This is really cool and I cant wait to get my hands on the new uniform... but to be honest, I was hoping that the original Sierra uniform was going to be the new standard
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Anyone want to give me a Temporal Heavy Dreadnought pack? I'll be your friend
I agree with another poster: finally something about S9.5 I like!
I already unlocked the Odyssey uniform on two fed chars (I didn't know about the KDF ones), as I already love that style.
These new variants ones look even better.
When I started seeing old NPCs using the new uniform, it was weird. However I love the consistency across Starfleet now.
KDF skirt and non-spiky boots? YES! My KDF char will be changing ASAP. The Rom Fed skirt is probably the best looking in the game IMO, but I'll be taking a close look at the KDF one.
Props to the designers, Cryptic.
FYI, that buckle looks like the veteran reward one. I have it (and use it). Never considered a cowboy hat though...
This is the dev blog I feel like I have been waiting forever for...and now it's here and I'm even more happier than I thought I would be due to them also adding a tactical Odyssey uniform, an Odyssey dress uniform, a 200-day Odyssey veteran uniform and some other little added extras like two Odyssey combadges!
"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
Introducing the Odyssey and Bortasqu' uniforms, the latest options available to Captains! UI Artist Thomas "TheCrypticCat" Marrone showcases the latest fashion to hit Star Trek Online in our latest entry of the Season 9 News Dev Blog series.
I can confirm that, on Tribble, my FED captain's Diplomacy BOff (Gorn Engineer) has access to the freely available Bortasqu' uniforms, and the veteran rewards he is entitled to.
Would be nice if unlocking the Odyssey fleet uniforms would grant access to the Bortasqu' fleet ones for him though...
That'll be a welcome change for my bridge crew. Other choices for Orion females are... distracting... for my crew.
I wonder how bad Mr. Marrone is getting bullied by the rest of the STO dev team for having the only blog for Season 9.5 people didn't start a riot over, let alone actually enjoyed.
Introducing the Odyssey and Bortasqu' uniforms, the latest options available to Captains! UI Artist Thomas "TheCrypticCat" Marrone showcases the latest fashion to hit Star Trek Online in our latest entry of the Season 9 News Dev Blog series.
I'm really pleased to see all the positive posts about this excellent dev blog.
This decision to offer a quality standardised uniform, well presented, with the colour codes, will make a lot of people want to emulate the look. More toons in matching uniforms (through choice) will probably make social zones feel more Star Trek.
I can't help but think that this is a real turning point for STO.
Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen, and presenting it in such a clear and concise way.
Update for everyone! Adding this to the blog as well.
Q: Can my cross faction Bridge Officer wear the Odyssey/Bortasqu' uniform?
A: Yes! Mr Marrone and I just confirmed it, if you have your Diplomacy/Marauding cross faction BOff, you can indeed access the uniform for their corresponding fleet.
Make sure to try this on your Fed/KDF BOffs if you have reached top tier in Diplomacy/Marauding CXP and have claimed your cross faction Bridge Officer.
Update for everyone! Adding this to the blog as well.
Q: Can my cross faction Bridge Officer wear the Odyssey/Bortasqu' uniform?
A: Yes! Mr Marrone and I just confirmed it, if you have your Diplomacy/Marauding cross faction BOff, you can indeed access the uniform for their corresponding fleet.
Make sure to try this on your Fed/KDF BOffs if you have reached top tier in Diplomacy/Marauding CXP and have claimed your cross faction Bridge Officer.
Enjoy your new snazy threads everyone
~CaptainSmirk
Damn if this works on the KDF Marauding Boff you've finally at least made a workaround to an over 2 years old problem.
TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class. Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider. Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Okay so that clarifies it - the uniforms will be free and you'll now get the variants for the dilithium purchases. I like the 'basics' and laid out all my BOFFS with it; prefering to keep the BOFF color on my Captain but now I'm going to give the white a try. I LOVE the dress uniform jacket and color scheme; in particular the nod to my favorite uniform design the Wrath of Khan styles. The color and variant bits give you some of that "Kirk from the movies" feel while retaining uniformity amongst the rank and file.
Now I see Enlisted color variants - too bad we don't really have officers to use them on! If my BOFF is a department head they get red; otherwise I've been giving them department colors and maintaining my blue/white uniform detail for Medical personnel.
Update for everyone! Adding this to the blog as well.
Q: Can my cross faction Bridge Officer wear the Odyssey/Bortasqu' uniform?
A: Yes! Mr Marrone and I just confirmed it, if you have your Diplomacy/Marauding cross faction BOff, you can indeed access the uniform for their corresponding fleet.
Make sure to try this on your Fed/KDF BOffs if you have reached top tier in Diplomacy/Marauding CXP and have claimed your cross faction Bridge Officer.
Enjoy your new snazy threads everyone
~CaptainSmirk
That's great and all but really what for us pointy eared green blooded warbird riding cowboys?
Tell you what I'll give you guys some ideas
- We are in a special position and some of us Commanders (Captains) what their crew to well looks similar so if your a Romulan maybe a special perk to have all your other non Republic boffs to wear the same thing as your Romulan....give other players reason to join the Republic its silly to have some with Romulan gear and others without them and they live on a warbird so yeah it would look odd to have your bridge crew with half Fed have Rom gear on. Just saying.
- Make a dedicated fleet uniform for us....I have faith in the designers but please if your going to trouble have us Romulans in the game make a uniform.....my suggestion: The Pale Rider design that Clint Eastwood wore or something like the Battlestar Galactica uniforms.
- Fix a few Romulan uniforms as well they tend to tear in game...and I'm not the only one.
I love the Romulans, they are my favorite faction, period and I think someone needs to advocate for them in this game otherwise we will fall victim like the Klingons did with hardly any content compared to the Federation.
If your also allied with the Federation...please make the combadge workable for Romulans....if we are allied with them.....lets at least show it.
You brought us into the world, quite frankly if you continue on this course....we might actually break away from our allies. You might as well make us independent next season since we don't get all the glory from our allying factions. Kind of makes it pointless.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "This planet smells, it must be the Klingons"
Update for everyone! Adding this to the blog as well.
Q: Can my cross faction Bridge Officer wear the Odyssey/Bortasqu' uniform?
A: Yes! Mr Marrone and I just confirmed it, if you have your Diplomacy/Marauding cross faction BOff, you can indeed access the uniform for their corresponding fleet.
Make sure to try this on your Fed/KDF BOffs if you have reached top tier in Diplomacy/Marauding CXP and have claimed your cross faction Bridge Officer.
Enjoy your new snazy threads everyone
~CaptainSmirk
EPIC.
This is pure awesome. Best, most unequivocally good news I've heard in this game since the start of s9.
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Now, can we have new/fixed Romulan uniforms? Pretty please?
Anyone want to give me a Temporal Heavy Dreadnought pack? I'll be your friend
I already unlocked the Odyssey uniform on two fed chars (I didn't know about the KDF ones), as I already love that style.
These new variants ones look even better.
When I started seeing old NPCs using the new uniform, it was weird. However I love the consistency across Starfleet now.
KDF skirt and non-spiky boots? YES! My KDF char will be changing ASAP. The Rom Fed skirt is probably the best looking in the game IMO, but I'll be taking a close look at the KDF one.
Props to the designers, Cryptic.
FYI, that buckle looks like the veteran reward one. I have it (and use it). Never considered a cowboy hat though...
Oh, and thanks for the color codes!
OMG I didn't even notice that. Awesome. My TOS Klingon will finally have a semi-appropriate footwear option
Oh! Good point. Yes, please!
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
This. Very much.
Oh yes! That is an absolute certainty for me!
Devs...may we please have the colour guide for the Odyssey dress uniform please? Much obliged.
Roll on season 9.5!
"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
"Each new set will be available at half the price of the original Odyssey unlock."
Way to go Cryptic. The sets are free on Tribble, but will be charged when it hits Live?
That'll be a welcome change for my bridge crew. Other choices for Orion females are... distracting... for my crew.
Veteran items are made for those of us that pay for this game to be developed. Naturally they will be nicer than items given to everyone.
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I just got the lifetime during the sale, and now I'm really glad I'll have even more uniforms pretty soon.
I love this unconditionally.
To Mr. Marrone and his team: This is a 100% good thing in every possible way and you should all feel good about yourselves.
And go buy yourselves something nice while you're at it. You deserve it!
Do it. You know you want to.
Nouveau riche LTS member
Yes. YES. YYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This decision to offer a quality standardised uniform, well presented, with the colour codes, will make a lot of people want to emulate the look. More toons in matching uniforms (through choice) will probably make social zones feel more Star Trek.
I can't help but think that this is a real turning point for STO.
Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen, and presenting it in such a clear and concise way.
If you already own the fleet Odyssey on live you'll get them for free when they go live
Hopefully we don't fall victim to what the Klingons did....being left out of the fun.
After all this is the
LEGACY OF ROMULUS.......
as Lt Cmdr. Scott would say:
Its not the Legacy of Earth
or
or bloody Q'onos
its
Romulus
Q: Can my cross faction Bridge Officer wear the Odyssey/Bortasqu' uniform?
A: Yes! Mr Marrone and I just confirmed it, if you have your Diplomacy/Marauding cross faction BOff, you can indeed access the uniform for their corresponding fleet.
Make sure to try this on your Fed/KDF BOffs if you have reached top tier in Diplomacy/Marauding CXP and have claimed your cross faction Bridge Officer.
Enjoy your new snazy threads everyone
~CaptainSmirk
Damn if this works on the KDF Marauding Boff you've finally at least made a workaround to an over 2 years old problem.
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
You got yours on day one of Legacy of Romulus, this is just updated the standard issue unis for the feds and klinks.
Serious its two version of the standard duty uniform, a long coat version and a dress uniform, all of which the Romulan Republic already has.
Now I see Enlisted color variants - too bad we don't really have officers to use them on! If my BOFF is a department head they get red; otherwise I've been giving them department colors and maintaining my blue/white uniform detail for Medical personnel.
That's great and all but really what for us pointy eared green blooded warbird riding cowboys?
Tell you what I'll give you guys some ideas
- We are in a special position and some of us Commanders (Captains) what their crew to well looks similar so if your a Romulan maybe a special perk to have all your other non Republic boffs to wear the same thing as your Romulan....give other players reason to join the Republic its silly to have some with Romulan gear and others without them and they live on a warbird so yeah it would look odd to have your bridge crew with half Fed have Rom gear on. Just saying.
- Make a dedicated fleet uniform for us....I have faith in the designers but please if your going to trouble have us Romulans in the game make a uniform.....my suggestion: The Pale Rider design that Clint Eastwood wore or something like the Battlestar Galactica uniforms.
- Fix a few Romulan uniforms as well they tend to tear in game...and I'm not the only one.
I love the Romulans, they are my favorite faction, period and I think someone needs to advocate for them in this game otherwise we will fall victim like the Klingons did with hardly any content compared to the Federation.
If your also allied with the Federation...please make the combadge workable for Romulans....if we are allied with them.....lets at least show it.
You brought us into the world, quite frankly if you continue on this course....we might actually break away from our allies. You might as well make us independent next season since we don't get all the glory from our allying factions. Kind of makes it pointless.
EPIC.
This is pure awesome. Best, most unequivocally good news I've heard in this game since the start of s9.