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WTH is this distortion on Risa?

annemarie30annemarie30 Member Posts: 2,608 Arc User
edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
there are 3 or 4 of them on the horizon... T'ket better not be plannin' nuthin.....

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    nimbullnimbull Member Posts: 1,564 Arc User
    Remember.. it's not a bug. It's a feature from the new ship apparently.
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    echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,914 Arc User
    Shield generators
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    adamspire#9038 adamspire
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    I saw that too, I just ignored it. Maybe it's a CLOAKED SUPER SECRET KLINGON SHIP that will finally end this all.
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    fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
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    Have you asked the person with the floater? ;)
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    phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    Could be timequakes starting with all these Red Angels running around....
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    wraithmeisterwraithmeister Member Posts: 395 Arc User
    that distortion is my cloaked ship, waiting to shoot at you!
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    gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    Seems to be the distotion from the ship panel emitters, as the ship is scaled to fit, it seems that those effects where not..
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    annemarie30annemarie30 Member Posts: 2,608 Arc User
    that would make sense except there are 2 more about 120 degrees or more around the horizon
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    fred26291#2759 fred26291
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    I dont recall seeing the disruption till this morning and the island is surrounded. So my best guess is a cloaked fleet waiting to pounce on us before the event ends.
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    jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,369 Arc User
    It's the combined power of our sheer awesomeness as player characters, distorting the very fabric of space-time!
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    phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    It is about where the Ytjara was two years ago, maybe it is back and the Vorgon just have lousy cloaking tech.
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    felderburgfelderburg Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    In chat, people were saying it's the weather control system. But given that it's new this year with the actual weather control ship, which can apparently create 4 "neutronic eddies," and the fact that there are 4 distortions on the map, I suspect it's from the ship.

    Although the ship's description also says that the neutronic eddies emit radiation damage, so I'm a bit nervous that it's firing them on the planet...
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,040 Community Moderator
    Yea I noticed them too.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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    sniper1187sniper1187 Member Posts: 251 Arc User
    Well with my mom going into heart surgery Friday morning, I went ahead and paid out the Lobi for the ship, must say, I like it. Named it Cobra Weather Dominator.
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    legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    if i use it, i will name mine the Einstein, because he's the one who created the weather control device superweapon in red alert​​
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    spacehermitspacehermit Member Posts: 356 Arc User
    Whatever it is, it's also silenced the dance music and broken the events schedule display. Or maybe, being a calendar, that was just "too difficult".
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    gaevsman wrote: »
    Seems to be the distotion from the ship panel emitters, as the ship is scaled to fit, it seems that those effects where not..
    This^ there's 4 in a very specific pattern.
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    theanothernametheanothername Member Posts: 1,504 Arc User
    adamspire#9038 wrote: »
    I saw that too, I just ignored it. Maybe it's a CLOAKED SUPER SECRET KLINGON SHIP that will finally end this all.

    Cloaked ship was my first thought too ;)
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    crm14916crm14916 Member Posts: 1,517 Arc User
    I thought it was the heat waves from the torches around the power board race finish, and they were not placed properly. But the "ship panel emitters" seems the more likely explanation...

    :smile:
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,040 Community Moderator
    markhawkman wrote: »
    This^ there's 4 in a very specific pattern.

    Using North as 12 o'clock, I estimate that the distortions are approx at 2, 3, 6, and 7 o'clock around the island.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
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    chastity1337chastity1337 Member Posts: 1,606 Arc User
    It's the Tox Uthat
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,040 Community Moderator
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    if i use it, i will name mine the Einstein, because he's the one who created the weather control device superweapon in red alert​​

    Wasn't that timeline altered when Soviet Tim Curry went back in time to kill Einstein to remove the Allies tech advantage, which in turn gave rise to the Empire of the Rising Sun, led by Emperor George Takai, and the loss of Nuclear Weapons? Also... Allies still had a bit of a tech advantage anyways.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
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    gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    if i use it, i will name mine the Einstein, because he's the one who created the weather control device superweapon in red alert​​

    Wasn't that timeline altered when Soviet Tim Curry went back in time to kill Einstein to remove the Allies tech advantage, which in turn gave rise to the Empire of the Rising Sun, led by Emperor George Takai, and the loss of Nuclear Weapons? Also... Allies still had a bit of a tech advantage anyways.

    I love temporal mechanics!
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    spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,266 Arc User
    gaevsman wrote: »
    rattler2 wrote: »
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    if i use it, i will name mine the Einstein, because he's the one who created the weather control device superweapon in red alert​​

    Wasn't that timeline altered when Soviet Tim Curry went back in time to kill Einstein to remove the Allies tech advantage, which in turn gave rise to the Empire of the Rising Sun, led by Emperor George Takai, and the loss of Nuclear Weapons? Also... Allies still had a bit of a tech advantage anyways.

    I love temporal mechanics!

    I don't, they give me migrenes just trying to make sense of the whole thing.
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    legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    rattler2 wrote: »
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    if i use it, i will name mine the Einstein, because he's the one who created the weather control device superweapon in red alert

    Wasn't that timeline altered when Soviet Tim Curry went back in time to kill Einstein to remove the Allies tech advantage, which in turn gave rise to the Empire of the Rising Sun, led by Emperor George Takai, and the loss of Nuclear Weapons? Also... Allies still had a bit of a tech advantage anyways.

    and you notice they still managed to recreate most of the technologies he gave them even without his actual presence, like the chronosphere, GAP generator and prism towers? even though they go by different names

    and the soviets managed to recreate nuclear weapons too, if that 50 megaton bomb in the cuba mission was any indication...though it could have easily been a vacuum bomb too​​
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,040 Community Moderator
    shadowfang240 wrote: »
    and you notice they still managed to recreate most of the technologies he gave them even without his actual presence, like the chronosphere, GAP generator and prism towers? even though they go by different names

    and the soviets managed to recreate nuclear weapons too, if that 50 megaton bomb in the cuba mission was any indication...though it could have easily been a vacuum bomb too​​

    Yea. Its just that the Allies ended up with a corporate backed tech advantage over Einestin.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
    The nut who actually ground out many packs. The resident forum voice of reason (I HAZ FORUM REP! YAY!)
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    trennantrennan Member Posts: 2,839 Arc User
    I'd have to call them graphical additions. One in the...

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    ...area.
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    burstorionburstorion Member Posts: 1,750 Arc User
    I got to admit...it they tied an event to the end of Risa I think it'd be pretty awesome - your captain is hiding out on Risa following the SNAFU from last time; the current big bad sending a cloaked bop wolfpack to Risa to flush you out...
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    fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
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    According to the patch notes, it's merely an appearance.

    There... is... no real... distortion!



    (Or there are four, if you prefer that version.)
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    [3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
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    ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,571 Arc User
    They're not the horizons you were looking for.
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