Kinda, they are much better than the used to be... But there are still quite a few things most carrier captains would like to see fixed or changed. For a start, we have no counter telling us the amount of fighters/ships we have launched or their status. It routinely becomes a spamfest to keep certain you have the max amount of fighters out.
They improved the overall AI of the launchables, they'll use their abilities somewhat wisely and won't sit next to an exploding ship anymore, but that's about it.
the fighter counter thing can be bypassed by turning on fighter/mine names for yourself only (dont turn on allies or enemies) and you will see their names at all time, letting you have a rough count at least, and able to find them more easily.
Cryptic said they'd release more information on the Scimitar back in the first week of June. They gave us this information by adding the Scimitar's unique carrier pets in the second week of June on Tribble.
More information doesn't mean it has to come from an internet link.
That was an accidental leak, they took it down then put it back up when they started testing the "Mystery" ship with the Hand Picked testers.
So no this is not an announcement. Still waiting for one.
I know this is hardly a smoking gun but normally when they announce a new ship as a reward to something they wait till another blog to release the stats. Now they released the stats in the new blog which names the rewards...which leaves Wednesday and so on open.
Can't have a honest conversation because of a white knight with power
NO WAY! That's just some new KDF shuttle suffering from Aquarius-Humongous-Growth syndrome! :rolleyes:
There's just no way in heck that the devs could possibly be working on a Scimitar 3-pack and OFFICIALLY announce it before the end of all life on the current timeline planet Earth, or the end of June, whichever comes first.
<shuffles his 5k of 1k Zen chips in one hand> :cool:
All this speculation of a "green ship", "excitement next week", etc.... has led up to this garbage barge called the Risian Corvette.
Like I told you guys before the Scimitar is at least 2-3 months out, think of how long it took them to make the Andorian ships?
Considering how annoying the Corvette will be to get, I hope it really sucks so I dont have to grind for it.
..anyway back to the Scimitar, they are still working on it, but it is something they are going to tuck away for a rainy day, when they are broke, if you want to make the Scimitar happen sooner STOP BUYING ZEN!!! The adapted ships are garbage anyway, why are you still buying keys? Turn rate of 11 on a destroyer???? You might as well fly a Vor'Cha its got more weapon mounts. (or Fleet Excel)
As long as you keep feeding them money for the crappy stuff they put out, they will continue making crappy stuff. Starve them and you might see another ship the quality of the JHAS someday.
Egads, look at the size of that thing. The Adapted Battlecruiser is probably the largest playable ship in the whole game, and the Scimitar dwarfs it. Both those ships are farther from camera than the battlecruiser, too!
All this speculation of a "green ship", "excitement next week", etc.... has led up to this garbage barge called the Risian Corvette.
Like I told you guys before the Scimitar is at least 2-3 months out, think of how long it took them to make the Andorian ships?
Considering how annoying the Corvette will be to get, I hope it really sucks so I dont have to grind for it.
..anyway back to the Scimitar, they are still working on it, but it is something they are going to tuck away for a rainy day, when they are broke, if you want to make the Scimitar happen sooner STOP BUYING ZEN!!! The adapted ships are garbage anyway, why are you still buying keys? Turn rate of 11 on a destroyer???? You might as well fly a Vor'Cha its got more weapon mounts. (or Fleet Excel)
As long as you keep feeding them money for the crappy stuff they put out, they will continue making crappy stuff. Starve them and you might see another ship the quality of the JHAS someday.
Yeah, and were the Andorian ships really a priority? Not to mention they made the Andorian ships from scratch and we already have Scimitars in game.
They're testing the ships now and soon enough we will see that stats, they're not about to release a ship three months after they released the stats.
Can't have a honest conversation because of a white knight with power
<snipped>..anyway back to the Scimitar, they are still working on it, but it is something they are going to tuck away for a rainy day, when they are broke, if you want to make the Scimitar happen sooner STOP BUYING ZEN!!! The adapted ships are garbage anyway, why are you still buying keys? Turn rate of 11 on a destroyer???? You might as well fly a Vor'Cha its got more weapon mounts. (or Fleet Excel)
As long as you keep feeding them money for the crappy stuff they put out, they will continue making crappy stuff. Starve them and you might see another ship the quality of the JHAS someday.
I'm simply going to say that as a sane, calm, intelligent individual that actually enjoys playing and supporting Cryptics STO, I have to disagree with the above person.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
A update from twitter Brandon (branflakes) said there won't be article on the webpage the ship until probably next week.
I looked, saw no mention to anything on Scimitar. You must be seeing something I don't.
Edit: Found Link on next page. I see I was right on this month... Well, atleast the Devs talked about the Broken Promises. Thats a start in my opinion. And yes Dstahl talked about it in a podcast interview.
Interesting... That person only ever launched two drones, a dual hangar ship would be able to throw out four, though I thought I saw a second hangar flash/pew on the first launch, so maybe it was smaller pets in the other hangar, which are hard to see without the person filming having show friendly fighters/mines on.
Edit: Rewatching in higher quality it seems definite that the person in the video only ever used one hangar, pending the Drone hangar can still launch two wings as the earlier hangar text described.
I was hoping for a dual hangar ship, perhaps one of the variants is.
On another note, we know that they were flying a Scimitar, but the wings looked like a new model. Perhaps there was some cross customization going on there?
The Thalaron(sp?) Pulse looked sexy, and a faster charge then NPC ones too.
Interesting... That person only ever launched two drones, a dual hangar ship would be able to throw out four, though I thought I saw a second hangar flash/pew on the first launch, so maybe it was smaller pets in the other hangar, which are hard to see without the person filming having show friendly fighters/mines on.
Edit: Rewatching in higher quality it seems definite that the person in the video only ever used one hangar, pending the Drone hangar can still launch two wings as the earlier hangar text described.
Please note the speed at which the hangar(s) launched their ships...two drones in close sequence = two hangars
1 drone launched and then 15-20secs later 2nd drone launched = 1 hangar
Drones are frigates that launch 1 at a time like the bug ships.
Being able to fire while cloaked and secondary shielding? Awesome!
Least its a temp buff and not permanent, could be quite the powerful ship but at least it doesn't look like its going to be the end all be all ship of the game.
Can't have a honest conversation because of a white knight with power
honestly better then I thought was going to happen with consoles though I'm sure this subject to change just like anything in testing or in the game period
I, for one, can't imagine having more fun with the Flying Door Wedge (Scimitar) than the Vesta. The Flying door wedge doesn't do anything THAT spectacular! I mean, let's look at it - the Scimitar has:
Carrier abilities: Vesta does that too
Uber Shield Abiliities: Vesta does that too (quantum Shield from three-piece set, Graviton shield, healing fermion field)
Special Weapon: Vesta does that too (quantum focus phaser, Aux phaser cannons unique to ship)
Granted, the Vesta can't cloak by design but, whilst it is EXTREMELY limited, the T5 Romulan Rep reward allows brief battle cloak useage.
So, whilst the Vesta is undoubtedly weaker in terms of shield and hull (well, it's a sci ship for goodness sake!) and the Scimitar's 'uber weapon' will undoubtedly do more DPS, there are a LOT of similiarities in the end product.
Scimitar looks good, vesta is ugly.
Let us wear Swimsuits on Foundry maps or bridges please! I would pay zen for that.
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the fighter counter thing can be bypassed by turning on fighter/mine names for yourself only (dont turn on allies or enemies) and you will see their names at all time, letting you have a rough count at least, and able to find them more easily.
That was an accidental leak, they took it down then put it back up when they started testing the "Mystery" ship with the Hand Picked testers.
So no this is not an announcement. Still waiting for one.
Agreed. The pets were an accidental leak. It did say Scimitar Dreadnought on the pets, but that's hardly what I'd call infomation about the Scimitar.
Information in this case is a Dev blog or some sort of Dev posting about the Scimitar....
My stomach is clear and my mind is full of bacon!
There's just no way in heck that the devs could possibly be working on a Scimitar 3-pack and OFFICIALLY announce it before the end of all life on the current timeline planet Earth, or the end of June, whichever comes first.
<shuffles his 5k of 1k Zen chips in one hand> :cool:
Even an Official Announcement that there won't be an Official Announcement this week is still an Official Announcement before the end of June. :P
Like I told you guys before the Scimitar is at least 2-3 months out, think of how long it took them to make the Andorian ships?
Considering how annoying the Corvette will be to get, I hope it really sucks so I dont have to grind for it.
..anyway back to the Scimitar, they are still working on it, but it is something they are going to tuck away for a rainy day, when they are broke, if you want to make the Scimitar happen sooner STOP BUYING ZEN!!! The adapted ships are garbage anyway, why are you still buying keys? Turn rate of 11 on a destroyer???? You might as well fly a Vor'Cha its got more weapon mounts. (or Fleet Excel)
As long as you keep feeding them money for the crappy stuff they put out, they will continue making crappy stuff. Starve them and you might see another ship the quality of the JHAS someday.
check the stats, the new blogs up with them.
Naw, maybe he shouldn't check out the stats on the corvette because then he would be living up to his name. :rolleyes:
I do so love that reality is such a hard, heavy, difficult thing for so many to take in such liberal doses.
You have the link, I follow his twitter and haven't seen a post like that, and just looked through and still can't find it.
Yeah, and were the Andorian ships really a priority? Not to mention they made the Andorian ships from scratch and we already have Scimitars in game.
They're testing the ships now and soon enough we will see that stats, they're not about to release a ship three months after they released the stats.
I'm simply going to say that as a sane, calm, intelligent individual that actually enjoys playing and supporting Cryptics STO, I have to disagree with the above person.
https://twitter.com/PWE_BranFlakes/status/349568965900632065 hopefully this link will work.
Awesome!!! its total TRIBBLE, that saves me a lot of time. Thanks for the info!!!
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"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
I looked, saw no mention to anything on Scimitar. You must be seeing something I don't.
Edit: Found Link on next page. I see I was right on this month...
You sir, earned a cookie!!!
Interesting... That person only ever launched two drones, a dual hangar ship would be able to throw out four, though I thought I saw a second hangar flash/pew on the first launch, so maybe it was smaller pets in the other hangar, which are hard to see without the person filming having show friendly fighters/mines on.
Edit: Rewatching in higher quality it seems definite that the person in the video only ever used one hangar, pending the Drone hangar can still launch two wings as the earlier hangar text described.
I can't wait and I hope it gets 2 unrestricted hanger for 3 flights of Elite Scorps.
LTS, here since...when did this game launch again?
I was hoping for a dual hangar ship, perhaps one of the variants is.
On another note, we know that they were flying a Scimitar, but the wings looked like a new model. Perhaps there was some cross customization going on there?
The Thalaron(sp?) Pulse looked sexy, and a faster charge then NPC ones too.
Please note the speed at which the hangar(s) launched their ships...two drones in close sequence = two hangars
1 drone launched and then 15-20secs later 2nd drone launched = 1 hangar
Drones are frigates that launch 1 at a time like the bug ships.
GG Cryptic, GG.
Being able to fire while cloaked and secondary shielding? Awesome!
Least its a temp buff and not permanent, could be quite the powerful ship but at least it doesn't look like its going to be the end all be all ship of the game.
honestly better then I thought was going to happen with consoles
Scimitar looks good, vesta is ugly.