Looking at the date, i fear this is some sick joke from Cryptic/PWE...
Quote from blog : "But fear notweve heard your requests, and were here to fulfill them. Starting today, we will all start anew, together."
If this a a joke, this blog is a BIG insult to every one who ever played PVP and tried to make it better (Bootcamp, tournements, the "PVP Leaderbords",...)
If this turns out to be true after all... damn... PVP will rise from the ashes !
Looking at the date, i fear this is some sick joke from Cryptic/PWE...
Quote from blog : "But fear notweve heard your requests, and were here to fulfill them. Starting today, we will all start anew, together."
If this a a joke, this blog is a BIG insult to every one who ever played PVP and tried to make it better (Bootcamp, tournements, the "PVP Leaderbords",...)
If this turns out to be true after all... damn... PVP will rise from the ashes !
I have no illusions about this being real. It's supposed to be a joke from Cryptic and all the PvE'ers will laugh.
And as far as insults to the PvP community goes, it's rather mild compared to what they did to the game.
I suspect they will unlock a very old game build on Redshirt for a while and then remove it... if anything happens at all. But yeah feels more like an insult than a stupid april fools joke.
Looking at the date, i fear this is some sick joke from Cryptic/PWE...
Quote from blog : "But fear notweve heard your requests, and were here to fulfill them. Starting today, we will all start anew, together."
If this a a joke, this blog is a BIG insult to every one who ever played PVP and tried to make it better (Bootcamp, tournements, the "PVP Leaderbords",...)
If this turns out to be true after all... damn... PVP will rise from the ashes !
can't ask much from some people who got a game already made by others who left and only milked it.
its kinda funny, everyone else would cringes at the return of launch sto, but it would allow for a vastly improved, 0 bar of entry pvp experience. so, please actually do it cryptic? launch pvp wasn't perfect, but it cant be worse then what its become.
If this a a joke, this blog is a BIG insult to every one who ever played PVP and tried to make it better (Bootcamp, tournements, the "PVP Leaderbords",...)
If this turns out to be true after all... damn... PVP will rise from the ashes !
If STO:Rebirth happened, I'd return.
Sure, nobody ever requested a return to a launch build. Even the staunchest defenders of the good old times usually don't go back beyond wishing for S1.2, but oh well, beggars can't be choosers.
Too bad that this is an April Fools thing and that nobody at Cryptic will understand that there are people who genuinely feel that even the launch build is better than what we have today.
EDIT: They are really unlocking a Redshirt? Well, time for patching. Let's see what this is.
umm, its literally on redshirt apparently. who wants to try to get a kdf to 40? should be fun! think of all those near useless pvp marks you would accumulate along the way!
its kinda funny, everyone else would cringes at the return of launch sto, but it would allow for a vastly improved, 0 bar of entry pvp experience. so, please actually do it cryptic? launch pvp wasn't perfect, but it cant be worse then what its become.
BAsically what would happen is 95% of the playerbase leaves and the 5% come back for the pvp. Then the game shuts down because nobody else like it at launch other than the pvp crowd.
Dammit i can't get this to work. It patches for roughly 210 mb and when it's finished i get some formatting error. The "Beta" folder is nearly empty, no *.exe, no nothing.
If this turns out to be no fake: I totaly wish it will last for a while and be a big success. Hell, I'd return to STO - best expansion ever, and the players love it!
I'd like to see a shard with the original build on, kind of like what ********* (remember that?) did with "********* classic" when they brought out their massive engine upgrade years and years ago.
It'd be a curio for peeps who weren't around as well as giving you "uberl33t pvp" types a playground for nostalgia
EDIT
Oh, and it seems that a certain game with the initials "RS" is verboten on this forum. Damn.
Apparently it is real. It is up on redshirt. It just isn't permanent and it isn't stable. Hopefully they will see the positive responses and make it permanent. PvP in sto has too much grind and too many broken things.
If this is for real, then consider you Lore guys, QEW, TSI era skysni types challenged
Old school initial release pvp hax!
Devs said they will probably take it down tomorrow. So it is real but it isn't permanent. The specific quote was.
"As for how long this will remain active, I'm unsure. We don't know how stable it will be, as it's not a proper build. I imagine it'll be up until tomorrow morning, but I can't make any guesses past that timeframe. " - ZeroniusRex
There is the link to what she said, but ya I am not happy about it too. Who knows I bet they didn't expect that many people to like the idea. I also doubt it would take that much to keep it going. I doubt they would though.
On a side not what does it say about Cryptic that a lot of people want to play sto from before Cryptic had it?
There is the link to what she said, but ya I am not happy about it too. Who knows I bet they didn't expect that many people to like the idea. I also doubt it would take that much to keep it going. I doubt they would though.
On a side not what does it say about Cryptic that a lot of people want to play sto from before Cryptic had it?
As far as I know, cryptic took over STO from perpetual well before it went live. I mean way way before, like from the "still in the planning stage with some tech demos" stage.
As far as I know, cryptic took over STO from perpetual well before it went live. I mean way way before, like from the "still in the planning stage with some tech demos" stage.
I might be wrong in my history of STO. I wasn't around back then, but the point stands that people still want to play it before what is going on now. So cryptic while they have added some good things have added grind and cheese to exceed it.
I might be wrong in my history of STO. I wasn't around back then, but the point stands that people still want to play it before what is going on now. So cryptic while they have added some good things have added grind and cheese to exceed it.
Oh indeed yes I agree. It reminds me (as I pointed out earlier) that it is almost exactly what Jagex (the developers of a certain MMO with the initials "RS") did when they made a massive update (i.e. full backend engine transplant and content rebuild).
Oh indeed yes I agree. It reminds me (as I pointed out earlier) that it is almost exactly what Jagex (the developers of a certain MMO with the initials "RS") did when they made a massive update (i.e. full backend engine transplant and content rebuild).
Really PvP has in sto has four types of problemsm. Mostly they are all bugs, balance, cheese, or grind. In an environment where new content is either not being added or added at extremly slow rates it is easier to fix all four of those types of problems. Only things i would like to see added are STFs and not even the stf gear.
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Quote from blog : "But fear notweve heard your requests, and were here to fulfill them. Starting today, we will all start anew, together."
If this a a joke, this blog is a BIG insult to every one who ever played PVP and tried to make it better (Bootcamp, tournements, the "PVP Leaderbords",...)
If this turns out to be true after all... damn... PVP will rise from the ashes !
I have no illusions about this being real. It's supposed to be a joke from Cryptic and all the PvE'ers will laugh.
And as far as insults to the PvP community goes, it's rather mild compared to what they did to the game.
can't ask much from some people who got a game already made by others who left and only milked it.
Qapla! ^^
Poor soul didnt have time to log out.
Sure, nobody ever requested a return to a launch build. Even the staunchest defenders of the good old times usually don't go back beyond wishing for S1.2, but oh well, beggars can't be choosers.
Too bad that this is an April Fools thing and that nobody at Cryptic will understand that there are people who genuinely feel that even the launch build is better than what we have today.
EDIT: They are really unlocking a Redshirt? Well, time for patching. Let's see what this is.
BAsically what would happen is 95% of the playerbase leaves and the 5% come back for the pvp. Then the game shuts down because nobody else like it at launch other than the pvp crowd.
Start up the launcher like normal.
At the top click on Options.
Scroll down to the command line at the bottom.
Add:
-patchserver patchserverrebirth.crypticstudios.com
Then patch Redshirt.
Remove -patchserver patchserverrebirth.crypticstudios.com from the command line to patch Holodeck tomorrow.
It'd be a curio for peeps who weren't around as well as giving you "uberl33t pvp" types a playground for nostalgia
EDIT
Oh, and it seems that a certain game with the initials "RS" is verboten on this forum. Damn.
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Old school initial release pvp hax!
Devs said they will probably take it down tomorrow. So it is real but it isn't permanent. The specific quote was.
"As for how long this will remain active, I'm unsure. We don't know how stable it will be, as it's not a proper build. I imagine it'll be up until tomorrow morning, but I can't make any guesses past that timeframe. " - ZeroniusRex
If that's true I'm gonna be supper bosted mad. :mad:
Would be way more authentic.
http://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/3147wz/star_trek_online_rebirth_is_the_real_dealios_guys/cpyd3i0
There is the link to what she said, but ya I am not happy about it too. Who knows I bet they didn't expect that many people to like the idea. I also doubt it would take that much to keep it going. I doubt they would though.
On a side not what does it say about Cryptic that a lot of people want to play sto from before Cryptic had it?
As far as I know, cryptic took over STO from perpetual well before it went live. I mean way way before, like from the "still in the planning stage with some tech demos" stage.
I might be wrong in my history of STO. I wasn't around back then, but the point stands that people still want to play it before what is going on now. So cryptic while they have added some good things have added grind and cheese to exceed it.
Oh indeed yes I agree. It reminds me (as I pointed out earlier) that it is almost exactly what Jagex (the developers of a certain MMO with the initials "RS") did when they made a massive update (i.e. full backend engine transplant and content rebuild).
Really PvP has in sto has four types of problemsm. Mostly they are all bugs, balance, cheese, or grind. In an environment where new content is either not being added or added at extremly slow rates it is easier to fix all four of those types of problems. Only things i would like to see added are STFs and not even the stf gear.