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centersolace
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A Step Between Stars is the best episode in this game by far. The story was great, the levels were great, Tim Russ was great, the whole thing actually felt like an actual Star Trek episode. The first part in particular where you have to dodge the solar flares? The connection to the original dyson sphere? The bull**** psuedoscience? Yes please, more stuff like that.
It's well put together, it's what Boldly They Rode SHOULD have been like, The mini challenges were really fun, if you haven't played it yet you need to.
My faith in this game has returned!
It's well put together, it's what Boldly They Rode SHOULD have been like, The mini challenges were really fun, if you haven't played it yet you need to.
My faith in this game has returned!
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I really liked this part. But Cryptic made a mistake, they aren't Solar Flares, they are Solar Prominences. Solar Flares are eruptions.
And in means of accuracy, I have to question it being a Brown Dwarf. It's awfully bright and active for such a star.
Species 8472 could open a rift anywhere it didnt have to be just in the delta quadrant they could do it in the alpha quadrant or beta, anywhere. They dont need the feds dyson sphere to be perceived as a new threat to the alpha quadrant. Also i thought giving them a voice in true form was terrible they should have done the screeches that would have made much more of a impact than the english vo at the end.
Also who would want Tuvok to be involved with talks as he admitted himself he was easily manipulated. Who is to say it wont happen again? I mean tuvok is cool and all but from the perspective of romulans and klingons would they feel he was the best choice to discuss the sphere ownership?
Good story, good art, great rewards, nice guest appearance-but I'd really like to start being able to take my own ships and bridge officers on the next episode.
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I also really enjoyed the mission, it was really.... "Trek"? Is that the way to describe it? BS technobabble, familiar voices, a twist, and the advancing of our overall plot. Yes please. Whoever helped write that episode, amazing work. Here's hoping for more episodes of this quality.
Odan Brota (Science Officer): Captain of a 28k DPS Scryer Intel Science Vessel, U.S.S. Kepler
Patiently waiting for a Romulan Science Vessel
Welcome to the very thing ive been screaming about since the creation of the romulan fraction.
Over all the FE was great and i admit i thoroughly enjoyed it, but it is marred by their treatment of us romulan based players. No respect for the player nor player wishes/needs.
Why would you need your bridge officers? Tuvok is more than enough to help you stomp on pretty much anything in your way. I could have soloed it with most of my captains.
Hypos are all the healing you need on that mission, and if you find you need more, the Jem'hadar 3 piece ground set has a healing ability if you don't have the Adapted MACO or KHG armor.
My science captains made all the voth hide in a corner with exothermic induction.
Me: Come out and stop hiding.
Voth: No! You have fire. Stop setting us on fire.
My engineers just whipped out turrets, and I went and read the forums.
Bridge officers would have needlessly complicated it by getting lost or stuck.
Neither Tuvok nor the Scientist had any pathing issues when I played, I don't think there's any reason to think that our bridge officers need to have problems.
Presumably because there will be lots of telepathic scanners and telepaths around searching for things. The Undine can't be unthwartable telepathically. If they were, the war'd already be over.
Of course, maybe it already is.
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I've heard this comment come up a few times. Remember, those rifts can be detected and forced closed. Iconian portals just make you appear out of thin air and have no means of stopping them from the other side, and have no means of deteecting them. That is much more dangerous than the rifts. If 8472 reprogrammed the Jenolan portal so they could use it to go anywhere, you would never know what's happening until it's far too late.
A Romulan Strike Team, Missing Farmers and an ancient base on a Klingon Border world. But what connects them? Find out in my First Foundary mission: 'The Jeroan Farmer Escapade'
I mean, my main is a Tac, if the station is borked then wouldn't he bring an engineer with him?
There's only so much the "Basics of engineering" classes can cover.
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*gets up in Solace's face*
THANKS FOR MAKING ME RELIVE THAT.
*tips over Solace's computer set up and sends it crashing to the ground*
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I was thinking about the flare thing, I am glad I am not the only one.
I actually like that. It's much more realistic, as that's kind of how space works. To be honest, i really think that's more of how the Suit should work at all times rather than using that stupid pole hopping mechanic. It would make things a lot nicer in terms of long distance EV moving.
Needless to say, i really did like the episode, it was just way too overshadowed with the other horrible things Season 8.5 is doing, as well as what's coming down the pipeline. The episode was well done and different enough to make it nice. Tim Russ did a lot better with the VO, as Michael Dorn sounded a little phoned in, which is a shame because Dorn is great as a voice actor.
I liked the Solar Flare part, but i think they should have been spaced better, and set to fire randomly rather than being there at all times. I was a little confused because it seems like the Solinae sphere is in the Delta Quadrant, but now the TNG sphere is also there, which seemed a little unneccissary. I'm half expecting Cryptic to Fly a Giant Borg Cylinder on top of the two of them just to prepare us for their next expansion....
There was a lot of nice stuff in the mission though, and it looks like they actually put some work into it, so it actually has me looking forward to the season 9 content Starring Tuvok and Voyager.
I was enjoying episode, but the ev sequence just made me rage quit. The side locks were too much.
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
Great visuals, solid story, Tim Russ' voice acting, varied gameplay... it was a brilliant experience.
Oh yeah, and it indicated that the cliffhanger it left us with will actually be followed up...
Yes, a Brown Dwarf is an object that fails to achieve hydrogen fusion, but is able to fuse easier materials such as deuterium and so generates some heat for a cosmologically short time (1 billion years or less). The Solane star should be a RED dwarf--those are bigger and hotter than Brown Dwarves, and achieve true hydrogen fusion, as well as being stable for anywhere from a hundred billion to several trillion years.
It has the right atmosphere to be a Trek episode and the plot is good, too. I even liked it more than previous because it has at least some minor variation every time you play it when you choose some different dialogue options and that made it a lot easier for me to replay it for the sets (Space and EV).
It also ends with a "to be continued" which I thought was pretty cool because it reminded me of some cliffhanger episodes of the series and it makes me hope that the second part continues in that quality.
Nice job Cryptic!