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TOS transporter effect in 25th Century
phenomenaut01
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Sorry if this has been reported already, I didn't see it in my, admittedly limited search.
But my TOS captain - after completing the 23rd Century campaign and being removed to the 25th century is still using the TOS "beam" in and out effects instead of the "modern" transporter effect.
I noticed this beaming from Starfleet Academy to ESD, it happens before and after the loading screen, but it appears to happen every time you beam somewhere as well.
But my TOS captain - after completing the 23rd Century campaign and being removed to the 25th century is still using the TOS "beam" in and out effects instead of the "modern" transporter effect.
I noticed this beaming from Starfleet Academy to ESD, it happens before and after the loading screen, but it appears to happen every time you beam somewhere as well.
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My character Tsin'xing
Besides, it's a reminder your character is a Temporal Agent, rather than just another character.
really? Wasn't aware of that. Though, are you certain of this? I seem to recall them changing out the effects on Romulans and Klingons in the past when they were using the incorrect effects, but I could very well be misremembering.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure markhawkman is right and its working as intended. Having a different set of animations for each faction is an easy way to help set them apart, add unique flavor, and is apparently hardwired into characters of that faction. Which is probably why my KDF diplomacy boff beams out red, my embassy romulan boff beams out green and my captain beams out blue... all to the same ship.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9763293-star-trek-online:-release-notes:-january-28th,-2016
So I'm not certain that it is in fact hardwired to a characters specific faction, as this patch note seems to suggest that it can be set for specific maps.
It's not a huge problem of course, but it seems that if they're now pushing for some semblance of era specificity on the look and feel of things, this would be one of those things that they would want to correct when they have time.
For example, I beam up to somewhere - loading screen comes up, then switches to me loading into the new map for a few seconds, then another brief loading screen comes up, though I can hear the audio from the map and the beam in sound effects as well.
Just curious if that's a common bug or not. If not, I'll post up in the bug forums (since I can't seem to send a bug report in game at the moment).
Thanks for any feedback.
Oh I think it's a great effect, but I don't think the Devs intended for it to stick around after we leave 2270, thus it's a bug.
I'm in the camp that would love to have customizable effects like that too, but that's a another topic for another time.
Its not a problem at all and again, as stated above, is definitely working as intended. Regardless as to whether it is hardwired or not, the effect was meant to distinguish TOS starfleet as a new faction. There was even a quote from the devs a while ago about how much work they had put into the new faction's new set of animations when someone asked on reddit or twitter (I can't remember where) whether the new faction had them. And TBH "era specificity" went out the window from the start with the fact that 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 29th, and soon to be 31st century ships are all sitting around together above ESD. Not to mention the apparently exceedingly lax starfleet uniform code of the 2410s which can range from 200 year old uniforms to uniforms that haven't been invented yet
EDIT: And as one final thought, also remember that type of ship dosen't really matter with transporter type. A Rom in a T1-T4 fed ship still beams up green as they would in a T1-T4 KDF ship. As stated above my main Fed beams their party up in three colors at once and thats not even mentioning how a couple alien races use federation transporters despite having their own type of tech. So even if we end up using a 25th century ship there is a long in-game precedent for our transporter beam to still be the TOS style. Either way, I guess we will find out in July.
Unless I hear it from official sources, I never assume that something is definitely working as intended.
1). Romulans do not suddenly change to their Allies transporter FX when they join that faction nor if they use an Ally style ship instead of a Warbird, same for 'non-aligned' ships like the bug.
2). Any non-faction BOFFS you have use their own FX, most noticable for Romulan Captains this but can be seen if you max out the Diplomacy Tree and get the 'enemy' faction Boff.
3). This is a bit picky but the link to the release notes above indicats that they were correcting the FX for Romulan Captains in one specific instance to the one that should be in use. That supports that each creatable selection - Fed, KDF, Rom and no TOS - of characters has a specific effect that they should have.
I don't see that TOS characters use the Gold transporter effect as a problem or a bug for the above reasons, even if it means your ship has one really colour conscious transporter to apply the right version to everyone - which is to me a lot more of a bug that they don't all no matter what race use the FX for their aligned faction.
Until launch or a Dev wanders in here and says either way, we won't know.
Alright, you got me there.
Fun fact: Fed Kobali boffs at least used to use a KDF transporter.
As for the extra loading screen... not sure, but there's a similar bug in Champions where sometimes opening the map transfer window will cause a loading screen to appear BEFORE you transfer...
My character Tsin'xing
Yep, I've gotten that too. Everytime I am playing on tribble.
I get it on Holodeck, too. Especially when beaming in to ESD or the First City. Kind of annoying.
As for the thread topic, I'm quite sure that the TOS transporter effect is intended. And I frankly would have been pissed if it wasn't included, because this barely-even-a-fraction already has very little to distinguish it. I hope the TOS transporter never goes away.
"Back on topic. Destinii is correct."
(Formerly Destinii until the 'Great PWE Forum Shakeup of 2012')
I just thought of something... We actually DID get to see something that might have been a Vorgon transporter in TNG.. hmm...
My character Tsin'xing
Transporter effects selectable in the tailor would be awesome indeed ... especially if I could get a TNG transporter effect for one of my toons (was there ever an in-universe explanation for why Voyager had a different transporter effect than all other ships from that era?)
Not really. Different ship design I guess. Bio-neural gel packs were fairly new tech then too.
But yeah, it'd be nice to have it customizable, or at least tied to ship, but that's a pretty unlikely thing.
It is, but being able to choose between the TOS, Movies, TNG, Voyager any maybe one day the JJTrek effects would be cool. (Come to think of it, isn't the materialization of our engineering equipment like turrets and drones already the JJEffect?)
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