Star Trek Online thread

[FarShot]

You're the first person I've heard of who doesn't like it, though I suppose there's always a first.  I for one am damn glad the best outfit in the game is now the default one.

[Tuskin38]

The Stream is live.. CANON INTREPID INTERIOR

horrible stream quality.

http://www.trekradio.net/stlv/

Talaxian species + others

Cannot wait for the inevitable "Delta Quadrant Starter Pack"

Comes out in October

Level cap rising to 60

[Darkthunder]

I KNEW IT!!!

I knew the next expansion would include a Level Cap increase as well as T6 ships. But nooo... I get voted down when I voiced that opinion ingame

[Tuskin38]

So CrypticQuack, a ship artist, posted on Reddit saying our current T5 ships will not be useless/obsolete in the new expansion.

[Darkthunder]

Good to know, but not unexpected. Imagine the hatred and pitch forks, if everyones T5 ships (lockbox/C-Store/Fleet) became useless over night? An upgrade process is the only way to alleviate this problem. The question is, how will this upgrade work, and what will it cost.

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Some new leaks. First one is a UI for an item upgrade system and the rest is voice over work for some of the Delta Quadrant species making an appearance in expansion 2.

http://iqfleet.org/private/leaks

[Tuskin38]

Those voice files were leaked a while ago, and then vanished from the files.

I believe that voice is Brandon Feltzer they old Community manager for STO, and the same files hint that he is the Captain of the USS Avenger.

Tuvok will be returning, Harry Kim will be appearing. One of the devs presented Garrett on stage with Lt. Jg. Pips.
They will be announcing more Voy cast over the next while.

Some stuff from the TrekRadio Dev Interview.

The Voyager Interior will have 2 Mess Halls to choose from

One Based off the one seen most in the series, modified by Neelix and An officers/Captains mess before Neelix took over.

Also, Astrometrics was the first room they built, they've even made brand new new LCARS for the interior.

Regarding Tribble Testing, the code base will hit this month, but content may or may not.

[captain_obvious]

You're the first person I've heard of who doesn't like it, though I suppose there's always a first.  I for one am damn glad the best outfit in the game is now the default one.

Honestly, I would *kill* for a switch which let me get rid of that oddy outfit completely.  I'd also kill for the old doff ui, a decent exploration system that uses the old clusters + the foundry, oh and a massive cheeseburger.  

The "new rep tracks" thing makes me think that they're going to make exploration a rep system.  They did say that they might revamp it, after all.

Oh, and "T6 TMP connie ftw!" :

[captain_obvious]

Cautious optimism is the name of the game in light of this news.

[Tuskin38]

Oh a few more things, 50-60 will have a new Skill system with separate specialization trees which won't end at Level 60.

Some sort of new BOFF system they described as "Sub-Classes"

[1DeadlySAMURAI]

I like 'em! :-)

[ShaunKL]

Now I don't know if I should grind up to get Elite Fleet ship weapons or not... and this also means maybe the Intrepid is getting a buff.  It will be interesting if they make it better than the Vesta or Luna-class ships.

Also, Cap'n Obvious, is it the kinda shirt nature of the new uniforms that bother you?  Its bagginess and the waist area?

Ooh with an intrepid pack I wonder if we'll get 2370s phasers!  Probably not...

Oh what I would give for Enterprise excursion jackets and a handheld communicator animation...

[Tuskin38]

Oh yeah, the Intrepid exterior is also getting an art update.

Damn it, I want the panel video now, but it probably won't be up until Monday when they get back. I think the PriorityOne guys got HD footage.

[captain_obvious]

Now I don't know if I should grind up to get Elite Fleet ship weapons or not... and this also means maybe the Intrepid is getting a buff.  It will be interesting if they make it better than the Vesta or Luna-class ships.

It could go either way.  I wouldn't be surprised if the "revamp" was in the same vein as the Galaxy "revamp".

Also, Cap'n Obvious, is it the kinda shirt nature of the new uniforms that bother you?  Its bagginess and the waist area?

No.  What bothers me is that it's (as I described earlier) the b*stard child of a TMP uniform and the TNG s1 uniform with a bit of the FC uniform thrown in on the shoulders perhaps.  It screams "pain-in-the-arse dress uniform with no thought to function or practicality" to me. 
Which is why, weirdly, I think the tac oddy variant is miraculous.  In a good way. 

To be honest, I never really liked the uniforms used in most of trek.  The only ones I actually liked were the flight-suit style ones from Enterprise, the field jackets from TMP and TWOK (despite the bright red colour lol), the trek 5 "wooly pully" field uniform. 

Oh what I would give for Enterprise excursion jackets and a handheld communicator animation...

Hell yes, I'd go for that.  The TMP/TWOK EV suits would be great as well!

[captain_obvious]

Btw, have you guys heard about the ruckus breeki kicked off on the sto forum about some livestreamer saying "f**k Al".
"mountain" and "molehill" come to mind.

[Joshmaul]

I admit to being surprised about what some people were saying about what Cryptic's devs have said in the past (Geko in particular)...did he really call the playerbase "morons"?

[Tuskin38]

Oh more info I forgot

The sections I saw on the stream for the Intrepid Interior are The Mess Hall, Astrometrics, The Bridge, Engineering and Sickbay.

There may have been more, I joined the stream just when they started talking about.

Some images

A Benthan Ship

https://twitter.com/Gettysburg7/status/495680016030908416

A T6 Romulan Ship

https://twitter.com/Gettysburg7/status/495680974278389760

[captain_obvious]

I admit to being surprised about what some people were saying about what Cryptic's devs have said in the past (Geko in particular)...did he really call the playerbase "morons"?

I remember it. Was a long time ago though.  But notice how it was breeki and his goons who started the thread, and notice how they promptly left after the first few posts. 


EDIT

I love that rom boat.  Not sure about the colour, but that can be changed.  Really nice shape on her though.

[Tuskin38]

Ah, so someone on Reddit informed me the Benthan ship is not new, it appeared in one episode of voyager
Just search for Benthan

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/delta1.htm

It appeared in this episode.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Vis_%C3%A0_Vis

[captain_obvious]

Ah, so someone on Reddit informed me the Benthan ship is not new, it appeared in one episode of voyager
Just search for Benthan

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/delta1.htm

It appeared in this episode.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Vis_%C3%A0_Vis

I know.  I watched that episode just last night as it happens! lol