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Please use this thread to post feedback and issues found for Painful Omens.
New Episode: Painful Omens
New Episode: Painful Omens
- Space station K-13 has suddenly ceased all contact with Starfleet, and it’s your job to find out why.
- This episode follows events after the end of the Original Series episode “Operation – Annihilate!”
- This mission can only be played with a TOS captain.
- For more details, please visit the Painful Omens blog at: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9974103-star-trek-online:-painful-omens
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General bugs
Defeated NPCs soemtimes went into aim mode and walked for a few steps before going through their defeat animation. Not sure if this is a bug or WAI considering the parasites.
"Future Fates" section:
POTENTIAL SHOWSTOPPER: After completing the mission, I departed the sector using the popup only to find that the mission log had reset back to "Future Fates" once I was in sector space. I went back into the mission and had to redo the "Future Fates" portion of the mission. This time, instead of departing prior to speaking with the Admiral, I spoke with him while still on the map and was able to get my rewards. Clicking on the "Depart System" box which appeared after doing this just brought up a blank dialogue window of Daniels; I had to click the "Depart system| button in my corner UI in order to actually exit the mission map.
game crash on map change and can repatch to New Dawn
Graphics in space seem fuzzy as does Daniels close up on station
Scotty walks off transporter while still in materialization process
The biggest problem is the cut scenes.
They take too long to run and I missed seeing most of my accomplishments.
They also tend to pop in space just when I'm closest to the enemy ships and I end up taking damage I can't defend against.
I also lost the sound half way through the mission, but I'm not sure if that's a BUG on Your end or mine.
I had to log out of the game to get the sound back.
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
Let us upgrade the Seleya Ceremonial Lirpa and Kri'stak Blade
1) Close up of Daniels' face is fuzzy, ala the 'soft lens' used on female character closeups in the TOS series. Doesnt work for the men. IIRC, similar effects were used for Spock and someone else in the earlier missions (but now appears to be a trend).
2) Possessed Starfleet officers, once 'stunned', still take a few more steps after losing all their health - is that deliberate?
3) I was in battle when T'Met's suggestion to scan the things popped up - which immediately disappeared. I knew to look for the extra button (normally hidden behind an open INV) but a new player to STO might not know that - perhaps make it pop more centrally whenever the player is near T'Met given it is essential to progress?
4) It makes no sense that (Scotty?) immediately recognises temporal shielding, and immediately knows how to bust it. Perhaps a "not sure what kind of shielding they're using, but this works against other kinds of shield, so I'll give it a go" type of dialogue would be better?
5) end of battle cutscene, once the Nakuhl ship is defeated, needs some fine tuning.
6) end of station cutscene needs improvement - originally looking at some other part of the planet which pans to the station and the portal, but the station is obscured so cant really see 'the effect'.
7) Scotty runs off the transporter pad still beaming (cool effect btw, like it!
8) Only three survivors from the Station?!?!
9) It seemed unnecessary for the Ptolemy to be destroyed for the story to progress - why not just knocked out as we knocked out the ships at the start of the mission?
10) I also saw a blank Daniels text box open just before my ship warped out (but didnt crash like the others above).
11) Important - When turning the mission in and claiming T'Met, I actually receive a BOFF named T'Vrell. Sound familiar?? I think this should be fixed.
P.S. have I mentioned lately that the Pioneer class is SEXY AS HELL recently?
Scott:
"I'll just lock the door so none of em get in while we dicuss our next course of action"
spelling: discuss/dicuss
our next course of action sounds awkward but it works.
We are all familiar with Mr. Scott or Mr. Spock but 9 out of ten times it's Kirk addressing them. Scotty is a Lt. Cmdr to the player's Lt. and we shouldn't be addressing him as Mister. It would be cool if he called the character Mr. (Last name here regardless of gender). We could call him by rank or sir, Chief or throw formality out the window and tell you to call him Scotty.
Daniels:
After defeating the Nak'hul in the command center I was prompted to speak to Barrett. Daniel's assumed identity was Hunter.
T'Met
She reveals that tachyon emissions were detected and the station had been subjected to a temporal incursion in the last few hours. The Federation has time travel in 2268 (Assignment Earth) but an ensign hanging around sick bay shouldn't be this well informed. A generic space station of the time period seems unlikely to have detection equipment intended for this purpose. It's likely they could detect abnormal concentrations of tachyon particles so why not keep the exposition vague and more plausible. Having played the content in full to this point II arrived at, "Here come the Na'kuhl", instantly. Foreshadow the incursion but don't outright say it.
I hope this doesn't come off as too critical. I really like what you have done here.
Also on the ground section of the all the missions I get some v-sync tearing. Its fairly random but usually happens whilt moving about ofc.
My character Tsin'xing
On a more important note, when you receive T'met as a boff her name is T'vrell and she as no commander level Ground skill.
Totally goofy: How Scotty on beaming up from the station to your ship runs over to the Transporter console as he is materializing.
Overall I really liked this mission. It sure brought back memories of the TV show.
Cheers!
edit: Old brain added points that belong to a different mission.
During the evacuation cutscene, Mr. Scott moves towards the transporter console while the transport effect was still in progress
Space cutscenes seemed jumpy. IE Scotty says there is something we can do then the na'khoul ship is moved to right in the beams from no where. Then when you destroy it, it is back in the beams.
Otherwise very well done and enjoyed.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
However during the cutscene where the nakul ship gets hit with the beams from the station, the contact point was well behind the ship...
also the cutscene where the station goes into the rift, all I see is the camera going around the rift.... never saw the station in the cutscene...
On system exit, I go through the Daniels communications, but as i'm getting the dialog to agree to exit, it started the communications with Daniels all over from the beginning.
Also, the escort didn't show an escort skin during the space fight, just the utility cruiser skin... place holder maybe?
Federation 12th Cavalry
Deep Space 19/USS Montana
"You seem to have gotten some of your blood in my raktajino. This is unfortunate."
Also, after you first rescue Scotty he says his next two statements at the same time, where he says "remember, the parasites like the dark, wee devils that they are", and the first relay: "That one was easy. just a few more to go." both overlapping/starting at the same time on the audio or his speaking those two lines. Also when you first enter the room with Scotty he isn't saying exactly what is shown in the box.
EDIT: New development--T'Met apparently has gone insane, and is continuously running into a wall.
People standing still after you defeat them, people walking back to their spawn points and then falling down after you defeat them. No Nak'hul visible in the window while the cut scene with the base commander is showing, despite being visible before and after the cut scene. Hunter and T'met running into a corner and staying there, either individually or together.
That's about all I remember.
> I got many things.
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> People standing still after you defeat them, people walking back to their spawn points and then falling down after you defeat them. No Nak'hul visible in the window while the cut scene with the base commander is showing, despite being visible before and after the cut scene. Hunter and T'met running into a corner and staying there, either individually or together.
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> That's about all I remember.
Same problems here.