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No Viewscreen on Klingon Bridge?

tevariontevarion Member Posts: 31 Arc User
edited September 2013 in Klingon Discussion
I recently leveled my KDF character to level 50 and have been using the Negh'var since level 40 (which I plan on using until they offer a retrofit C-store version). The only issue I've noticed is that when I visit the bridge of my ship there is no bridge viewscreen! The captain's chair just faces a blank bulkhead. I realize that this is the "default" Klingon bridge, but is this something that has been "overlooked" or do I actually need to purchase the C-store bridges to get one with an actual viewscreen? My Fed and Rom characters both have generic bridges with viewscreens so I assume this was an oversight? Unfortunately I can' t preview the other Klingon bridges and I'm not particularly interested in paying 400 Zen for the possibility of having a viewscreen on my bridge. Hopefully it's a "bug" that will eventually be addressed?
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    There is only one KDF bridge that looks like that and I think it's suposed to be that way.

    However, you don't have to buy C-Store bridges just to have a viewscreen, during the leveling of your char. you open up more free bridges. Just visit the ship customization officer in the Qo'noS shipyard or Ganalda station and click on the "bridges" tab. It should open up all the Klingon bridges showing you which are availible for you to use and which ones you'd have to buy. There is a pretty ok selection of free bridges that you should have obtained at lvl 50 and all of them have a viewscreen.
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  • tevariontevarion Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Thanks for the quick reply! I had no idea that there were all those other bridge variants available as I haven't actually done any customization of my ship appearance yet. The standard versions only cost 1000 EC to change so that gives me lots of options.
  • dknight0001dknight0001 Member Posts: 1,542
    edited August 2013
    I believe that bridge is based on one we saw in the TV or Movies where the Captain used a Periscope like device to view the battle.
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    dknight0001 wrote: »
    I believe that bridge is based on one we saw in the TV or Movies where the Captain used a Periscope like device to view the battle.

    Yup, that was my assumption as well. That's why I said that I think that bridge is without a viewscreen on purpose. Sometimes Cryptic do make a really good replicas from the shows.
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  • tevariontevarion Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Yeah, I thought of that as well and was hoping they had put a "periscope" mounted on the ceiling above the captain's chair, but they seem to have left this part out so it just ended up looking a little strange to stare at a blank bulkhead. It would be a nice feature if there was an animation where the gunnery periscope would descend when your captain sits in the command chair, but that might be expecting a little much at this point.

    As a side point, are there any plans to allow you to fight from the bridge of your ship? I assume the functionality would be less useful than the third-person view, but I could still see the feature appealing to some players who want to be as "immersed" as possible in the game.
  • rhakatheredrhakathered Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    That bridge used to have a viewscreen, it just got bugged (I think it got relocated behind the wall). Similarily to the standard Fed bridge, you should just use another one.
  • johankreigjohankreig Member Posts: 449 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    periscopes were only used on the early Bop ships, most later bops and klink ships had view screens fitted, I think initialy the idea was that only the commander would view what was going on, but in the end this was a bit naff for the viewer watching the prgram so viewscreens came back, plus itsl also daft if your gunner cant actualy see what he/she is shooting at.
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  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    johankreig wrote: »
    periscopes were only used on the early Bop ships, most later bops and klink ships had view screens fitted, I think initialy the idea was that only the commander would view what was going on, but in the end this was a bit naff for the viewer watching the prgram so viewscreens came back, plus itsl also daft if your gunner cant actualy see what he/she is shooting at.

    Let's see:
    If you go in-universe chonology then and
    -the early BoPs in "Enterprise" never showed a persicope, but a viewscreen.
    -the BoP in Star trek 3&4 didn't have one either.
    -the BoPs in St5 and 7 (which are 80 years apart) show a pericope AND a viewsreen.
    -the BoP in 6 didn't have one, neither did any of the others

    If you go out-of-universe then
    -the BoP in Star trek 3&4 didn't have a persicope
    -the BoP in St5 had one plus a viewscreen
    -the BoP in St6 didn't have a scope but a viewsreen
    -the one in St7 again had both
    scopes were never seen outside the two movies

    sorry but I'd like to know your definition of "early".
    In addition,
    (early, out of universe) the K't'inga in Star Trek 1 already had a visible viewscreen
    and
    (early in-universe) so did the D5 on "Enterprise".
  • johankreigjohankreig Member Posts: 449 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    well I have never seen a ship that has both, and I am going from memory, but I seem to remember spock using one for tactical, and I seem to recall several others in episodes using the periscope, however I could be wrong. Also I was refering only to bops, not cruisers, so how do they fit into your comment?
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  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    johankreig wrote: »
    well I have never seen a ship that has both, and I am going from memory, but I seem to remember spock using one for tactical, and I seem to recall several others in episodes using the periscope, however I could be wrong. Also I was refering only to bops, not cruisers, so how do they fit into your comment?

    Doesn't "most later bops and klink ships" include cruisers? If so then why?

    *EDIT: here's a screenshot from Star Trek 5 (the movie that featured the scope for the first time)

    http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2492/xgrz.jpg

    you can see the blue Shakaree planet in the background on the viewscreen
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  • tain4tain4 Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I think the periscope on the BOP is just a condensed version of the torpedo targeting chairs featured on the k't'inga battle cruisers we saw in TMP. It also had both a viewscreen and torpedo targeting scopes, two of them.
  • psychickittypsychickitty Member Posts: 167 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    oh so you are referring to the fact many Klingon ships have a blank wall instead of a view screen.

    Like this one...
    http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/631916463130973407/BFA04C7754E0C770D68BA9F6DA73D89190E2FDB6/

    yeah I noticed that too....its not just one bridge either its a few of them.

    Kind of silly.....>_<;;

    As a Fersan character though...I assume its because as a feline species crew we just use smell technology to find our prey.

    Though I wish I could at least put something in the wall space.

    Though its like the captains ready room.....on Klingon ships they have shelves and things that cant be used for anything....

    Thus the ready rooms look really funny too.....always in a state of empty shelves.

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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Maybe it's just..., OFF. ;)
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