Become One with the Cnidarian Defender!

baddmoonrizin

Shore leave has never been quite as relaxing as it will be during Star Trek Online’s 2022 Lohlunat Festival, starting soon on a Risa beach near you! This year’s Grand Prize for participating in the Event will be an entirely unique starship, of a sort never seen before – the Cnidarian Defender [T6]!

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11520223-become-one-with-the-cnidarian-defender!

smokebailey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgKGtMglJyk

questerius

As expected it does have a fortress/defense mode similar to the ba'ul, but instead of antiproton it has electrical damage.

The defensive trait does not sound too useful due to "indirect" damage modes still going through.

O well, I'll get the ship, mastery and trait but i am unsure if i will use either once that is done.

angrytarg

I like it, and it fits my Lukari Captain and crew (who are all based around doing electrical damage) just fine ​​

questerius

Not unfamiliar with Pikachu builds, but despite that i have my doubts about its usefulness.
Devil is in the details/stats at this time so it will be thoroughly tested.

inferiority

3 Lt. Cmdr seats? What were the devs barbecuing that day...?

avoozuul

Yet another ship I won't use because of how engi heavy it is, I was already disappointed with the T6 Risian Cruiser since they gave it one less tac console slot then than T5U version.

valethar

Please tell me this is going to have it's own dedicated bridge, instead of shoehorning in the faction bridges.

ikonn

This is excellent news! It gives me a reason to not OCD myself just for the shiney at the end of the grind. I can actually go to Risa and enjoy it for what it is this year.

Thank you!

As an added bonus, I can spend more time on SWG Legends.

angrytarg

> @valethar said:
> Please tell me this is going to have it's own dedicated bridge, instead of shoehorning in the faction bridges.

I'm very certain they didn't make a bridge for it, it'll have the generic 'alien' one with no options to choose another.

mariqa

Just checked over on Tribble and its... the default Starship bridge you get.

phoenixc

mariqa#4594 wrote: »

Just checked over on Tribble and its... the default Starship bridge you get.

The hideous one that looks like you are in a concrete parking garage that the devs have inflicted on every new ship for the past year or so? Very sad for what is in the show a shapchanger that can flawlessly imitate Starfleet standard interior design and actually had a sense of style, but not unexpected considering the devs don't even bother giving new premium ships anything else either.

They have not even linked in the old standard list of bridges since around the time Jett (or Jet? I don't know how she spelled it) left, it makes me think that maybe she sometimes typed them into new ships on her own initiative like how some of the ship modelers sometimes work on ships on their own time, and she did handle that part of the database as one of the Ten Forwards showed.

I know the devs think that nobody ever goes to the bridge, but some people do, so if they feel they have to take away the choice of bridges then why couldn't they have at least picked something even slightly decent instead of the fugliest and most useless one possible? Space Barbie is at least important enough to include one that is not immersion breaking at the very least, and that concrete monstrosity is not doing the game any favors in that respect.

angrytarg

I wholeheartedly agree. I get that they don't make bridges any more and it's not coming back. But why not simply let us pick and use every bridge THAT IS ALREADY THERE? It doesn't make a difference then, it's an abandoned feature.

That ugly default bridge looks like the first map you create in a editor tutorial.