta quadrent only. the sirius sector block, and everything to the right of it, is beta quadrant. the only accessible blocks in the alpha quadrant are the cardasian blocks. stop following DS9's bad example of always saying alpha quadrant this and alpha quadrant that, this game is beta quadrant online
    Agreed. There needs to be come consistency.
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    They have an armistice, I think. They're still technically at war, but there is a loose cease-fire in place. Kind of like North and South Korea.

    I'm really looking forward to this update. That screenshot is very intriguing ...

    In Star Trek it was mainly 3 super powers federation, klingon empire, and the romulan star empire. Where fed and kdf were all about direct assaults and the RSE was all about subterfuge and misdirection. Then DS9 was pretty much all about the new frontier with the cardassian empire being a 4th super power that changed alliances like most ppl change their underwear.

    I would rather be playing the game as all 3 being allies and not enemies because with future views in various series episodes the alpha quadrant is basically one huge alliance that battles threats worse than the borg and undine and is only way any of them survive.

    As far as the loose cease-fire in this game its contradictory at best because its like you must work together here but if you take light year to the left or right you are fighting each other. IMHO it should be a war or no war but TNG bridged a non-war aspect but still rough on the edges and then in DS9 it took a turn from just peace to actual allies.

    Another note though I am hoping they put some emphasis on if the undine have anything to do with the gorn rebellion and the true way. There almost little to nothing in terms of the gorn rebellion and the true way being actual threat especially when it comes down to difficulty when fighting them which is very limited in the game as well.
  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    "The tenuous alliance created to handle the Solanae Dyson Sphere threatens to tear itself apart as the friction and hostility between the various powers of the Alpha Quadrant comes to the fore."


    ...more then half of the sector blocks in this game are in the beta quadrent. all of the klingon and romulan territory is in the beta quadrent only. the sirius sector block, and everything to the right of it, is beta quadrant. the only accessible blocks in the alpha quadrant are the cardasian blocks. stop following DS9's bad example of always saying alpha quadrant this and alpha quadrant that, this game is beta quadrant online

    Well, like you said... DS9 made AQ the term for known space in that region.
    It doesn't make very much sense, but I guess we have to go with it.

    Funnily enough, what the Federation knows about the AQ is a very small part of the whole thing, too. So when the Feds say "we will save the AQ", some species at the edge of the Gamma Quadrant might just be "lol"
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I'm still wowed by the fact that this whole pile of awesome debuts on Tuesday.

    TUESDAY.

    #StoEpicWin.
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    I'm still wowed by the fact that this whole pile of awesome debuts on Tuesday.

    TUESDAY.

    #StoEpicWin.
    lol YOU LEFT SPACEDOCK WITHOUT A TRACTOR BEAM?!?
  • kpg1usakpg1usa Member Posts: 190 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    lol YOU LEFT SPACEDOCK WITHOUT A TRACTOR BEAM?!?

    Next season? Yeah, that doesn't arrive until Tuesday...
  • asovanraasovanra Member Posts: 139 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I am looking forward to the new episode, I am also happy that the rewards will include Mk XII (likely very rare) kits and modules; and new traits are always a plus!

    Oh, and what "new" ship will you be releasing for us? I'm looking forward to a Undine lock box but another ship in the C-Store would be pretty cool too. (I'm waving my $20 bill at the computer screen, in case you developers are intersted.)
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    asovanra wrote: »
    Oh, and what "new" ship will you be releasing for us? I'm looking forward to a Undine lock box but another ship in the C-Store would be pretty cool too. (I'm waving my $20 bill at the computer screen, in case you developers are intersted.)
    I'm betting Intrepid reboot.

    For expansion 2/season 10, when the mission "State of Q" returns, Defiant reboot.
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    I'm betting Intrepid reboot.

    That would be really nice.

    I think I'd make a Fed science character just to try that out, actually.
  • khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2014
    klaitu wrote: »
    I'm really, really hoping that this is not the *only* new content provided as part of the new season.

    This game desperately needs more mission content, having only gotten 2 new missions in the last year.

    You do realise it's not even a year since LoR was launched (21st of May 2013), right? That had quite a lot of new mission content added.
    Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
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  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    I'm betting Intrepid reboot.

    For expansion 2/season 10, when the mission "State of Q" returns, Defiant reboot.

    given cryptics reboot track record, the intrepid reboot would most likely just be a buff to the vesta, and let you slot the intrepid's ablative console on the vesta
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    given cryptics reboot track record, the intrepid reboot would most likely just be a buff to the vesta, and let you slot the intrepid's ablative console on the vesta

    Give 'em some credit, at least they revamped the eternally problematic BoP line...
  • fyathyriofyathyrio Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Give 'em some credit, at least they revamped the eternally problematic BoP line...


    Whoa tiger... slow down. Kind of cart before the horse wouldn't you say? They just announced the revamp on the last Dev blog.

    As we all know.... everything until launch is 'subject to change'. Then after launch it becomes 'subject to nerf'
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Captains! The Undine threat is looming around the corner! Admiral Tuvok needs help in a joint conference to discuss the Undine situation. Kate Bankson, Content Designer, describes the thrilling continuation of the Undine story in the next featured episode: Surface Tension. Read more about the episode in the latest entry of the Season 9 News Dev Blog series.

    Link to the blog.

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    This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
  • tehjoneltehjonel Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    cool stuff. mission, featured episode, re-run mission for other rewards. i'm down.
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