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Gamereactor Interviews SalamiInferno
pwebranflakes
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Lead Producer Steve "SalamiInferno" Ricossa, Jr. was recently interviewed by Gamereactor about STO's past, present, and future.
Link to the written interview.
Link to the written interview.
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Interesting.
Yup, that sounds interesting indeed..
The rest of the interview though = Hyperbole.
but injoyed this one a hell of a lot better then the last one were there did not add any new missions to do.
I thought they made up for that with :
"We've heard nothing but positive things out of this brand new type of content"
That's an overstatement ... no matter which MMO you're talking about ...;)
Why? The Dyson Sphere IS already in the Delta Quadrant, maybe players will be able to make a "Voyager Memorial Tour"; fight off Kazons, the Devour Empire, make friends with Talaxians(Dofsf too), etc...:o
P.s.: Sorry for my-possible-formal and grammatical mistakes my native language IS NOT english.:(
Wow. I guess they didn't see any of the many complaints on the forums about how some players will stand back waiting for others to capture a point, then charge in and take all of the command credits that spawn on the ground, not leaving any for others to get. And how about all them complaints about bugs all over the zone? I've had my bridge officers start shooting at a spot on the ground as I'm running through the zone and there are no enemies to even shoot at in that location and it happens often.
Speak for yourself! I didn't see the second film because I thought the first one sucked. The storyline sucked too and I hope Cryptic never gets licenses to use any of that garbage in the game. I'm open minded toward it though. But a tier 5 constitution, miranda, NX, t'liss, etc. have to come first. Then maybe I'll think about any of the "new" trek junk being put in the game.
JJ Abrams doesn't even give a TRIBBLE about Star Trek. He only made the films so he could be given the job of directing the new Star Wars film(s). That's what I heard anyway. Heck, I did see an interview of him about the Into Darkness film and he admitted he went overboard with the lens flares. I can just picture lightsabers with lens flares. Oh god that's gonna be awful if he does that.
Join The Space Invaders,..... Federation and KDF fleets.
No new faction.
Continue the story.
That is all i want to hear.
"Our next update would be our Anniversary Event coming early next year. This event should not only be a fun celebration of the anniversary, but also move the story from the Dyson Sphere forward."
It's one of those fun grammatical things. Is that the same as saying...
"...move forward the story from the Dyson Sphere."
Or is it the same as saying...
"...move the story forward from the Dyson Sphere."
As much fun as that would likely be to pick apart, given that we've already heard about expanding into the the rest of the Adventure Zone...yeah, it's likely a case of moving the story from the Dyson Sphere forward. (see what I did there?)
Which kind of begs the question about speculation on the 4th Anniversary Ship(s)...hrmm, tied into the Dyson Story? Are we looking at a non-factional ship akin to the Obelisk then?
They have said that each faction will have a different one so 3. My guess will be factional ship like the Constellation class with Picard maneuver for Feds
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never mind, found it.
...and nobody caught this? The game was released february 2nd 2010. Yet according to the both the article and the dev doing the interview it was february 2009
way to read what you're posting before you post it cryptic. i'm not exactly inclined to believe a word on that article if neither the writer nor the dev being interviewed even gets the date the game was released correct
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I do hope however continuing the story line on the sphere/delta quadrant that they put in some kind of things for us to raid (bops and breen raider and there are plenty of potential bad guys in the delta quadrant other than the borg). I would bet though that the continuation of the story line based on the ending of the one with Worf and Shon that its most likely as said something for everyone that it will probally be the end of the fed/kdf war as a way to start out the new year. Would be cool though along with raiders if it produced an element with the hirogen that forced them back in the delta quadrant so we can kinda get rid of that element on the new romulan homeworld that there are invaders in the backyard (little romulan children don't go to that dark place).
The only other thing if it is the delta quadrant... Voyager did cover a lot of space so there is no telling where they could start but if anything for federation and klingon ships that have lost or never had much functionality to what in Trek they are designed to do that would be a good opportunity for cryptic to possibly push out some new features and new content at the same time different than what we are used to. Those 10 seconds of screen time some of those aliens had that voyager had to get away as fast as possible would be some interesting results in full armed combat or non-combat based gameplay too.
Edit: Although I am sort of hoping in a way if they are doing more expansions that its true to what Salami stated that they are going to keep it like it is with Fed/KDF/Romulan due to last time had to repurpose my fake romulan into a vorta... My luck there will be a dominion and cardassian one coming up so I have to repurpose both of my aliens this time
Your all fans of JJ Abrams? O_o -150 respect..
yeah but this is not a single player game. if this is what you guys call a blanced gameplay you should start looking for a career change, no offense.
if i start to qq about pvp is even worst... your new OP faction forces everyone that wanna be pro/elite in pvp to reroll to a romulan.
i understand this is a bussiness, but don't be so greedy!
What a load of TRIBBLE.
If Cryptic gave the smallest damn about playerbase happiness and retention then they'd start bug stomping. The Q&A is still aweful to non-existant.
The fact they're spewing the "CBS let us have dinosaurs, therefore everything is cool" spiel didn't wash pre Season 8, and it's not washing now. The writers are just pulling any daft idea out of the air and weighing it for possible money made. Canon can go hang itself so long as the cash comes in, a company that apparently takes canon so seriously apparently hasen't noticed half the playerbase flying starships from totally different factions/ groups, then.
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2010: This is Cryptic PvP. Please hold the line, your call is very important to us...
ok so in short the story was awful.
non story related stuff in season 8 was good tho. the rep sponsor token. the way to grind the latest rep was a great addition.
also how a player would grind the new rep was also made in a very good way.
action zones. well I have to say the territory control maps have been great. I really hope to see this used and developed in to pve and pvp maps for the so called kdf/fed war!
so some good came of season 8.
looking to the future. well story wise it should be pretty easy for season 9 to be an improvement. it really wont take much.
beyond season 9. a lot of people talking about expansion don't mean factions. if I'm honest I've often thought about how can you expand the game with adding factions. and go from using the word expansion rather than update.
personally I do feel that factions are without a doubt the 1 area a game can automatically slap the word expansion on it. adding regions of space in a space game is just an update. so if we just got exploring and searching for new worlds and new civilizations. that's just an update. if we just get new npcs to fight it's just an update. new crafting system or new doff system is just updates on the existing systems.
a new faction in an expansion gives cryptic/ the chance to charge money. new ships etc.
seriously cryptic/pwe wont make much money out of any other type of 'expansion' if all they do update some systems.
also I wish they would talk more about what they have planned well before they start it. they could get some feedback which can help. look at the forums when they added half a romulan faction for example. they should have asked do you want an independent romulan faction? or a fraction? but maybe they are just too scared to ask the big questions.
By using the anniversary as a point in moving Season 8 forward, I feel again is acknowledgement to the negative feedback of the Dyson Sphere, and STO is going to use this opportunity to iron out and address the concerns of the players. If this so I applaud you for taking on the chin players concerns and addressing them.
the dev mentioned it was generally positive, of course they had to put a spin on it to not loose potential customers but generally means average, so it was infact half way good and bad.
to be honest not sure who thought the dyson sphere and dinosaurs with freaking lasers on their heads was a good idea, but to me it was one of the worst design ideas i have ever seen.
i hope season 9 turns out far better.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
And here you have the biggest lie told yet by a Cryptic employee.
This is almost as bad as the comment that was made involving grind maps: "Our new content is a smash hit with the players based on the number of people playing the new maps." Remember this one? Reason people flocked to the new maps is... there is no alternate content.
And comments made about a remarkable bug-free experience? Why is it I can't visit ESD without massive graphical glitches? Your "cognet" internet outages due to a dispute with one of the largest internet providers that's a huge glitch.... and lets make a short list of the bugs that have been brought to your attention starting with the COSTUME SLOT CORRUPTION ISSUE and working backwards. Progression missions are broken, glitched out and in general steaming piles of TRIBBLE. No one wants to work to level 50 when they have to face a broken game experience with ****ty graphical glitches.
I got half way through the Dyson Rep grind and realized how pointless it was. There are no story missions like there was with New Rom. Oh I unlocked another cut-scene where someone whines about how bad the bad guys are and how he disagrees with them. We have this enormous world all around us and we only have fleshed out two "battle zones?" That's it?
That's my entire complaint about Season Eight: That's it? This is what we waited for? You clearly put more effort into the Gingerbread Battle and the new Snow Weapons than you put into the entirety of the story experience for season 8.
You created an arcade-style point-driven repetitions battle game and pasted it in an MMO.
Gets harder and harder to log in each day, let alone justify spending Zen. And I know I'm not the only one.
The V-Rex looks cools armored up, but not so much as I said above with the lassers and those strange mortar attacks. The V-Rex alone would have been cool, just add more sensible attacks, like stomps and what not.
I do on the other hand like the Voth mech suits. Those are cool, and they having lasers and mortars makes sense, since they are in effect walking tanks.
It does not surprise me in the least that S 8 was not the big hit it could have been. It's not bad, but the implementation leaves a bit to be desired.
For me the best part was in fact the new rep system, followed by the Battlezone, wich has a few nice mechanics going for it, but the ground game is still lacking, and not so exciting as the space part of the game is. I'm not exactly expecting ground to be as smooth and exciting as say the Halo games is, but it still needs a lot more oomph to be where it should be.
Also, the story of S 8 is lacking, to say the least. What story we do get is thin at best, and to make it worse, some of the story comes from doff missions, wich might not be everyones cup of tea. I did them just to get some more of the story. The rep cutscenes are well made, but even they do not really tell us much, just a few tidbits here and there.
The Battlezone does contain some more story elements, but you have to hunt for them, whilst under fire at times, and some are a bit out of the way.
So, S 8 was not bad, but could have been better, if much more story had been present...
Really? Is he talking about a Foundry mission?
The interview is text. not audio. But no there is no mention of the anniversary ship, only that the anniversay event will be expanding on the Dyson Sphere story.
Wha? Only diplomacy I've seen in the game is our crew doing it for us, trivia contests, and us acting like Sherlock Holmes. So I missed content somewhere? :P
Well this is an out-right lie. Nothing expansive, just a ton of endless grinding where small fleets get the shaft.
And the DOFF system is more robust than the reputation system. And it's funner to boot.
Yeah, it was fun in the first few days. But over one month later, the place is a desert. Especially the space adventure zone, which nobody wants to do.
And his math is off, you get two BOFFs per player, so it should be 60, not 40. :rolleyes:
Yep, they come back for a few days, complete the new content and then go back to whatever game they were playing.
/sigh Anyhow, I don't blame him. Just typical propaganda to spin things in the positive direction. But really, it's not as rosy as they make it out to be.