[PC] Updates to the Centaur Class

ambassadorkael · March 13

We've made an update to the venerable Centaur class, and this new look will be free to anyone who owns the ship! Coming very soon on PC, and a little bit later on Xbox One and Playstation 4.

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11110673

somtaawkhar · March 13

Looks really nice

mustrumridcully0 · March 13

That was unexpected. Thanks to Ian!

tyler002 · March 13

Very nice looking, someone must have done it on their off-hours.

Looking foward to it.

captaincelestial · March 13

I've always liked the Centaur class on DS9.

Thank you for the visual update

ltminns · March 13

Of course it was done off-hours, otherwise we would have had an Infomercial Mission introduced to tout a 2,000 Zen Pack in the C-Store.

snowwolf · March 13

Ohhhh! I LOVE it! Great work, thank you so much!

startrekron · March 13

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tomilak · March 13

It looks really nice, except from an engineering point of view the torpedos are mounted to the bottom of the aft saucer section, the center of the saucer sticks down too far for the torpedos not to slice the side of the lower half of the saucer wide open as it fires

*p.s. Just doing a little picking*

vegeta50024 · March 13

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captaincelestial · March 14

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Oopsie

pwemademedothis · March 14

*Very* nice!!!

tvalavulcan · March 14

As someone who uses the existing Centaur skin, this is most welcome. Thank You.

tyler002 · March 14

tomilak wrote: »

It looks really nice, except from an engineering point of view the torpedos are mounted to the bottom of the aft saucer section, the center of the saucer sticks down too far for the torpedos not to slice the side of the lower half of the saucer wide open as it fires *p.s. Just doing a little picking*

From what I see, it doesn't look much different to the canon Centaur Class.

The crew of these ships are apparently quite lucky torpedoes have a guidance system and can change their path, considering the canon ship fires torpedoes downwards before they level out.

tousseau · March 14

tyler002 wrote: »

tomilak wrote: »

It looks really nice, except from an engineering point of view the torpedos are mounted to the bottom of the aft saucer section, the center of the saucer sticks down too far for the torpedos not to slice the side of the lower half of the saucer wide open as it fires *p.s. Just doing a little picking*

From what I see, it doesn't look much different to the canon Centaur Class.

The crew of these ships are apparently quite lucky torpedoes have a guidance system and can change their path, considering the canon ship fires torpedoes downwards before they level out.

Agreed... The torps do appear to drop down when launched...

bridgern · March 14

I wish they would have used the actual studio model that was used for filiming for their refernce and not the Magazine version too many details got lost.

rhazedurile · March 15

I seem to be having issues applying the new skin to my T6 Light Cruiser. I get an error that says, "Ship uses invalid parts"

tousseau · March 15

aye... customization seems to be broken with the Centaur...

psiameese · March 16

Concur. The new costume template won't apply to the Advanced Light Cruiser. Be that by Template itself or applying parts individually. I will certainly enjoy it once the Ship Tailor is debugged.

avoozuul · March 16

Personally I think they should've made the Centaur its own ship.

robertdamon · March 16

Fantastic to see the Centaur get an update. I love the Excelsior-style aesthetics and used it as my first ship way back in season three (nice to be different to all the Mirandas out there). More recently the T6 Advanced Light Cruiser has become my favourite STO ship to run. The combo of full cruiser status with excellent maneouvrability is perfect for me (plus I love the sheer number of different looks you can give it ..all that's missing now is a '60s TOS Miranda option ;-) ). The revamped Miranda parts were awesome and I run them on my TOS toons, but having the Centaur redone too is a wonderful bonus - massive thanks to JamJamz and the ship team.

Re the comments on accuracy of the model above. To be honest I found all the extra greeblies detracted from the design. Sure, they look more messy on the studio model compared to how they actually appeared in the episode due to the UV lighting pass and so on, but I think using the tidier magazine version (if that's what the team did) was a good call. Looks slicker in game, and the more prominent extra pods and add-ons below the saucer are there, so it's a good compromise IMHO.

My main toon will be giving his Sojourner and Wells-class a rest and reverting to his venerable Centaur (updated with 25th century tech in my head-canon) again once the new skins have been fixed - pulse phasers already fitted and ready to go! Shame about the bugs on launch but these things happen, and it'll definitely be worth the wait.

Thanks once again to the ship team, keeep up the good work, and please keep the late 23rd century love coming! :-)

smokebailey · March 16

robertdamon wrote: »

Fantastic to see the Centaur get an update. I love the Excelsior-style aesthetics and used it as my first ship way back in season three (nice to be different to all the Mirandas out there). More recently the T6 Advanced Light Cruiser has become my favourite STO ship to run. The combo of full cruiser status with excellent maneouvrability is perfect for me (plus I love the sheer number of different looks you can give it ..all that's missing now is a '60s TOS Miranda option ;-) ). The revamped Miranda parts were awesome and I run them on my TOS toons, but having the Centaur redone too is a wonderful bonus - massive thanks to JamJamz and the ship team.

Re the comments on accuracy of the model above. To be honest I found all the extra greeblies detracted from the design. Sure, they look more messy on the studio model compared to how they actually appeared in the episode due to the UV lighting pass and so on, but I think using the tidier magazine version (if that's what the team did) was a good call. Looks slicker in game, and the more prominent extra pods and add-ons below the saucer are there, so it's a good compromise IMHO.

My main toon will be giving his Sojourner and Wells-class a rest and reverting to his venerable Centaur (updated with 25th century tech in my head-canon) again once the new skins have been fixed - pulse phasers already fitted and ready to go! Shame about the bugs on launch but these things happen, and it'll definitely be worth the wait.

Thanks once again to the ship team, keeep up the good work, and please keep the late 23rd century love coming! :-)

Wish we could use the Pioneer class as well for light cruisers

mustrumridcully0 · March 16

avoozuul wrote: »

Personally I think they should've made the Centaur its own ship.

And lose the wonderful possibilities of kitbashing? Come on, do you even Space Barbie?

avoozuul · March 17

mustrumridcully0 wrote: »

avoozuul wrote: »

Personally I think they should've made the Centaur its own ship.

And lose the wonderful possibilities of kitbashing? Come on, do you even Space Barbie?

Who's to say that it wouldn't come with it's own extra parts?

noven2000 · March 17

[quote="tyler002;c-13487745"]Very nice looking, someone must have done it on their off-hours.

Looking foward to it.
[/quote]

Maybe they might get a chance to do the Vor’cha and Negh’var.

azrael605 · March 17

> @noven2000 said:
> [quote="tyler002;c-13487745"]Very nice looking, someone must have done it on their off-hours.
>
> Looking foward to it.
> [/quote]
>
> Maybe they might get a chance to do the Vor’cha and Negh’var.

Nova first.

avoozuul · March 17

The ships they are fixing the skins with appear to be TMP era ships, I think the Oberth should come next along with a T6 update.

mustrumridcully0 · March 17

avoozuul wrote: »

mustrumridcully0 wrote: »

avoozuul wrote: »

Personally I think they should've made the Centaur its own ship.

And lose the wonderful possibilities of kitbashing? Come on, do you even Space Barbie?

Who's to say that it wouldn't come with it's own extra parts?

All the other standalone ships, like the Jupiter or the lockbox ships.

jakeng706 · March 18

psiameese wrote: »

Concur. The new costume template won't apply to the Advanced Light Cruiser. Be that by Template itself or applying parts individually. I will certainly enjoy it once the Ship Tailor is debugged.

Just purchase 1 today and counter the same problem. hope they can fix it soon.

avoozuul · March 18

mustrumridcully0 wrote: »

avoozuul wrote: »

mustrumridcully0 wrote: »

avoozuul wrote: »

Personally I think they should've made the Centaur its own ship.

And lose the wonderful possibilities of kitbashing? Come on, do you even Space Barbie?

Who's to say that it wouldn't come with it's own extra parts?

All the other standalone ships, like the Jupiter or the lockbox ships.

I'm not sure how lockbox ships affects c-store ships in this regard.

reyan01 · March 18

avoozuul wrote: »

The ships they are fixing the skins with appear to be TMP era ships, I think the Oberth should come next along with a T6 update.

Not necessarily.

It's not a new thing where canon STO ships are concerned. It's actually a predictable pattern we've seen before:
- ship receives quality pass (in this case, Excelsior class and Miranda class)
- ship that uses 'parts' from the quality pass ships receives it's own quality pass (centaur class)
- and in this case, new ship introduced that uses 'parts' from the quality pass ship (Georgiou)

We saw the same thing with the Galaxy class. Once that ship received it's quality pass, the Nebula and Galaxy Dreadnought were not too far behind.

Sadly, it seems the chances of us getting canon ships that would be 'start from scratch' on the quality pass front are rather a lot less.

[PC] Updates to the Centaur Class

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