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The visual similarity is enough. Their designations are arbitrary fluff made up by cryptic, not established canon. The Cheyenne is a heavy cruiser and the Buran is a dreadnought cruiser because...Cryptic said so. No real reason they couldn't have been usable for kitbashing.
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I think we're overlooking the biggest flaw with the Buran: It doesn't kitbash with the Cheyenne. Epic fail, Cryptic.
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*Cryptic makes badly scaled poorly designed generic interiors with next to no functionality, no customization, and hordes of non-customizable NPC's who stumble around in circles or cluster in silly gaggles* *People don't buy these* Cryptic: Well, clearly players don't want or care about ship interiors, so we're not going…
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Cardenas Class in April? Probably the only Disco ship I'll actually buy, assuming that it has a good 'modern' model and can be used for space barbie with the Cheyenne.
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Haven't had an issue in TFO's, but happens semi-regularly to me in 'Where Angels Fear to Tread' in the Borg arc. You start the mission right on top of an asteroid, and not infrequently the game gets confused and puts you inside of it.
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More practically, they should all just be 25th century, because it's a bit silly that they'd still be using the old ones. :p Finding out that my DSC Captain I made solely for the warp and and scan animations has DSC security escorts has completely killed my enthusiasm for the character. It wouldn't be utopic, it would be…
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Those patch notes are awfully light for such an extended downtime, what's really broken?
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Nope, according to STO the only canon races that existed in DSC were humans and Vulcans. All the other ones (even the ones you actually see in Discovery) were wiped out and won't magically reappear for another 200 years. Because reasons.
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TOS - 6: I mean, I love the cheesiness and it is the original, but for every classic episode there are several that make you realize that it was a minor miracle anyone ever gave it a second chance on the big screen. Redeemed immensely by the movies TNG - 9: My first Trek, and lots of great episodes, and who doesn't love to…
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This is presumably because AoD/MoD weren't actually planned at all, CBS just suddenly sent down a demand that they make Discovery the focus of the game. So Victory is Life gets cut short, and Discovery stuff is rushed because they're making it up on the fly.
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Much as I love TNG, Picard had the unfair advantage of the Gene's/writer fiat declaring that just being the good guy would always allow for a happy resolution. One of the things I liked about DS9 is how it addressed the fact that there aren't always clean and happy solutions when all the idealism and inspiring speeches hit…
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Yeah, they are. I don't consider random exposition dumps added to the info for other missions to be a good substitute for the removed missions you would normally have gained that information from playing.
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Except that DSC characters do Mirror immediately after arriving in the future for some reason...so for them it somehow takes place before anything else. I guess Cryptic assumes players are idiots and that those with DSC toons will forget and be confused and angry by Tilly recognizing them unless it happens within 20…
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Yeah, it does kind of seem like the last two episodes should have been switched around. Two weeks ago we get the cute, kind of awkward romance between Dr. Finn and Isaac, and for Valentine's Day it's 'Why Moclans Are Horrible People On Anything Involving Sex Or Gender, Vol XXVIII"
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Yeah, nothing more fun than endless spirals trying to get at anything not on the same plane as you. :p
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Eh, it really applies to all the arcs up until around Solanae, everything feels choppy and rushed and just a disconnected string of 'okay now go here...okay now go here....okay now you're doing this.'
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For the same reason we can't bombard the Talaxian asteroid colony with quantum torpedoes while their shields are down, or pistol whip D'Tan to make him stop talking. The burden of being the good guys.
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Going to the past rather than the future doesn't automagically add depth, especially when what you're adding is completely nonsensical and has no coherent relationship to anything that comes after. Doubly problematic when you set it immediately before another series, and involve characters from that series...who will all…
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Fun Fact: It was Sulu/the Excelsior crew who were supposed to come up with the gas tracking torpedo in the final battle, hence the setup in the beginning about cataloguing gaseous anomalies, but Shatner threw a fit about the Enterprise not being the one to solve the problem. :p Hero ship or not though, it gets my vote.…
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The more important question is: where are our Benzite BOffs?
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Do you even play STO, bro? The whole "They have to be true to the IP!" argument gets dragged out behind the woodshed and shot by a casual stroll around ESD and flight around ESD space. "You can't have Starfleet officers in KDF uniforms, it would ruin the Trek feel! Starfleet Officers running around in Terran uniforms and…
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Yeah...but practically speaking, unless you really happen to love a particular design, are you really going to go with the mechanically inferior/outdated ship over the current meta/up to date one for the same price?
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I'd be fine with the prices if they were actually updated to the current state of the game. The Jupiter isn't going to become OP if it's finally given a secondary deflector and sensor analysis now :p
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Not a chance. Even if it had anything that interested me it's overpriced for what you get, and an obvious effort by PW to test the waters on getting people to buy packs and then rebuy individual items from the pack for different characters because they're not account wide.
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Which is, you know, utterly ludicrous. Is 2410 the Cryptic CEO's favorite number or something? Presumably there is some explanation for their insistence on cramming stories that should span months or years into apparently days and weeks.
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Hack writing isn't an excuse. It's one of the dumber things about the JJTrek Universe, that they had to do because they wanted the young, hip "College age" TOS crew...but also needed them to be in the positions everyone remembers from TOS, so for no apparent reason one of the changes brought by the timeline split is that…
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So got the same message this morning, then after the emergency maintenance I got in fine, just tried to get back on now and the launcher updated and suddenly getting connection errors again. Fun times.
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It boggles my mind that this wasn't done ages ago. Like, if you're going to rely on microtransactions for your games income...why would you make using the store such a clunky pain in the TRIBBLE?
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Except there's nothing really alien or weird about the DSC Klingons except their looks. All of their motivations are entirely comprehensible and human, just mostly negative, the only thing unique about them is that the 30 pounds of rubber on their heads makes them incapable of looking anything but bored and constipated…
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Yes, the war where the Klingons were kicking the TRIBBLE out of the Federation. I was referring to the claim that L'Rell, after forcing the Great Houses to abandon the war they were winning against the Federation, and to pull back from all the Federation territory they had conquered, was then somehow going to convince them…