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Learn about how we designed and created the latest ships to leave drydock! We outline the process from bringing the Command Ships to life in our latest developer blog!
Check out the Command Ships get built from start to finish here!
~LaughingTrendy
Check out the Command Ships get built from start to finish here!
~LaughingTrendy
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Concorde is mkay,
but I can't stand looking at the Geneva, looks like the Avenger's ugly brother lol.
you wrote "Presudio" when showing off the Fed ships.
FED - Concorde. The ship seems beefy enough to live up to taking the demeanor of a Command Ship without sacrificing too much of the "original design."
KDF - Klinzhai. The I like the almost "battering ram" front of the ship. It's definitely a unique design, but it really has grown on me.
ROM - Baratan. The swooped head of the ship really embodies what they had mentioned about an almost "owl swooping in" design. One of the prettiest for me, hands down.
Uh, this looks waaay better than what we actually got. Can we get this warbird in the future? :rolleyes:
I doubt they'll mind me changing it to say "Presidio"
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Concorde's too bulky imho. That's why I bought only the Presidio; it packs a punch, looks elegant and fast, lines are soft and easily recognizable.
Vastam is my favorite of the romulan ones. Klingon... well, I've never been a fan of their ship designs.
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I'm a fan of parts of the Fed Command Ships. What I mean is that the stock ships look just ok to me. They're good, nothing bad, but just ok. But I'm really quite happy with the kit-bashed possibilities and final result of the ship I made. It's so very graceful and it's overall "swept-back-wing-like-look" reminds me of some old car hood ornament. It occurs to me, I should have posted a screenshot...
Anyway, my final result shows nods to the old Excel, Intrepid, and Vesta... it's really pretty awesome! So thanks for the customization on these new Command Ships. I hope it's a feature kept in future released ships.
I haven't seen/noticed the KDF Command Ships in-game. I really do not like the "head" of the Anquat and Ty'Gokor classes. The former is too "triangle-y" for my tastes, the latter... I don't know what those "fins" protruding out front are all about. The Klinzhai front looks acceptable though. I could work with that.
I like the Romulan ship designs in-general, but I have trouble with the scaling. For me, these VERY bird-shaped ships speak to fighters or smaller "Bird-of-Prey"-sized vessels, not huge ships of the line. Yeah, I know it's canon for big bird Romulan ships. It's just a personal issue I have. Anyway, I've got three Romulan characters who are happy to be in their D'deridex, Scimitar, and Khnial, so I think these are a pass for me, anyway.
I will finally say that for all the Command ships, I love the "techiness"... The antenna, "awacs" discs, etc. Nice design thoughts, there.
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Some of the KDF sketches look a lot sexier than the final products, but with the exception of the 'bug head' I like those.
Now the Romulan ones..... those were win, very very win.... my only request would be to USE SOME OF THOSE CAST OFF SKETCHES TO FLESH OUT OUR T2-T4 roster some
I'm still leveling my ROM on her Faeht, but I'm looking forward to flying the new ROM command ship designs.
However, I'm still underwhelmed and unhappy with the KDF variety, especially the An'quat. Such potential for the KDF! It doesn't shine brightly like it could. For now, they remain in drydock, with the Mogh and Mat'ha as my go-to KDF ships. C'mon, guys... you can do better!
However, I don't care for any of the designs really. All are too bulky imo. There's not a lot of personality in the ships. All the Fed ships look too similar, and I don't really care for the double-nacelle thing they've got going on. At least it looks better than the mini-nacelle ridiculousness going on with the Guardian cruiser. The Klingons, as usual, have the ugliest ships and even less personality than the Fed ships. Take a box, put some red lights on it and a bunch of angles - bam, Klingon something-or-other. I get very little of the D-7 style there. The Romulans are easy: make them look like birds, done.
I guess we know they are command ships by the fact that they have an antenna cluster on top. Not exactly subtle. It gets the point across, but we're talking about futuristic ships here. Apart from the giant satellite dish-style deflector on the TOS Connie, there aren't really a lot of "obvious" antennas on most Federation ships. Think about the technology we have now and then project that to the year 2410 or even just take the late TNG series ships and think about how that technology would change. I doubt we'd see a lot of starships looking like a command Humvee with 85 antennas sticking out of it. We'd probably have a lot more blisters or pods for sensors and communications equipment than anything else.
They just look too over the top and they don't really fit with the Trek aesthetic. I'm going to beat you over the head with the fact that these are command ships by putting antennas everywhere, rather than going the more subtle route and making them look like follow-ons to ships like the Galaxy or the D'Deridex.
I know, I know. This game runs off of ship and lockbox key purchases. When we release the next gimmick it has to come in a new wrapper.
I'm always interested in "behind the scenes" formats, please continue!
As for my own favourite, I must clearly say I'm a huge Concorde-class fan. To me it looks like a perfect mix of the gorgeous classic Excelsior and the modern-age flagship Odyssey with some new elements, for example the nacelles not being attached to the main body.
The hull is a bit bulky, yes, but that's exactly the look I want for my command ship, full of technology and fighters ! :rolleyes:
The other Fed designs are also quite good, altough not my taste: The Presidio is a bit too slim, the Geneva looks a bit too much like the Olympic...
I love the Romulan concept art, with the wings that come down to have the nacells form a trimaran like feel, love to see that in some future Romulan ships. And even though I didn't like the swept back look of the Vastam wings that much personally, I like the idea if a narrower/longer design for a warbird, which was more common in a lot of non-canon designs, like the Starfleet Command 2 Light/Heavy cruisers, and with so many wide warbirds in STO, it's a nice change of pace.
One thing I'd like to see in future blogs is how the ship classes are named, like what they mean or why they were chosen.
The blog certainly revealed a lot of stuff to me, I think I apreciate the Klingon designs a bit more after this. I like the origins of the inspiration about them, especially the control tower inspiration from Nimitz carriers. I do like that rough, utalitarian look of Klingon ships.
P.S. Who do I have to nag now in order to get one of those Klingon concept designs made into game as well?
I allways enjoy reading these blogs that give a sneak peak into the creation process.
I know right... That ship looks cool indeed. Maybe becouse of the downed wings. But like how the final ships ended aswell.
The excelsior and prometheus got hitched, and nine months later three little intrusction disks were sent to the nearest shipyard by the USS Stork.
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All jokes aside, love the looks of the presidio and concorde. Geneva not so much, nacelles look like they got squashed but you can't win em all.
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I really liked the concepts in high-res pics, as well as high-res images of the final products. (As already mentioned, the Romulan high-res shots' links are hooked up wrong.)
What saddens me though is how pretty much all of the initial KDF sketches look better than the 3 final ships. Particularly the heads on them all look good compared with the triangle, the forklift and the flat greanade (by far the best of the three offerings).
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Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
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but nice job, i'll enjoy seeing these around the quadrant
the Romulan ships look simply gorgeous, though I was never fond of the reverse-tapering wings from the scimitar variants and thus the deihu- but that's just personal opinion.the KDF again on the whole look gorgeous, but to me the an'quat looks a bit too much like a last minute, rush job with little to none of the flair of the other two designs- but this also is my opinion.
overall some good additions to the ship lineup. thumbs up to the design team.
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I like the Fed ships apart from the long tail. They remind me of a cross between the Oberth and Excelsior, plus whatever the saucer section looks like.
And as usual, the Romulan ships are fantastic. I like that they are somewhat of a breakaway from the Imperial ship design architecture.
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IMO #26, 27 & 34 look also very promising for a cruiser.
And PLEASE... please, please please... use the fed-sketch #16 for the next new fed-escort (which will hopefully come around in the near future).
That design looks pretty cool. :cool:
16?, that's just a cross between a Streamrunner class and a Tempest class, isn't it?