Star Trek Online thread

[Darkthunder]

Yeah, the only one above that I -might- be interested in getting, is the FED version. The "Warbird" and "Raptor" type ships look stupid with all those extra holes.

[Joshmaul]

They look mildly Protoss-y to me.

[Tuskin38]

I just did Second Wave in my Scimitar and wiped out the entire dominion fleet attacking DS9 with one Thalaron Pulse

"Sir, there is a hole in their lines!" "What lines?"

Mind you they were all bug ships, so it really isn't that impressive.

I also irradiated half of DS9 in the process.

[1DeadlySAMURAI]

lmao

[Tuskin38]

Also I think they added and re-did some VO either with LOR or after.

Before when the Dominion first appear it just goes straight to that cutscene, now Kurland says something about "There is no-one scheduled to come through" then it plays the cutscene.

Captain Shon's voice has been toned down, sounds less aggressive, but now it doesn't match his animations. I think they may have changed the Tellerite's VO, not sure I'll have to find a video from before LOR.

[AllotoniFan]

I just did Second Wave in my Scimitar and wiped out the entire dominion fleet attacking DS9 with one Thalaron Pulse

"Sir, there is a hole in their lines!" "What lines?"

Mind you they were all bug ships, so it really isn't that impressive.

I also irradiated half of DS9 in the process.

Overkilling the Overkill.

Just started the Dominion/Mirror Universe arc with my ROM character. I really wished Cryptic extended the Romulan Republic storyline. That whole Dominion, Borg, Undine and Breen story arcs play like they have nothing to do with your ROM character(don?t know if that happens to KDF characters as well).

[captain_obvious]

I just did Second Wave in my Scimitar and wiped out the entire dominion fleet attacking DS9 with one Thalaron Pulse

"Sir, there is a hole in their lines!" "What lines?"

Mind you they were all bug ships, so it really isn't that impressive.

Actually it IS impressive that you got all the targets in the wave at once
Though I have to ask, why are you using the pulse anyway? You'd probably be better off just dumping all 3 of those consoles for stuff that will increase overall performance..
Heh, I actually shocked a bunch of scimitars earlier today in my fleet mogai in azure nebula.  Me in the mog and 4 scimitar users (all tacs).  We all go off in our own direction (par for the course for pugs) and as usual I take my 2 rocks (normally, I go for a close together pair like S and W).  The first two spawns were pretty poor (a t'liss and a dhelan) so they went down very quickly.  I got back to the first rock and waited for it to respawn while the others were happily blasting away on the other 2 rocks.  
To my surprise the new spawn is a scimitar, so as normal I call it out in team chat to let the others know where it is and I got to work on the tholians.
By the time the 4 scimitars had converged on my position, I had already taken out the tholians (dread, orb weaver and a mesh weaver) and had started taking down the beams.  The others took care of the other beams and I went off to my 2nd rock.  On my way there, I noticed that the other players STILL hadn't rescued a single ship between the four of them!  Honestly, sometimes I wish I could run azure solo! xD

That said, a well done scimitar can be utterly devastating.  Like, soloing a "tac cube or two" devastating.


In other news, I came up with a 92k hit with that valdore console! I'd forgotten just how useful it could be, not to mention the drain resistance the 2 piece bonus from the mogai set.  I might swap out the rom hyper torp for the experimental beam and pair that up with a beam overload.  If my thinking is right, it should have rather less drain when overloaded than on the other boats I've tried BO on.  
It would make for some vicious alpha strikes if my thinking is correct.  The valdore console, followed up by the beam overload.  If I'm right, it should insta-vape people in pvp and put a hell of a dent in a borg cube in elite stfs.

[AllotoniFan]

That said, a well done scimitar can be utterly devastating.  Like, soloing a "tac cube or two" devastating.

I believe any ship, if equipped properly, can devastate in most STFs.
Now a quick question: The Rep Gear for both my ROM and KDF characters are decided(ROM is going for Omega/MACO and KDF for New Romulus Gear), now i can?t decide between Nukara or Dyson Gear for my FED character. Any advices?

[BarnesSFC]

I believe any ship, if equipped properly, can devastate in most STFs.
Now a quick question: The Rep Gear for both my ROM and KDF characters are decided(ROM is going for Omega/MACO and KDF for New Romulus Gear), now i can?t decide between Nukara or Dyson Gear for my FED character. Any advices?

If you're using a warbird, grab the Romulan XII set at Tier 5. It gives you bonus plasma damage. I would personally use Honor Guard gear from the T5 Omega rep on your KDF, and Nukara on your FED. Nukara seems like good gear if you're using a cruiser atleast.

[captain_obvious]

I believe any ship, if equipped properly, can devastate in most STFs.

Oh no no no.  Not on the scale of a properly built scimitar.  You simply cannot expect any kind of boat to wreak that kind of havoc.  When you see 4 of those things take down a cube in CSE without touching the probes beneath, or one doing ISE solo (with opt intact) you will see what I mean.
That said, a well built and well flown boat of almost any kind can pull its weight in an stf.  It's just a heck of a lot harder to get a fleet galaxy class to work over say, a fleet Excelsior or a fleet sovereign.  A shame really, because the galaxy is a looker.  

Now a quick question: The Rep Gear for both my ROM and KDF characters are decided(ROM is going for Omega/MACO and KDF for New Romulus Gear), now i can?t decide between Nukara or Dyson Gear for my FED character. Any advices?

Borg 2 piece, plus either maco shield or fleet elite resilient shield.

If you're using a warbird, grab the Romulan XII set at Tier 5. It gives you bonus plasma damage.

Careful.  The romulan console/beam/torpedo 2 piece bonus gives extra plasma damage, but the romulan/reman prototype set does not.  Though iirc, the reman set does increase the flights speed of plasma torpedoes...

I would personally use Honor Guard gear from the T5 Omega rep on your KDF, and Nukara on your FED. Nukara seems like good gear if you're using a cruiser atleast.

Borg engine and deflector paired up with a maco shield or an elite fleet resilient shield.   Seriously, that borg 2piece heal is pretty crazy.


Btw, server has just gone down.

[1DeadlySAMURAI]

I'm working towards Kinetic cutting beam. That thing's a hoot.

[AllotoniFan]

If you're using a warbird, grab the Romulan XII set at Tier 5. It gives you bonus plasma damage. I would personally use Honor Guard gear from the T5 Omega rep on your KDF, and Nukara on your FED. Nukara seems like good gear if you're using a cruiser atleast.

Nope. All my characters use escorts. I even grabbed a few cruiser reward packs from the exchange, but the lack of turn speed, tac consoles and high rank tac bridge officer stations made me choose escorts as the definitive ship class even though my only Tactical class is Xaphla, my Rom character.

[Tuskin38]

New Devblog, mostly interesting for those who run multiple builds/ships

http://sto.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=1082431

[1DeadlySAMURAI]

The fact that you can now save power trays is the best imo. That's the most annoying part after changing a ship.

[captain_obvious]

I was hoping we'd be able to use whatever ship skin we wanted and when I saw the 3rd shot in that devblog, I thought "YES!!!". But no, apparently it's not.  Damn.

Also, from what I hear they don't yet have the ability to save trays (Bran wrote in a forum post in that thread that they didn't have it yet).  Another thing, apparently one will be able to swap ships in any space map so long as you're not in combat. 
Could make for a loooooong pvp match!

[Tuskin38]

Another thing, apparently one will be able to swap ships in any space map so long as you're not in combat.  

Builds, not ships. Ships can only be swapped in Sector space and non-combat maps, and builds can only be swapped out-side of combat with a half minute cooldown.

Source: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=14598241&postcount=14

[Darkthunder]

I was hoping we'd be able to use whatever ship skin we wanted and when I saw the 3rd shot in that devblog, I thought "YES!!!". But no, apparently it's not.  Damn.

Also, from what I hear they don't yet have the ability to save trays (Bran wrote in a forum post in that thread that they didn't have it yet).  Another thing, apparently one will be able to swap ships in any space map so long as you're not in combat. 
Could make for a loooooong pvp match!

The blog says you can only change ships in public, non-instanced maps. PVP maps are instanced. Changing loadouts is fine as long as you're not in combat. Changing ships won't be possible in PVP.

[captain_obvious]

The blog says you can only change ships in public, non-instanced maps. PVP maps are instanced. Changing loadouts is fine as long as you're not in combat. Changing ships won't be possible in PVP.

Then bran went and said you could change ships anywhere, then he changed his mind and said what you just said....

Lol.  Comedy of errors.

[Darkthunder]

Not surprised about Bran tbh. It's a case of the "left foot, not knowing what the right foot is doing". Then again, i'm absolutely certain that Cryptic will find some way to completely screw it up when it goes live. Like most new features to the game, it's released "half-baked". Not quite ready, and never completed.

[Tuskin38]

Tim Russ/Tuvok "Officially" revealed


http://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-tim-russ-joins-the-star-trek-online-cast

Hes apparently in command of Voyager. Though the bridge they used in the video was one of those silly ones from the 'Intrepid' pack.

He is also wearing the Voyager series Uniform and the Standard STO Combadge.