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What Do You Think? Brushfire
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The newest Featured Episode: Brushfire, features the return of Martok to the Star Trek universe.
Let us know what you think here!
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The graphics seemed odd as well washed out and poor. Lighting 2.0 so far seems to be making most of the game look worse. Well space was good but the ground map felt like the worst graphics I have seen in years.
+1 for the new species to the game: Son'a
+1 for what I think was a reference to the Tzenkathi building a genesis torpedo.
+1 Martok
-1 Didn't like the ground map (exterior map), it looked bland compared to past maps in this Arc.
-1 Why did our prison outfits have the Tholian Symbol on them?
-1 Enemies were 'immortal' for random lengths of time before randomly dying.
- Blowing up everything in site does not constitute stealth.
- Martok's Jem'hadar friend: introduced and then killed off in the span of ~10 minutes. Special significance was placed on him for no reason. (Unless I missed something)
- According to our prison gear, the Son'a prison is being run by Tholians.
- Too many battles, not enough story.
+ MARTOK!!
+ Torg finally gets what he deserves.
+ The duel at the end between Martok and Torg was actually suspenseful.
+ Son'a were interesting.
+ The plot with the Tzenkethi thickens ... slightly.
While I do see your point you dont always have to have a snarky reply at the end of your rebuttal.
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The fight between Martok and Torg as quite a well done cut scene (for STO standards). And the Jem'Hadar's death looked quite brutal.
I wish we had been given a bit more time with the people to get to know them. We only got one blog with the Jem'Hadar, but nothing in game to actually explain his situation or get us to care about him in any way. Might have been nice to have at least some optional dialog.
The initial approach to the base was deeply flawed IMO. It completely violates the stealth idea, and that my Starfleet Captain is opening fire on unsuspecting ships still sits a bit wrong with me. Are we officially at war with the Son'a already that we can run stealth raids against them without forewarning?
Seems the Son'a are using scramble sensors or another confuse effect. Neat. More enemies need this.
No suspense or stealth or really any story for that matter. As for the Son'a, well, we don't even know if they were really flying their ships or not, since all we seen were Klingons and the T"Zenkethi. Son'a prison and Son'a ships should mean the Son'a should be around, but nope.
Can't say I'm disappointed since my hopes for this episode was as low as the episode was boring.
and the mission actually had a klingon feel to it and kept it up the whole time. the son'a dread put up a decent fight for a storyline mission. granted that is cause it took a minute for the npc fleet to get it's act together.
oh and a new bat'leth for my collection which is always nice.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
Story blogs should not be required reading to understand the story IN THE GAME. The Stealth for getting Martok out wasn't stealth. You were ESCORTED RIGHT TO HIM.
And what about those Son'a that went back to the Bakul? Did everyone forget about them as well? Galnah (Spelling) went back, so doesn't that mean that the Son'a and the Bakul are allies to the Federation?
because they literally copy-pasted it from Temporal Ambassador
#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!"
cause they had no idea you were armed and ready to blast your way out. what were you expecting assassin's creed? stealth more then hiding in shadow, turning invisible then just walking in. hiding that you shouldn't be there and tricking them to letting you or even helping you is a form of stealth too.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
Though i think the current rewards are mixed up - the console should be in choices, and that torpedo launcher in constant rewards - i think
The space map was beautiful (on max graphics settings), lots of space dust swirling around my ship. I took quite a few screenshots on that first part. The combat on advanced difficulty was adequately challenging and I enjoyed it. I also liked the design of the prison facility itself, very atmospheric.
And THAT scene... The duel between Martok and Torg. That was SO KLINGON! Truly one of the best cut scenes in STO.
The only thing I think that should've been done better is the prison uniforms. I mean, really? Just reusing the uniforms from Temporal Ambassador? Tholian symbol and all?
I only have a few nitpicks:
-the optional to bypass the last group of Son'a ships should either be made mandatory or the ships should be moved elsewhere, because they're so close to the last mandatory group of enemies that you'll most likely engage or be engaged by them just after
-the Jem'Hadar was kinda pointless as he doesn't provide much to the story apart from being Martok's friend, even with the blog featuring him
-the Son'a wave at the end will most likely engage the players while they're still talking
-the invulnerability removal of the guards can be very wonky. I think invulnerability should be removed entirely to give the turrets a real usefulness. It's not like the guards offer a big chunk of XP by themselves
The good
1 ) Martok enough said
2) Introduction of the so'na
3 ) Torg is dead torg is dead took a bat'leth lopside his hea...i mean a dagger to his heart
4 ) The kurn revelation
The bad
1 ) Martoks VA was uninspiring felt phoned in tbh sounded less klingon and more human
2 ) The ground map looked as others have said looked rather bland
3 ) another place plot device A kill ave B wash rinse repeat mission
4 ) The focus on the jem'hadar was not needed since most players probably didnt read the blog so didnt understand martoks freindship with him.
The Ugly
1 ) the end as meh we had rodek "did martok just call me another mans name? oh well toodles"
2 ) Tholian prison uniforms...really cryptic? is it that hard to put a klingon emblem on the back of them or make them plain orange?
3 ) the beggining was dismal as a fed officer you have quin saying "hey w found martok lets go save him shall w ole chum?" really it shouldve been more finding the torg facility and finding martok by accident wouldve added more suspense.
4 ) overall lazy story telling which is startung to become the norm for cryptic AoY was good this not so much
There was no VO for Admiral Quinn when I went to turn the Completed Mission in.
That being said I loved the story, the cutscenes, the sneak into the prison stunt. The epic fight aboard the ship, just about everyting was awesome. Even worf announcing himself the way he always does was brilliant. House Mogh coming back? I can't wait to see that one.
Now onto the negatives. A) Martok stops Rodek from saving the Jem'hedar but cries "NOOOOO" wen he dies. The frak, dude. Next Blowing up stuff as said before does not constitute stealth. But then again, Once a Klingon Always a Klingon, unless you're my delta recruit A'Keth who happens to be half Klingon. Go figure. But other than that, I don't have much else to add other than the mosquito fighters. And the above sections. I would like to see an FE get released where Quinn's mission anouncement voice isn't bugged out. Sadly I doubt that would ever happen.
Just my two cents. Break out the Bloodwine!
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