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TRIBBLE MAINTENANCE AND RELEASE NOTES - June 1, 2016
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Tribble has been updated to: ST.64.20160526a.3.
*Only Gold and Lifetime Account players can access Tribble to view the new Agents of Yesterday content*
New Features:
New Episode: The Core of the Matter
General:
Content:
Known Issues:
*Only Gold and Lifetime Account players can access Tribble to view the new Agents of Yesterday content*
New Features:
New Episode: The Core of the Matter
- Travel to the mysterious Romulan research facility of the Galorndon Core before it was turned into an unstable planet plagued by severe electromagnetic storms.
- The episode can be found in the Yesterday’s War journal tab.
- This episode is for level 19 Captains.
- This episode can be played by all players on each faction.
- Complete the hand-off mission “The Once and Future Agent” prior to beginning this episode.
- At this time, this episode can only be played once.
- In the near future, this can be replayed like other episodes.
- For more details, visit the Core of the Matter blog at: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9994293-star-trek-online:-galorndon-core
General:
- Resolved an issue that caused the Type F Shuttle to cost 1 EC for TOS Captains.
- Now it costs 1 Shuttle Token.
- Added new TOS themed icons throughout the TOS faction.
- TOS captains now have TOS style beam outs and ins.
- Resolved an issue where Uncommon/Green and VeryRare/Purple Specialization Kit Modules were unlocking on the store, and available for use, one point before they should have been.
- Corrected the name of the 6th anniversary party popper to "Explosive Party Popper."
- Some ground abilities that spawn hazard areas will no longer apply Damage-Over-Time effects that linger on targets after they leave the hazard area.
- To compensate for this, the hazards themselves have had their lifespans increased. This affects the following abilities:
- Plasma Grenade
- Cryo Grenade
- Exothermic Induction Field
- Updated the registry numbers on TOS ships so that they have the appropriate spacing.
- Now player ships will have widely-spaced numbers like the original Enterprise.
- Updated the nacelle dome spin on TOS ships so that the spin on each dome is spinning to the "outside" of the ship, per canon.
- Resolved a subtle seam in the model of top of the Pioneer's nacelle struts.
- Removed the Seven of Nine hands from Female TOS characters.
- The Space Trait "Secret Command Codes" no longer activates when you cloak or leave cloak.
Content:
- The Taurean Affair:
- Dislodging Klingons: Resolved the issue where the targets in the shooting range would quickly pop up then disappear.
- Dislodging Klingons: Added a waypoint for science objective "Bring the Sensors Back Online".
- Bull by the Horns: Resolved an issue with the waypoint being incorrect during "Talk to Ensign Mears" objective.
- Bull by the Horns: Moved the respawn point to a safer location for the Defeat Klingon Assault squad objective.
- Search and Rescue: Resolved an issue where exiting the client during objective "Drive off the Taurean" caused Taurean to disappear when reclogging blocking progression.
- Bull by the Horns: Resolved an issue where Flores, Okamura, Skial reset during Taurus II missions.
- Shadow of Cestus:
- At the end of act 2, scientists now run over to the side of the shuttle and then disappear, instead of running off to another point and then beaming out.
- Changed animation for placing the bamboo pipe bombs, so it no longer looks like punching a code into a keypad.
- Map now displays the correct name of the map.
- Return to Babel:
- Being on Deck 5 now places a TOS uniform on the player.
- Improvements made to the cutscenes.
- Temporal Front: Resolved an issue where the USS Pastak followed the player’s ship a little too closely.
- Removed duplicate vendor on Bajor: Hathon.
- Resolved an issue with the Federation Siege Breaker accolade (KDF) to correctly track the defeat of the U.S.S. Marlowe.
- Welcome to Earth Spacedock cannot be replayed by TOS characters.
Known Issues:
- The TOS Captains and missions are all a work in progress.
- Players that have already claimed the Constitution Class Starship will not see the updated art.
- Go into the ship tailor with the ship and alter the costume to make all updates appear.
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I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Won't this change make those powers practically useless*? Most enemies leave the DOT-area in, say, two or three seconds. Those that are too slow to quickly leave the area like the Borg sometimes jump literally 5 or 6 meters high to get around the fire.
It also means that, in fact, all enemies get a cleanse power, something players don't automatically get when suffering from DOT effects. This seems a bit weird: I set an enemy on fire, and the moment they move away from the fire, all the flames that had already caught them are suddenly extinguished?
Might as well remove the DOT-effect entirely and just increase the base damage of the initial impact. Or, what would be a better option I think, instead of increasing the duration of the fire / plasma, why not increase its radius? That would make this change less painful. I don't think that increasing the lifespan of the power will be enough to keep these abilities useful given how quickly most enemies get away from them (or cheat their way out of it
Heralds will likely suffer much less anyway from these powers, regardless of how players are compensated, but for enemies like the Voth, Vaadwaur and many others these alternative ways of compensating players could mean the difference between making these things next-to-useless powers and something that can still be useful if activated at the right time/location.
I don't know what the reasons are for changing these things of course, but these are just some ideas that may be worth considering.
* Unless maybe when used in combination with other Sci powers that slow down enemies, but well, we only have so many kit modules and it would basically mean we'd have to sacrifice another slot to make these powers useful again
In the meantime, maybe it's best to have Knock, Hold or Root abilities handy if you want to get the best performance from hazard abilities.
As for the reasons behind the change, there are a few:
1) We wanted to more clearly separate the mechanics of a DOT (a duration-based damage effect) from a Hazard (a thing that does damage while you're within it), and so having Hazards that afflict DOTs really confuses the issue.
2) The presence of DOT effects on these abilities caused bugs in the form of "an unknown entity" entries in your Combat Log, when the hazard entity expired but the DOT was still active.
3) The idea of a periodically-applied periodic effect is not just messy, but is practically impossible to describe on a tooltip in a way that we were happy with, and that players can easily understand.
I hope that helps explain the situation a bit more clearly.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
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I guess my Scientists will, in the end, have to be more than just the destructive kind they are now an start experimenting a bit with alternative stuff
...that work exactly the same as they did in the previous patch, with none of their issues fixed.
So that explains the 'unknown entity' in the combat log after all these years.
The changes are understandable, but I don't like the idea of having to take other kit abilities and/or powers to compensate for it.
It is what it is I guess.
Also, I can't access the handoff mission in the new arc on my level 60 FED. Agent Cray won't give me the mission, and I got a message that said "The timeline is stable, we'll contact you if it changes."
Beaming in, I again hear the effect, but only see a vague outline for a second before it cuts out and my TOS Toon suddenly just appears out of thin air when the sound effect finishes.
Also, my ENG Toon is also unable to obtain the ENG Accolade in the "Stranded in Space" mission.
I get the first console call up, but the back left hand corner console that finishes the accolade doesn't activate.
One other thing, I'm still using my Pioneer TOS starship and when I go to the transporter room during the "Stranded in Space" mission, I get the current modern Transporter room.
It's quite jarring, since my 2270 ship hasn't been in dry-dock long enough at this point in the game, to have been upgraded.
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
And what we need isn't a tier 6 Connie, what we need is a TOS Connie of the proper tier!.. I'm pointing at same same tier as a K'tinga . TOS parts and Movie parts in the ship tailor. My TOS Sci captain feels slightly strange running about in a Nova beating up TOS era hulls..
*grumble grumble grumble grumble*
Patching..
Edit : also just noticed in the transporter room there is a transporter bit above the control panel
I agree with you entirely. This change makes no sense at all from a if I set someone on fire just because they leave the area they will automatically not be on fire. This power was the backbone of my Science character in single player content. Most of the science powers do not do much damage and this was the standout power. Science always getting slapped in the face.
In order for this to be re-balanced the initial blast needs to do no less then 25% more damage. Also a 1 to 2 second stun effect should be added to it. If you got set a blaze in real life you would not have the ability to react instantly to get out of the fire you would be in shock from the event. That would keep the enemies in the effected area longer and be less cheaty.
But it still comes down to the fact that you are making the power less realistic. Which I know sounds silly we are all playing a game but this is a science based power and removing the real science effect makes no sense. This makes me not want to play my science character at all.
Simple solution: the hazard can never expire before the DoT. Simple solution #2: all remaining DoTs expire when the hazard does. Okay, with my limited view of the game's internal workings, maybe not quite so simple, but the DoT has to have an "owner", right? Make the hazard (or the hazard's damaging entity) the owner, and when it gets dumped, so do the DoTs.
This is obviously anecdotal, but I've played with kids, young adults, middle-aged peeps like myself, and those who are older, including those who are avid gamers and those who had never played an MMO before, and none of them had trouble understanding the tooltips for these powers any more than any other tooltips.
Honestly, this sounds like a change that didn't need to be made, that was perhaps in the name of "cleaner code".
As a programmer myself, I understand the desire as well as some of the possible benefits. But gameplay > clean code, and this essentially breaks a bunch of powers in ways that make them not what they purport to be.
A plasma grenade that doesn't set you on fire so you keep burning ISN'T a plasma grenade.
Well said @adwynyth .
Also can't get the "Core of the Matter" featured episode with Federation officers. Kingon officers do not have problem. Haven't tried with Romulan but do not expect problem.
Actually, they do spin to the "inside". Which is displayed correct per canon. So this note is wrong.
back to bugs or glitches i found:
the cutscenes as usual dont work properly, the time travel scene first time from sector space has the playership disappear before the time portal animation shows up and during that point there are nacelle outlines showing.
in the mission there is a placement issue after being exposed as imposter romulans, in that you are standing there but you and your crew are moving about without any movement orders, very glitch like, it stops when you input a movement direction.
during the space cutscenes during fighting, its the same going back to all the previous missions through to new dawn, your ship is not immune during cutscenes, so by the time the cutscene is finished, your ship is destroyed (one of the most annoying things i have seen).
the final cutscene does not show the doomsday device crashing into the planet or any explosion, nor any planetary model changes showing the planets atmosphere reacting..
finally as the mission ends all the weapons showing including the armour, the weapons all show up as "disruptor" even the ones with the federation type 1 phaser icons.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Heh, @borticuscryptic ... Adding 25% larger radius and 25% longer duration will explain those tools still clearly being used after the change
Now, I ran the level 19 Galorndon Core mission, along with the final mission in the Klingon War arc, getting myself to level 24, and the whole time they kept referring to me as a Commander, and the rank label in the top left also says it, but no official assignment from Quinn... Also, Temporal Agent Clay says I should unlock certain items at lvl 20, but his options are unavailable also...
Just wondering if this is by design, or I'm missing something, out if it's a bug that needs reporting...
Thanks!
CM
This is a current issue I have as well. I think the issue lies in a handoff somewhere, as for all intents and purposes the TOS Admiral Garrett is the Admiral Quinn of that time. I think somewhere it hasn't been linked up for either to provide promotion missions for TOS characters.
I also had another issue, on my first TOS character, as a result of whatever circumstances occurred, I leveled fast. This had the unfortunate result of making my character level 16+ by the time I got to 25th century. I never got a promotion notice or a new liutenant commander ship from Garret. And, no bank or exchange access in TOS either. Thus, I was fighting lvl 16+ enemies with a lvl 1 ship and weapons... It wasn't pretty.
The situation here is unique. As a result of the tos faction being displaced by time initially, they almost have a complete section of the game redesigned specifically for them. ESD, Sector space, etc. Most maps for FED,ROM,KLG are universal, if not accessible immediately. Sector space is the same from the beginning, as is the non faction specific missions/locales, for all characters. They can all equip each others weapon types, use the bank, exchange, etc. The Tos faction is different. It's unique story arc, neccessitates no access to future weapons/tech/ships until a certain point. Isolated from the rest of the game.
The trick is to get everything balanced, what can and cannot be used when. One solution may be to hardwire no xp boosts during the TOS era. You have to complete each mission as it comes, at its mimimum level. Things will need to be balanced out, but this is all work-in-progress, and the fixes may be in the works already..
Anyway, I enjoy the TOS content and think that they did a good job building the story.