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somtaawkhar
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STO's twitter posted this today.
Seems to indicate they are in fact doing the Halloween event, or at least something Halloween related, this year.
What they wrote in the tweet is a quote from the TOS episode Catspaw, which Cryptic has said they were basic the Halloween event on, and people have recently found "Witch hat" tailor being added to the game. Catspaw featuring witches.
Seems to indicate they are in fact doing the Halloween event, or at least something Halloween related, this year.
What they wrote in the tweet is a quote from the TOS episode Catspaw, which Cryptic has said they were basic the Halloween event on, and people have recently found "Witch hat" tailor being added to the game. Catspaw featuring witches.
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One must always wear a proper uniform on duty :sniff!: (adjusts monocle)
...while flying an alien mirror temporal starship to go commit genocide using space magic.
Back on topic, if there are costume options it will be fun to use them for ground TFOs and story missions, especially if we are allowed to use them on our boffs too.
Perhaps, but I'm gonna let this one slide as it can be used for further updates as they are posted rather than having multiple threads pop up. Or at least I'm hoping leaving this one alone will curb that anyways.
I'm going as Wanda Maximoff.
I think my main might either go as Lucina from Fire Emblem, Yang Xiao Long, or a Ghostbuster.
A TFO with everyone using the ghostbuster gun from Drozena would be fun. Maybe the Romulan station one with the Elachi and all the dark areas?
what gun is this that you speak of and where do you get it on Drozana?
Technically you get the spectre gun at the nearby starbase, but only as part of the Spectres arc which happens mostly on Drozana. It is a nice weapon for mid-level characters (like the blue ship phasers you also get in the arc) but outclassed by endgame weapons. Its secondary fire mode is a chain-targeting proton particle stream just the one one in Ghostbusters, and since its primary and secondary fire modes are different energies they used to also be good anti-Borg weapons back before the kinetic ones.
That outclassed-rewards thing is probably one of the main reasons people dont run the arc much anymore, it is only available to endgame characters since it was relegated to the "available" tab but only awards low-to-midgame rewards. It is a shame really, it is probably the best of the old-style arcs.
True, it would be nice if they used "wrecked" versions of the TOS materials instead of the generic alien/civillian ship material they use now (and is seen in the inhabited section of the station) which begs the question of why someone would rip up all the TOS smooth wall and floor surfaces but leave all the other junk in place, but other than that it actually holds up rather well.
I cannot comment on the Cardassian part though since I don't know what they look like on the ingame playable ships to compare them. Just a personal impression though is that the color and greebly surface of the generic interior materials does look reasonable for a Cardassian ship for someone who has never seen what a Cardassian bridge looks like on those playable ships.
The writing and flow of the arc is excellent overall, and the practical, objective-oriented puzzles are far better than the phone-game minigame popup things they tend to shove in their place nowadays (the phone-games are probably due to the negative reaction to the way the objective-oriented puzzles were so badly botched in Dust to Dust).
Point 1: Ferengi. 'nuff said.
Point 2: They do use the generic interiors rather than anything specifically Cardassian. And I kinda feel like they did a mockup of a Cardi bridge with Cardi consoles. But I don't think its anything like the Galor bridge, especially with needing room to fight a Phantasm there too.
The puzzles in Spectres all made sense in context, like the trap-the-patrols puzzle, and even the text ones were grounded in the storyline even if some of the text was a bit silly (and yes, even the especially silly nerve tonic one was reasonable compared to the massive time waster maze and extremely annoying lagfight of the jumping "puzzle".