English version has hit the news:
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10223123-sphere-builder-lockbox
Thoughts and impressions?
First thought is that the dogs at the bottom look more like a Cerberus or hell hound with those eyes.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
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As for the sphere builders, meh. These buckets are fugly as hell and have been leaked waaaay before AoY rolled out. The only surprising thing is how long they've held them back. Also it's funny how the english news is the only one without pics of the ships.
Ironically, those who worked on "In a Mirror, Darkly" said the Rottie portraying Mirror Porthos was very sweet.
Why is the Mastery Trait buffing a Science Power on the non-Science Vessel ship in the box?
Temporal/Intel sounds like a real winner combination for a Science Vessel, though.
The Personal Traits could be an attempt to help engineering captains a bit. And the buff to Subnucleonic Beam should make it more interesting to use in PvE.
Remains to be seen how potent they are in comparision with the tac traits. Is it a way to get closer to even, or just a pure power creep for all classes?
The sci ship could be nice however a ship with good layout but boring appearance would put me into a dilemma I rather not face.
Some of the new traits seems to add to power creep and could be worth getting. Still this box is likely to be a rather cheap release for me.
All the better, gives me time to save some ec for the Annorax.
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Will be needing more storage to more lockboxes
There is indeed little info on them, but i expect they are non combat pets similar to the cats from previous lock boxes.
*pets the cute puppy*
My character Tsin'xing
which ship is the first one?
And I'm not talking about the Dog
Never liked Rotts... still nice to see more options for pets..
some interesting traits and very "pretty" rifles....
on the whole, totally forgettable box
Goodie a post of a post of a blog
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1223831/sphere-builder-lockbox
Yep this was more than likely the end of the PC STO. They know the ship has sailed and then sunk.
Indeed! The dog was in this scene for example!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZKRhPxNWII
As for the ships, I'm not quite sold on the looks but the stats are very good for a TAC+SCI style of play. A number of the newest things for a while really promote that style.
Also, Intel on a SCI oriented ship works very well to surge power so those SCI abilities get a lot of "oomph." Most Temporal BOFF abilities are no different. Recursive Shearing is one of those examples that aren't and it's the only one I can think of off the top of my head that is like that in Temporal.
Modules? The SCI and ENG ones look good. The TAC one for Security Team to lob grenades doesn't seem all that, but then again imagining the way some TACs build for huge Security Team deployments, the idea of all those grenades flying seems funny.
Traits? The one that stood out to me was the ship bound one to remove the Repel effect from Photonic Shockwave. That to me looks quite good. The Repel effect for most of this game isn't desired. Guys get mad if you use PSW at the wrong time and scatter the NPCs into different parts of the map when they were trying to GW them together. In addition, with no Repel effect, there's also a trait DOFF for PSW to cause additional PSWs as it bounces off other targets in the area. In addition, there's the trait "Overwhelming Force" that a HYT salvo causes a PSW effect.
Haven't noticed that in a lockbox before.
Not a good idea because my captains an engineer and the only trait I'm interested in is tactical so this box has absolutely nothing I want.
WAI?
My character Tsin'xing
and the first set of career-locked traits came with whichever box had the orbital devastation trait in it
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