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The Vaadwaur are one of the few races that we've seen canonically use fighters...but none of their ships have a hangar bay in game (We even have a playable fighter craft)
Transphasic and Tricobalt are some of the strongest torpedoes in the series...weakest in STO
The Devs have done Phaser sound effects so well...from TOS to TNG...but to this day we don't have a TNG Disruptor cannon sound effects which were so awesome
Always thought cloak didn't make sense...if they wanted "battle" cloak to be unique why not just take the damage bonus off standard cloak?
Probably more I could think of...but I'm tired and sick of this TRIBBLE day already...can't sleep while they're upstairs laughing and opening presents...
Transphasic and Tricobalt are some of the strongest torpedoes in the series...weakest in STO
The Devs have done Phaser sound effects so well...from TOS to TNG...but to this day we don't have a TNG Disruptor cannon sound effects which were so awesome
Always thought cloak didn't make sense...if they wanted "battle" cloak to be unique why not just take the damage bonus off standard cloak?
Probably more I could think of...but I'm tired and sick of this TRIBBLE day already...can't sleep while they're upstairs laughing and opening presents...
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Here, its a game, so combat is often reduced to a "Shoot Fest". Try to keep on their weak side and fire everything.
That Back and Forth dialog in Star Trek during the important scenes is something I really like in the shows.
Yeah....basic cloak is the kind of cloak you can only use out of combat. Well It's called just cloak in game but I call it basic cloak so to differentiate more...maybe I'm being confusing.
Just was a really bored day where I'm sitting around waiting for people to open their presents then decide what they're gonna do.
Sometimes... interesting things can be found just by being bored. lol
That is probably because in the game it would be very hard to balance. The Romulans developed cloaking tech for strategic reasons, they are rather poor as a nation and have fewer ships to work with and it was a force multiplier to compensate for that. Strategic concerns don't figure into a game like this on the player side so the Romulan ships are just as deadly as anyone else's.
On top of that, while the AI is better than a lot of games (mostly Korean grinders) it is not exactly the most sophisticated one either, so it probably cannot use the cloak effectively enough to challenge players rather than bore them.
Except for the TWoK phasers, those both look AND sound absolutely god awful.
On the other hand the torpedo sound is comically bad, instead of either the external launch sound (which was the same as the TNG one more or less) or the internal one (which is a complex electronic whoosh a bit reminiscent of a submarine torpedo launch heard from the inside of the sub) STO uses the double bang sound of the Enterprise's shields taking Klingon disrupter cannon hits (not the disruptor firing sound) that was used in bridge scenes when they were hit by the twin cannons.
He probably means the U.S.S. Defiant.
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Then I even more lost as while the USS Defiant herself isn't playable (as no named ships are) there's several versions of the class itself available and some of those have cloaks and all of those are UFP exclusive and thus one the correct faction as the Defiant was and shall always be a Federation design.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Defiant_Legendary_Pilot_Warship (one of the many variants of the Defiant, look down on the consoles included for the cloak)
https://sto.gamepedia.com/B'rel_Bird-of-Prey_Retrofit (Chang's BoP prototype in-game and exclusive to KDF)
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Scimitar_Dreadnought_Warbird (the Scimitar and with the set bonus can fight fully cloaked and exclusive to Romulans and yes RSE uses this or its variants too)
https://sto.gamepedia.com/T'liss_Temporal_Warbird (the original cloaking ship and yes exclusive to Romulans)
So I kind at loss as to which ship they're referring to as I can't think of any that belongs to faction that is playable.
EDIT:should be noted that the Scimitar has a T6 version which IIRC can still equip the set to make it "canon accurate".
If the Khenn Battleship (as the Romulan D-7 is called) is vetoed as playable ship due to being an Iconic ship design of another faction despite it being fully official Romulan ship with it's own class designation apart from the Klingon design, You can be pretty much sure that a one of ship that's one of if the most iconic Klingon design will never be playable for the Federation, especially since it was never used by Starfleet officially but a group of renegades (it's HMS Bounty after all not USS Bounty).
In regards to the Luna, it's not really an iconic in the same way the B'rel is also it was suppose to be faction locked (and IIRC it is currently) but due to a bug KDF had access to it even when it was intended.
Actually I'd say it's more the case of Starfleet having no need for the ship type. The Klingon Bird of Prey is (any class of it) is a at its core a raider (think starship equivalent of a submarine) and Starfleet has little to no need for one as their war strategy doesn't include that much commerce raiding. It's the same reason the real life Finnish Navy doesn't operate aircraft carriers, there's simply no need for them.
Because Honour demands it!!!
And because we all know that the Romulans have no honour... which is why they can more effectively use their cloaking devices at a strategic and tactical level (in all the face-offs against the Federation, there is always strategic doubt as to whether there are 2 or 3 more warbirds lurking nearby - the Romulans could always see their enemies were alone...)
The Finnish Navy doesnt have carriers because of their very high cost and because of their very high crewing requirements, plus the requirement for a large escort of destroyers, submarines etc that make it prohibitive to contemplate. Not having a strategic need for it also helps - but even if they did have such a need, they wouldnt be able to manage it (particularly given a land war is more likely for them).
Also, I think such a radier would be useful - everyone knows that logistics wins wars, so being able to disrupt the enemy's supply lines is always a critical path to victory (which is similar to, but different from, commerce raiding). I would expect that the Federation has more commerce lines to protect, and more requirements for convoy escorts, than the need to disrupt enemy supply lines (general purpose ships like cruisers could still do that effectively - provided they were fast).
I'm a Finn myself so I'm aware that land war is more likely, however all that logistics strain does apply to USN as well yet they deploy several very large carriers because of a need to project air power beyond what their land bases could provide if USN as coastal defense force like the Finnish Navy (there's only one case where a Finnish warship operated outside the Baltic Sea and that was as part of multinational taskforce), you'd never be able to get the Defence Department bureaucrats to approve of a carrier.
Starfleet strategy means that 9 times out of 10 they'd be fighting within their own space anyway and the times we've seen them strike at enemy logistics it's been less about ambushing freighters from under cloak and more about striking enemy logistic bases.
'it's not raiding - it's surprise wealth reallocation'
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"