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TIME AND TIDE: List of Bugs, Gripes, Thoughts, and occasionally compliments. *SPOILERS!* (duh)
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Time And Tide Review
- A Glitch fest, but it was funny watching my character walk in place of my ship.
- Great models and designs, but hideously offensively huge. What are you compensating for?
- Story? Amusing enough. Not really.. "gripping" though. I felt "nothing" regarding the situation, and had issues connecting to any of the characters as usual.
- Great use of Vocal Effects on NPCs.
- I liked the Tholian Ambassador presence, Good touch.
- Romulan Observer leaks that the Rommies join the Federation (feds are TRIBBLE)
- 6 other noted future spoilers in the episode
- My boffs and companion players disappear for the cutscenes.
- Going to Lukari prime to look for a statue of my character, planning to nuke the planet if there is one.
- Captain Walker says "damn" for no apparent reason.
- 300 years... Feds still can't shoot the Deferi, still can't punch the Ferengi.
- My ship can literally rip through a Krenim Battlegroup from 300 years in the future within seconds but struggles to solo ISA. You've just nullified Enterprise's Mirror episode and killed your own argument about the TOS Connie not being viable at endgame.
- Intercom voice sounds PERFECT! Keep her. is that a new recording?
- I refuse to accept that I'm living in 2010, and that 6 major wars have occurred and culminated over the course of 1 year. It's 2416, get used to it Cryptic. Lack of that is just bad writing! Respect players who've been around for years, already!
- Negative Responses were better than normal. Nice job on that front! I like being Good/Neutral/Evil.
- Bug: lack of effects when Tralla is zapped by the console.
- The Noye Sequence features me and my player companion! GREAT WORK!!!
- Out of 30 people. Why am i the only one disarming the bombs?
- I like that you guys took the hoped-for approach with Noye / Clauda. Theres few official characters I like that you guys do (desperate trill) but this connection worked for me.
- Ending is anticlimactic. You were introduced to a basic setup for future episodes, but there's no temporary closure. I don't feel like I've experienced anything.
In the grand scheme of things, It's amusing and I dont hate it while offering some excellent visuals. Please give us new Khitomer in ground pvp queues and as a foundry map so we can try and rewrite this.
My views to not represent the community as a whole, the Grand Nagus, or anyone from Starfleet Dental with the exception of myself.
Now for a part that DOES reflect SFD. We noticed that there are no Bajorans in the future, but the Cardassians are clearly visible. This either means they were eradicated for the trash that they are OR exposed as being behind the TRUE Evil Warmongers of their war with the Cardassians!
Regardless, you're saluted on this, Cryptic! DOWN WITH BAJORANS!
- A Glitch fest, but it was funny watching my character walk in place of my ship.
- Great models and designs, but hideously offensively huge. What are you compensating for?
- Story? Amusing enough. Not really.. "gripping" though. I felt "nothing" regarding the situation, and had issues connecting to any of the characters as usual.
- Great use of Vocal Effects on NPCs.
- I liked the Tholian Ambassador presence, Good touch.
- Romulan Observer leaks that the Rommies join the Federation (feds are TRIBBLE)
- 6 other noted future spoilers in the episode
- My boffs and companion players disappear for the cutscenes.
- Going to Lukari prime to look for a statue of my character, planning to nuke the planet if there is one.
- Captain Walker says "damn" for no apparent reason.
- 300 years... Feds still can't shoot the Deferi, still can't punch the Ferengi.
- My ship can literally rip through a Krenim Battlegroup from 300 years in the future within seconds but struggles to solo ISA. You've just nullified Enterprise's Mirror episode and killed your own argument about the TOS Connie not being viable at endgame.
- Intercom voice sounds PERFECT! Keep her. is that a new recording?
- I refuse to accept that I'm living in 2010, and that 6 major wars have occurred and culminated over the course of 1 year. It's 2416, get used to it Cryptic. Lack of that is just bad writing! Respect players who've been around for years, already!
- Negative Responses were better than normal. Nice job on that front! I like being Good/Neutral/Evil.
- Bug: lack of effects when Tralla is zapped by the console.
- The Noye Sequence features me and my player companion! GREAT WORK!!!
- Out of 30 people. Why am i the only one disarming the bombs?
- I like that you guys took the hoped-for approach with Noye / Clauda. Theres few official characters I like that you guys do (desperate trill) but this connection worked for me.
- Ending is anticlimactic. You were introduced to a basic setup for future episodes, but there's no temporary closure. I don't feel like I've experienced anything.
In the grand scheme of things, It's amusing and I dont hate it while offering some excellent visuals. Please give us new Khitomer in ground pvp queues and as a foundry map so we can try and rewrite this.
My views to not represent the community as a whole, the Grand Nagus, or anyone from Starfleet Dental with the exception of myself.
Now for a part that DOES reflect SFD. We noticed that there are no Bajorans in the future, but the Cardassians are clearly visible. This either means they were eradicated for the trash that they are OR exposed as being behind the TRUE Evil Warmongers of their war with the Cardassians!
Regardless, you're saluted on this, Cryptic! DOWN WITH BAJORANS!
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Oh great one! You need not shoot this plebe... I may have mistook the random Trill lady for a Bajoran... Spare me!!!!
What about if I make you one of these... but with lynched Bajorans?
I appoligize. I took you for a Bajoran sympathizer. There are too many of them, simply because Kira was one of the hottest women known to history in the prime universe. But this fact helps with the deception, just as Empress Oh-shes-hawt-o rose to fame in the mirror grid. And thank you again for replying, as I was about to screenshot and compare every single person at that event from the recordings I probably should not have taken.
AS for your newtonian cradle offer, Thank you but no! For I have one on the desk in my office. I can provide a picture if you'd like.
Sorry, didn't see any glitches, and you claim 'Glitch Fest', you've not elaborated any at all.
If only you were a dev of some kind </3
Though I have some slight issues believing that devs read these sorta of things as developers and not simply people who are bored and linked to it because who has time for forums when they have a social life and aren't looking to gripe? Besides, Even when I make extensive Info graphics on certain topics, It's usually only players and/or Trendy that responds to any of it. then again, Borticus has been very responsive on occasion too. Perhaps I've become bored with extensive detailing of known issues? but then, it's the lack of engagement that causes players like me to wonder if it's worth speaking when we aren't being heard, and I've gotten way more than my fair share of interaction!
Are you still reading? no? Okay... then here we go.
As shown in the above, My Jem'Hadar Strike ship [T6] is replaced with my character. So "...it was funny watching my character walk in place of my ship."
while making the review earlier, My Holo Leeta boff from whatever that thing chase was doing to further promote our inability to handle negative criticism was appeared as simply invisible. Yes, Invisible. Her weapon was there, but she wasn't. However joining the mission now, this problem isn't presenting itself, so you don't get pictures of it.
There! that's one. Bwahahar.
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Pretty much everything about this Episode falls into the "Shame on us, the Paris Branch..." territory, for anyone who has seen Giant Robo episode 1. Indeed, I'm even having flashbacks to the writing used for Who Will Die? in City of Heroes ... complete with the obligatory Women In Refrigerators excuse/motivation to compel the antagonist into doing everything he does while running circles around both you and the U.S.S. Pastak.
To be honest, I was hoping that the ... script writing ... for this Episode wasn't going to be quite so ... {if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all}
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Just... what? Excuse me but that one just made my brain hurt. Don't get me wrong i love the visuals, the new tricks the kremin ships can pull is a nice forced change of strategy but the story, as with Stormbound, fell flat for me. Then again time plots are tricky to write and done wrong it just leaves people upset and angry.
I don't want to be too whiney especially given I'm not throwing money in right now, but at this point i have very little sympathy for the federation, temporal or otherwise. I will admit that I'm glad the Kobali ambassador mentioned 'we're aware people would love to unwrite us from history.'
No actually I would go back with geneticists to fix the flaw you guys have so you're not ghouls.
We do read them. We can't always respond to every post. But we do read and appreciate your feedback.
I miss the days when you guys could get away with inhabiting a borg cube and pvping us. Big companies are bad bad bad. They kill the fun!
Federation Captain
Cutscene where Traala gets the trap and collapses on the floor.
My captain kneels down and pulls out a Starfleet tricorder to scan her during the cutscene.
Later, when reviving Traala, my captain kneels down and uses a Starfleet Tricorder for the Revive emote.
KDF Captain (Orion)
Cutscene where Traala gets the trap and collapses on the floor.
My captain kneels down and pulls out a Starfleet tricorder to scan her during the cutscene.
Later, when reviving Traala, my captain kneels down and uses a KDF Tricorder for the Revive emote.
Romulan Captain (KDF aligned)
Cutscene where Traala gets the trap and collapses on the floor.
My captain kneels down and pulls out a Starfleet tricorder to scan her during the cutscene.
Later, when reviving Traala, my captain kneels down and uses a Romulan Tricorder for the Revive emote.
This ... oversight ... demonstrates the underlying "Fed Bias" in coding for this particular cutscene, since the function call for using the "right" Tricorder is missing from the cutscene itself.
More of a nuisance than a crisis (since the game doesn't crash), but it does imply a lack of attention to detail in the handling of the factions other than Federation.
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Immortal BOff Skills combo for Ground
My personal favourite part is the New Khitomer space map, that place is just gorgeous, please let that map get reused for a social zone or something because it looks a million times more spectacular that Sol system and other social hubs.
Also someone needs to have a serious chat with the Krenim. They build a super-weapon and then left it sitting around with some really shoddy security so it was easy to steal. Why didn't they ensure it was disabled after the end of the Iconian War or even decommissioned and taken apart?
Either way I get the feel that this is literally days after the iconian war ended, but it would have been nice to have a few lines quantifying these things.
Also agreeing with everyone else that the New Khitomer map is gorgeous looking.
It is also possible that it partly was decommissioned, though future episodes may disprove that - while the time-travel functions obviously work fine, the temporal eraser weapon is less clear.
On the rewards, while I do Really love these fun one off sets. I have one major issue with them. Parts like the single beams or duel cannons, turrets, and torpedos limited to one per ship. I can understand the consoles and omni beams limted with how many can be equiped, I see this as something that would really turn people away from using them despite the fun perks. Its very odd when you have a ship firing off in a uniform series of weapons than that one odd sounding one that looks nothing like the others.
Is it possible to get universal varrients of these weapons much like we have with Reputation weapons. Exsample Romulan space set beam array, and than the standard Romulan plasma beam arrays.