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Fleet Admiral Report - The Vaadwaur Threat

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Galactic News Network [PC]
The Vaadwaur are a dangerous and aggressive foe, and could be a major problem for our ships in the Delta Quadrant. We're getting in multiple reports on the Vaadwaur and their capabilities! Read more about them in our initial Fleet Admiral report about the Vaadwaur Threat.

Check out our blog here.

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  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Oh, those guys. I remember slaughtering them n the thousands..... :P
  • zombiedeadheadedzombiedeadheaded Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    When you write a blog about the 'multiple reports' of bugs in-game, then it might be worth reading.
  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    zombiedeadheaded wrote: »
    When you write a blog about the 'multiple reports' of bugs in-game, then it might be worth reading.

    But we already know about those too ! :P
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Although it's a very nice blog, I don't understand the release timing of this and the Tuvok blog. Surely these would have been much greater as hype tools for DR if they were released 2-3 weeks ago, yes?
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  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    Although it's a very nice blog, I don't understand the release timing of this and the Tuvok blog. Surely these would have been much greater as hype tools for DR if they were released 2-3 weeks ago, yes?

    Yeah, this is bizarre. There's nothing spoiler-y in this post at all (the earlier blogs and livestreams spoiled way more than this), it could have run weeks ago.
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  • mrspidey2mrspidey2 Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    500, eh?

    I killed at least 1000 on Kobali Prime alone....
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  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    mrspidey2 wrote: »
    500, eh?

    I killed at least 1000 on Kobali Prime alone....

    Probably during the second mission there, the respawn is insane ! :D
  • venkouvenkou Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    Although it's a very nice blog, I don't understand the release timing of this and the Tuvok blog. Surely these would have been much greater as hype tools for DR if they were released 2-3 weeks ago, yes?
    Advertising purposes. Even though Delta Rising has been out for a few weeks, the advertising and social media campaign will continue for a few more months.

    Delta Rising has been met with a mix reaction. While the new expansion has added allot of good elements, Delta Rising has also introduced allot of controversial changes. Folks over at Cryptic are the only ones whom know the numbers. Did Delta Rising bring in more players? Did Cryptic get an increase of players? Did Delta Rising bring in any new players?

    'Star Trek' has always had a small cult following. Regardless about how BIG the franchise seems, the reality is that 'Star Trek's' core fanbase is very tiny. 'Highlander' has a similar problem.
  • adamofnodadamofnod Member Posts: 78 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Yes but... Where can I get those sweet long coats?
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    venkou wrote: »
    Advertising purposes. Even though Delta Rising has been out for a few weeks, the advertising and social media campaign will continue for a few more months.

    Delta Rising has been met with a mix reaction. While the new expansion has added allot of good elements, Delta Rising has also introduced allot of controversial changes. Folks over at Cryptic are the only ones whom know the numbers. Did Delta Rising bring in more players? Did Cryptic get an increase of players? Did Delta Rising bring in any new players?

    'Star Trek' has always had a small cult following. Regardless about how BIG the franchise seems, the reality is that 'Star Trek's' core fanbase is very tiny. 'Highlander' has a similar problem.

    That last sentence is kinda silly...
    How many "Highlander" conventions do you see making Millions of Dollars yearly, all over the world, compared to Trek ones.
    And how many "Highlander" computer games have there been?

    Treks "core" fan-base is HUGE.
    Highlander, while very popular will never be able to compare.

    You would have been better off saying that the Star Trek "Gaming" Community is tiny compared to the over all fan-base.

    Star Treks "cult" status occurred back in the early 70's, by the late 80's it was a full fledged phenomenon.


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  • trelane87trelane87 Member Posts: 242 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    qjunior wrote: »
    Oh, those guys. I remember slaughtering them n the thousands..... :P

    Well I'm pretty sure we've wiped them out by now, next out of place villain race plz :rolleyes:
  • sentinel64sentinel64 Member Posts: 901 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    venkou wrote: »
    Advertising purposes. Even though Delta Rising has been out for a few weeks, the advertising and social media campaign will continue for a few more months.

    Delta Rising has been met with a mix reaction. While the new expansion has added allot of good elements, Delta Rising has also introduced allot of controversial changes. Folks over at Cryptic are the only ones whom know the numbers. Did Delta Rising bring in more players? Did Cryptic get an increase of players? Did Delta Rising bring in any new players?

    'Star Trek' has always had a small cult following. Regardless about how BIG the franchise seems, the reality is that 'Star Trek's' core fanbase is very tiny. 'Highlander' has a similar problem.

    A few weeks? It has only been a week... As of today.
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    dragonsbrethren wrote: »
    Yeah, this is bizarre. There's nothing spoiler-y in this post at all (the earlier blogs and livestreams spoiled way more than this), it could have run weeks ago.

    It's also based on Voyager's files. It's only a few missions in (I think level 52) when you find out that Voyager's files on the Vaadwaur are entirely invalid anyway, that their numbers and technology are orders of magnitude beyond what was expected.
  • coolheadalcoolheadal Member Posts: 1,253 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    In the Mission Capture the Flag - Overseer Relin
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    Under my ROM Admiral Level 55, using all combat pets like Security Escort II and III, Shard Clones and my 1 million EC Memory Alpha Adult Combat Horta.

    The picture is what I was doing trying to defeat Vaadwaur Overseer Relin, this had gone on for 5, 10, 15 minutes of just heavy over blown shooting at him. So I've gathered he's programmed not to take a dive with current mark 12 and 13 very rare ground gear. Shoot I even use one of those 1 million EC swords on him and he still didn't go down.

    Would be nice if there was option to take him down with our own gear. Again it runs like a script so only one way to take him down. Without spoiling it just have to run and see.

    Horta was shooting it vapors and still not enough. Although the Horta never stay out so out long in this game first time to see him or her running past 5 mins. If I didn't stand-up he or she would still be there fighting.
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  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    coolheadal wrote: »
    In the Mission Capture the Flag - Overseer Relin
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    Under my ROM Admiral using all combat pets like Security Escort II and III, Shard Clones and my 1 million EC Memory Alpha Adult Combat Horta.

    The picture is what I was doing trying to defeat Vaadwaur Overseer Relin, this had gone on for 5, 10, 15 minutes of just heavy over blown shooting at him. So I've gathered he's programmed not to take a dive with current mark 12 and 13 very rare ground gear. Shoot I even use one of those 1 million EC swords on him and he still didn't go down.

    Would be nice if there was option to take him down with our own gear. Again it runs like a script so only one way to take him down. Without spoiling it just have to run and see.

    Horta was shooting it vapors and still not enough. Although the Horta never stay out so out long in this game first time to see him or her running past 5 mins. If I didn't stand-up he or she would still be there fighting.

    The dialog explains exactly how to kill him. If his shield is up, you haven't done that. He's not invincible because of nonupgraded gear, he's invincible because of reasons, and you have to use technobabble to break those reasons (then a second time because he gets his shield back up).

    Tip: Drag him into the GIANT GLOWING CIRCLES.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    coolheadal wrote: »
    In the Mission Capture the Flag - Overseer Relin
    http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/05/06/39/altech10.jpg

    Under my ROM Admiral Level 55, using all combat pets like Security Escort II and III, Shard Clones and my 1 million EC Memory Alpha Adult Combat Horta.

    The picture is what I was doing trying to defeat Vaadwaur Overseer Relin, this had gone on for 5, 10, 15 minutes of just heavy over blown shooting at him. So I've gathered he's programmed not to take a dive with current mark 12 and 13 very rare ground gear. Shoot I even use one of those 1 million EC swords on him and he still didn't go down.

    Would be nice if there was option to take him down with our own gear. Again it runs like a script so only one way to take him down. Without spoiling it just have to run and see.

    Horta was shooting it vapors and still not enough. Although the Horta never stay out so out long in this game first time to see him or her running past 5 mins. If I didn't stand-up he or she would still be there fighting.

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  • coolheadalcoolheadal Member Posts: 1,253 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    hevach wrote: »
    The dialog explains exactly how to kill him. If his shield is up, you haven't done that. He's not invincible because of nonupgraded gear, he's invincible because of reasons, and you have to use technobabble to break those reasons (then a second time because he gets his shield back up).

    Tip: Drag him into the GIANT GLOWING CIRCLES.

    Yes I've done that, but not in the picture. When his shields were down, I use the sword on him, then the bars on him move down so he was getting hurt. The picture only shown was in fixed position. Still when his shields are up you can't take him down no matter what. Still at the end he did ended up in the giant glowing circles as you had mention.!
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  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    daveyny wrote: »
    What level were you playing at? (Normal/Advanced/Elite)

    He is playing at "have not read the text and blame it on Cryptic" - level. :D
  • tancrediivtancrediiv Member Posts: 728 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I don't know, but for a 900 year behind the tech curve nearly extinct race, up against an elite level 54 vice admiral in the best ship with Mk XII gear, they seem a little tough. Dead, but tough
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  • saedeithsaedeith Member Posts: 628 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Whoever that gave the Vaadwaur tricobalt technology needs to be dealt with harshly.
  • zombiedeadheadedzombiedeadheaded Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    qjunior wrote: »
    But we already know about those too ! :P

    Yes, we do, but they don't seem to.
  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    adamofnod wrote: »
    Yes but... Where can I get those sweet long coats?

    Seconded

    And I want those backpacks they wear, the ones that use the omega force style, preferably as something I can wear over the top of a standard uniform

    Pretty please? I'll pay Zen/Lobi/Dilithium/GPL you name it
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  • psiameesepsiameese Member Posts: 1,650 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Trendy? Whose intelligence report was this one? It wasn't filed or signed under any agency this time around.
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I was hoping to see the story of these after "Dragon's Teeth". I hadn't faced them yet in combat or in the story part. So I'm looking forward to see what the are up to.
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  • szimszim Member Posts: 2,503 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    tancrediiv wrote: »
    I don't know, but for a 900 year behind the tech curve nearly extinct race, up against an elite level 54 vice admiral in the best ship with Mk XII gear, they seem a little tough. Dead, but tough

    I don't want to spoil it for you but let's just say they got help. You will get to know more about it at the end of the last mission.
  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    saedeith wrote: »
    Whoever that gave the Vaadwaur tricobalt technology needs to be dealt with harshly.

    Nah just interrogated for their technology. Think of all the stuff the Vaadwaur can do that duplicates the effects of boff powers, but since it isn't a buff it can't be subnuced away. I mean they have TT, EPTE, something that dramatically jacks up their Defense for a few seconds (Acc +60 and I'm still missing 80% of the time?), Dispersal Pattern 4 for the tric mines, a tractor beam that ignores PH, and a version of the Hirogen flip-turn console with a shortened CD. Would have been a great opportunity to give scis something to subnuc in PVE play (finally) but alas nothing. Plus its always annoying when NPCs aren't limited to the same rules players are. (Boss fights maybe, but mooks?)

    And where did the Vaadwaur GET all that stuff anyways? I have one story mission left to do still, and while the aggression has been explained, there's still not even a vague explanation on where they got the technology from.
  • xiaoping88xiaoping88 Member Posts: 1,493 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    And where did the Vaadwaur GET all that stuff anyways? I have one story mission left to do still, and while the aggression has been explained, there's still not even a vague explanation on where they got the technology from.

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  • khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited October 2014
    I'm pretty sure this blog would have been interesting, had it been released before I'd completed all of the DR content and already know everything I need to know about the Vaadwaur.
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  • robeasomrobeasom Member Posts: 1,911 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    reginamala78 wrote: »


    And where did the Vaadwaur GET all that stuff anyways? I have one story mission left to do still, and while the aggression has been explained, there's still not even a vague explanation on where they got the technology from.

    Everything that has happened in STO so far in the main storys has been the result of the Iconions we can only assume these are behind this tech as well.
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  • morchadesmorchades Member Posts: 123 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    psiameese wrote: »
    Trendy? Whose intelligence report was this one? It wasn't filed or signed under any agency this time around.

    Would you sign your name to the intel report that said there were only 500 of these guys?

    Every faction, including the Feds themselves, should be teasing Starfleet intelligence about this one for the rest of the game. There should be dialogue options to quote this dev blog and voiceover of the flagship Captains griping about it in the eps next season at least.
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