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[PODCAST] Tribbles in Ecstasy Take 241: "Echo Reflection"

midniteshadow7midniteshadow7 Member Posts: 787 Arc User
edited November 2016 in Starfleet Media Corps
Tribbles in Ecstasy Take 241: "Echo Reflection" has warped on to Holosuite Media, you can download and stream it from:
In this week's episode the crew discuss recent going ons from Star Trek Online (including console news (1:31:21)), Star Trek Timelines (1:55:53), Star Trek News (2:05:35), a new segment called Combat Log (2:21:32), Listener Feedback (2:50:01) and more!


Our community questions this week are:
1. Do you want us to check into anything for the Combat Log segment?
2. Did you get to play Hearts and Minds and what’s your opinion of it with the new lighting?
3. How are you finding the new lighting updates and what have you found is the best mission/place that really makes these changes shine?
4. If you play Star Trek Timelines, what do you think of the most recent changes in the UI and shop?


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  • chozoelder2ndchozoelder2nd Member Posts: 440 Arc User
    edited November 2016
    1.) Not really. My brain tends to shut down when gameplay mechanics are talked about for too long. STO and MMOs in general... I tend to "roll around in the mud" with those. I reserve commitment for certain fighting games and character action games. This is just a personal thing. Not trying to rain down on the idea of this new segment.

    2.) I skipped it since I've played it far too many times. The same old rewards don't incentivize me enough to keep playing it every Friday 13th or Halloween that goes by.

    3.) I can't answer since I don't have a shiny PC. Just an old dinky laptop for now.


    Feedback

    Let me break down the popular ships from the Console Accolades
    http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/xbox/star-trek-online/news/detail/10230033-star-trek-online-console-accolades

    Not including fleet versions, there are four Defiant Tactical Escorts.
    • Tactical Escort [T4] - Free (or 40k dil if you spent your ship token that you get at Captain or level 30)
    • Tactical Escort Refit [T4] - 1,500 Zen in C-Store (Unlocks Sao Paulo skin)
    • Tactical Escort Retrofit [T5] - 2,000 Zen in C-store
    • Tactical Escort - Valiant Class [T6] - 3,000 Zen in C-Store (Unlocks Valiant skin)

    The Fed ship on the infographic isn't the Sao Paulo. If they can fit "Negh'Var Heavy Battle Cruiser", then I'm sure they could fit "Tactical Escort Retrofit" in there. The picture is the canon revamp of the Defiant.

    Sau Paulo
    Tactical_Escort_Refit_default_Sao_Paulo_class.jpg?version=6ffc60541c054558271de5a0afa582ad

    Defiant
    Fleet_Tactical_Escort_T6_Defiant.jpg?version=d917923d435fe528437ade92d690ad02


    Given the name and the picture, the most popular Fed ship on PS4 is the free T4 escort. Since the most popular Fed ship on Xbox One is the Eclipse (a T6 C-Store ship), it tells me that there are more people at endgame on Xbone than there are on PS4. From this, I think the majority of PS4 players lean more on casual play compared to the majority in Xbone leaning towards being more engaged. At least for now and for Fed players that is.


    As for the Negh'Var, the consoles do not yet have the T6 Negh'Tev. Not including the mirror version, there's only two.
    • Negh'Var Heavy Battle Cruiser [T5] - Free (or 80k dil if you spent your ship token that you get at Brigadier General or level 40)
    • Fleet Negh'Var Heavy Battle Cruiser [T5] - 20k Fleet Credits, 4 Fleet Ship Modules (No FSM discount exists because there is no T5 C-Store version) and a KDF fleet with a T4 shipyard.

    Given how "Fleet" wasn't in the name on the infographic and how hard it is for new fleets to get to a T4 shipyard, then it's safe to assume that the most popular KDF ship on both consoles right now is the free Negh'Var. As of right now, a majority of KDF players aren't flying C-Store ships.


    The only thing that surprised me was that the Eclipse took the spot for the most popular Fed ship on Xbone. I would never buy such an ugly ship.
    jk ;) Eclipse is a great ship. It's a few steps behind a Vengeance at the cost of being much easier to get.
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  • alex1geralex1ger Member Posts: 141 Arc User
    edited November 2016
    Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.



    Community questions:


    1.) Uhm, I'm not entirely sure. I think it might be good to keep an eye on the featured episode sets, because those are rather easy to get. And of course the event ships and how one might get the most out of them.

    Maybe, just maybe use one episode to go through the reputation system? I mean, I keep reading that the iconian set is supposed to be the "go-to" reputation set if you're interested in the "pew pew". Any recommendations on what to use until you get to the point that you can buy it?
    Or maybe you could take a look at some nice budget/reputation sets for tanking purposes?
    Or a nice set (or two) for space magic?


    2.) No, I did not get to play it. I mean I probably should have to get the stuff for my temporal recruit, but I couldn't bring myself to log in.
    But I'd like to say that I don't think the episode needs more "on the nose" scariness. I appreciate an episode like this one that relies on you using your imagination. It's a bit like playing a pen&paper rpg.
    "Hearts and minds" just doesn't offer the kind of jump scares that a lot of people seem to be used to and/or seem to expect and I don't think it needs to.
    I will admit that advertising it as an episode for "friday the 13th or another sufficiently scary day" might be a bit of a communication flub, but that is a different issue... Oh and if I remember correctly, the first time the episode went live they called it a "mini-sode" (mini-episode).

    Let me jump to World of Warcraft for a second... During Warlords of Draenor there was a content patch. 6.1 That nomenclature usually indicates a major content patch (like a season in STO). The most memorable addition in that patch? The "S.E.L.F.I.E. cam". You may guess what it's used for...
    A lot of players were not happy. Afterwards Blizzard admitted that maybe they should have called that patch 6.0.5 instead. And the S.E.L.F.I.E. thing did not even take up that much dev time because one of the devs prototyped it on his own and his higher-ups thought it was fun and let him implement it.

    What do we learn from that? Communication and setting/managing expectations is incredibly important and even though everybody slips up at times, some slip up way more often...


    3.) Like I mentioned before, no new lighting for me, because my PC does not like STO's DirectX 11.


    4.) Still. Not. Playing.



    Feedback:


    RP blog "Tales from K13":
    This tale about the crew of K13 and how they are scrambling to deal with an asteroid that's on a collision course was amazingly well-written.
    But as always there's just a tiny detail that completely takes me out of the story and destroys any semblance of logic. And no, it's not the fact that one of the feds goes off the rails.
    My issue is... someone on reddit asked when this story takes place. The writer himself, Ryon Levitt, answered that it was set after the discovery of the station, but before the player's fleet sends reinforcements.

    Uhm. No. Maybe that's how klingons work, maybe that's how kdf-allied romulans work, but as a fed, this story would not happen like that. And as a romulan in general... well, D'Tan likes to tell you how the romulan republic really wants to build strong ties with other civilizations/species.
    So why the *bleep* did you wake up all these people and tell them all this stuff (the blog specifically mentions meetings with starfleet counselors and advisors...), but NOBODY got a ship to spare that could just orbit the station? Maybe help with repairs? Or at least lend them an engineering team to speed up repairs? No extra shuttle or two? Not even supplies? Nothing?
    Remember the one "Iconian War" blog that had Guroth make fun of Starfleet and its love for redundancies? And here we are, the station is pretty much defenseless and nobody even tries to help them get some kind of emergency defense grid online?

    edit
    Well, I think I should point out that the whole blog makes it sound like they were taken out of stasis at least a few days, more probably a few weeks ago. That should be more than enough time to get SOME form of help/supplies to the station. I mean, how long did our little joyride with the Lukari take?
    /edit

    I wish Cryptic had something like... I don't know... a LEAD WRITER, who makes sure that there is some kind of continuity? And this is not just their own continuity. This whole stuff about Starfleet and its redundancies is actually a well-known fact from canon, so... care to explain this one to me?
    Attention to detail, Cryptic! Attention! To! Detail!


    @sunseahl : Okay, I did some research about your claim that Dave Rivas was let go and all I could find was a somewhat recent facebook post made by him mentioning STO's launch on consoles, because he voices a few of the characters, specifically mentioning Captain Shon.
    And I found... I think both a tweet and a facebook post about Neverwinter. People should go play Neverwinter to keep him employed. Both him and Lani Minella are not just voicing boatloads of people in STO, they are doing the same thing in Neverwinter. I don't know the details of SAG-affiliation, but I would assume that Cryptic as a whole is affiliated and not just the STO team, so I'd hypothesize that as long as he is working on Neverwinter there's a good chance he's also still working on STO.

    Are you sure you didn't confuse him with Gabriel Wolf? Because I remember that guy mentioning on twitter that he would not be working on STO anymore. I think he stated they wanted to focus on california based voice actors.
    And for those who didn't know, Gabriel Wolf was voicing Gaius Selan, Captain Taggart (fed tutorial) and apparently Ensign R'raak (spelling?) (fed tutorial and "Surface tension").
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