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Tales of the war 20/Leeta has future weapons!
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http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9526953-star-trek-online:-tales-of-the-war-#20
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9527023-star-trek-online:-counterpoint
Wow, it'd be cool to see this (TotW #20) reflected in the New Romulus adventure zone. Too bad it almost certainly won't happen. (And if you're not going to change the adventure zone, why set a Tales of the War on New Romulus?)
And the MU Empire has weapons from the future. I'm curious how that happened. (And how our war's going to end, probably off screen.) I almost wrote Leela. It'd be a cool Easter egg to have the Planet Express ship occasionally show up and start blasting away in the mission.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9527023-star-trek-online:-counterpoint
Wow, it'd be cool to see this (TotW #20) reflected in the New Romulus adventure zone. Too bad it almost certainly won't happen. (And if you're not going to change the adventure zone, why set a Tales of the War on New Romulus?)
And the MU Empire has weapons from the future. I'm curious how that happened. (And how our war's going to end, probably off screen.) I almost wrote Leela. It'd be a cool Easter egg to have the Planet Express ship occasionally show up and start blasting away in the mission.
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We'll probably learn more about it in Season 11.
Or maybe it's just hybris. Terran Empire people are not all that smart.
Must be the temporal disruption device. <makes a note to stop testing various sets and return to the big boom setup>
According to Leeta, weaponry from the future. No word on who gave them the weaponry. I guess that now that they've won, she can send the schematics back to herself.
(Yes I know its the Romulan theme but the used it for the Terran Empire too.)
Makes sense they wouldn't have that seeing as they would all probably like to luck out like Mirror Hoshi Sato and get a ship from the future that lets them conquer the empire.
The fact the Terran Empire is now armed with future weapons should mean MU ships should became endgame now.
I don't expect an update to existing ones btw but a T6 Mirror Pack would make sense now.
I don't expect it either though. They don't care about doing meaningful design choices. Prove me wrong Cryptic. Please.
A revamp to the New Romulus adventure zone (the best map ingame imho) would be much welcomed.
About time to return kicking Tal Shiar and Tholian asses with my rom toon.
But again I lost all hope. No expectations no delusions. I take what I get.
So... super-powerful Terrans and not just Terrans. Great.
I was kind of looking forward to an arc where we were, you know, fighting someone we should realistically have a shot at winning against. But I guess we can't have that because OMG! the borg were the greatest threat ever! Until the undine were the greatest threat ever! Until the voth were the greatest threat ever! Until the Vaadwaur were the greatest threat ever! Until the Iconians were the greatest threat ever! Now the Terran Empire with it's new weapons can be the greatest threat ever!
Getting into the ever escalating threat bull**** is poor writing. It's a terrible trope (or two) and one this game has gotten mired in. I really, really wish they'd stop.
How about instead of Cryptic super-powering up the enemies, like the Vaadwaur and now the Terrans, trying to turn them into threats of a scale they have no business being they just, you know, give us a threat that's a match for us instead of one where OMG! we have no hope of defeating such awesome power... you know, until we find the inevitable deus ex machina since we know we can't lose, and they've effectively scaled the enemy beyond us to a point where we can't conventionally fight it.
Constantly trying to "out do" the last enemy never leads anywhere good, and ruins long running media. It's not like after Charlie X or Encounter at Farpoint that all of Kirk and Picard's enemies had to be an escalation from Mr. Evans or Q...
Lets be honest...just like questerius asked...how is the terran empire going to beat the iconians when they can't even beat us...and we're getting spanked by the iconians?
Super awesome mega cool can only last for so long.
Are we going to have to chase around the internet now to stay abreast of Official Notices??
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Literally the exact same way the Vaadwaur became a threat despite their technology being 1,000 years out of date... our real enemy (the sphere builders, natch) just came along and handed them super weapons. And of course when we're done with the Vaad... uh, Terrans we'll have to fight the real threat, the Iconi... uh, Sphere Builders.
*sigh*
Hey, maybe we'll get to visit more Dyson spheres because, you know... who doesn't want more hot Dyson sphere action!?
Uh... Alliance MegaAdmiral, where we're an Admiral in the KDF, UFP and the RR? Then... Alliance FLEET MegaAdmiral!
"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
But the Sphere Builders aren't more technologically advanced than the federation, the whole reason they went with the time travel retgone scheme was that the federation kicked their asses when the Sphere Builders tried to invade.
Surely I'm not the only one?
They show up as entries in the RSS feed. The links are borked, because the ARC team doesn't care, but they are an indication that something's up on the game web site.
Unless one doesn't use the launcher.
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
I think that it's more that they don't care about the few of us who still use RSS, or they don't know how to fix it.
Not true as it stands.
The Sphere Builders were repelled and forced back into their dimension in the 26th Century (sometime between 2501 and 2600) by a larger Federation with more member worlds which we don't have yet, using advanced technology we don't have yet.
It's currently 2410. We're at minimum 91 years behind the point where the Sphere Builders are repelled, and possibly 190. That's around one-to-two centuries of advances we're lacking.
Keep in mind, Shon is flying the Enterprise 1701-F, the Builders were repelled by the 1701-J... that means there still has to be an Enterprise-G, an Enterprise-H, and an Enterprise-I before we even reach the J. Assuming that Starfleet is refitting between major advances instead of just tossing out new Enterprises for ****s and giggles that means the galaxy is still several major technological leaps behind where it was when it faced the Builders.
My character Tsin'xing
I find this to be a very interesting plot twist. And while I know it's not a popular standpoint on these forums, I must say that the story is steadily improving. If it weren't for the all-powerful endgame enemy bit, I might actually like it.
RSS = Really Simple Syndication.
If you go to the STO news page, on the right hand side, there's an orange "Subscribe" button. That links to the page's RSS feed. A RSS reader will notify you when a page with a RSS feed updates, so you don't have to keep it loaded in a browser.