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Can anyone explain what it means? Is it good?
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11510983-intelligence-report
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11510983-intelligence-report
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Gather intel will still be useless for the most part, 6 seconds is still too long.
Evade Target Lock is now control, which now means another UC proc and it's better over all.
Intel Team, much better though it was already good.
Subspace Beacon, never used it really no idea if the changes are good. Teleports are no bueno for me. Threat reduction is nice though.
EMP is now governed by control/EPG, with a slower detonation. UC proc again, though it was already.
Ionic Turbulence no longer takes 4 hours to get to the enemies, which means they might end up in the cloud. Control which means yet more UC proc.
Kinetic Magnet, well if you like your mine builds this will now be a great choice. Relocate mines will still do though.
Surgical Strikes, still too much downside. No trait or otherwise buffs to this one.
Transport Warhead, you can still skip this one.
The changes that put Evade Target Lock, EMP and Ionic Turbulance count as Control Abilities for UC procs and Science Procs is fantastic. It may actually boost a few Intel Science ships to the top of the heap and finally challenge the status of the Verne.
Kinetic Warhead, great now Intel has some appeal for Kinetic builds. Although I don't think Transport Warhead does much in that regard.
Surgical Strikes, which should be the DEW/Beam Spec's core ability still sucks. Largely because it acts as a replacement of Tactical Abilities, which due to Traits, Consoles and other Buff's remain far far better. Instead of simply being an Enhancement to Tactical Abilities the way most Specialist abilities are. It now sucks marginally less. But nowhere near enough to actually use it in your rotations.
Transport warhead will be better in mixed, broadsiding FAW builds. Surgical strike after these buffs is only not top top tier because no supporting starship traits, but I still think it will be A or B tier ability in the right hands, even if it isn't S tier like beam overload,
> Better.
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> Gather intel will still be useless for the most part, 6 seconds is still too long.
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> Evade Target Lock is now control, which now means another UC proc and it's better over all.
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> Intel Team, much better though it was already good.
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> Subspace Beacon, never used it really no idea if the changes are good. Teleports are no bueno for me. Threat reduction is nice though.
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> EMP is now governed by control/EPG, with a slower detonation. UC proc again, though it was already.
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> Ionic Turbulence no longer takes 4 hours to get to the enemies, which means they might end up in the cloud. Control which means yet more UC proc.
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> Kinetic Magnet, well if you like your mine builds this will now be a great choice. Relocate mines will still do though.
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> Surgical Strikes, still too much downside. No trait or otherwise buffs to this one.
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> Transport Warhead, you can still skip this one.
This pretty well sums it up. I am glad they are finally making Intel viable for an exotic build.
It is good they didnt rush out a more aggressive rework because something would have broken. I still hope they will change transport warhead and gather intel to be useful. Transport warhead should either give a damage boost or should apply to all torpedoes for 3-5 seconds.
Then this would really be an interesting choice for ships with Intel, but not enough Tac abilities.
Also, Ionic Turbulence changes look good. Did it scale with Aux at all right now?
So once again, it'll stay very niche and only if you don't have a teammate that can vaporize everything before you even get the opportunity to have all vulnerability stacks or your other cooldowns over.
So again, you'll just use Evade target lock, Intel team if you have a friendly to protect (can't wait to keep cloaking DS9 in its entirety again in Counterpoint) and Surgical Strikes if the layout can allow it.
It was a typo by me, I really meant US which is Unconventional Systems which is sometimes shortened to Uncon anyway. Seems people knew what I meant mostly anyway, so I left it.
That depends if you call science ships niche. I mean I get it, anyone and everyone really likes to fly cruisers because of the ability to fall asleep and face roll over your keyboard and do monster damage, but these improvements, at least some of them, look much better on many science/intel ships that use space magic. Add in the certain starship traits like Exitus Acta Probat and Spore-infused Anomalies and they now become more useful then just triggering those abilities.
> That depends if you call science ships niche. I mean I get it, anyone and everyone really likes to fly cruisers because of the ability to fall asleep and face roll over your keyboard and do monster damage, but these improvements, at least some of them, look much better on many science/intel ships that use space magic. Add in the certain starship traits like Exitus Acta Probat and Spore-infused Anomalies and they now become more useful then just triggering those abilities.
Agreed. Could they still improve intel for all the people out there with cookie cutter cruiser builds? Sure. In the meantime, this is a substantial improvement for sci builds.
https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Trait:_Unconventional_Systems
7% meh. So many traits, so few slots
Doesn't matter that much to us normal people, but that 7% could help the deepies get on the top of the DPS league tables.
It's largely useless on console though as it takes about 30 seconds to find whichever console clicky you want anyway as a large portion are not auto use capable......the game likes to move them around on the wheel too.