Official Feedback Thread for Terminal Expanse

coldsnapped · June 2016

Please use this thread to post feedback and issues found for the new episode "Terminal Expanse".

New Episode: Terminal Expanse

Venture into the “Kelvin Timeline” created when Spock used a black hole to save the galaxy from a supernova.
The episode can be found in the Yesterday’s War journal tab.
This episode is for level 40 Captains who have also completed “Vorgon Conclusions”.
This episode can be played by all players on each faction.
For more details, please visit the Terminal Expanse blog at: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10031703-star-trek-online:-terminal-expanse

rtk142 · June 2016

Ok right off the bat the step 'Help 0718 Target Safe Beam In Coordinates' could be a bit more streamlined. There's no indication how many times we have to do the minigame, and just a heads up on that could be useful. Also, and forgive me for not counting, I should have, but do we need to do so many? I'm guessing that was ten or so at least. Wouldn't three or even five suffice? It feels like it kills mission progression

amosov78 · June 2016

Surprisingly this one went really smoothly for me. One note; when on the Yorktown's bridge you can't see the saucer section of the starship outside the viewscreen window, like you should be able to with the alternate Constitution-class:

i.imgur.com/BKV5pIT.jpg

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/xihd/trekxihd2370.jpg

sorceror01 · June 2016

This also went smoothly for me, but I did notice that NPC's kept talking over each other, at the very end of their dialogue. Like, their queue to speak would fire just a few seconds before the first speaking NPC was finished talking.

malkarris · June 2016

rtk142 wrote: »

Ok right off the bat the step 'Help 0718 Target Safe Beam In Coordinates' could be a bit more streamlined. There's no indication how many times we have to do the minigame, and just a heads up on that could be useful. Also, and forgive me for not counting, I should have, but do we need to do so many? I'm guessing that was ten or so at least. Wouldn't three or even five suffice? It feels like it kills mission progression

Huh, if your talking about the wave matching minigame, I only had to do it once that then he called me over to continue. Sounds like a bug you caught.

Loved the mission, some overlapping voices (talked about in the animation thread) and it looks like the D-4X models aren't in the game. Also, that was a nasty trick needing to tank the environment in the last part of the mission, I approve.

tuskin67 · June 2016

This has nothing with the mission really, but I don't think the Yorktowns 'phasers' fire fast enough, if you look at movie 11 they're just a flurry of bolts, kind of like how the phasers were in The Wrath of Khan, just not as narrow of a firing arc.

sorceror01 · June 2016

Hm, they actually looked like they were firing pretty fast to me.

Also wondering: is the Kelvin Timeline Bat'leth going to be the only KT-specific reward from this mission? Or can we also maybe get the phaser that Cyborg 0718 uses, too?

rtk142 · June 2016

malkarris wrote: »

rtk142 wrote: »

Ok right off the bat the step 'Help 0718 Target Safe Beam In Coordinates' could be a bit more streamlined. There's no indication how many times we have to do the minigame, and just a heads up on that could be useful. Also, and forgive me for not counting, I should have, but do we need to do so many? I'm guessing that was ten or so at least. Wouldn't three or even five suffice? It feels like it kills mission progression

Huh, if your talking about the wave matching minigame, I only had to do it once that then he called me over to continue. Sounds like a bug you caught. .

Yep the waveform thing, seriously I had to do it a bunch of times. I don't know why, I just did. I was doing it on a FED Tac female Vulcan. Regular Fed, a copy of my very first character from launch

norcaler2 · June 2016

I noticed in cutscenes inside the sphere and the final one on the Yorktown the VO dialogue occasionally overlapped.

tuskin67 · June 2016

rtk142 wrote: »

malkarris wrote: »

Huh, if your talking about the wave matching minigame, I only had to do it once that then he called me over to continue. Sounds like a bug you caught. .

Yep the waveform thing, seriously I had to do it a bunch of times. I don't know why, I just did. I was doing it on a FED Tac female Vulcan. Regular Fed, a copy of my very first character from launch

Weird, I only had to do it once.

empireofsteve · June 2016

I just completed the 2nd episode and the Yesterdays War disappeared. I have tried logging and it does not appear on any character.

tuskin67 · June 2016

empireofsteve wrote: »

I just completed the 2nd episode and the Yesterdays War disappeared. I have tried logging and it does not appear on any character.

Are you level 40 and beaten Solenae Dyson Sphere missions?

empireofsteve · June 2016

The Dyson Sphere episodes are not yet complete but I am level 60. I will give that a shot.

superherofan · June 2016

There was a weird beeping sound throughout the last cutscene. I also agree that the Yorktown's phasers didn't look quite right.

Good episode. AMAZING job on the Kelvin bridge and Expanse BTW.

empireofsteve · June 2016

I can confirm the beeping at the end as well.

tuskin67 · June 2016

sorceror01 wrote: »

Hm, they actually looked like they were firing pretty fast to me.

Not if you compare it to this scene

https://youtu.be/FXy_DO6IZOA?t=64

1:04

sorceror01 · June 2016

Maybe that was just the movie version of a "cannon rapid fire" maneuver? They only seemed to keep up that insane burst of fire up for a short period of time, it seems.

Either way, it's not that big of a nitpicky detail. It still felt fine to me at least.

shurato2099 · June 2016

The mission ran pretty smoothly for me. My only issue is a nitpick, really: the speech/mouth synchronization seemed a bit odd ... the lips seemed to lack weight or thickness so there were times when they seemed to either vanish or recede overly much and leave me staring at their lower teeth.

captkelly31 · June 2016

1 idea for a backstory is that the "overlap" is only now happening because blast energy from Hobus that would have entered the timestream earlier was either paused, or slowed down, and the Na'kuhl, or some other faction recently found and released it.

amosov78 · June 2016

I wonder if we'll get any speculation about the "unique" properties of Red Matter/decalithium, especially since time travel usually doesn't create branching alternate universes in most of Star Trek.

blitzy4 · June 2016

I can confirm that yesterday's war disappeared from the episode listing, but the mission still shows up under available if you look under daniels. I was also level 60, so it might have something to do with that.

captainoblivous · June 2016

erm, I'm totally missing the "yesterdays war" mission tab on my journal...

kirimuffin · June 2016

Overall, fantastic. Great fun. I especially liked how Admiral Garrett actually had some different dialogue for KDF players; that doesn't happen nearly often enough.

The only bug I found is that, in some cutscenes, my KDF character beamed in/out with Fed transporter effects. Other than that (and some missing VO, which I assume is yet to be added), the mission played really well with no problems.

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arabatur · June 2016

The injured crewmen on the Yorktown bridge all wear different coloured uniforms to what their titles claim they are.

tuskin67 · June 2016

captainoblivous wrote: »

erm, I'm totally missing the "yesterdays war" mission tab on my journal...

Make sure you've completed or skipped every mission up to and including the Solenae Dyson sphere arc

And also check under the available missions/contacts tab.

captainoblivous · June 2016

tuskin67 wrote: »

captainoblivous wrote: »

erm, I'm totally missing the "yesterdays war" mission tab on my journal...

Make sure you've completed or skipped every mission up to and including the Solenae Dyson sphere arc

And also check under the available missions/contacts tab.

I got in there with the contacts tab, but the yesterdays war tab is just missing. I've had it there in previous tribble builds when I did a run through the previous eps, but it's just straight up missing this time.

jtoon74 · June 2016

arabatur wrote: »

The injured crewmen on the Yorktown bridge all wear different coloured uniforms to what their titles claim they are.

This is basically all that was wrong when I ran the mission, it said they where all engineering yet only one had the correct color shirt (Red).

As an after thought woudn't it be great if the sphere builders destroyed JJverse, sadly I know this won't happen but a man can dream.

badgerpants999 · June 2016

There was alternate dialog for my Romulan character also. Nice to be welcomed so graciously, even is I was "On the wrong side of the neutral zone".

gpgtx · June 2016

the KDF also has alternate dialog it was nice to see

my fed klingon did not though

amosov78 · June 2016

Not exactly related to the mission, but after encountering the Kelvin Timeline stuff I actually wouldn't mind seeing an expansion based around this timeline. A Kelvin Timeline reputation would be good too, especially since there hasn't been a Starfleet themed one so far.

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