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Seriously, Cryptic, can wee get all the phaser variations the same color?

vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,943 Arc User
edited September 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Phased biomatter looks like Plasma. Biophasers look like disruptors. make them all ORANGE. orange beam, pules them for the biomattter and maybe throw in the same thread effect AP has for the 8472 bio phasers. but make them the same color, please. I hate my ships looking like skittle boats
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  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    Phased biomatter looks like Plasma. Biophasers look like disruptors. make them all ORANGE. orange beam, pules them for the biomattter and maybe throw in the same thread effect AP has for the 8472 bio phasers. but make them the same color, please. I hate my ships looking like skittle boats

    one: no because some like have good rainbow boat.

    two: skittles are trops with different colors not beam. if you gonna hate at least get the naming right.

    three: if you hate it pick one.

    if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,694 Community Moderator
    edited September 2014
    A: No. Its how we can tell what KIND of weapon we're facing. Also... it adds variety.
    B: RAINBOW SKITTLES THAT WORKS AS THEY ARE THE SAME DAMAGE TYPE!
    C: Like the person above me said. Pick a particular variant and use that. You don't have to mix and match.
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    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I do like me some blue phasers... :P
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,694 Community Moderator
    edited September 2014
    Yes... Blue Phasers... mesa like dis...
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • imruinedimruined Member Posts: 1,457 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    Phased biomatter looks like Plasma. Biophasers look like disruptors. make them all ORANGE. orange beam, pules them for the biomattter and maybe throw in the same thread effect AP has for the 8472 bio phasers. but make them the same color, please. I hate my ships looking like skittle boats

    Simple solution... Don't mix your phaser types, otherwise, you're gonna have to live with it...
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  • needtobecomitedneedtobecomited Member Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Leave my blue phasers the hell alone!
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  • cadfael71cadfael71 Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Yes... Blue Phasers... mesa like dis...

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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I'd prefer the option to choose between the avaialble colors for a weapon. Maybe they should make the Crafting system allow changing a gun's color?
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Simply give them all a orange tint in the glow... Problem solved.
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  • mynameisnommynameisnom Member Posts: 639 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    Phased biomatter looks like Plasma. Biophasers look like disruptors. make them all ORANGE. orange beam, pules them for the biomattter and maybe throw in the same thread effect AP has for the 8472 bio phasers. but make them the same color, please. I hate my ships looking like skittle boats

    Also ENT (phased phasers) are the original phaser... Get your facts straight son!
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  • ccarmichael07ccarmichael07 Member Posts: 755 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    I do like me some blue phasers... :P

    Amen to that!

    The only good phaser...is a blue phaser!

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  • admiralcarteradmiralcarter Member Posts: 19 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Give us the powerhue command back.
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    /powerhue <x> <y> - Changes the colour of your energy weapons and powers, <x> must be 0 and <y> a number between 0-360 that dictates the color.

    The "PowerHue" command has been disabled.

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    Problem solved :rolleyes:
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,011 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I understand the need to differentiate the used weapon by colour in a video game, but I agree that especially phasers get "shafted" when you like to use those since all other weapons keep their tone with all their variants. You can hardly tell a nanite disruptor from a bio-disruptor or the tetryon and polaron variants from each other.

    Phasers though look completely different in every flavour. They should either be all orange with a slight tint of a different colour or (since blue, red, green and orange phasers are all canon) have an option to change it's appearance, maybe via crafting. After all, the beam's colour should only depend on the chosen wavelength, the proc is something different (aside from the biomatter proc which tries to make us believe that the ships are actually spitting blue snot through space. Cryptic really didn't get the idea of a biomatter weapon, which is supposed to have a living power source, not spit snot around).
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  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,943 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    ccarmichael07 wrote: »
    Amen to that!

    The only good phaser...is a blue phaser!

    #tos

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    and if you want to get technical, the first phasers:

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    as far as the other comments.. why would I waste the DIL buying 8472 beams when I can get biomatter beams cheap on the exchange? I don't mind variations, but really, 4 distinctly different colors is a bit much
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I've said it before, but it bears repeating.... Deela thinks phasers are lime green. :P
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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Have to say, given that the various variants of plasma, polaron and disruptor share a colour, its is a bit strange that phasers didnt get the same treatment.
  • phoeniciusphoenicius Member Posts: 762 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    I'd prefer the option to choose between the avaialble colors for a weapon. Maybe they should make the Crafting system allow changing a gun's color?

    wasn't this something you could do in the old days? before people whined about "muh immersion"?

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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    phoenicius wrote: »
    wasn't this something you could do in the old days? before people whined about "muh immersion"?

    didnt it have more to do with PVP players not being able to identify what just shot them?
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,900 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    markhawkman wrote: »
    I've said it before, but it bears repeating.... Deela thinks phasers are lime green. :P

    Aye...you see...the Devs are only living up to Canon and making them Phasers various colors because they were various colors throughout Canon!
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  • phoeniciusphoenicius Member Posts: 762 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    rinkster wrote: »
    didnt it have more to do with PVP players not being able to identify what just shot them?

    which is silly because the energy has different forms, tetryon doesn't look like a phaser, nor plasma looks like a polaron, and there are the debuffs/effects which give away its identity.

    its pretty much "muh immersion".
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Personally, I don't care if my ship shoots rainbows from each phaser and launches unicorns from its torpedo bay. I care that when I shoot at something, that I hit it...and that eventually that it falls down, dead. Beyond that I have few concerns
  • corelogikcorelogik Member Posts: 1,039 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I'd like to see a "switch" to choose our phaser color,... and any other weapon energy type for that matter.
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  • blakes7tvseriesblakes7tvseries Member Posts: 704 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    BLUE I hate the color orange
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  • groomofweirdgroomofweird Member Posts: 1,045 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I think a simple "disable visuals" option like we see on many other items of gear would be helpful to this issue.
    In this instance disabling the visual turns your weapons colour to a default colour for that energy type.
    Regarding PVP yes you might not be able to see the individual procs to the weapon firing at you l(aside from the special proc colors you cant anyway), you will still know which energy type is firing at you.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,694 Community Moderator
    edited September 2014
    The Tetryon variants don't look alike. Phased Tetryon is cyan, and Destabilizing Tetryon is white.
    Elachi beams are a pale green, and they're disruptors.
    Phased Polaron looks like purple phasers, while Dominion Polaron is a pretty cool light violet or magenta? beam.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • dpsloss88dpsloss88 Member Posts: 765 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    You have andorian and blue phasers, that is two more types than any other energy type gets. So what basis do you ask for special treatement for phasers?
  • shevetshevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Frankly, I never got why they changed colour in the show, anyway.

    I keep picturing some committee, somewhere, at some time between TOS and TNG, sitting down and saying to itself, "OK, so, those ravening beams of utter annihilation that we use on our starships? Our focus group says they need to be a warmer, friendlier colour. Thoughts, anyone?"
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    nightken wrote: »
    two: skittles are trops with different colors not beam. if you gonna hate at least get the naming right.
    Wouldn't cannons also be Skittles?
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Yes... Blue Phasers... mesa like dis...
    I'm confused. Do you really support this? Cuz talking like Jar Jar seems to me the #1 way to intentionally undermine credibility...
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  • needtobecomitedneedtobecomited Member Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    dpsloss88 wrote: »
    You have andorian and blue phasers, that is two more types than any other energy type gets. So what basis do you ask for special treatement for phasers?

    That's a joke right? As it stands there are only 3 different types of phaser and 4 different colors. Andorian phasers are just standard fleet phasers but they are blue.

    Disruptor is the is the damage type with the most variation. You have standard, nanite, elachi, polarized, bio-molecular, spiral wave, and then there is plasma disruptors from the story line.

    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Damage_type

    All that aside, Leave my blue phasers the hell alone.
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