Transporter Effects

ryuranger · August 2015

How come we do not see different Transporter effects I think it would pretty nice to have in the Game espicaly for the Die heart Star Trek fans

salazarraze · August 2015

Uh, we do. FED, KDF, and Romulans all have different transporter effects.

aesica · August 2015

It'd be nice if they were based on your current ship rather than faction. It's pretty weird to see my away team all beam up in Federation blue, except for my KDF officer who beams up in red.

uryenserellont · August 2015

It'd be nice if we could disable them and cut down on the time it takes to transition between maps. The effects get real old and real tedious after you've seen them for years.

warpangel · August 2015

aesica wrote: »

It'd be nice if they were based on your current ship rather than faction. It's pretty weird to see my away team all beam up in Federation blue, except for my KDF officer who beams up in red.

Agreed. A party of 3 beams down from an Jem'hadar ship onto a Kobali transporter platform. The captain gets a Romulan transporter effect, the first officer gets a Starfleet one and the third guy comes in KDF red...yeah that makes a whole lot of sense.

ryuranger · August 2015

salazarraze wrote: »

Uh, we do. FED, KDF, and Romulans all have different transporter effects.

Yes but what I mean is different versions like Original Series Gold effect Next Gen Blue the Movie line one that sort of once

bobbydazlers · August 2015

uryenserellont wrote: »

It'd be nice if we could disable them and cut down on the time it takes to transition between maps. The effects get real old and real tedious after you've seen them for years.

yea cos saving 5 seconds makes such a big difference, LOL.

STO would not be star trek enough without transporter effects.

uryenserellont · August 2015

bobbydazlers wrote: »

uryenserellont wrote: »

It'd be nice if we could disable them and cut down on the time it takes to transition between maps. The effects get real old and real tedious after you've seen them for years.

yea cos saving 5 seconds makes such a big difference, LOL.

STO would not be star trek enough without transporter effects.

5 seconds each and every time for years gets old though. I don't need to see the effects anymore, now they're just a waste of time.

It would be different if the transport effects occurred during the loading screen, like the way Elite: Dangerous makes it seem like you're in deep space warping between systems when in fact it's loading the new map.

bobbydazlers · August 2015

uryenserellont wrote: »

bobbydazlers wrote: »

uryenserellont wrote: »

It'd be nice if we could disable them and cut down on the time it takes to transition between maps. The effects get real old and real tedious after you've seen them for years.

yea cos saving 5 seconds makes such a big difference, LOL.

STO would not be star trek enough without transporter effects.

5 seconds each and every time for years gets old though. I don't need to see the effects anymore, now they're just a waste of time.

It would be different if the transport effects occurred during the loading screen, like the way Elite: Dangerous makes it seem like you're in deep space warping between systems when in fact it's loading the new map.

and how do you know its not stealth loading in part during the beginning and end sequence of the transporter effect, just because there is a loading screen in-between, the total time of the two sequences together may not be enough to load all the data and so has to be filled out by the in-between loading screen.
if this is the case and you would need to be a dev to know if it is or is not then removing the two sequences may not save any time at all and the highlights of the transporter effects may just make the longer loading screen shorter and less boring.
in fact I believe this may be the case when at times the materialise part has cut in early for some reason and there has been a few more seconds of loading screen after.

same thing applies to the warp out and warp in of starships.

warpangel · August 2015

uryenserellont wrote: »

bobbydazlers wrote: »

uryenserellont wrote: »

It'd be nice if we could disable them and cut down on the time it takes to transition between maps. The effects get real old and real tedious after you've seen them for years.

yea cos saving 5 seconds makes such a big difference, LOL.

STO would not be star trek enough without transporter effects.

5 seconds each and every time for years gets old though. I don't need to see the effects anymore, now they're just a waste of time.

It would be different if the transport effects occurred during the loading screen, like the way Elite: Dangerous makes it seem like you're in deep space warping between systems when in fact it's loading the new map.

If and only if it were possible to skip the effect on your own screen (go straight to loading the next map) while leaving the effect visible for others, I'd support an option to skip the effect. There are already too many circumstances in which characters/ships just appear and disappear and it looks incredibly lame.

And yes, it would be extremely cool if the loading screens were replaced with relevant context-sensitive animations.

jerichoredoran · August 2015

bobbydazlers wrote: »

and how do you know its not stealth loading in part during the beginning and end sequence of the transporter effect...

Because I can launch pets and other abilities before warp in animation.

alexsanderita · August 2015

warpangel wrote: »

aesica wrote: »

It'd be nice if they were based on your current ship rather than faction. It's pretty weird to see my away team all beam up in Federation blue, except for my KDF officer who beams up in red.

Agreed. A party of 3 beams down from an Jem'hadar ship onto a Kobali transporter platform. The captain gets a Romulan transporter effect, the first officer gets a Starfleet one and the third guy comes in KDF red...yeah that makes a whole lot of sense.

^This.

However we will probably never see it because it may be tied with the engine capabilities.

orangeitis · August 2015

I heard that the reason transporter effects do not line up with ship tech is because the transporter effect is tied to a character emote, and each species has a different emote for that.

...which IMHO is a BS excuse. Just give every species every transporter effect emote and program them to use the proper one on each beam-out by checking what ship they have or what they're beaming to in-story.

starswordc · August 2015

orangeitis wrote: »

I heard that the reason transporter effects do not line up with ship tech is because the transporter effect is tied to a character emote, and each species has a different emote for that.

...which IMHO is a BS excuse. Just give every species every transporter effect emote and program them to use the proper one on each beam-out by checking what ship they have or what they're beaming to in-story.

And of course the usual Romulan fraction bug: Romulans will sporadically use the "beam me up, Scotty" animation for their allied species and then use the Romulan green beam-out. I keep laughing at my Fed Rom tapping an invisible combadge...

angrytarg · August 2015

orangeitis wrote: »

(...)
...which IMHO is a BS excuse. Just give every species every transporter effect emote and program them to use the proper one on each beam-out by checking what ship they have or what they're beaming to in-story.

I am a hundred percent sure that sometimes even my KDF-Rom's Klingon crew members play the Romulan beam animation, so for certain situations like episodes and such they already do that.

orangeitis · August 2015

angrytarg wrote: »

orangeitis wrote: »

(...)
...which IMHO is a BS excuse. Just give every species every transporter effect emote and program them to use the proper one on each beam-out by checking what ship they have or what they're beaming to in-story.

I am a hundred percent sure that sometimes even my KDF-Rom's Klingon crew members play the Romulan beam animation, so for certain situations like episodes and such they already do that.

Now that you mention it, I might have remembered something like that happening to the crew of one of my RRFs. That should totally be more saturated than just KDF-allied BOFFs.

artan42 · August 2015

It's annoying. I have a Reman captain with a Romulan BOFF who beam up green and a Jem'Hadar, Breen, and Alien who beam up blue to a Breen ship.

uryenserellont · August 2015

Hmm I didn't think of the effect disabling it would have on other players. But it's already sort of broken on other players. When I see people beam out from ESD or any ground zone, a lot of the time they don't activate their combadge or arm unit, they just vaporize out of nowhere.

Transporter Effects

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