This is just meh at best to me. Will some of the sets that you never see used get an update to make them a viable alternative? Doing this just feels lazy or like the devs just don't see the need for IDIC in ship builds.
Awesome stuff ....
Only thing missing seems to be that some consoles also give visuals .... hope this is gets added too
And i know an awefull lot of ppl would also love a fixxed color-visual option for weapons .. (always shoot phaser color on oddy, even when using disruptor/tetryon beams) ... (or just the friggin TOS phaser banks color which is AWESOME)
I just have to add look at the blog pic for this and as usual they showcase a totally wrong ship build that can confuse players. lol Beams and turrets together the consoles are just a jumbled hot mess of nonsense. Things like that do not help newer players learn how to build a ship. No wonder so many players in the ques have no clue how to play. This game really needs a way to teach players how the basics work for ship builds other than word of mouth from vets.
You joking right? The thread is about ship visual and you post about the setup of the ship in the picture showing the new visual system. Wow, and you think people will start by this picture to learn how to use equipment and console. Amazing.
On a side note, something like that will be cool to use but i think there are more things that need to be fixed or balanced. You already adding the new skill systems, should wait before adding something trivial like this.
Nope not a joke. You might be surprised at how many players have no clue what to do with builds. The only references they have are what comes on the ship when claimed and visuals on posts of dev ships like in that pic. Players that know how learned from vets,fleet mates.found builds online or just trial and error. The avg players in the game don't do those things so have no clue because the game doesnt teach them. Which is why so many players only do 1-5k DPS in the ques and have things like rainbow boats. A tutorial on ship builds would be nice because it definitely doesnt help when every dev post with a pic over the years shows a garbage build that makes no sense.
One day Cryptic will be free from their Perfect World overlord. Until that day comes, they will continue to pamper the whales of this game, and ignore everyone that isn't a whale.
A thousand times this. Please include an energy weapon/torpedo aesthetic slot so all our weapons can look like phasers or disrupters or whatever we like no matter which weapons we have equipped. Especially for things like when we equip the new quantum phased phaser set and end up with one blue phaser with the rest all orange *grr*
I believe this is the first time I have actually truly praised the devs from the standpoints of all of the factions, and not just Rom Rep. Good for you, devs. You go, devs.
A thousand times this. Please include an energy weapon/torpedo aesthetic slot so all our weapons can look like phasers or disrupters or whatever we like no matter which weapons we have equipped. Especially for things like when we equip the new quantum phased phaser set and end up with one blue phaser with the rest all orange *grr*
Or the episode rewards blue Polaron and yellow Tetryon
As long as you aren't putting in these commonly asked for features behind a paywall like the underwhelming 'ship loadout' and 'drydock' slots, I think this is a good idea and I'm glad Cryptic has finally gotten around to adding this.
A thousand times this. Please include an energy weapon/torpedo aesthetic slot so all our weapons can look like phasers or disrupters or whatever we like no matter which weapons we have equipped. Especially for things like when we equip the new quantum phased phaser set and end up with one blue phaser with the rest all orange *grr*
I would like to see this but in a limited form. The few odd colored weapons from sets would be fine with things like the green bio phaser being able to go basic phaser orange and etc. However they should never allow any color choice for a visual across all weapons. It would effect pvp in a major way as players wouldnt be able to tell what energy type or special proc type they need to defend against.
On the other hand this ship set visual change is great and something wanted for years by players. Its effects are more than just space barbie visuals because in pvp we have to turn visuals off so others cant tell what set we use. Now we can use any set we want and have the ship look like something else.
I've noticed the new hull materials (from equipping some shields) overwrite our paint job selections -- the 'centaurus', 'leo', 'virgo', etc. choices in the ship customization screen.
Any hope we can get the hull materials applied "under" rather than "over" the markings?
As long as you aren't putting in these commonly asked for features behind a paywall like the underwhelming 'ship loadout' and 'drydock' slots, I think this is a good idea and I'm glad Cryptic has finally gotten around to adding this.
People get both loadouts and drydock slots free. There is only a "paywall" for extra slots. So your snark is a little misplaced.
A thousand times this. Please include an energy weapon/torpedo aesthetic slot so all our weapons can look like phasers or disrupters or whatever we like no matter which weapons we have equipped. Especially for things like when we equip the new quantum phased phaser set and end up with one blue phaser with the rest all orange *grr*
I would like to see this but in a limited form. The few odd colored weapons from sets would be fine with things like the green bio phaser being able to go basic phaser orange and etc. However they should never allow any color choice for a visual across all weapons. It would effect pvp in a major way as players wouldnt be able to tell what energy type or special proc type they need to defend against.
On the other hand this ship set visual change is great and something wanted for years by players. Its effects are more than just space barbie visuals because in pvp we have to turn visuals off so others cant tell what set we use. Now we can use any set we want and have the ship look like something else.
For the 3 remaining PVP players, what if the slots / setting was ignored in PVP maps?
Thank you I love this. I hope you guys can expand on it and do the weapons as well as the overall look of the ships. I would love to be able to use the layout ( ship slots and boff slots) of one ship but have the look of another. As long as I owns own both ships of course.
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I just have to add look at the blog pic for this and as usual they showcase a totally wrong ship build that can confuse players. lol Beams and turrets together the consoles are just a jumbled hot mess of nonsense. Things like that do not help newer players learn how to build a ship. No wonder so many players in the ques have no clue how to play. This game really needs a way to teach players how the basics work for ship builds other than word of mouth from vets.
You joking right? The thread is about ship visual and you post about the setup of the ship in the picture showing the new visual system. Wow, and you think people will start by this picture to learn how to use equipment and console. Amazing.
On a side note, something like that will be cool to use but i think there are more things that need to be fixed or balanced. You already adding the new skill systems, should wait before adding something trivial like this.
Nope not a joke. You might be surprised at how many players have no clue what to do with builds. The only references they have are what comes on the ship when claimed and visuals on posts of dev ships like in that pic. Players that know how learned from vets,fleet mates.found builds online or just trial and error. The avg players in the game don't do those things so have no clue because the game doesnt teach them. Which is why so many players only do 1-5k DPS in the ques and have things like rainbow boats. A tutorial on ship builds would be nice because it definitely doesnt help when every dev post with a pic over the years shows a garbage build that makes no sense.
True about this website not teaching for the game, but the problem start when you get new ship with new rank and the setup is always mixed of beams, cannons, torpedo.
And just to point out something, i do have ship that go around 12K dps and i do have a rainbow boat that does 7K dps. Why because i just want to have some fun or just play the game with lot of colors and sound. Can i have a ship that does better DPS, yes, will i go crazy over someone DPS over a computer game no. I might not be hardcore gamer but something farming or grinding with fun is better then boring.
i love this idea... but i would love to see weapons added to this. i am currently using phasers because of the quad cannons and my tempest tail gun and phaser cannons look stupid... i would love to change their skin to Vaadwaur cannons which look awesome, but keep my phaser weapons. i can see great potential with this and maybe offer some skins in the z-store like perhaps a vaadwaur quad cannon skin for lets say 300 - 500 zen? making skins would be another good way of making some more money for your game. STO has come a long way since i started playing, I am happy that the Devs of STO care about their clients and wish to make them happy [which is rare in this day and age]. STO is the best MMO that i ever played, and i've played a lot including Aion, Tera, Rift, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV, and Star Wars The Old Republic [just to name a few of the newer ones] don't get me wrong there are some on that list i enjoy playing like Aion and FF14, but the best is still STO in my book.
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Neat feature I'd definitely use (both for visuals and possibly as a place to park unneeded rep sets, although the blog isn't quite clear on how this would or wouldn't work for active but unselected ships.) And yes, some way to customize weapon visuals would be a nice next step.
So gonna agree with the people saying we need an Energy Weapon Visuals Slot and a Torpedo Visuals Slot.
Would be a great addition to this.
I remember back when this game came out, we did have the option to use a command to change the colors of our weapons, which got removed since it wasn't intended back then. But maybe its time to move forward and give us the option to select which colors we shoot with again.
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Only thing missing seems to be that some consoles also give visuals .... hope this is gets added too
And i know an awefull lot of ppl would also love a fixxed color-visual option for weapons .. (always shoot phaser color on oddy, even when using disruptor/tetryon beams) ... (or just the friggin TOS phaser banks color which is AWESOME)
Nope not a joke. You might be surprised at how many players have no clue what to do with builds. The only references they have are what comes on the ship when claimed and visuals on posts of dev ships like in that pic. Players that know how learned from vets,fleet mates.found builds online or just trial and error. The avg players in the game don't do those things so have no clue because the game doesnt teach them. Which is why so many players only do 1-5k DPS in the ques and have things like rainbow boats. A tutorial on ship builds would be nice because it definitely doesnt help when every dev post with a pic over the years shows a garbage build that makes no sense.
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A thousand times this. Please include an energy weapon/torpedo aesthetic slot so all our weapons can look like phasers or disrupters or whatever we like no matter which weapons we have equipped. Especially for things like when we equip the new quantum phased phaser set and end up with one blue phaser with the rest all orange *grr*
Or the episode rewards blue Polaron and yellow Tetryon
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Now you can engage in false advertising...
I would like to see this but in a limited form. The few odd colored weapons from sets would be fine with things like the green bio phaser being able to go basic phaser orange and etc. However they should never allow any color choice for a visual across all weapons. It would effect pvp in a major way as players wouldnt be able to tell what energy type or special proc type they need to defend against.
On the other hand this ship set visual change is great and something wanted for years by players. Its effects are more than just space barbie visuals because in pvp we have to turn visuals off so others cant tell what set we use. Now we can use any set we want and have the ship look like something else.
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Any hope we can get the hull materials applied "under" rather than "over" the markings?
People get both loadouts and drydock slots free. There is only a "paywall" for extra slots. So your snark is a little misplaced.
For the 3 remaining PVP players, what if the slots / setting was ignored in PVP maps?
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This opens the door to the possibility of universal transmogrification. Love Space Barbies and RP!
Also, add my vote to add beam colour unification sometime in the future.
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True about this website not teaching for the game, but the problem start when you get new ship with new rank and the setup is always mixed of beams, cannons, torpedo.
And just to point out something, i do have ship that go around 12K dps and i do have a rainbow boat that does 7K dps. Why because i just want to have some fun or just play the game with lot of colors and sound. Can i have a ship that does better DPS, yes, will i go crazy over someone DPS over a computer game no. I might not be hardcore gamer but something farming or grinding with fun is better then boring.
Devs, do not stop caring about your players and you will go no man has gone before!
Would be a great addition to this.
I remember back when this game came out, we did have the option to use a command to change the colors of our weapons, which got removed since it wasn't intended back then. But maybe its time to move forward and give us the option to select which colors we shoot with again.
Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"