Star Trek Online thread

[Darkthunder]

Blegh... disgusting. Top to bottom, I assume them to be: Tier 6 Cruiser, Tier 6 Escort, Tier 6 Science.



New Galaxy variant?

[nxadam1701]

My God, what has become of the Federation designs, smh

[3 of 12]

Out of those three, the cruiser probably looks the best with the science being pure crap. Reminds me of that one concept.

[Vortex]

Those three look awful and certainly not starfleet at all. The Galaxy look alike shows promise, but looks like it needs refining.

I'd love it if they made the Tahoe, that looks great. Always liked that sketch.

[FarShot]

Given that they're called Intel ships, I would guess they're supposed to be Cryptic's interpretation of stealth vessels.  I'm sure it's not indicative of future ship designs coming down the proverbial pipeline.  Given the tons of negative feedback on them as well, it'd be suicidal to keep pushing that style.

[nxadam1701]

You know it's sad when Ferengi designs are more appealing than these Intel designs.
With all the talent on a variety of forums, it amazes me how they never utilize their fans. Smh

Adam

[Joshmaul]

With all the talent on a variety of forums, it amazes me how they never utilize their fans. Smh

They did once, and it's been disparaged by people as the "flying whale" ever since.

[Darkthunder]

As I was saying ingame to captainoblivous; If Cryptic can afford to hire most of the Voyager cast, for what likely amounts to only a few minutes of voiceover work, why the hell can't they afford to hire some decent ship artists? Like nxadam1701 suggested, they should go around in various forums, see all the talents, and hire some of them.

They did once, and it's been disparaged by people as the "flying whale" ever since.

Talking about the Odyssey Class? If I recall correctly, the top entry in their "Design the next Enterprise" contest, was DJ Curtis's Century Class (unofficial Enterprise-F). But due to A) not being submitted by DJ Curtis himself, and B) DJ Curtis not being a US citizen, it was disqualified, leading to the 2nd entry, which became the Odyssey Class. In that same contest, there were literally DOZENS of entries for DJ Curtis's Century Class, submitted by various people. And yet, look which design Cryptic chose to go with? They could've built a ship from scratch, "inspired by" DJ Curtis ship. Or hell, they could've hired him.

[FarShot]

The artistic style of STO is more or less limited by the lead artist's vision.  I can imagine him shooting down concepts for ships as "too 90's" (John Eaves-ian) or "not futuristic enough" (aka needs Tron lights).  I've ran into a couple of Cryptic's artists on facebook, and they both had an impressive retinue of work, but not quite reflected in STO.

The top voted ships changed dramatically in the last day due to an influx of spam last minute entries.  For two weeks my design was always in the 4-5 star range, but then on the last day, it got pushed way down by tons of Centurys, Picard Heads, and penile ships.  The top 25 selected by Cryptic had almost nothing to do with the user voting system, and thank god it didn't.

[Tuskin38]

They've already said the new intel ship designs are not going to be the new overall trend. Evidenced by that Guardian cruiser.. which almost looks like concept art from perpetual.

picture time



Finally walking around at least part of the interior, the only thing that feels wildly out of scale is the Captain's Replicator

[Tuskin38]

Someone on reddit made a nice album of interior shots

http://imgur.com/a/jPAJl#0

Includes Engineering, Bridge, Sickbay and the Captain's Quarters.

[nxadam1701]

There's so many things they do right, beautiful eye poppin vistas then they do many things that have everyone on many forums like, wtf is this. Those shots are pretty good. Esp if one remembers our first taste of Voyager(walking inside the ship) in ST Elite Force, we were like Wow! Oh! Nice! The good ole days, you see this and remember the past and say we've come a long way in a short amount of time.
Thanks for sharing that album
;)

[Tuskin38]

So there is only one new name on the Voyager Dedication Plaque, "Nicholas Duguid", which I believe is Tacofangs real name. The rest of the names are from the actual prop.

Side note, according to a dev on the forums, the nacelles on the new T6 ships will have a Red option, I'm assuming he means on the bussard collectors.

[Joshmaul]

In that same contest, there were literally DOZENS of entries for DJ Curtis's Century Class, submitted by various people. And yet, look which design Cryptic chose to go with? They could've built a ship from scratch, "inspired by" DJ Curtis ship. Or hell, they could've hired him.

With respect to DJ (who built a fantastic ship I would have loved to fly in this game), no one can escape the ravages of MMO trolldom. The vocal minority would have spammed the STO forums with reasons why it sucks, even if most people like it.

[FarShot]

Totally dig the saucer out of the windows.  Need more of that.

[Tuskin38]

Totally dig the saucer out of the windows.  Need more of that.

Yeah, they've been doing that a lot more recently.

Great thing about a video game, you can do that. I don't think you ever saw anything like that in the show.

[Tuskin38]

Voyager now has a MSD. The Cross section was actually made by one of the Community GMs, not one of the texture artists.


https://twitter.com/Tumerboy/status/507942311414611969/photo/1


New tribble patch

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=19048991#post19048991

Includes 2 new missions and T5U ships, upgrades are free on tribble.

[Tuskin38]

This Code Expires Tomorrow:

yTeYv0fy

Unlocks the Section 31 uniform, you need to redeem it from within the Arc Client, not the website.


Funfact about the MSD texture, its 2048x1024. That also means its un-animated because its too big.

[Tuskin38]

T6 Intelligence Ships blog

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7004273

[Joshmaul]

So not only are the T6 ships...kinda hideous (Federation-wise anyway), they're also only available on the C-Store. Yep, this is gonna cause a shitstorm. (Well, more than usual, anyway. MMO communities are cesspools even on the good days.)