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What does everyone think of the nine new bridges that have been put up on the C-Store?
I'm reasonably happy with the Galaxy and Defiant variants, but the Intrepid variant really hurts my eyes. It just seems like they tried way too hard to make it 'futuristic' and the raised dias that the Captain's chair is on gives it something of a Klingon feel.
I'm reasonably happy with the Galaxy and Defiant variants, but the Intrepid variant really hurts my eyes. It just seems like they tried way too hard to make it 'futuristic' and the raised dias that the Captain's chair is on gives it something of a Klingon feel.
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Defiant I'm not so sure, but then I haven't bought it so all I have seen of it is the viewscreen, catpains chair and the front of the side walls. Looks ok from that view though.
Intrepid... I think the designer of it was on crack at the time. The galaxy and defiant varients show some resembelence to the originals, but I'm hard pressed to find any similarities with the intrepid variant and its original.
Quick question: if you buy a C-Store bridge, can you use it on any ship? For example, if I wanted to use the new Triumph Galaxy variant bridge for my Luna-class science vessel, could I?
Yes. Bought bridges can be used on any ship at any tier. (except cross faction, so your KDF bridges can only be used on KDF ships).
Trying it in game, the only problem I had was that my two helm officers at the front were standing ontop of their consoles rather than sitting at them. Looked a bit odd to say the least. Must get a screenshot and submit a bug tonight if it does it again.
Glad to see the new bridge packs overall though. I'm a sucker for these, and I'm definitely using the new Galaxy bridges when I get my Exploration cruiser refit.
But the galaxy bridges are a disgrace, many of the console textures are just poorly placed and stretched out hell on a few consoles the federation logo is upside down... makes you wonder if they have even been playtested... also its not really much of an upgrade over the default ingame galaxy TNG style bridge...
Overall i would say buy the defiant bridge pack, the voyager pack is a recommended maybe and the galaxy class bridge is a no no avoid that one !
Fairly obvious they were trying to do something 'new' but the old Defiant bridge feels much better. It actually FEELS like the Bridge of a warship.
The current one suffers trying to be fancy, I really dislike the standalone standing station behind the Captain's chair. I would have liked it better if it was rotated 90 degrees thus a captan has the schematic of the Defiant at his back.
Better for a screenshot and allows the Captain to literally swing the chair around and see damage to the ship. Essentially being the same as the Prometheus Bridge where the wall behind the chair shows the layout of the vessel.
Intrepid - Looks absolutly stupid from what I have seen. Fortunatly I dont fly one, even if I did I would never use this Bridge
Galaxy - Very nice, almost a shame I dont fly these or justify having that kind of bridge on a Defiant. I would certainly have liked a Defiant bridge that tried to include the forward Ops station in front of the captain and the rear standing station behind.
As it is the Defiant bridge is big but the Captain chair is rather close to the viewscreen with no station in between. However, Cryptic's 'creative' spurts' have been woefully poor when it comes to the ground side of things so expecting anything was pointless.
I wont hold my breath for any improvements in ground scaling , levels to improve anytime soon either.
I wish they would make the bridge from generations and let us have some of the classic bridges to command from.
New Intrepid Bridge: http://www.startrekonline.com/dyncontent/startrek/uploads/fedintrepid_02.jpg
Brattain Bridge: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Uss_brattain_bridge.jpg
Defiant Bridge
The inability to have ALL of the BO's on the bridge when empty chairs are available REALLY annoys me.
It is really silly to have empty chairs on ANY ship but on a warship where space is a luxury and DS9 demonstrated every station being manned more often than not, I fail to see why Cryptic decided not to accomodate this.
It's not like the BO's are somewhere else, instead they are just somewhere in limbo which is a real waste for folks spending time getting costumes for BOs that are never seen even on a bridge. I have to get a CRUISER bridge just to get ALL of my BRIDGE officers ON the bridge ?
Not to squash your thoughts but as has been stated in the TNG tech manual, not all galaxy bridges are created equal, they don't all look the same. There are different modules that can be put in and taken out, the most prime example is the consoles that run down the sides of the bridge. I personally feel like this is the closest they've come thus far to making it resemble the TV show.
Galaxy
Vey good and interesting colour combinations. Looks a little bit too spacious again but no more than existing ones.
Intrepid
Awful! From the klingon style captains chair to the pillars obstructing everything this bridge type needs to be scrapped. Why on earth can we not get something similar to the bridge seen in Voyager?
Defiant
Like the viewscreen area but thats about it. I hate that there is no distinct helm station and the pictures indicate a band of blocky graphics over the side consoles which looks out of place.
Overall I think bridges need more love and variety. I am yet to use any other bridge but the very nooby one because I find them either too vast or plain unpractical.
Once again blame CBS for this type of snaffu
What I'm sure people want is a pack of screen-accurate canon bridges - not a load of new variants that look even more generic than the current ones! We've effectively got all the 'variants' we need with the ones in-game already - now bring on the real deal!