PC PATCH NOTES FOR 2/29/24

baddmoonrizin

Star Trek Online will have PC Maintenance today, 2/29, at 6am PT. Estimated downtime is 3.5 hours. Thank you for your patience! You can find the patch notes here:

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11564493

husanakx

So no mentioned fix for the event set many people are about to unlock ?
Well the servers are about to have even more issues.
A quick fix might be a good idea... if there isn't an unnoted fix.

zenmasterchip

That was fairly CRYPTIC... Can you spell it out for us Normal/Regular players?

fred26291

Why is the patch server sooo damn slow been her an hour and its barely done 75 percent.
This is not normal? Normally its alot faster?

pottsey5g

Still no fix for the new Borg Frigates not working on all full carriers?

kurgan2001

Can we please have a toggle to turn off the 'NEW' inventory tag. It's annoying to not have a choice.

inferiority

This is an awfully short set of Patch Notes for that mahoosive pre-patch I got last night.
Now, it feels too soon for us to be getting another content drop, which makes me wonder why the patch was so massive...

vesty

Ok ...I dunno what you guys did 2 to 3 weeks ago but the server lag is sooo bad right now. I mean ya cant even play the game ... i got a random miner instabilities and server not responding so bad that it was not even worth completing . heCK i was rubberbanding so bad while standing still. Moving was just brutal....

malapropos

kurgan2001 wrote: »

Can we please have a toggle to turn off the 'NEW' inventory tag. It's annoying to not have a choice.

Would get my vote.

As it is, it's just a useless addition.

if things were actually new it wouldn't be quite as bad, but seeing new tags over and over again on stacked items, because you picked up yet another one during the last patrol or mission is just worthless...
How many times do I need to know I got another unwanted lockbox, or yet more batteries to dump at the vendor?

How many times do I need instantly recognisable items obscured by a pointlessly large tag, that I then need to hover over to tell at a glance what I just got?

Sorry devs, it's useless. Try again.

husanakx

Having had a chance to log in and play a bit... on the NEW UI Tag. I like it.
I don't have anything against a disable option. However I appreciate it. I have one toon I open all my lockboxes on... and my inventory is very cluttered. Having a NEW pop over things is actually nice. Minor but good addition.

sharrashimada

Came here to vote for a toggle of the "new" flag. Its just awful. It hides half of the icon of the item. I can see the usefulness for some people, but for me, i just want it gone for good.

pottsey5g

New tag is causing me all sorts of problem. I craft a lot and its turning my stacks into new tags. 1000 stack. add 1 item new tag on the entire stack. Move an old item to resell, new tag, gather some materials new tag. Pick up a R&D box new tag. Its a R&D box I don't need a tag to know what it is.

It does nothing useful but cover up items making them harder to tell apart. We need to be able to switch this off or limit what it triggers for.

phoenixc

I just sweep the mouse over the rows and it clears those tags when I want an unblocked view the stuff underneath them. That is quick and easy, like using the big eraser in an art program. Come to think of it, if the code is too twisty to make a checkbox toggle practical, they could put a little button in to quickly touch all the cells which would clear them, though even that seems a bit extravagant for an occasional annoyance.

The tags do come in handy sometimes when I use something up without noticing (or have a random empty inventory cell for some other reason), make or pick up something else, then need to find where it disappeared to quickly instead of having to squint along all the rows carefully for it.

sharrashimada

phoenixc#0738 wrote: »

I just sweep the mouse over the rows and it clears those tags when I want an unblocked view the stuff underneath them.

That may be the case, but i dont need that feature at all. I do not want it, and never asked for it. So its an unnecessary annoyance and one step too much at all. For me the new feature has 100% downsides but 0% benefits. Why should i like it?

azrael

Apparently this latest patch BROKE a lot of stuff. It's going to be nearly impossible to get past Sphere of Influence, as the icons you're supposed to repeat a la Simon are INVISIBLE. Was this intentional?

baddmoonrizin

azrael#9500 wrote: »

Apparently this latest patch BROKE a lot of stuff. It's going to be nearly impossible to get past Sphere of Influence, as the icons you're supposed to repeat a la Simon are INVISIBLE. Was this intentional?

That is a ridiculous question. Of course, it's not intentional. File a bug report in the Bug Reports subforum and stop spamming threads with this.

azrael

I filed a bug report in-game, and sometimes spamming is the only way to get a dev's attention. I've tried doing only single posts, and they often just go ignored. What am I supposed to do?

eazzie

azrael#9500 wrote: »

I filed a bug report in-game, and sometimes spamming is the only way to get a dev's attention. I've tried doing only single posts, and they often just go ignored. What am I supposed to do?

The correct and proper course of action is to contact support via here, you may be asked to post in the support section of the forum for higher visibility, but spamming is NOT the correct route to take as that could lead to you receiving either a temporary ban from the game or in extreme circumstances a permanent ban. I can guarantee you NOTHING a player submits goes ignored as you are claiming. A process has to be followed, some reports take longer than others, but spamming only slows the whole process down further. Just a word too the wise.

pottsey5g

eazzie wrote: »

azrael#9500 wrote: »

I filed a bug report in-game, and sometimes spamming is the only way to get a dev's attention. I've tried doing only single posts, and they often just go ignored. What am I supposed to do?

The correct and proper course of action is to contact support via here, you may be asked to post in the support section of the forum for higher visibility, but spamming is NOT the correct route to take as that could lead to you receiving either a temporary ban from the game or in extreme circumstances a permanent ban. I can guarantee you NOTHING a player submits goes ignored as you are claiming. A process has to be followed, some reports take longer than others, but spamming only slows the whole process down further. Just a word too the wise.

From my experience I find that hard to believe. Not only have I seen many bug reports ignored. Some of them have been extremely simple fixes often only requiring a simple text change in the store. For example when buy a bundle that has an item listed, then no one gets that item. Its a simple fix either change the text as the item shouldn't be in the pack or add the item. Yet no one will fix it. Its false advertising and involves real money. Being a simple fix and due to its nature it should be prioritised not left ignored.

Then we have stuff like the Legendary First Strike Bundle its been out almost a year. Cost a lot of real life money and its Command and Temporal pets have been broken since day 1. Just how much longer is it reasonable to wait for it to be fixed? I am not convinced this "Process" is working correctly.

I just brought the Borg Kingdom pets and it really worries me the devs have done there first "bug pass" on the pack and will just abandon it like every other pack and leave the Borg Kingdom pets still broken even though its a very simple fix. (they don't work on all full carriers as they missed some tags) Are they going be left like the Digital Construct Drones broken and not able to be used by all full carriers?

azrael#9500 wrote: »

I filed a bug report in-game, and sometimes spamming is the only way to get a dev's attention. I've tried doing only single posts, and they often just go ignored. What am I supposed to do?

It often feels like that. Even when the fix is a simple 2min text change they will just move onto the next shiny thing rather then fix it. I don't think I have brought one single item in years that has worked correctly and not been bugged. Its got to the point where its reduced me spending money on the game as I know they will just release something new without the most basic of quality control checks and testing then leave it broken and move on.

There are always going to be bugs its just the poor quality control and amount of bugs is shockingly poor. Many of which should have been picked up on the most basic of testing before release.

nemestis

azrael#9500 wrote: »

I filed a bug report in-game, and sometimes spamming is the only way to get a dev's attention. I've tried doing only single posts, and they often just go ignored. What am I supposed to do?

You are not supossed to do anything besides reporting the bug once and thats it. I hope you realize you are not the only one having this bug... its every single one of us. The devs obvioulsy are aware of it, so again, do nothing. And spamming is the worst thing you could ever do, anywhere.

splatty

azrael#9500 wrote: »

I filed a bug report in-game, and sometimes spamming is the only way to get a dev's attention. I've tried doing only single posts, and they often just go ignored. What am I supposed to do?

If you watched the Cryptic live stream (or now the VOD), that bug is being worked on and has been a little while, so all the spamming was adding to nothing. Could they of communicated the fact it was under investigation, sure, but they never have for any bug so don't expect that to change any time soon.