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PC Patch Notes for 10/4/18

ambassadorkael#6946 ambassadorkael
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Greetings Captains!
We will be having a maintenance tomorrow, 10/4 at 7AM Pacific for 2.5 hours. (What time is this for me?)
You can find our patch notes here.
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Thank you for the assistance!
The Star Trek Online Team

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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited October 2018
    Link no working. Anyone have the good url? LOL! Never mind. That was my Wi-Fi taking a hit.
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  • rndfluctuation#1470 rndfluctuation
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    edited October 2018
    Is it done to encourage queuing (outside of weekend events) in things other than those alerts to get rep up to t6?
    Or alternatively to make the alerts more appealing as an event which does not always present? Or to make people more in par with t5 rep before the event?

    Edit: this ends before AoD "hits" so striked out some text as being irrelevant and added some more.
  • fred26291#2759 fred26291
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    :(
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited October 2018
    Patch notes translated... Let's see if these lazy players will do something else when RAs are gone.

    They better hope that 'something' isn't some other game. :D
    Cryptic is continuing to turn STO into an 'event only' game.
    No one's gonna show up unless an event is going on & once people complete an event they leave.
    SO GJ!

    And back to WoW and continue to play though the story-line quests. Cause they give you more than 6-7 new missions to do in a 'Season'. :smirk: So see y'all 10/9 for Discovery when that content will take a day to do in total.
  • bendalekbendalek Member Posts: 1,781 Arc User
    My question is ... What was the 3.6Gb "patch" that the STO Launcher downloaded last night/yesterday when I logged out of the game? A "stealth or ninja patch perhaps?
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  • awlaforgeawlaforge Member Posts: 235 Arc User
    The new release "pre-patch". They do this prior to expansions and "release dumps".
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    awlaforge wrote: »
    The new release "pre-patch". They do this prior to expansions and "release dumps".
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Great.. horrible change and STILL NO DAMN UPGRADE WEEKEND.

    Thanks for nothing.
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  • salvation4salvation4 Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    We had two Phoenix Box events but no usual upgrade weekend which usually happens a month or so after the phoenix box event..What Gives?!
    RA being a weekend only thing might make the ques pop a little more, I HOPE..PS: was waiting to see the Nakhul RA back, was one of the first RA I played when I returned in 2015 after a 4 year awol break..
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  • skullblits#4627 skullblits
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    Fix the que system on console.

    Considering a smaller development team released a patch one week after breaking something.

    Whata your excuses
  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    One of the best things about RAs was that they did not take long to pop after queuing for it. I strongly suspect that the same will not be true of the other ques with everyone spread over the entire list instead of concentrated in only four or five scenarios, and that will cause a lot of false starts as people cancel after waiting a while or que up multiple scenarios and take the first one to pop. Also, that multi-check queuing is probably as random as a lot of people will want to get instead of that random scenario thing.

    The reputation system is going to take a serious hit as people get frustrated trying to get enough of the proper marks to actually do anything much with it.


  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    The new tier of rep is very much a meh I'll wait and see what makes it into the game as nothing much jumped out as being a must grind for item. Even a long overdue plasma omni, I've waited this long already so no point rushing now given the trickle of actual content to use it in.

    The no cooldown on RA's will probably mean that specific ones will get ignored (or simply be less popular) because of time/reward reasons.
  • ilithynilithyn Member Posts: 903 Arc User
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    One of the best things about RAs was that they did not take long to pop after queuing for it. I strongly suspect that the same will not be true of the other ques with everyone spread over the entire list instead of concentrated in only four or five scenarios, and that will cause a lot of false starts as people cancel after waiting a while or que up multiple scenarios and take the first one to pop. Also, that multi-check queuing is probably as random as a lot of people will want to get instead of that random scenario thing.

    The reputation system is going to take a serious hit as people get frustrated trying to get enough of the proper marks to actually do anything much with it.


    I assume they're banking on Random gTFOs filling in those queues. Though given that the player base here seems to hate ground and there's no possibility of separate queuing that system might not see a lot of use.
    Big question then is, what will be the next move to force, I mean persuade, the players to use the random system/fill in the dead queues?
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited October 2018
    I like that "gTFO"....I can remember that. LOL!

    I think what they are trying to do is: give extra rewards to people who are going to be "PUGGING" it (get the heck out of those caves they put themselves in) AND start getting players to work on their GROUND builds.

    Cryptic spend a lot of time and resources to make this game both ground and space. Only to have half their work ignored?

    I don't think the Devs intended players to focus all their traits/specializations/gear on space. They want players to self balance things by splitting it up.

    I wonder if they are going to make special version of "Away Team Traits" to match up with "Star Ship Traits".

    @ilithyn I like your idea of having an "official" looking for group channel....but Cryptic has never taken any steps to involve themselves in player's channels. They have always let the players create what they want.
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  • ussvaliant#6064 ussvaliant
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    So patch notes again with no actual bug fixes. If nothing other than resetting the servers you could have just saved this downtime for Tuesday the 9th as it doesn't add nor fix anything with the game.
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    Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,918 Arc User
    bendalek wrote: »
    My question is ... What was the 3.6Gb "patch" that the STO Launcher downloaded last night/yesterday when I logged out of the game? A "stealth or ninja patch perhaps?

    Prepatch for AoD
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    ussvaliant#6064 wrote: »
    So patch notes again with no actual bug fixes. If nothing other than resetting the servers you could have just saved this downtime for Tuesday the 9th as it doesn't add nor fix anything with the game.

    They are saving the bug fixes to go live with the patch on the 9th. Most likely.

    I saw they fixed the Qo'nos autopilot thing on Tribble. I hope that is coming. LOL!
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  • allyoftheforceallyoftheforce Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    Fun to see you're doctoring the metrics. Have to fake the numbers somehow. LOL *sarcasm*
  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    I was hoping to get more considering the RA changes were announced only a day in advance. Ah, well.
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  • dragnridrdragnridr Member Posts: 671 Arc User
    All I am going to say to Cryptic is the tighter you close your hand around the players, the more you are going to lose them.
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  • ambassadorkael#6946 ambassadorkael
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    Our weekly PC maintenance is now complete. Thanks for your patience and we'll see you in game!
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