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Is the "Specters" arc not available anymore?
rifter1969
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I know that the featured episodes were taken out of the normal story arcs, and were set to be kind of like standalone arcs, where you can get them from your Available Missions list.
But, I have a new Delta Recruit character, and they haven's gotten Drake's contact to start the story arc. I did get it for the Nimbus arc.
Is there some kind of restriction on when it becomes available? It used to be a level 20 mission series.
But, I have a new Delta Recruit character, and they haven's gotten Drake's contact to start the story arc. I did get it for the Nimbus arc.
Is there some kind of restriction on when it becomes available? It used to be a level 20 mission series.
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Even when it does unlock it is way, way too late for the mission, especially since it still only has the original level 20-30 type awards instead of being in the perfect spot for additional Andorian phasers for TOS characters' ships as more weapon slots unlock and TOS hand phasers for additional boffs.
Its removal from that sweet-spot is one of the many gumption traps that TOS fans have to deal with in this mainly TNG-oriented game, and by the time it is available the rewards are absolutely useless since the player has already had to make other arrangements (often just saying F*-it and going with non-TOS style weapons instead of staying in theme).
Undoubtedly that skews the statistics about it and gives the devs the false idea that people don't like it when it is actually one of the best of the old missions left.
Additionally:
- Dominion and Romulan Republic character need to have chosen an ally.
- Federation and Federation-aligned Jem'Hadar characters need to complete "The Galaxy At Large"
- Romulan Republic characters (probably) need to have completed "The Bigger Picture".
- KDF and KDF-aligned Jem'Hadar characters need to complete "Duties of Command".
If you're level 65 and fulfil the requirements of your character according to the above, you should have a little wrapper mission from Quinn/J'mpok called "Spectres".(This was the mission that opened up sector travel, which still sometimes blocks access to things.)
As with the vast majority of missions. the rewards scale to the level you accepted the mission.
Given that you don't get it until level 65 nowadays, you can enjoy Mk XI mission rewards, not level 30 Mk VI rewards.
I was referring to the fact that the weapons still drop at early-to-midgame quality, not their tier. Most endgame gear drops at VR and higher, not Rare, blue-quality is a liability at XI/XII since chances are that they will still be Rare when it hits XV and beating them against the top-end wall until the quality increases is extremely inefficient at that highest tech-point-requirement-per-level bracket.
And even if it was not so inefficient that it is questionable whether it is worth the number of upgrades it takes (or worse, an ultimate tech upgrade), the fact remains that at level 65 the weapon slots they would have been so perfect for have long been filled by other weapons (usually gear from K-13 if the person is trying to keep it to theme) since few if any players would be inclined to run with empty weapon slots until then and they are character-bound so they just sit in inventory.
Yeah that's what I was thinking too, but was trying to be somewhat optimistic.
I can't understand why they decided to change the story arcs. Yeah some of the missions were unnecessary, but there were also a lot of missions that helped tell that story arc.
For example:
The Klingon War (Fed side): Why is B'Vat starting up the war? How did we find out about a doomsday machine? There were missions that led up to that, and it seems a waste now that we just go to the Amaga syetm and poof fight the planet killer.
The Romulan Mystery (Fed side): THIS!!! This is even worse! The whole lead up and reveal that the Iconians were involved. I mean come on! We go through the Obesik arc and then POOF! Sela get captured by the Iconians.
Sure the patrol missions got boring after awhile as filler, but there were some decent missions with stories and backdrop that really made the beginning game so intriguing and sort of pulled you into an actual Star Trek episode.
It would be so nice if some of those would be brought back (yeah I know I might as well ask Santa Claus for the sole winning numbers to a PowerBall lottery) but if I had a wish item for STO, that would be it.
Bring the story back.
When the DSC rep was made there weren't any beam phasers in the show at all, just those wimpy spark-snap things like the ones mounted on the Discovery. I don't think they showed any beams until the end of season two.
I use either the t1 constitution auto level phasers, leveled out with phoenix tokens, or the stuff the k-13 stuff. The Discovery phasers are too star wars like to me.
I usually either use the twin-beam array white quality ones from AoY (the ones that can be leveled normally) which start at Mk I, so they are usually at least magenta quality later in the game from phoenix upgrades, and later the K-13 ones if I can get them and still need some. Getting free MK V-VII blue quality ones (that still had enough upgrades to go that they usually ended up at least VR by XII) from one of the best of the old mission arcs in the game was just a lot more fun and convenient.
A lot of the time nowadays though I just grab some other primary-shade blue, red, or even green phasers (when I can get them) and call it a day (and yes, TOS used those colors too, especially the red which was used almost as often as the blue if you watch TOS instead of TOS-R).
They do actually start teasing and feeding out the Iconian's a bit before that. There are some hints in Empress Sela and Shadow Play. Taris puts the Iconian Tech out in plain sight. Obisek outright tells you about them in frozen, although he refers to them as the Demons of Air and Fire. And in Coliseum you actually find enough evidence on Hakeev's computers to convinve Admiral T'nae that the Iconian's are behind it all. Granted if you just click through the dialog boxes and reading yeah the first time it becomes clear from gameplay that the Iconian's are involved is when they show up to nab Sela.
Here's an instance where I can agree with you. I DO NOT agree with the removal of content.
I understand their view of, "Well, it doesn't match the quality level of what we're putting out now," and since it's earlier (in game/story progression) content, they don't want new players to get a bad first impression with the look of the game. I get that. And I agree with revamping it to get it up to par. But removing it entirely until they "get around to it?" No. Because who knows when that will be. If ever.
They've revamped the tutorial how many times now? They certainly didn't remove it before they did that. So, we've got these new, enhanced tutorials that look great, but then one of your earliest FED missions is Stranded in Space.
And then taking some of these missions out of mission/story progression and sticking them at the end due to level restrictions or just moving their order around within the story? Narratively, they don't end up making sense out of order like that. Not to mention the proper introduction of several characters gets messed up by doing this, ex) Franklin Drake.
Then there's the issue with missions that are removed having Accolades that go unfinished/are no longer obtainable.
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Ironically, after years of trying to fix the McCoy bug in Spectres (which aside from the bug is the best puzzle-based mission in the game and one of very few TOS-based missions) they finally got it fixed, then within a month or so moved it to "available" which brought a variant of the bug back. And it is not the only mission that has had problems from the ill-conceived move.