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Did anyone else find the new episode boring?
kayajay
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I literally just finished playing "Warriors Of The Empire"...and I don't know why. It was space battle, after space battle, after space battle. When I was beaming over boarding parties, I wanted to be one of those parties! It was dull, monotonous and I'm sorry, but I am comparing it to the episodes that came before.
The reason I started playing STO a decade ago is that I saw the advert for "Boldly They Rode" (and why that's been hidden away is still beyond me). It was terrific, with a fantastic story and balanced game-play. The Solanae episodes were too and Delta Rising.
I don't want to slag off the people writing these episodes, but the quality isn't matching what came before. I don't want to just pound away at Elachi, not being able to close the rifts when they start hitting me and not feel that I've achieved (or enjoyed) anything after.
I want a great episode that I want to replay right away and okay, maybe for the next choice of rewards, which is so great that I want all of them! Where's a new four piece set or two different traits, or just something that makes it worthwhile?
I might seriously be in the minority, but I was expecting more from a Klingon oriented arc.
The reason I started playing STO a decade ago is that I saw the advert for "Boldly They Rode" (and why that's been hidden away is still beyond me). It was terrific, with a fantastic story and balanced game-play. The Solanae episodes were too and Delta Rising.
I don't want to slag off the people writing these episodes, but the quality isn't matching what came before. I don't want to just pound away at Elachi, not being able to close the rifts when they start hitting me and not feel that I've achieved (or enjoyed) anything after.
I want a great episode that I want to replay right away and okay, maybe for the next choice of rewards, which is so great that I want all of them! Where's a new four piece set or two different traits, or just something that makes it worthwhile?
I might seriously be in the minority, but I was expecting more from a Klingon oriented arc.
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It's like an episode that is a back door pilot for something else, like that Gary 7 episode of TOS
Basically enough people are not buying what CBS chose to sell the way they chose to sell it. Cryptic went into a defensive mode just as they realized the most revenue.
Cryptic can't fully control those factors. Cryptic has decided to go with a blame the customers mentality where we expect content. No real content is forthcoming. They had a record year but have no plans to build content.
This is not my opinion. It's fact based on their own announcements.
Like Star Trek Online? Buy tourist collectibles. That's the game.
The rest played out roughly how I expected though probably the harshest fight was the Disciples, they hit like a truck.
The Great Hall fight was an improvement over past "boss fights" being more than just a slog through one spawn trigger after another (I'm looking at you Gaul!).
If I have one gripe it's that the Mycelial Realm bit could have been written better to have the player character be more informative, rather than have J'ula provide all the exposition. Especially considering much of it was based on what the character had already done and relatively recently at that.
Otherwise I didnt find them that bad.
...seriously??!? O_o
I have definitely noticed that the more recent years have had very padded out episodes (I remember fighting endless waves of enemies in the Jemhadar missions, as well. Both ground and space).
Is this the tradeoff for the switch from "have to run the mission three times to get the whole set"?
Oh... it's just space combat, ok I might have to skip it then, hopefully the next Mirror Universe arc will have plenty of glorious ground combat, plenty of dialogue and cutscenes.
The second one was much better, even if still plagued by the "endless waves of enemies until a hidden timer is over" and "kill everything that moves and wait for the red alert to go away in order to talk to the contact".
The conclusion was satisfactory, even if
I both liked how they brought back the hydro bomb, but also got bothered that nobody cared to get rid of it after the end of the 2256 war, or when the original L'Rell died.
At least, J'mpok's death was most gratifying, especially when L'Rell intervened and probably almost raised the rating of the game. XD
Also, called it that L'Rell would be the new Chancellor and that she'd get the Sword of Kahless due to Martok being incapacited in some way.
I still think J'Ula is too easily forgiven, but at least it was softened a bit by her refusing the Chancellorship and helping repair the Mycelial network.
And once again, praise to the cutscene team, always doing some awesome work and I never tire of seeing their efforts on the monitor!
That said, don't scare us again like that with
And the horror of seeing Madran again...
They just (this year) made the NPC Worf hair available for players. Literally the very specific example you are using of the thing they can't do, they did.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
I'm not talking about what he said, I'm talking about what you said. You specifically cited NPC Worf's hair as an example of something they couldn't make available:
The hair he is requesting (Worf from DS9) is not in game at all, and certainly not on NPC Worf.
But you said they can't make custom NPC hairs like Worf available. It's literally your own words you're disagreeing with.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
You said a lot of stuff, and not all of it was wrong. But this specific statement was:
They did in fact make NPC Worf's hair available recently. They also recently made both the Voyager version and Picard version of Seven's hairs available for players.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Yeah, unfortunately there are no NPCs in game with the DS9 Worf style hair. If there were we would actually have a better chance of getting a player version, as was proven by the recent examples of players getting the NPC Worf hair and the NPC Seven hair. But hey, maybe one day
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Tom Paris
Harry Kim
Seven (both VOY and Picard)
Burnham
Worf
Some of the demo-record guros have also stuck some NPC hairs on their characters over the years.
And sometimes they show up on random NPCs we run into in missions that aren't anybody special, but happen to have a custom hair that was designed for a specific NPC. Here is Landry's hair for example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/hkej8b/can_we_have_the_landry_hair_style_please/
In fact, I actually requested an NPC hair about a year ago that was added as a player option shortly after. Here was the request I posted:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/eyf2np/dear_dev_who_is_adding_the_new_hairstyles/
So yeah, requesting a hairstyle that's on an NPC definitely has precedent and is a completely valid request.
Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, the DS9 Worf style hair isn't in game at all, which probably makes it a less likely possibility. But hey, no harm in asking.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
CBSViacom is also facing a huge cash crunch and debt spiral, at the same time they seem to be facing off against a hostile takeover play from NBCUniversal/Comcast.