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vetteguy904
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Wow, very well done. the VA has stepped up considerably.
I went in as a tac with a GW intrepid. definitely the right ship, not going into details. I can't remember what the special abilities of the sci and eng Inquisitor are, but i definitely would not have made it through without the dark matter and drones the tac gets.
please don't post spoilers
I went in as a tac with a GW intrepid. definitely the right ship, not going into details. I can't remember what the special abilities of the sci and eng Inquisitor are, but i definitely would not have made it through without the dark matter and drones the tac gets.
please don't post spoilers
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Agreed. Ground missions for me are like pulling teeth at the best of times. Trying to play this episode as a sci char while the server was borderline overloaded, rubber-banding all over the place (100m into the air at one point), invisible stumbling blocks, without any of my hard-earned equipment or abilities was the absolute worst. Shoot things, operate a console, shoot things, operate a console, listen to Tilly's vocal fry, operate a console, shoot things, operate a console, shoot the same thing a thousand times for about 10 minutes, it's over thank god. The space part was marginally better, I would class it as about 30% as fun as one of the better space TFOs.
... And not only did I not get it considered completed but the objectives got right back to the very first set (gather the fleet).
What spoilers? That Tilly is in here still throwing jabs at you? She's literally mentioned in the loading screen and all ads for the patch, and that's almost only what her character does.
Engs get Ambush Turrets on fairly quick cooldown, which should be OK dealing with the stuff. I forget what Sci gets, I remember not being impressed by what they got last Terran episode.
https://playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11526293 (not yet on dark mode site)
Resolved an issue that was preventing the Emperor’s Will event from granting the Terran Somerville Scout Ship [T6] reward.
This will fix the issue with the event buyout.
Resolved an issue that was preventing some characters from logging in.
I hate having a character I've spent years building and maintaining getting sidelined while I get stuck playing some NPC!
Hey, at least I got to fly my starship for a little while. MY starship, the one I spent plenty of time and effort upgrading and outfitting.
I know the Developers in general are not responsible for such decisions and I don't hold them responsible. No, this kind of decision has the stink of middle management, someone in a decision making role, a Project Lead or some such.
Aside from being stuck with One-Gun Quackenbush the episode was pretty good, looked great, and even Wheaton wasn't all that bad in the role. Plus I was quite happy to see |REDACTED| get thoroughly |REDACTED|! That glob of Tribble Spit always got on my nerves!
(Edited for a spelling and context fiasco)
> I think it is bugged, running around for ages drawin power and not able to finhish ...
I had the same experience but somehow after a certain amount of time passed I was able to get past the drawing power portion and not deal with a swarm of drones. Remember target the Repair Drones, I was having problems targeting them and kept on attacking the others. It was a slog though on my main tactical character.
At one point in the space part I was stuck in the Other's wall and could not move until a dialog finally played. This was not the scripted getting stuck.
Thankfully, I did not experience the invisible walls issue.
Overall, I liked the new episode, bugs aside and they did a great face sculpt of Wil Wheaton unlike what I saw in the teaser and trailer.
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It is definitely bugged. tldr that power drain section was generating significantly more drones than I could destroy and use the consoles. It took me well over an hour just to get through that part and even then it was just barely and only because lag kicked in and the drones bugged out for a short time and didn't reset all the pylons instantly for the 100th time in a row
tldr: the spawning of those drones absolutely needs to be rebalanced and lowered. As it is now its almost unplayable
That said, yeah they definitely picked the wrong person for emperor. Its bizarre and not particularly believable. Came off as wesley crusher cosplaying an evil guy for halloween or something. Saw the leeta 'twist' coming a mile away as well. Got kind of tacky and made that whole plotline really go nowhere though. I'm not entirely sure what she was trying to do or what the point of it was. I mean assuming she actually killed the emperor....then what? The pah wraiths have no more interest in the empire than the emperor does and essentially would have done the same thing as him
Honestly the rewards across the terran arc need to be tweeked a bit, they're not terriably good at enchouraging replayability.
Overall, I did enjoy the mission, though out on a 1-10 scale, I'd give it a 4.2. Why? Because yet again, I/we are FORCED to not only play as someone else in a GROUND mission no less (which I was sad to see it being so extensive compared to the space battle), but a significantly weaker character than my own no less. I ran threw it on my original first character, a Science one, and while I didn't encounter any real bugs that stopped me playing period, just being forced to play a weaker version of her in a ground mission made it far less enjoyable then it could have been. So Dev's, please, PLEASE stop doing this, ok?
And as far as "Shut up Wesley" goes, while I think the Dev's nailed it on this one, he just did not make me feel like he was either a super powerful being, or super evil one or heck, even a really threatening one. It was just good ol' "Shut up Wesley" in a nice suit, trying to act "big and bad" is all, and while this is nowhere near a knock on Wil Wheaton (as I think he nailed the part perfectly), there is only so much that can be done with the character to portray him as a "Evil Emperor". It was a good opportunity for Will to get into the game, but when it is all said and done, they should have chosen a different person to play the part of the Emperor.
Peace...
Science actually works VERY well.
> Science actually works VERY well.
It does... one enemy at the time (the elite ones and the boss) , in a mission where enemies keep spawning everywhere.
Most of the time, the chain ability in particular is useless except during the couple of times drones spawn close to each other (which is usually on the bridges where beam-summoning drones are about to melt your HP bar because you don't have much room to stand clear from the AOE).
So what if it's 'harder' because you don't have that outrageously over-powered gear on to one shot things. I enjoyed it more that I wasn't blasting through it, and as for the 'time-gate' complaints....if the train is going to be here in 5 minutes, it's going to take 5 minutes. Time-gates are a part of life, and in-game they 100% should exist.
And Sci's are wickedly effective in this with the chain lighting.
I loved the sound effects, especially from the red probes. Lots of V'ger sound bites from the movie. Needs more of the menacing keyboard sounds, the one that sounds like a guitar out of tune. And maybe some cow bell.
> I absolutely have enjoyed playing a 'baddie' version of myself, and folk have been asking for this 'creature-play' for YEARS guys, come on! It does not do anything permanent to your own character....
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> Time-gates are a part of life, and in-game they 100% should exist.
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> And Sci's are wickedly effective in this with the chain lighting.
Here's the thing about "creature/different character play": People do indeed ask for these when the previously NPC is interesting, but they expect a different and interesting gameplay, which STO doesn't provide, since it's the same gameplay, except even clunkier (with Neth Parr) or literally the same but weaker. And even, when you do something different, it doesn't mean it's gonna be good.
I come from Warframe, where we have various types of gameplay and they're all considered inferior to the main one, with the "jetpack" being the worst. The playable co-op ships got some well-deserved flak at first but they got rapidly optimized and this is where the ultimate showdown with your nemesis happens, while also having unique resources and rewards, and recently, we got a typical TPS protagonist, but that's because he was very well-liked and his first appearance was during an system-wide invasion to precisely show how utterly OP the warframes are compared to everyone else. Plus his HUD is completely different and he now has his own unique mode with his own abilities. Same with the other main mode that is weaker but is made to work in tandem with the main one, while also having their own story that is taking an incredibly horrifying turn.
So what is the inquisitor? You but with a weaker build with the exact same gameplay and abilities as yours.
Timegates are indeed part of life... hence why you should have much fewer in a game, especially when said game asks you to play it at least 14 times with another daily timegate.
And again, compared to the turrets,dark matter and especially the exocomp squad of the other classes, sci inqui pales.
Science inq powers were well, I didn't notice them do anything so just shot me phaser rifle at the drones.
Overall, very satisfying mission but I'm disappointed we only got the one. STO needs to put more resources into single player story. The game is kind of dead in between the three content drops we get a year and one mission just isn't enough for a 4 month wait.
It could have been interesting to have a mission or two where we're shown how she got broken and lost her ambitions, which could have also allowed us to see what the Emperor is capable of, instead of just seeing him being able to cast an (admittedly OHK) AoE that apparently sapped enough of his powers to tick him off and having a big bad ship that goes down way too easily.
All the way through this arc, I was hoping for