How have things changed ?

earwigvr6

It's been over a year since I played the game.

Think I stopped when the new expansion was announced and it looked like I had to create a new character for the old fashioned star trek, which I had zero interest in.

I was also tired at the lack of content in the game, with only 2-3 Q's able to pop and everything else you would sit for 20 mins or more waiting for the Q to fill so you could play.

I also played in the time when a Scimitar fitted with some red beams (Can't even remember the name) and some Kemo would result in just tapping space to fire all weapons and winning everything....

I have to admit, I do miss the game, but am wondering how things have changed since those times ? How far have things moved on content wise ? Do I need to effectively start again with a new character ? Is my Romulan null and void now ?

peterconnorfirst

The terran beam bank is still the best beam bank in game.

You’ll find a few more story missions (for all factions), new fleet holding and new reputation. There has also been a slight meta shift of current builds toward +threat setups utilizing last anniversaries ship trait. Your Romulan toon should do fine.

sunfrancks

Aside from the power creep getting worse and the actual featured missions themselves, we're still getting the same copy pasted content in releases.

So it is good in one way for old player being able to get right back in with a familiar feel, it is bad in the sense that the game sometimes feels stagnant and not really going anywhere..

peterconnorfirst

reyan01 wrote: »

The Crystaline Catastrophy Advanced PVE is even worse and rarely lasts more than 30 seconds.

Right! Darn those torpedo and sci heavy builds.

earwigvr6

No real reasons to come back then from what I can see..... Just same old, same old ? :-(

That is sadening as I was hoping a good length of time away would give the game time to change and evolve.

What was the deal with the new (old) content ? Did you indeed need to create a whole new toon in order to play it ?

The other thing I remember hating about the game was the fact that when new things were added to the game it was nothing more than a refresh of old story missions to bring them up to date. So basically nothing new at all. All the ESD change and so on.... A total waste of time when new content could have been added instead.

Oh and one other thing..... How's the lag and rubber banding these days ?

qjunior

earwigvr6 wrote: »

No real reasons to come back then from what I can see..... Just same old, same old ? :-(

That is sadening as I was hoping a good length of time away would give the game time to change and evolve.

What was the deal with the new (old) content ? Did you indeed need to create a whole new toon in order to play it ?

The other thing I remember hating about the game was the fact that when new things were added to the game it was nothing more than a refresh of old story missions to bring them up to date. So basically nothing new at all. All the ESD change and so on.... A total waste of time when new content could have been added instead.

Oh and one other thing..... How's the lag and rubber banding these days ?

Creating a TOS character basically gave you a few missions until you joined the main Feds, and some unique visuals for beaming and stuff. Except for the TOS starter ship, the TOS ships work for all Fed characters anyway.

warpangel

earwigvr6 wrote: »

It's been over a year since I played the game.

Think I stopped when the new expansion was announced and it looked like I had to create a new character for the old fashioned star trek, which I had zero interest in.

You don't have to create a new character for it, but you can. A free slot was provided. There are only 6 exclusive TOS missions and then it continues exactly the same as a normal Fed character. All the TOS ships and stuff can be bought by a normal Fed character. Your existing characters won't lose out on anything if you choose to ignore it.

I was also tired at the lack of content in the game, with only 2-3 Q's able to pop and everything else you would sit for 20 mins or more waiting for the Q to fill so you could play.

That still happens.

I also played in the time when a Scimitar fitted with some red beams (Can't even remember the name) and some Kemo would result in just tapping space to fire all weapons and winning everything....

You can do that with pretty much any ship now.

I have to admit, I do miss the game, but am wondering how things have changed since those times ? How far have things moved on content wise ? Do I need to effectively start again with a new character ? Is my Romulan null and void now ?

You don't have to start over, you'll just have some new reps and specializations to check out. And romulans are still the most OP, even though the Feddies get even more exclusive toys these days.

There's more content of course. Two time travel-focused story arcs finished and a new arc introducing new aliens started so there's plenty to play, a lot of the missions have 3+ unique rewards to earn on reruns. And there's of course queues and such for the new reputations.

Good time to come back, there's a new season release today. Those new queues and battlezone will at least be populated for a while.

trennan

Well since the powercreep has already been covered. The main thing to do, if you come back, is to do the missions. I wouldn't pay any attention to the story line from delta on. Just repeat the ones you want the gear from.

As far as content, even though they're done under encounter restrictions and such. The foundry missions are far better content than anything Cryptic has put out. Well as long as you dodge the accolade farming ones.

As far as the queues go, if it isn't a super easy, super fast space one. Don't expect it to pop. All the marks can be farmed outside of them. So there is no real need to do them any more. Even if you do jump in to queues. don't expect them to be hard, even the elites. That's why the original Borg Elites were removed, they were to hard for the DPSer's to get through. People will say it was because they were buggy. But all the queues have always been buggy, so this excuse doesn't work.