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Official Captain Specialization Feedback Thread
zer0niusrex
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Please use this thread to post all feedback and bugs found with the new Captain Specialization system.
Captain Specializations
Captain Specializations
- The Captain Specialization system is now available!
- Access to this is found between the Skills and Traits tab of the Status window.
- The available Trees are Intelligence Officer, Commander, and Pilot.
- Players will gain 1 Captain Specialization Point for each level they gain from 50 60 which will be 10 points in total.
- After reaching level 60, captains will continue to gain Captain Specialization Points by filling up their Skill Points bar.
- Each time the full bar is filled, 1 point will be earned.
- There is no limit to how many points can be earned.
- This system is not in a final state.
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GENERAL
* We have no quick/easy way for you to earn extra Specialization Points on Tribble, other than the Level Up contact (... not sure if he grants Spec Points once you're at 60). I'm not sure if we will find a solution to this or not, but we're aware that it might mean limiting the amount of hands-on feedback we receive regarding the higher-tier Abilities/Unlocks.
* None of the Scaling Passive abilities currently improve with your number of Specialization Points spent.
INTEL
* Automated Reinforcement is currently far too powerful. Have fun while it lasts.
* Both Automated Reinforcement and Hide Weakness trigger each time you enter a map, even when your shields are undamaged.
* Precision Offensive needs a balance pass. It's probably a bit too good at the moment.
* All Intelligence Kit Modules are purchased from the Delta Reputation Store... but this portion of the Store is currently disabled. It will become available in a future update.
COMMANDO
* Resilient Power Cells is probably too good at Rank II and III. This will probably be changed to be "X sec or %, whichever is more" just like Quick Draw is currently set up.
PILOT
* I've received spotty reports of Rock and Roll not triggering in some circumstances, but have had a hard time reproducing the error. Please report this if it happens to you, including what Map you are on, what Ship you are flying, and whether or not you had purchased the All Shook Up or Magic Carpet Ride enhancements.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
While I'm waiting for the server to be back up, let this be my first bit of feedback, regarding these power names:
Yes. A thousand times yes.
Joined January 2009
Edit: Just confirmed I can switch specializations while in combat, even, and I kept the buff stacks I had from Pilot for their full duration. Maybe there should be a cooldown for switching active specializations, to future proof against people swapping mid combat to bring up new powers?
Having that affects the bonuses you get from each tree.
This is all a bug related to the Scaling Passives not working correctly -- it's looking for the incorrect numeric, of which you already have 9.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
No, not intended. You should only be free to swap on static maps, just like Traits.
Thanks for reporting that.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
The roll animation fails to play while under the "dodge and weave" animation (I think it is from eat my dust) but the power itself works.
The Alliance mission maps, Fleet Chimera T5U and I didn't purchase any of those two powers you mentioned.
Can you please update the description?
For example, currently we have:
Flank Protection I
Damage dealt from flanking angles deals less damage than normal.
Incoming Flanking Damage Reduced by 10%.
Suggestion:
Flank Protection I
Ground
Damage dealt from flanking angles deals less damage than normal.
Incoming Flanking Damage Reduced by 10%.
Although we may assume that somebody knows by level 50 that flanking damage involves ground combat, having it shown visually would be very nice when you just scan over the abilities to see whether it improves ground, space, or both.
Bug:
The description on the right sidse says "Current points spent: 10", even though I didn't spend any points in the specizializations.
Bug 2:
I added 1 point in Commando and the text remained 10, I expected this to be updated to 11.
Opportunistic doesnt seem to work at all after testing it for about 30 minutes. Sensor scan always resulted in a 90 second cooldown (default is 90 seconds). Science Fleet resulted in a 5 minute cooldown (default 5 minutes). The 5% reduction was never applied.
Any chance of an option to turn Eat my Dust I/II's visuals off? After so much Mechwarrior Online, Im kind of sick of playing games that can be renamed to Earthquake Simulator Online/Motion Sickness Online.
Under certain conditions, I've only replicated it twice so far, you can attack an enemies rear and rock and roll, and keep the flanking damage bonus the entire time during the roll even though youre infront of the mob.
Pedal to the medal loses stacks when turning abruptly even though throttle is maintaining full. I assume this is poor wording on the tool tip? (tool tip only states throttle needs to be at full, not ship speed)
Also after filling the skill tree (60 points), every time you level up you do not gain another spec point...or at least the counter stays at Available: 0.
Everything else both ground and space seem to function properly but dear god option to shut off eat my dust asap or I need a supply of barf bags to play this game. (making the visual only play upon reaching full stacks would also be acceptable, as it is right now it literally SPAMS it non stop)
Flanking does exist in space as well. On raiders. Therefore adding the description ground/space is a good idea.
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!
Eat my Dust animation could probably stand to be toned down a little bit (20%?). It's kind of disorienting sometimes.
Yeah I think it's a conflict with Eat my Dust. Mobius Temporal Destroyer in Sakari System patrol. These are my specialization investments:
https://i.imgur.com/ZUw8vWH.jpg
Eat my Dust overrides some other effects like hull material/shader changes when abilities like Aux to Structural or Polarize Hull are active. The 'ghostly ship duplicate' meshes that phase off to the right and left of your ship as it weaves around won't have the same hull effects active.
Also I believe that if you're on the receiving end of a beam-type.. thing.. such as a teammate applying Hazard Emiiters to your ship, the HE beam will be aiming at the 'root' of your ship instead of where the actual ship mesh is during an Eat my Dust weave animation.
Joined January 2009
So perhaps a second option is in order - once you're at lvl 60, once per day, he'll give you a level's worth of skill points anyway. That way we can continue to gain specialization points at a semi-fast rate
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
Edit: As far as flanking reduction it's really not viable in its current form but could see it if something along lines of my proposal would be used. As far as space though being our raiders are so limited on damage and only have 5 second duration for cloak ambush there is no reason for that. As far as for ground its not really needed there because you have so many traits already for ground that reduce flanking damage and defeats the purpose of using tactics to add more on top of that.
The tooltip states that it should add 10% shield capacity but my shield capacity does not change when I have the Commando secondary specialization activated.
My shield is an [Omega Force Reflex-Enhancing Shield Mk XIV] and the capacity stays at 513 whether I have Commando or Pilot active.
-edit- I take that back. Something goofy is happening with the UI display.
When I don't have Commando active, the numbers next to my character portrait are "513/513" as are the numbers on my Status screen under the "Stats" section "Shields: 513/513" and the Tooltip as well if I hover over the shield "513.8 Maximum Shield Capacity."
When I then activate Commando, the Portrait numbers remain 513/513 and the Status screen remains 513/513 but the hover Tooltip properly updates to "560.5 Maximum Shield Capacity." I have to unequip and re-equip the shield in order for the Portrait numbers and the Status screen to properly update to 560/560.
"Juggernaut Shielding II" has the same issue if you toggle Command on/off as well.
Its counterpart, "Juggernaut Armor Plating I & II" doesn't seem to have this display issue. Health display updates immediately.
I'm not sure if this is intended but "Braced Crouch" seems to stack with itself when out of combat. i.e. while crouched in combat I get +14.2 hitpoints, but while out of combat I get +14.2 hitpoints +28.4 hitpoints at the same time for a total of +42.6 hitpoints per second
Joined January 2009
I agree with this. Even the reputation band-aid (AKA sponsorships) isn't all that useful, and crafting is similarly messed up. Granted, you only need crafting on one character, but...
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
I have 8 point available - and yes, I select the one I want to have - but the "accept" button remains greyed out.
This happens in all three "branches": intelligence officer, commando and pilot.
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=19432191&postcount=9
That should fix the problem. Please post in the Bug Forum if it does not.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
I'll delete and re-copy the character, since I can't respec on Tribble.
It's a little annoying, but if that's what it takes to be able to test the new system, then so be it.
Thanks again for the help!
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
It might not be as big a deal for everyone, but as a cannon armed player, I want know where my nose is pointing at all times. While the effect is active the nose of the ship swings back and fourth but the forward firing arc remains the same (presumably).
That and it was starting to make me sick...
Could we have an an option to turn the animation off? As it stands now the only way to stop the effect is to stop using pilot all together.
+1
I'm not the weakest constitutioned person I know - and yet Eat My Dust was definitely triggering an aura of motion sickness and nausea after only a couple of missions.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the fun of the animation - but the scale of it, especially because it's designed to proc so often (I mean, up to once every two seconds? Yeeep.).
I'd also add that the groovy screen warped frame from 'Mindscape' adds to the disorientation.
...which adds up to a shame. I really like the animation, and the power; but as-is, I'm going to have to skip this power on Launch.
I might also add that the serious PITA were to be if I'd found this out after Launch, and was unable to retrait out of Eat My Dust without wholly disabling the Pilot tree.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
Thanks for the headsup.
Like I said - the animation is super-funzies. If it were activatable - or maybe only triggered to denote that the full proc stack had been attained?
I love how it looks right now.
Just to make clear this thread is for testing feedback only. If you have not tested the feature, please do not post here.
Please do feel free to post any non-test-related feedback into a new or existing thread in an appropriate forum category.
Also, speculative posts about future specialization abilities really belong in a new thread somewhere else. I've moved a couple of these posts to an existing thread here: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1229341
As always, thanks for your feedback!
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Please don't remove the effect! I think its perfect the way it is right now. I find it much more immersive to see my ship actually taking evasive action when its getting shot.
i agree! the effect is awesome as it is.