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Cross Faction Support Carrier Bundle!
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Four new Support Carriers - with two new pet types each - are coming this week on all platforms, one for each faction!
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11477183
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11477183
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The pet restriction to any full carrier is interesting - my Briostrys could use some variation in frigate pets.
Speaking of the pets: they do have a lot of abilities. I just hope the scattering field especially won't cause too much lag.
I also hope that the squadron pets will be made available to all other ships with hangar bays. It would give some much needed variety in ship pets.
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Seriously, this is fantastic. The frigate pets even use beams which means I can run Coordinated Assault on the carrier.
A couple interesting notes:
— The name of the warbird carrier means "leader" in Rihan.
— DevwI' in tlhIngan Hol also means "leader", although I don't know offhand what the vo' prefix does.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
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Seems odd (wrong even) though, if I am not mistaken, that the Malem frigates use photon torpedos instead of plasma.
The starship trait is a bit of a let down as I don't really see it being that useful.
Overall, I think this is the first thing Cryptic has produced in well over a year that I have been truly excited about.
Thank you for doing this. I'm in need of a replacement PC before I can log on to the game again, but I know what I'll be flying when I do. Very well done.
Now, I've heard some grumblings about how all four ships and their pets are functionally identical. One possible in-universe explanation is that they grew out of the same initiative that gave us the Khitomer-class... but then it would be reasonable to speculate about how that cruiser's design language would be expressed strikecraft, frigates, and carriers (something I'd be surprised to hear that the art team has not considered).
If nothing else, it sounds like they're trying to make carriers more interesting/appealing. A goal I think would be helped by the creation of a 'CAG' specialization, devoted to making hangar pets more effective.
Nah. The real and most important downside is that 5 of these carriers in the same TFO are going to lag the server hamsters into cardiac arrest!
"Unlike normal fighter pets, each fighter launched is actually a squadron of six fighters As each hangar bay can deploy six squadrons, each hangar bay is ultimately responsible for up to 36 fighters."
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That is indeed what I'm hoping for.
As for the similarity among the ships: well, that's nothing new, really. I don't know why anyone would be complaining about such a thing.
That's a concern I share. Especially as they have things like scattering field.
(Or S-CATtering field in some cases
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Suffice it to say, those carriers look amazing with amazing stats, with amazing availability.
Cryptic, you just got a buy from me - win win
Tal'Shiar/Reman Resistance/Romulan Nemesis uniform, pls.
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The Klingon ship has a cloak, the Romulan ship has a battle cloak, the Dominion ship has Wingmen, but the Federation ship has nothing special, or am I missing something?
I'd say, slap a secondary Deflector on the Aspero for this one, but think of a tiny little extra mechanic to make some Federation ships stick out? I can't think of any common Federation special technology from the series, but maybe Federation engineers came up with something in the 20 years since Nemesis...
The ships look really good! It looks like the KDF fleet version is an actual different ship design whereas the others are just different paint-jobs.
The Malem Support Frigate using photon torpedo instead of plasma might be an typo-oversight or just take the easiest route approach but it does seem a plasma torpedo would be more appropriate/canon but who knows.
The Console - High-Energy Communications Network sounds nice & the starship trait sounds not great but decent, neither had numerical figures given though just general descriptions.
The Elite Support Frigate don't look worth the upgrading imo compared to the Advanced Support Frigates for their abilities versus cost.
I like that the Malem & the Ning'tao can cloak, can the Caitian Support Frigate cloak too?
Also, so can all the squadron Fighters cloak as well except for the Jem'Hadar Fighters?
I wish there would've been slight differences between some of the carriers' console slots, similar to the Vo'devwl's power distribution versus the other carriers & like the Hull & Shield modifiers.
This appears to be a very tempting bundle.
I'm glad the Romulan carrier has subsystem targeting, unlike T'Laru which for whatever reason misses out on it, maybe to balance out the superior 4/2 weapon setup and full intel spec, though it is a science carrier and shouldn't have lost it.
Starship traits seem quite useful, and same with the console as pets can sometimes take a very long time to rank up.
Appearance from those limited photos, with the exception of the Jem'Hadar one, they look great and I hope we get options to mix parts from their old versions.
Ning'Tao pets! T6 Ning'Tao when! Can't wait to also have a squadron or frigates of B'rel BoP, always wanted that. Malems is really awesome also and I couldn't have thought of a more fitting choice.
Can't wait to get them all!
Will these ships at least allow us to select from default bridges and crew decks? BOTH bridges and crew decks?
A capital idea!!
Don't forget the Aspero can use stalker fighters, which, as far as I know, are the only fighters that can cloak. And with the squadrons mechanic, that means a ton of little fighters flying around shooting your enemies with ambush bonus damage. So, I would argue that the Aspero does indeed have something special that the others don't.
Can't the Scorpion & the To'Duj fighters cloak too? At least their shuttle counterparts can if I remember.
The Dominion ship would even be good for Romulan captains since it looks almost as much Romulan as Dominion in a general sort of way.
Unlike most here I think the squadron fighters should be restricted to the true carriers, with the bay increase in flightdeck cruisers the carriers need something unique to make them stand out and be competitive with those cruisers (which have everything the carriers have and more) besides just the one launch haste ability.
Just looked it up: looks like BoPs and stalker fighters are the only cloaking hangar pets until the new frigates release.
I had read the release info, but thinking about current shuttles, pets, then these new "fighters" & the "support frigates" my brain shut-down lol. Thanks. I'm still liking this bundle but want to know all the info before I'd make a purchase.
I seem to remember a time when KDF carriers were nerfed because of the pet spam (among other things).