Based from what I saw, I'd say 22nd century human-only faction is a more likely candidate and you'll be one of the crewmen who was supposed to die during the Battle of Azati Prime.
Why? Because Walker talked about us checking Archer's records to know more about the Na'kuhl, then there was the Vosk incident with once again a mention to Archer, then there was the NX-01 Enterprise itself appearing during Vorgon Conclusions and there is potentially an upcoming T6 NX.
Definitely a new Fed/United Earth tutorial set in the 22nd century onboard the Enterprise with just 2 missions, a special recruitment event, human-only and with voice cameos of Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, and with Connor Trinneer voicing Temporal Section 31 agent Charles Tucker III, revealed to have faked his death. All this, released with a 2nd Elachi Lockbox with T6 Elachi ships featured in one of the missions which is a sequel to ENT: Silent Enemy.
And, in the other arc released at the same time, Alice Eve will voice Carol Marcus for another mission in the Kelvin Timeline where you must stop Romulans allied to time-traveling Prime Mirror Leeta from stealing the Genesis Device.
This is a joke, of course. Granted, I wouldn't mind playing a MACO from ENT for about 10 missions, before being stranded into the 25th century, and go back to the Kelvin Timeline.
Is just that episode a holographic simulation or the entire series?
lets be honest, ENT was a bad dream, best left forgotton when we woke up... so yeah holo-sim
Some of us liked Enterprise, only the finally left a bad flavor in my mouth, that's cause Berman and Braga were to busy patting each other on the back for past accomplishments and an ego circle jerk session.
A KDF-only recruit event would certainly make players want to play KDF. And give people who normally wouldn't play it a reason to experience it.
Aswell as old players who still think KDF doesn't have anything to offer, gets see how much it actually got to offer today. (I still hear old players claim KDF doesn't have any missions at all, or complain all KDF maps are so dark you can't see anything.)
I do recall when the Delta Recruit event ran, there was a lot of players that made KDF side characters to get the extra Recruit things that could only be gotten with a KDF side character.
So yeah, I am all for a KDF-only recruit event. It can bring more people over to play.
Also T6 Vo'Quv Carrier and T6 Kar'Fi Battle Carrier, please.
Aswell as some more allied alien ships. Ferasan ships? Anyone?
the two carriers most definitely need a T 6 version ( my klingon still flies the vo'quv , not even T5U and it's a FUN ship )
A KDF-only recruit event would certainly make players want to play KDF. And give people who normally wouldn't play it a reason to experience it.
Aswell as old players who still think KDF doesn't have anything to offer, gets see how much it actually got to offer today. (I still hear old players claim KDF doesn't have any missions at all, or complain all KDF maps are so dark you can't see anything.)
I do recall when the Delta Recruit event ran, there was a lot of players that made KDF side characters to get the extra Recruit things that could only be gotten with a KDF side character.
So yeah, I am all for a KDF-only recruit event. It can bring more people over to play.
Also T6 Vo'Quv Carrier and T6 Kar'Fi Battle Carrier, please.
Aswell as some more allied alien ships. Ferasan ships? Anyone?
the two carriers most definitely need a T 6 version ( my klingon still flies the vo'quv , not even T5U and it's a FUN ship )
I am currently working on making a Kar'Fi build, and looking at buying the fleet version.. which still only a T5 that can be upgraded.
Was really disapointed when I started this build idea due to the lack of T6 carriers for KDF, even more so give they were the faction that originally had carriers to give them some unique gameplay (along with raiders).
"Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons." Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"
I'd go for a Klingon event before a TOS fed event. I have no interest whatsoever in a TOS character (esp since after the tutorial you become just a regular Fed, seems pointless. just a free TOS ship and free TOS uniform). Sorry to be all "emperors new clothes", but it was a lot of fanfare for nothing much.
aside from that I'd like a Lukari faction/race, won't happen though cos they only just came into the story, and so won't tie in to the earlier story arcs. shame. (although same can be said of the Cardassians, Talaxians, Iconians, whoever. Any new race could only join the story from this point on, and not do the previous episodes. Not a big deal to me, as I assume we have a few years and seasons to go yet, so plenty of time to level them up)
oh, before I forget, can we get a T6 Orion destroyer/carrier/cruiser? thanks
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So far we have had the Delta and Agents of Yesterday Recruits. Could we see a KDF Recruit in 2017? Judging from the K-13 Part 3 bit and the Winter Event Klingon Ice Fishing, I would say that might be what lies on the horizon.
Calling it! KDF Recruit.
Oh god. I just finished hammering through Delta Arc last night on my AOY baby-alt. (Well, not so "baby" anymore, but certainly years younger than the others). I did Delta once before, when it was new, and hated it with a burning passion. It is the most tedious, laggy, boring POS ever. Everything before and after is better by a country mile, and I swore after doing it once I'd never do it again. But....AOY. SO I suffered through it again, and it was hideous. The gross overuse of particle effects in the maps themselves just kills framerate, regardless of connection quality; I'm talking map lag, what used to be known as r_speed back in the day.
I still have an undeveloped Delta Recruit, and I'm going to do some of the stuff on her bucket list, but not DR again, never again.
"It's our best expansion ever, and the players love it"
All that being said, I do like the idea of a KDF recruit, but just please, for the love of all gods great and small, please don't ask me to do Delta Rising again!
Heh, Temporal Recruitment was the first time I'd actually played the whole DR arc... because the first patrols were *that* tedious. It's convinced me I was right first time .
Anyway; there is a very simple numerical logic behind a KDF / Rom recruitment event. Cryptic have sunk a lot of effort into those factions, yet at least 2/3 of the playerbase have never tried either of them. That's a lot of potential ship / character sales for very little effort to implement. Like Delta Recruitment, it could be a great filler event between seasons next year.
I could go for a expansion on the tos faction and temporal event, in the concept of reworking/adding KDF/Romulan perspectives to the tos faction missions, while also creating Kdf and Romulan specific rewards in the temporal recruitment event. Could also have one or two KDF/Romulan specific finishing mission/s, but in the end it would less of making a whole new story arc an more of expanding on the currently created missions. This might be the best way of getting more KDF/Romulan content as it is less work to implement than a fully original set of missions, which means they have to allocate less time an resources for it to be completed, which could also lead to them doing abit of other content too alongside it.
There's stuff that's really irritating when it comes to "cross faction " . For example : if you make a Reman character the dialogue you have with Obisek is no different from that you have as a human . Likewise if you go to new Romulus as a Romulan the scripted dialogue is no different from that with a human captain . if you look at the whole Iconian war chain , as a KDF character the dialogue you have with fellow KDF NPC's is no different from that as a FED character . I could go on and on .They could at least add some line to the replies you give as captain to the NPC's ( I can understand that recording new -faction specific - voice overs would be expensive but do it without audio then ) .There should be a distinct difference when you play as Reman with how the Obisek-chain plays ( not just in dialogue but the actual missions should be different ) . Why else bother choosing a faction ? They really need to address that issue
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
There's stuff that's really irritating when it comes to "cross faction " . For example : if you make a Reman character the dialogue you have with Obisek is no different from that you have as a human . Likewise if you go to new Romulus as a Romulan the scripted dialogue is no different from that with a human captain . if you look at the whole Iconian war chain , as a KDF character the dialogue you have with fellow KDF NPC's is no different from that as a FED character . I could go on and on .They could at least add some line to the replies you give as captain to the NPC's ( I can understand that recording new -faction specific - voice overs would be expensive but do it without audio then ) .There should be a distinct difference when you play as Reman with how the Obisek-chain plays ( not just in dialogue but the actual missions should be different ) . Why else bother choosing a faction ? They really need to address that issue
There is. There is even a specific accolade you can only get by talking to Obisek as a Reman.
But in general, there is no need to have any more racist dialogue in the game. With few exceptions like Obisek, the player's race should have no bearing on the story. Having characters compare forehead bumps all the time would be completely un-Trek thing to do.
Factions are origin stories and should be acknowledged as such.
'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
Judge Dan Haywood
'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
ONE example, Warpangel-you can do better than that. in the first mission of the 2800 string, KDF players get a stack of actions they can take, and in 'of bajor' they get actual side-missions appropriate to the faction.
Please to be remembering that both predate Legacy of Romulus by quite some time.
but there's an awful lot of everything-that-came-after Legacy of Romulus, where your non-Federation character spouts Federation propoganda, acts-and-is-treated-like a Federation human in Starfleet, and where non-Fed NPC's are for the most part notably incompetent, helpless, stupid...unless they, too, are spouting Federation dogma.
What do you actually expect? In TOS both the Klingon's and Romulan's were villains. Outright, no chance of anything different, villains. They were portrayed that same way in the TOS movies up until the last one, and even then only Gorkon was meant to be a "good" Klingon trying to help his people even though they didn't want it. Even into TNG and DS9 both were antagonistic at the best of times and, again, outright villains at the worst. Yeah, they tried to clean up the Klingons a bit to make them seem like they're not as bad but the underlying nature of the show portrayed them doing just as much backstabbing as Romulans at times.
You can't translate that into a game where you have to write all the different sides as their own thing without the story going so far off the rails in 3 different directions you might as well just make 3 different games. They basically just took the "we have to work together to fight the big baddie" from the DS9 Dominion arc and made a game out of it because there's no other way to do it. Are the devs leaning more heavily towards Fed favoritism? Obviously, but even if they weren't the intentional bias from the source material would make it hard to do anything else.
I personally like playing my Romulan and wish there were more chances to do things in a more Romulan fashion. Am I totally upset and angry that they'll never do them justice? No. Then again I realize that this is a game and treat it as such where a lot of people don't and get stuck in the weeds on the stupidest of issues.
or just a certain gecko that doesn't like anything not fed
Now you're just being cynical. The Holy Metrics says people LOVE repetition and sameness. Infinite Diversity only gets applied to hairstyles and uniforms-and then, only sparingly.
There's stuff that's really irritating when it comes to "cross faction " . For example : if you make a Reman character the dialogue you have with Obisek is no different from that you have as a human . Likewise if you go to new Romulus as a Romulan the scripted dialogue is no different from that with a human captain . if you look at the whole Iconian war chain , as a KDF character the dialogue you have with fellow KDF NPC's is no different from that as a FED character . I could go on and on .They could at least add some line to the replies you give as captain to the NPC's ( I can understand that recording new -faction specific - voice overs would be expensive but do it without audio then ) .There should be a distinct difference when you play as Reman with how the Obisek-chain plays ( not just in dialogue but the actual missions should be different ) . Why else bother choosing a faction ? They really need to address that issue
There is. There is even a specific accolade you can only get by talking to Obisek as a Reman.
But in general, there is no need to have any more racist dialogue in the game. With few exceptions like Obisek, the player's race should have no bearing on the story. Having characters compare forehead bumps all the time would be completely un-Trek thing to do.
Factions are origin stories and should be acknowledged as such.
ONE example, Warpangel-you can do better than that. in the first mission of the 2800 string, KDF players get a stack of actions they can take, and in 'of bajor' they get actual side-missions appropriate to the faction.
I wasn't trying to "do better than that," merely correcting a false statement about Obisek supposedly not acknowledging Reman PCs.
but there's an awful lot of everything-that-came-after Legacy of Romulus, where your non-Federation character spouts Federation propoganda, acts-and-is-treated-like a Federation human in Starfleet, and where non-Fed NPC's are for the most part notably incompetent, helpless, stupid...unless they, too, are spouting Federation dogma.
And here I suppose you could do better than that and provide specific examples, instead of "awful lot of everything."
The only Federation propaganda that ever stuck to my mind was the Kobali arc, where my non-Federation character stood there mute (as usual) while the Federation NPCs talked prime directive. However, even that's mostly cosmetic. As much as I would have enjoyed the option of telling that stuck-up benzite where he can shove his prime directive (and for my Federation character, the option to reprimand him for abusing it, because holding alien hostages is very obviously not an internal matter), I don't see it at all implausible that the Klingon and Romulan leadership would side with the zombies instead of the vaadwaur on the "rescue the hostages or not" -issue all for their own reasons. In fact I find it far more plausible for the Klingons and Romulans to ignore the Kobali's crimes to uphold the alliance than the Federation.
And NPCs in general are notably incompetent, helpless and stupid, regardless of what "dogma" they're spouting. NPCs exist to tell the player what to do, to be rescued by the player, or to die when the plot demands it. That happens in most of all video games that include friendly NPCs.
What do you actually expect? In TOS both the Klingon's and Romulan's were villains. Outright, no chance of anything different, villains.
Ummm... no.
I'd suggest rewatching "Day of the Dove" for the Klingons, as it paints them in a much more nuanced light. Michael Ansara's stoical Kang is pretty much the archetypal honourable Klingon. Equally, both the Romulan episodes paint them in a very balanced light (in Balance of Terror, Mark Lenard's commander is portrayed very sympathetically). Hence by the time you got to FASA or ADB's games in the 70s and 80s, the Klingons and Romulans had proportionately more attention and balance than STO gives now.
For a 1960s show, Trek was very balanced about its villains...
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The plausibility of your 'joke' is frightening!
Qapla'!
Some of us liked Enterprise, only the finally left a bad flavor in my mouth, that's cause Berman and Braga were to busy patting each other on the back for past accomplishments and an ego circle jerk session.
Sure!
Qapla'!
Some of it dies every day, with honor, and that is why it will last forever!
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My character Tsin'xing
the two carriers most definitely need a T 6 version ( my klingon still flies the vo'quv , not even T5U and it's a FUN ship )
I am currently working on making a Kar'Fi build, and looking at buying the fleet version.. which still only a T5 that can be upgraded.
Was really disapointed when I started this build idea due to the lack of T6 carriers for KDF, even more so give they were the faction that originally had carriers to give them some unique gameplay (along with raiders).
Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"
My character Tsin'xing
aside from that I'd like a Lukari faction/race, won't happen though cos they only just came into the story, and so won't tie in to the earlier story arcs. shame. (although same can be said of the Cardassians, Talaxians, Iconians, whoever. Any new race could only join the story from this point on, and not do the previous episodes. Not a big deal to me, as I assume we have a few years and seasons to go yet, so plenty of time to level them up)
oh, before I forget, can we get a T6 Orion destroyer/carrier/cruiser? thanks
Oh god. I just finished hammering through Delta Arc last night on my AOY baby-alt. (Well, not so "baby" anymore, but certainly years younger than the others). I did Delta once before, when it was new, and hated it with a burning passion. It is the most tedious, laggy, boring POS ever. Everything before and after is better by a country mile, and I swore after doing it once I'd never do it again. But....AOY. SO I suffered through it again, and it was hideous. The gross overuse of particle effects in the maps themselves just kills framerate, regardless of connection quality; I'm talking map lag, what used to be known as r_speed back in the day.
I still have an undeveloped Delta Recruit, and I'm going to do some of the stuff on her bucket list, but not DR again, never again.
"It's our best expansion ever, and the players love it"
All that being said, I do like the idea of a KDF recruit, but just please, for the love of all gods great and small, please don't ask me to do Delta Rising again!
Tons of us, you ignorant Feddie son-of-a-targ!
My character Tsin'xing
Anyway; there is a very simple numerical logic behind a KDF / Rom recruitment event. Cryptic have sunk a lot of effort into those factions, yet at least 2/3 of the playerbase have never tried either of them. That's a lot of potential ship / character sales for very little effort to implement. Like Delta Recruitment, it could be a great filler event between seasons next year.
that wasn't an infiltration - that was all-out invasion
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
My character Tsin'xing
or just a certain gecko that doesn't like anything not fed
There is. There is even a specific accolade you can only get by talking to Obisek as a Reman.
But in general, there is no need to have any more racist dialogue in the game. With few exceptions like Obisek, the player's race should have no bearing on the story. Having characters compare forehead bumps all the time would be completely un-Trek thing to do.
Factions are origin stories and should be acknowledged as such.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
What do you actually expect? In TOS both the Klingon's and Romulan's were villains. Outright, no chance of anything different, villains. They were portrayed that same way in the TOS movies up until the last one, and even then only Gorkon was meant to be a "good" Klingon trying to help his people even though they didn't want it. Even into TNG and DS9 both were antagonistic at the best of times and, again, outright villains at the worst. Yeah, they tried to clean up the Klingons a bit to make them seem like they're not as bad but the underlying nature of the show portrayed them doing just as much backstabbing as Romulans at times.
You can't translate that into a game where you have to write all the different sides as their own thing without the story going so far off the rails in 3 different directions you might as well just make 3 different games. They basically just took the "we have to work together to fight the big baddie" from the DS9 Dominion arc and made a game out of it because there's no other way to do it. Are the devs leaning more heavily towards Fed favoritism? Obviously, but even if they weren't the intentional bias from the source material would make it hard to do anything else.
I personally like playing my Romulan and wish there were more chances to do things in a more Romulan fashion. Am I totally upset and angry that they'll never do them justice? No. Then again I realize that this is a game and treat it as such where a lot of people don't and get stuck in the weeds on the stupidest of issues.
And here I suppose you could do better than that and provide specific examples, instead of "awful lot of everything."
The only Federation propaganda that ever stuck to my mind was the Kobali arc, where my non-Federation character stood there mute (as usual) while the Federation NPCs talked prime directive. However, even that's mostly cosmetic. As much as I would have enjoyed the option of telling that stuck-up benzite where he can shove his prime directive (and for my Federation character, the option to reprimand him for abusing it, because holding alien hostages is very obviously not an internal matter), I don't see it at all implausible that the Klingon and Romulan leadership would side with the zombies instead of the vaadwaur on the "rescue the hostages or not" -issue all for their own reasons. In fact I find it far more plausible for the Klingons and Romulans to ignore the Kobali's crimes to uphold the alliance than the Federation.
And NPCs in general are notably incompetent, helpless and stupid, regardless of what "dogma" they're spouting. NPCs exist to tell the player what to do, to be rescued by the player, or to die when the plot demands it. That happens in most of all video games that include friendly NPCs.
Ummm... no.
I'd suggest rewatching "Day of the Dove" for the Klingons, as it paints them in a much more nuanced light. Michael Ansara's stoical Kang is pretty much the archetypal honourable Klingon. Equally, both the Romulan episodes paint them in a very balanced light (in Balance of Terror, Mark Lenard's commander is portrayed very sympathetically). Hence by the time you got to FASA or ADB's games in the 70s and 80s, the Klingons and Romulans had proportionately more attention and balance than STO gives now.
For a 1960s show, Trek was very balanced about its villains...