Orbital Devestation, get that strike to chase her around. Can't dilly-dally around with these hostile NPCs. There is a new sheriff in town. You have to send a message.
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'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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I thought Sela's turnaround was a bit jarring. Other than that, it was pretty good. The maps were amazing, as always.
We'll see if it sticks; I can understand Sela being a bit off her game after the critical event of sticking to duty to matter what, with her father executing her mother, turns out to have not happened. After all, the events inspiring all those sacrifices for an Empire most everyone has given up on were apparently staged.
Oops.
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My forum single-issue of rage: Make the Proton Experimental Weapon go for subsystem targetting!
(And by the way, yeah, the Vaadwaur thing was bad too -- canonically, the neural parasites were just forcing a spike in adrenaline levels, not making people superhumanly resistant to high-energy particle weapons.)
There's a bit of treknobabble after the Delta mission, "Capture the Flag", which says that now, the (new and improved?) parasites are somehow re-radiating all of that in infrared.
Sounds great... except that, given the energy contained in multiple disruptor and phaser shots, those Vaads should literally be glowing red-hot, setting fire to nearby objects, etc.
I initially enjoyed the mission the first time through; nice visuals, good maps, fun space combat but boring ground combat. The quality voice over work made up for the predictable "find the data pads" type of quest. The shame of it was the rewards. Just another ground set that I personally will never use. At least it made the choice easy on whether or not to run all of my alts through it three times each. Regardless, thank you for the new content.
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Not sure it's the character being played or what, but to me, Denise Crosby still sounds like she's uninspired by this job and is kinda 'phoning it in' for lack of a better description.
Pretty much everything about STO these days is "phoned in". Why not the voice acting too?
I mean, I know, gameplay pacing and all, but it's like you all forget that we're using super high tech weapons that disintegrate a target in one hit (unless they're on stun).
There's a reason for that: stun setting doesn't work as advertised since the production has been outsourced to Ferenginar. I just killed a few 23rd century feds during a rerun of "Everything Old Is New" despite the whole mission explicitely running on stun. (They normally just stay still instead of dying, but in this case I got my ground doff GPL and they disintegrated - probably some combo overriding the safety catch. And when Mr. Safety Catch is not on, Mr. Phaser is not your friend)
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A new thing I'm starting up on these here forums - we're going to have "official" threads to gather any thoughts you guys had on major content releases. First up: Survivor. What did you think?
Spoilers abound...
I think the devs really need to lose their obsession with Crosby and Sela and let us shoot the TRIBBLE in the face already. She was a BS character in TNG and her career is based upon failure.
As for the mission itself, the maps were gorgeous, the plot obnoxious, the mission tedious and the rewards forgettable.
edit:
OH! And if you're going to write a mission using one of the biggest war criminals in the galaxy, one especially despised by almost all surviving Romulans and Remans.... DON'T FOR GET TO ADD DIALOGUE FOR ROMULAN/REMAN CHARACTERS. Like especially a good reason why we don't kill her or ignore her "demands" at the end of the episode.
The game's writing has not improved. Future Time Cops are still impotent at best and incompetent at worst, Sela is a constant reminder that the writers have less than zero moral perspective, the narrative is gobbledegook, themes are forced at best...yecch.
Stop writing. Or hire people who can actually do it.
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The mission itself was fun, a bit too many tholians on the ground did significant damage to my very well geared ground team, they did not survive... more than once. However, the set go me confused. A polaron weapon with a Romulan set? #confused If anything, it definitely should have been a plasma based weapon to support the Romulans plasma dmg bonus from both their trait and from the kit from the other romulan set... At least that way we have some more options... but Polaron... someone needs slapped.
Liked it - right length and fun ---- BUT I agree with others Im getting bored to death now of Daniels and Sela and the combination of poor writing and Cosbys uninterested cardboard performances (TBF not cryptics fault as she was just as bad in TNG so you could argue its correct )
The mission itself was fun, a bit too many tholians on the ground did significant damage to my very well geared ground team, they did not survive... more than once. However, the set go me confused. A polaron weapon with a Romulan set? #confused If anything, it definitely should have been a plasma based weapon to support the Romulans plasma dmg bonus from both their trait and from the kit from the other romulan set... At least that way we have some more options... but Polaron... someone needs slapped.
It's worth noting that Tholians use Radiation damage and a lot of player/boff gear has no resist to Rads.
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l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
"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
> LOL, you called in an orbital strike one a single confused survivor ?
That's the absurdity, yes.
I mean, temporal anomalies aside, if you had to calm someone down, you'd avoid shouting or using harsh language.
On the other hand, all your weapons feel like squirtguns filled with colored water.
I'm getting to remember why I stooped playing for a year.
We'll see if it sticks; I can understand Sela being a bit off her game after the critical event of sticking to duty to matter what, with her father executing her mother, turns out to have not happened. After all, the events inspiring all those sacrifices for an Empire most everyone has given up on were apparently staged.
Oops.
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My forum single-issue of rage: Make the Proton Experimental Weapon go for subsystem targetting!
Not that that's a bad thing.
There's a bit of treknobabble after the Delta mission, "Capture the Flag", which says that now, the (new and improved?) parasites are somehow re-radiating all of that in infrared.
Sounds great... except that, given the energy contained in multiple disruptor and phaser shots, those Vaads should literally be glowing red-hot, setting fire to nearby objects, etc.
Arroyos, Officer John Painter, K9 Jedi, K9 Maya, Deputy Constable Neil Adams, Officer Jorge
David Alvarado, Sergeant Joshua Cordell, Trooper Martin Mack, Trooper Branden Sisca,
Lieutenant William Lebo
Pretty much everything about STO these days is "phoned in". Why not the voice acting too?
There's a reason for that: stun setting doesn't work as advertised since the production has been outsourced to Ferenginar. I just killed a few 23rd century feds during a rerun of "Everything Old Is New" despite the whole mission explicitely running on stun. (They normally just stay still instead of dying, but in this case I got my ground doff GPL and they disintegrated - probably some combo overriding the safety catch. And when Mr. Safety Catch is not on, Mr. Phaser is not your friend)
I think the devs really need to lose their obsession with Crosby and Sela and let us shoot the TRIBBLE in the face already. She was a BS character in TNG and her career is based upon failure.
As for the mission itself, the maps were gorgeous, the plot obnoxious, the mission tedious and the rewards forgettable.
edit:
OH! And if you're going to write a mission using one of the biggest war criminals in the galaxy, one especially despised by almost all surviving Romulans and Remans.... DON'T FOR GET TO ADD DIALOGUE FOR ROMULAN/REMAN CHARACTERS. Like especially a good reason why we don't kill her or ignore her "demands" at the end of the episode.
Stop writing. Or hire people who can actually do it.
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