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therealblackkaos
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Is it me, or does anyone else sort of having fun again replaying the older low level missions? To me, they have a certain charm. And now, with a TOS character, they almost feels like old school Trek episodes.
On another note, why are the Temporal Probes so damn hard to find on most maps? They don’t stand out like the others with the sign above it. Trying to find a red splotch on some maps is hard when the map itself is red and colorful. They need to at least add audio clues or something to help players zero in on them. Otherwise I like the mini game variety attached to them. Really interesting dynamic that I don’t understand why they didn’t keep with all the others.
On another note, why are the Temporal Probes so damn hard to find on most maps? They don’t stand out like the others with the sign above it. Trying to find a red splotch on some maps is hard when the map itself is red and colorful. They need to at least add audio clues or something to help players zero in on them. Otherwise I like the mini game variety attached to them. Really interesting dynamic that I don’t understand why they didn’t keep with all the others.
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At the price of that bundle you could get not only all the TOS ones, you could get all of the separate uniform sets in the that tab full price for far less if all you want are the uniforms. I suspect the majority of people interested in the TOS uniforms got the individual sets for 385 zen each (so far I have picked up the TOS Romulan and the TOS Mirror sets and if I can squeeze the budget enough before the sale ends I hope to get the other TOS ones for example).
I would really like to get the TOS bridge too, even though it is the old-school-STO over-large map and has that annoying ceiling error (the ceiling you see in TMP is the ceiling Jefferies designed for TOS but they never built, so the bridge set should have that instead of that whatever the glowing hole is supposed to be that is there now).
Other choices are one temporal T6 + its matching T1-T5 TOS ship for the skin unlock.
The Paladin T6 is in the discounted Temporal Agent Starter pack, it is paired with the TOS Ranger - https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Temporal_Agent_Starter_Pack
The Paladin was one of the very first 4/4 temporal ships (the Temporal spec was released simultaneously with the Paladin and the other AoY ships), that's why the game needed it back when it was released.
Yep, I just finished the TOS episodes on Xbox, after playing them a couple of times on PC years ago. They're fun, well done, and a nice length (not too long).
If they ever remastered some of the stuff they don't feel meets their current aesthetic standard I'd love to see them revisited as TOS episodes on a holodeck. Something like Captain Proton or other thematic missions have extremely limited utility beyond whatever standalone they are presented in, but modern captains cosplaying on a holodeck scenario set in the 23rd century could get a leg up with already existing resources that could be reused.
If anyone was feeling especially ambitious they might even consider adding some more to the pile which could also be repurposed for replacements in events like AoY, off the cuff temporal shenanigans, or a TOS arc (Now I'm really grasping 😛).
There are a few bugs, though:
1. In Shadows of Cestus, when Skavin is going on about conquering nature (about blowing up the big rock) the text of his speeches are correct, but the audio for them is reversed, and makes no sense. The second speech plays first, the first speech plays second. But the printed text IS in the correct order. It's just the calls for the audio clips that are wrong.
2. The Copernicus shuttle you take in the first mission has no NCC number or mothership name, just the shuttle name.
3. The Type F shuttle you get in either the AoY starter pack or for free in 23c. Spacecdock has the NCC number, but won't take the proper extension (e.g. the Galileo's NCC-1701 /7, instead taking a dash and letter, like the movie Enterprise's NCC-1701-A). Also the shuttle name is where the mothership name should be (and won't take the mothership's name), and the proper red script shuttle name is missing completely, even though that is the ONLY labeling done RIGHT on the Copernicus!
4. In the Zen-store Constitution interior, most seated crew are still on the floor (everyone in the Lounge and Briefing Room one in Engineering, a number of the doctors in Sick Bay, etc.) Will they ever fix this? If a new player, attracted to the game by AoY, saw this with their first purchase, how much desire to make a second purchase could the Devs realistically expect? I know this issue isn't unique to the Connie (I've seen it on Klingon bridges, too), but the problem seems MUCH more widespread here.
5. Also, why have I got 25c. placeholder crew on the Zen-store Connie bridge? Sure, there are 23c. placeholders, since my new guy hasn't enough BOFFs yet, but why are the 25c. gatecrashers there? If they are Temporal Agents, someone needs to go back to spy school for a remedial cover course.
6. Also on the same bridge, random filler crew get assigned to your bridge even if you DO have enough officers. Formerly, it at least filled all spots from your crew if it could, but even on my older Temporal agent, his bridge setup is now hosed, where it used to be fine.
7. Missing dedication plaques on both the Connie and Pioneer bridges.
8. Status screens all show the Constitution profile, even when you are on the Pioneer interior on the starter ship or in SPACEDOCK!
Anyway, the bugs certainly make me wonder what kind of impression of the game the Devs think a new player will get when smacked in the face with these right off the bat.
Got that same bug and a minor quibble that made me cringe. At the end when you go to leave Tarsi says ready to disembark. Not ready to depart. Disembark means to get off the ship. . .
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
And the Romulan ships that attack you. In the cut-scene, 3 T'Lisses (all missing their trademark paint jobs!) decloak to attack you. But the ships that ACTUALLY attack you after the cut-scene are 2 Khenns and 1 T'Liss.
Another minor cosmetic goof that only the old-school deep-diving Trekkies are likely to notice are the ceilings both on the bridge and in the corridors. According to comments Jefferies made (and some of the internal memos from TOS that have been reproduced elsewhere, discussing whether to build and use the hung-by-wires ceiling or not) when TMP came out, the bridge ceiling should be the same as the TMP ceiling.
Also, in the corridors they should not have 20th century florescent tubes, the entire ceiling was supposed to have a translucent glowing look almost like looking out into a cloudless sky (but without an actual sky picture or depth) using seamless self-contained lighting panels similar to the one Reger uncovers in Return of the Archons.
Overall though, despite the minor set errors AoY recreates the look and feel of TOS extremely well.
I wondered some time back why they removed certain missions.
I mean, I get it from a "flow" point of view, but why remove the missions from the game?
They could keep them in (or put them back in) as side-missions or holodeck simulations.
We had a mission called "Saturday's Child" that took us to Capella IV, for example, and even meet Leonard James Akaar. That one got the axe a long time ago, though.
Why can't we have that as a side-mission?
Why not add it back as a holo-deck training simulator scenario? Just something.
It's content. It took a lot of time to get that mission into the game, and one day they basically took all of that work and just threw it out to "speed things along" even though players will be looking for more and different things to do once they get to the cap.
Same with "The Kuva'Magh" and "War is Good for Business" and more.
So too with accolades. A lot have been removed over time. I get it if an element has been completely removed, but if some element remains then the accolade should remain. Fire Suppressor, for example.
In "Researcher Rescue" they changed the fires some, but there are still fires to extinguish. Just keep the accolade in the game for putting out what is there, even if it is a 'gimme' now.
Good catch on the ceilings! I just jumped back in-game and checked and Ugh! You are 100% right. I guess I never looked up. Now I can't un-see them!
Yep. And "The Tribble With Klingons"! That was a fun one! And the "Mine Trap" queue with all the M-113 Salt Vampires.
Now you tell me! I just played that mission again TWICE with my new AoY recruit because I thought I'd missed the Accolade. Now I see it's gone. Ah, well.