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Legacy of Romulus Dev Blog #42

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited September 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
The STO Ship Team shares details about the process behind designing the upcoming Romulan Tactical Warbirds in this entry of the Legacy of Romulus News Dev Blog series.


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  • blassreiterusblassreiterus Member Posts: 1,294 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Having tested the Retrofit on Tribble, I'm really liking the Ar'kif variant of the Tactical warbirds. It's also a great thing to have the Ar'kif as an alternative to the D'Deridex, which I'm sure a lot of players are going to be happy to know.
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Those ships look awesome. :)
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Visually beautiful, and love having a smaller warbird. If I wasn't already in a Fleet Mogai, would certainly be picking these up.
  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    It's a smart looking little ship, and a nice alternative to the larger vessels.

    I hope there will be fleet version too.
  • purplegamerpurplegamer Member Posts: 1,015 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I'm absolutely in love with the look of this bird. It's one of--if not--my favorite Cryptic-designed ships in the game. Can't wait to get one!
  • captainmd10captainmd10 Member Posts: 199 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    starfish1701 wrote: »
    It's a smart looking little ship, and a nice alternative to the larger vessels.

    I hope there will be fleet version too.

    There will be fleet versions of both ships. The tooltip on the Ar'Kif's special console had fleet variants of both ships listed in its availability text.
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I don't know if anyone else spotted this, but Ar'Kif is Kar'Fi with the letters rearranged. And that amuses me lol.
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  • wraithshadow13wraithshadow13 Member Posts: 1,728 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    To be honest, i like the way they look so far, but after a bad experience with the Defiant/Sao Paulo stuff i really can't see buying this unless i can claim the Plasma quad cannons on my fed character. I like the look, i'm looking forward to hearing more about them as well as the plasma Quad cannons, but overall, giving cryptic money usually leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

    Please, please PLEASE, have some good news in the updates.
  • evaalphaevaalpha Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    reminds me on this: Ugly
  • burstdragon323burstdragon323 Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Tested them, pretty nice. But the blog states parts can be swapped in customization. Please add this to tribble so we can make sure there are no issues.
  • neok182neok182 Member Posts: 551 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    burstdragon323 wrote: »
    Tested them, pretty nice. But the blog states parts can be swapped in customization. Please add this to tribble so we can make sure there are no issues.

    +1. sucks that we haven't been able to test that. kinda doubt it'll happen with the release this thursday most likely.
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  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Tested them and gave feedback. Not really sure we needed a T5 version to be honest.

    Only a T4 and Fleet version would suffice, as we already have 4 tactical warbirds at T5.

    Nice to look at (beautiful ship design), but no imagination in the boff seating kills it for me.
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    sunfrancks wrote: »
    Tested them and gave feedback. Not really sure we needed a T5 version to be honest.

    Only a T4 and Fleet version would suffice, as we already have 4 tactical warbirds at T5.

    Nice to look at (beautiful ship design), but no imagination in the boff seating kills it for me.

    Some of us don't want to spend 4 mods for it on different characters.
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  • beyerebeyere Member Posts: 22 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Maybe more than one kind of Romulan bridge? Maybe the one we saw in TNG?
  • sharksinspacesharksinspace Member Posts: 121 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Are we going to get the option to exchange our DDs for this new ship if we want? I will start playing this if so;if not I'll just ignore it for now.
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    edited September 2013
    evaalpha wrote: »
    reminds me on this: Ugly
    It's an essentially a skinner d'ridithau. So, if you don't like that, you won't like this.
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    nakedsnake001 wrote: »
    It's an essentially a skinner d'ridithau. So, if you don't like that, you won't like this.

    LOL yeah I'm sure someone said paint it romulan and they will buy. At this point if its KDF usable for my klingon (absorbed races too) I'd take it over the fresh romulan paint.
  • oracle54oracle54 Member Posts: 199 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Pricing in the DevBlog tomorrow too then?
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    The blog states there's an Ar'kif, Ar'kala refit and Ar'kif retrofit coming. That implies there's a 'free leveling' Tier 4 Ar'kif complementing the D'Deridex. That's probably a very good thing for new players (more experienced players won't really care for a Tier 4 ship, be it slow or not).

    And the Boff seating is very nice on the retrofit, please keep it that way.
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  • neok182neok182 Member Posts: 551 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    toiva wrote: »
    The blog states there's an Ar'kif, Ar'kala refit and Ar'kif retrofit coming. That implies there's a 'free leveling' Tier 4 Ar'kif complementing the D'Deridex. That's probably a very good thing for new players (more experienced players won't really care for a Tier 4 ship, be it slow or not).

    And the Boff seating is very nice on the retrofit, please keep it that way.

    you are correct. free and refit versions and a retrofit.

    And devs have told us on the tribbles forums that the boff setup is final as it is on tribble.
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  • yreodredyreodred Member Posts: 3,527 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Great, that's what STO needed, another Escort. :rolleyes:

    Cryptic, what about iconic STARFLEET ships like the Galaxy Class?
    When will it be finally updated?
    When will be able to fly that ship without being embarrassed about its laughably firepower and totally useless BOFF setup?
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  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    yreodred wrote: »
    Great, that's what STO needed, another Escort. :rolleyes:

    Cryptic, what about iconic STARFLEET ships like the Galaxy Class?
    When will it be finally updated?
    When will be able to fly that ship without being embarrassed about its laughably firepower and totally useless BOFF setup?

    Because STARFLEET totally lacks attention in STO.
    It's Star Trek Online. Not STARFLEET Online.

    Romulans are in need of some new ships. The Galaxy needs to be reworked, no question. But not at the cost of Romulan variety in ships.
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  • yreodredyreodred Member Posts: 3,527 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    xiaoping88 wrote: »
    Because STARFLEET totally lacks attention in STO.
    It's Star Trek Online. Not STARFLEET Online.

    Romulans are in need of some new ships. The Galaxy needs to be reworked, no question. But not at the cost of Romulan variety in ships.

    No one said that...


    Btw, the Ar'kif and Ar'kala are really nice looking designs.
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  • usscapitalusscapital Member Posts: 985 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    xiaoping88 wrote: »
    But not at the cost of Romulan variety in ships.

    yes it does as people have also paid for these ships before the rom ships were even considered
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    They look very nice, and impressive. I will have to consider getting one in the future. As my Romulan is Tactical base. And will really match up to her abilities. I'm glad to see the Romulans finally get a quad cannon to match the Fed and KDF.
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  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    yreodred wrote: »
    No one said that...


    Btw, the Ar'kif and Ar'kala are really nice looking designs.

    It's a thread about the new Romulan ships. You are complaining, saying that they should rework the Galaxy.
    Of course my conclusion was that should have happended instead of this new featured Warbird.

    Excuse me if that is not the case.
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  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    usscapital wrote: »
    yes it does as people have also paid for these ships before the rom ships were even considered

    People knew what they were buying.
    Now look, I am with the faction calling for a rework of the Galaxy, but nobody is really entitled to get said rework.
    Of course, nobody is entitled to get new Romulan ships, either - but truth to be told: Starfleet has by far the greates content, ship-vise.

    Romulans need those ships more then the Feds need a reworked Galaxy.

    Down to business: I think PWE/Cryptic are just selling a sh*t load of Romulan stuff. Warbirds will keep coming as long as they are making money. Going by the Scimi and the Tal Shiar Lock Box sells, that will be a long time.
    It seems Romulans are the Devs new bread and butter.
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  • alopenalopen Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Well they need more science ships. Roms have enough tactical ships already. I love the design but the ship is kinda meh in stats, boffs and consoles. Out of curiousity how does one actually get their hands on zen ships on tribble to test drive? So far all I can do is look at stats at ship requisition.
  • yreodredyreodred Member Posts: 3,527 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I belive, no one said Cryptic should stop working on Romulan stuff at once and start reworking old Starfleet ships they hate.
    I am sure not everyone at Cryptic is working on Romulan things too, so both things could be done eventually. And honestly to rework one single ship won't take too much time IMO.


    @alopen
    What stats, BOFF and consoles?

    EDIT:
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Visually beautiful, and love having a smaller warbird. If I wasn't already in a Fleet Mogai, would certainly be picking these up.
    Just wanted to write the same. I got the Fleet Ha'feh lately but its size compared to it's turnrate is not my cup of tea. I never liked ships that tend to oversteer that much, especially if that ship is almost as massive as a Odyssey, lol.
    What i would like to have is a medium sized Tactical focussed Cruiser with the same BOFF alyout as the Fleet Ha'feh, but a bit smaller with a turnrate of a science ship. (i'm probably the only one, lol)
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  • matrix0matrix0 Member Posts: 261 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    We need a rom-sci full carrier - similar to the kdf kafi. Been waiting for it. Too many escorts to choose from... no point getting another escort... just because it looks different tbh.

    I'm bored of escorts nowadays because there is only one tactic when flying escorts: point and shoot.
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