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Legacy of Romulus Dev Blog #20

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited May 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Content Designer Matt Miller shares details about the updates to the Klingon faction's progression in this entry of the Legacy of Romulus News Dev Blog series.


Link to the blog.
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  • praxi5praxi5 Member Posts: 1,562 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Hopefully we'll continue to see more and more KDF development.
  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Not going to lie, referencing one of the best Klingon focused DS9 episodes as part of the inspiration for making KDF content is not a bad thing.

    Now for my usual refrain: specific stats and/or details on the consoles please?
  • thomas12255thomas12255 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It took you 3 years Cryptic but thank you for finally getting it done!
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  • atatassaultatatassault Member Posts: 1,008 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    That T2 BoP looks like a Klingon engineer said "I like the To'Duj; Lets make it into a Bird of Prey!"
  • skiffy1skiffy1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Content Designer Matt Miller shares details about the updates to the Klingon faction's progression in this entry of the Legacy of Romulus News Dev Blog series.


    Link to the blog.

    Grammar error:

    They can be used as scouts, raiders or patrol ships. While they?re vulnerable when cloaked, their speed and vulnerability make them hard to hit.

    I'm guessing this is meant to be maneuverability... ;)
  • zulisvelzulisvel Member Posts: 518 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Well I'm glad I already played the new Klingon tutorial and starter missions on Tribble, because SPOILERS EVERYWHERE! That said, kudos to the whole team on the new missions because they are awesome! When you first released LoR on Tribble, as I play tested the Romulan missions I felt for sure that the Romulans were going to take the honor of having the highest quality missions in the game, but no, the KDF takes their game up to the next level. Both the Romulan and Klingon starter missions put the first half dozen Federation missions to shame.

    Also KDF players finally get access to a variation of the Fed Oberth console. And the Shield Destabilizer console combined with the Leach console sounds like it's going to become the must have combo for all KDF and KDF-allied Romulans.
  • nxclass13nxclass13 Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    The whole beginning stage on the BoP and how you gain your first ship. Epic! gonna have to reroll my lower level sci officer to soak in all this new awesomeness!
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  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    this is what i did on the tribble weekend, play the new kdf stuff. its by far the best improvement to existing content they have done, and the new tutorial is extreamly good, very klingon imersive.

    to bad the blog spoils it all! all the connections with k'mtar, drake and the federation owing his father a favor, and how alexander was shaped by meeting his future self. then assuming that role when he got older, not even aware that he was always k'mtar all along.

    great story telling, and fun enough to not be overshadows by the romulan content.


    how about some new kdf fleet ships for LoR launch?! so many unused raptors and bops, with 1 more cruiser thats once again usable. with c store costumes people would buy if they could use that ship at end game ;)
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  • caldannachcaldannach Member Posts: 485 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Great stuff! So happy about this expansion. Now all we need is some new endgame PVE instead of Borg STF farm, and we will be sorted.
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  • soriedemsoriedem Member Posts: 150 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I've played the kdf content through level 31 and it's a lot of fun. The way the tutorial opens up with us as second officer with the first officer's failed attempt to challenge the captain was truly klingon. As new first officer, it is up to us to speak for the crew and pick up their mantle. To that end, we challenge the captain and win. Qapla'! It doesn't get much better than that.

    i have to admit that the cut scene when we take command was a bit odd and clunky, (fighting the captain with a disruptor, and then walking casually up to him to route him with a dk'tagh) but when i played through it, the kdf content had just hit tribble, and wasn't anywhere near final. I hope it is much smoother when it hits holodeck.

    Even so, I'm excited and thoroughly pleased with the way it turned out. Good work!
  • mattmiraclemattmiracle Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I played the missions on Tribble as well. I loved them and wish all of my current KDF captains could redo the tutorial.

    Oh unless there is another Matt Miller in the gaming world, I believe he was Positron in City of Heroes. If I am correct, then I want to wish him welcome to STO (and to thank him for splitting is Task Force up into 2 missions) :)
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  • wilvwilv Member Posts: 390 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    without giving away any spoilers I want to say that I was EXTREMELY pleased with the new KDF content. If I didn't already have 6 KDF toons I would probably make one JUST to experience the content. Hell I'll probably take my current KDF toons through some of the missions just for fun anyway.
  • marc8219marc8219 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Will the skins for the B'Rotlh be useable on the B'rel Retrofit and Fleet B'rel? What about the Qaw'Dun skin, what other ship can we use it on?
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Spoilers much? Sheesh.
  • cidstormcidstorm Member Posts: 1,220 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Those are some great looking bops.
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  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Why are people complaining about spoilers? You had to know those were there.

    Without that the blog would be "so yeah, there's some new missions. And here's the new ships. The end".

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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I know I have been pretty much mum on the KDF changes in LoR. I apologise for that and a big thumbs up from me. This was long overdue, thanks for finally doing it. ;)
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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    soriedem wrote: »
    I've played the kdf content through level 31 and it's a lot of fun. The way the tutorial opens up with us as second officer with the first officer's failed attempt to challenge the captain was truly klingon. As new first officer, it is up to us to speak for the crew and pick up their mantle. To that end, we challenge the captain and win. Qapla'! It doesn't get much better than that.

    i have to admit that the cut scene when we take command was a bit odd and clunky, (fighting the captain with a disruptor, and then walking casually up to him to route him with a dk'tagh) but when i played through it, the kdf content had just hit tribble, and wasn't anywhere near final. I hope it is much smoother when it hits holodeck.

    Even so, I'm excited and thoroughly pleased with the way it turned out. Good work!

    Me, I took a bat'leth, assuming my enemy would honor me by doing the same. Instead, he got killed without ever firing a shot from that pathetic disruptor of his, the foolish Hom.

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  • chalpenchalpen Member Posts: 2,207 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    So, I have played quite a bit on tribble but would like to know:
    1) existing KDF will not be able to do the tutorial?
    2) The mission right after the tutorial is doable though?
    3) How many missions do the KDF get (not including Nimbus?)


    Good job on what I have seen on tribble though. Better tutorial than the rest of the factions in my opinion
    Should I start posting again after all this time?
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited May 2013
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Spoilers much? Sheesh.

    Sorry! :( Added a warning at the top of the blog.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • theparanoidtheparanoid Member Posts: 94 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    will the B'Rotlh Bird-of-Prey skin be usable on t5 brel's
  • djonslaughtdjonslaught Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Just want to say welcome aboard/back (depending on how it's looked at and by whom) to you Matt. Knowing what your capable of leaves me even more excited about playing threw the new content in LoR.
  • dareaudareau Member Posts: 2,390 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    caldannach wrote: »
    Great stuff! So happy about this expansion. Now all we need is some new endgame PVE instead of Borg STF farm, and we will be sorted.

    You've obviously forgotten about the greatest end-game content to have hit an MMO anywhere...

    Epohh collecting...

    sarcasm off :P

    along with all the mark farming for fleet / reputation stuff... It's not all about the Borg anymore, just when you're done farming a rep it's back to STF central... :P And this season's reputation will be Nukara with Anti-tholian stuff...
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  • jeffel82jeffel82 Member Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    atatassault wrote: »
    That T2 BoP looks like a Klingon engineer said "I like the To'Duj; Lets make it into a Bird of Prey!"

    Which, to be fair, seems to be a common line of thought amongst Klingon ship designers.
    You're right. The work here is very important.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    tsurutafan01 wrote: »
    Why are people complaining about spoilers? You had to know those were there.

    Except you could write a blog saying most of the stuff, art repasses, sources of inspiration, 'you get to visit Rura Penthe,' new ships etc, without the giveaways about the characters. Its the little details like that which makes a story arc at all worthwhile, and otherwise its just 'go here, kill x, collect y' over and over and over. You end up missing out the surprise-coolness of 'I just got a Klingon Promotion. Niiiiiiiice.' Or "not only am I gonna kick all your butts, but I've got WORF watching my back this time. Bring it!" Those little treats are never going to be as good the second time.
  • phenomenaut01phenomenaut01 Member Posts: 714 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Sorry! :( Added a warning at the top of the blog.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Thanks!

    I'd have been incredibly upset to find all this out if I hadn't already played through the first 20 or so levels on Tribble. I'd have played more, but I really want to take a KDF character all the way on Holo, so I didn't want to spoil anything else. It's been a struggle not to log back on and keep going though. :D

    Awesome stuff!
  • tilartatilarta Member Posts: 1,801 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Congratulations on bringing us deeper into the Klingon experience while playing KDF content.

    In case you can't tell, that was sarcasm.


    One of the two major issues that keeps me from enjoying KDF content is the fact that no matter what species you play or the concept you have for your KDF Captain is that the game is scripted to be Klingon specific.

    So, if you're another species from far away, an Orion or whatever, you're still a Klingon and your crew is still Klingon (even when they are not).


    And considering this first mission is just more of the Klingon mindset, all it achieves is to push me further away from the KDF, not bring me closer to it.
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  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Yes, that?s right; we can now take steps to ensure that your First Officer doesn?t pull your ship out of cloak just to tell you that nothing can be found on the scanners. It?s a slow and involved process to make all the Klingon missions ?cloak friendly,? so give us some time. It?s one aspect of the game we will continue to improve upon in the future

    Hmmm.... fixing that which is not broken (working as intended).

    Promises, promises.

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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    tilarta wrote: »
    Congratulations on bringing us deeper into the Klingon experience while playing KDF content.

    In case you can't tell, that was sarcasm.


    One of the two major issues that keeps me from enjoying KDF content is the fact that no matter what species you play or the concept you have for your KDF Captain is that the game is scripted to be Klingon specific.
    So? All Fed content is species agnostic too - as is all Rom content.

    There's not exactly a lot of MMOs out there which take character species into consideration. I can play a twi'lek in SWTOR and get a 5 minute history lesson on twi'lek from my Companion - who's also a twi'lek. :)
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    So? All Fed content is species agnostic too - as is all Rom content.

    There's not exactly a lot of MMOs out there which take character species into consideration. I can play a twi'lek in SWTOR and get a 5 minute history lesson on twi'lek from my Companion - who's also a twi'lek. :)

    A more entertaining example is the smuggler mission where you can play a Chiss, and then say something along the lines of "I know I don't look like a Chiss. My parents were surprised, too." while pretending to be a member of the CEDF. :P
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