I remember the good old times playing STO Beta and it's initial release, now for your viewing pleasure, take a ride on the STO Tutorial;
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wrcWIMkfVcs
I really do miss the original tutorial, it was soo in depth. I wish there was a way to play old content in it's original vanilla form. I still love the new tutorials etc... but would love to see an option to play the old ones with the cheesy uniforms xD
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wrcWIMkfVcs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJPkefjyzE4
Problem is that it was in depth enough to include things that you'd forget by the time you'd actually need them, like how to add rows to the tray... which it taught you when you had maybe 3 abilities.
Also have a few screenshots of Old ESD, and a few other things.
I wonder if there is a possibility of bringing back Quinto and reprising his role as the EMH. Maybe salvaging his holo emitter from a wreck Borg Cube or something. LoL
Looks fun.
I actually prefer THOSE uniforms over the Odyssey uniforms, actually.
My character Tsin'xing
*cries in silence*
The skill tree had ship types in it. Science, escort, cruiser. You had to specialize to get hull, speed, etc, in a particular class of ship. There was no general hull hp skill or impulse expertise.
Another thing it had were damage types in the skill tree. Phaser, disruptor, antiproton, and the rest of the standard flavors. Phaser and disruptor were low, maybe LTC skills, while antiproton and polaron were up at admiral level, so you sacrificed a lot to try and max out AP or polarons.
This is one of the reasons my characters have always been locked to a damage type and typically ship type, a consequence of the original skill tree. These days it still makes sense because of character bound items that get upgraded, its just cheaper to keep the same damage type whatever ship you use. Swapping to a different ship class can still demand use of a respec still due to the different powers a ship can use, primarily an issue with sciencey ships of course.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
I too miss all the missions that were removed and never replaced with better improved version of them. The folly of STO is that they went ahead and actually removed content from the game, which is a HUGE no no for any game. Even they removed the random exploration missions like Delta Volanis cluster etc...
There is also the issue where you will never again be able to collect certain accolades, such as the one called "Sharks in the water."
Let us not forget that to be able to fly to memory allpha was nice as well. I do wish they brought back memory alpha.
Now to be fair, I like the new content, though I do have mix feelings on the DISCO content, and that is mainly do to my own personal bias against DISCO, which I deem trash trek. That is not Cryptic's fault, but the now running TV series and the direction it took.
I really really do wish they revert many things back, like the patrol missions and many of the episodes that were removed - It just plain wrong to remove content from the game, no matter how dull some were. They should had improved upon them. I really enjoyed the old Cardy missions, especially the one with Thomas Riker.
Did not know that. Would be nice to get him then.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
I did not remember. It has been ages since I last played that now removed mission. So I got my Qs messed up. It happens.
I'd say to mind your P's and Q's but we havent encountered the P... yet..
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Exploration missions were buggy as all get out, though. You could fall through terrain, have BOFFs randomly teleport away, and have all sorts of random bad things happen. They were an exercise in frustration for me.
I always say it's just Q we see there.
It sounds like a LOT has changed and I'm wondering if it's even worth looking at what I had built from before right now.
No harm in starting with a new toon and then revisiting the older ones once you have a firmer grasp on what's changed. There is a new starting experience for DSC toon and also Jem'hadar are in game now, but they start at level 60 and are considered end-game.
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My character Tsin'xing
Most likely all your skills and traits had been reset, so pretty much you have to re-tune your character. In regards to the episodes, well that is the sad part, most have been removed.
If you still have some that are active, you might be able to do them, as I had some ancient toons that had them queued long ago and I was able to complete them, apparently those old episodes are still in the game, but not accessible anymore. Some changes were for the better, but others... well you be the judge of that. It depends on how back you left off.