Aside from being a welcome return to prominence for STO's resident reptilian antagonists, it looks like the "KDF / Rom sci ships don't sell" premise has been well and truly dropped. I'm just slightly regretting deleting my Gorn alt 18 months ago as I honestly thought they'd never do a T6 Gorn ship - and now there's a 3-pack. Oh well. One for the next recruitment event, I suppose!
Also - the Rom ships are just gorgeous, loving the Vulcan influence. Almost enough to get me rolling a Rom alt...
Sadly, the most exciting part for me would be Klingons and Romulans finally having a decent supply of Sciship cards for Admiralty. Not really hyped about the ships. Now if Cryptic could sell the Admiralty cards separately...
Fantastic! These are spacefaring vehicles of a particular sort which I find most appealing. I shall enjoy very much the flying of these fine vessels across both space and time. Hurrah!
I love how the story of the Gorn secretly offering one of their older ships to the Lukari seemed like a two-way deal. With all of the technical help with ship design from the three Factions, I could see the Gorn being able to use some of that information for making a new ship of their own.
I was thinking when people were hoping for T6 Vestas, I was hoping they'd make T6 Gorn (considering they werescience-based) ships too.
By the Great Bird of the Galaxy... those... those are... Gorn! Gorn ships!
You listened! You actually listened! Oh my great giddy god this is amazing. I don't know if it was one of my posts, statistically incredibly unlikely, but Gorn Vestas is something I've been tossing about off and on for a long time and to actually see it happen is something special.
Be honest - does this mean there's hope for a new Orion ship in the future? I've got a toon who really really needs her an Orion barge of some sort with a hangar. I'll take anything at this point (but Sci/Tac or Sci/Eng would be ideal pls <_<).
I feel like the money I dropped on the previous science 3-pack was well spent now. Justified, even. Now I just have to do some budgeting to see if I can swing the nine-pack and further reward these good decisions on y'all's part... especially if it'll get me that Orion ship down the line...
Seriously, first the Nebula bundle, then the TOS Lockbox ships, now this... you guys are knocking this out of the park as far as my personal tastes are concerned.
Will the skins or consoles from the T5 Vestas be available on the T6?
I would like to know this as well. I'm definitely in for those Gorn ships, but I'm not feeling the look of the new Vestas. Idk, maybe I need more angles or maybe it's just the material, but right now I can pass on them. Will they be able to use the T5 skins without owning the old T5 ones?
I realize that other ships require owning other variants in order to use the costume, but it's not the case with all ships. A long time ago I remember being told that you didn't have to own the Avenger if you wanted to use it on the Arbiter. I didn't like the Arbiter skin and that reason was enough to get me to spend the zen. I think I'll pass on the Fed pack if I have to spend an extra 5k zen to use the old costumes.
i can see my T5U vesta hitting the drydocks very soon..... only to be replace by T6 Vesta finally.
my Rom Sci captain is now happy, she getting more sci ship to fly instead of tac ship. Thanks Cryptic
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I have a fair amount of zen saved away and was waiting patiently for T6 variants of the ships as soon as the season artwork popped up, beforehand I almost caved and bought the T5 Vesta bundle, good thing I didn't yet.
I hope the Fed variants have access to one of the T5 Vesta designs since the flagships for last year had access to the T5 Odyssey design.
do you need the T5 consoles for set bonus? Or are the consoles just upgraded versions of the T5 consoles?
The consoles are a completely seperate set of powers from the t5 consoles, you're thinking of other t5 updates. If it's anything like the Odyssey bundles, we'll have 2 distinct console sets for this ship family, both of which can be equipped on any member of the family.
Does it have an AUX phaser turret to go with the DHC thats on the t5? If not it should that way you could actually build and aux based weapon set for it to go along with the high aux power based sci skills.
Does it have an AUX phaser turret to go with the DHC thats on the t5? If not it should that way you could actually build and aux based weapon set for it to go along with the high aux power based sci skills.
That's a very good question actually... Aux weapons aren't mentioned at all in the blog, so I assumed we won't get any this time around, but maybe... Aux turret or an aux beam would be nice as well as non-phaser aux guns.
And just a random bit of pointless pondering of new names...
Not sure about Brigid as the new class name, wish they stuck to the Roman theme, but then again, why not?
And the original tac Vesta was Aventine class, and the T6 is Palatine... Dangerous authoritarian tendencies in the Fed? (If I remember my Roman history/foundational mythology correctly, Aventine was the hill associated with Remus, the plebs and general rebelliousness, while Palatine was the hill of Romulus and the aristocracy (and gave us words like "palace" and "paladin."))
Seems like most of the great KDF science-oriented ships are Gorn designs.
It's like the Klingons are the frat house that lets the nerdy Gorn kid pledge because they all need to cheat off his homework, but the Gorn kid turns out to be unexpectedly awesome and can hold his own with the frat house party lifestyle.
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Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
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Aside from being a welcome return to prominence for STO's resident reptilian antagonists, it looks like the "KDF / Rom sci ships don't sell" premise has been well and truly dropped. I'm just slightly regretting deleting my Gorn alt 18 months ago as I honestly thought they'd never do a T6 Gorn ship - and now there's a 3-pack. Oh well. One for the next recruitment event, I suppose!
Also - the Rom ships are just gorgeous, loving the Vulcan influence. Almost enough to get me rolling a Rom alt...
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I was thinking when people were hoping for T6 Vestas, I was hoping they'd make T6 Gorn (considering they werescience-based) ships too.
Thank you for the T6 Gorn Multimission ships
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By the Great Bird of the Galaxy... those... those are... Gorn! Gorn ships!
You listened! You actually listened! Oh my great giddy god this is amazing. I don't know if it was one of my posts, statistically incredibly unlikely, but Gorn Vestas is something I've been tossing about off and on for a long time and to actually see it happen is something special.
Be honest - does this mean there's hope for a new Orion ship in the future? I've got a toon who really really needs her an Orion barge of some sort with a hangar. I'll take anything at this point (but Sci/Tac or Sci/Eng would be ideal pls <_<).
I feel like the money I dropped on the previous science 3-pack was well spent now. Justified, even. Now I just have to do some budgeting to see if I can swing the nine-pack and further reward these good decisions on y'all's part... especially if it'll get me that Orion ship down the line...
Seriously, first the Nebula bundle, then the TOS Lockbox ships, now this... you guys are knocking this out of the park as far as my personal tastes are concerned.
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I would like to know this as well. I'm definitely in for those Gorn ships, but I'm not feeling the look of the new Vestas. Idk, maybe I need more angles or maybe it's just the material, but right now I can pass on them. Will they be able to use the T5 skins without owning the old T5 ones?
I realize that other ships require owning other variants in order to use the costume, but it's not the case with all ships. A long time ago I remember being told that you didn't have to own the Avenger if you wanted to use it on the Arbiter. I didn't like the Arbiter skin and that reason was enough to get me to spend the zen. I think I'll pass on the Fed pack if I have to spend an extra 5k zen to use the old costumes.
my Rom Sci captain is now happy, she getting more sci ship to fly instead of tac ship. Thanks Cryptic
They're completely different from the original Vesta consoles, so, probably no.
Most likely it would work like flagship sets, but an explanation from a dev on that (and T5 costumes) would be nice.
I hope the Fed variants have access to one of the T5 Vesta designs since the flagships for last year had access to the T5 Odyssey design.
Gorn T6
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Orion T6 is next? Pretty please! Preferably Hassaans ship per signature mmk?
Or at least something evolved from the Corsair.
Will be good to fly a Gorn ship again. Haven't done so for yeeeeeaars.
The consoles are a completely seperate set of powers from the t5 consoles, you're thinking of other t5 updates. If it's anything like the Odyssey bundles, we'll have 2 distinct console sets for this ship family, both of which can be equipped on any member of the family.
Damn, that's hot!
Gotta get me some T6 vesta goodness.
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How long does anyone guess it will take for these ships to be added to the game?
That's a very good question actually... Aux weapons aren't mentioned at all in the blog, so I assumed we won't get any this time around, but maybe... Aux turret or an aux beam would be nice as well as non-phaser aux guns.
And just a random bit of pointless pondering of new names...
Not sure about Brigid as the new class name, wish they stuck to the Roman theme, but then again, why not?
And the original tac Vesta was Aventine class, and the T6 is Palatine... Dangerous authoritarian tendencies in the Fed?
It's like the Klingons are the frat house that lets the nerdy Gorn kid pledge because they all need to cheat off his homework, but the Gorn kid turns out to be unexpectedly awesome and can hold his own with the frat house party lifestyle.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
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This better be true you people are always getting public hyped up now a days and now I just get dissapointed now.