Star Trek Online thread

[Darkthunder]

Sorta gave up on considering the game as "soft canon", when they decided to throw in a bunch of JJverse crap (and more is apparently coming).

[Tuskin38]

I never considered the game any kind of canon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. It's a Star Trek sandbox with some semblance of a story.
Like they try to give 'in-universe' lore excuses for some of the stuff you can get but I don't really care.

Also I accidentally clicked on page 1, wow I didn't realize how old this thread was.

[Tuskin38]

Recap of last night's weekly stream
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/cnedbp/ten_forward_weekly_07082019/
The 10th Anniversary is going to have at least 10 new ships, possibly more, but right now it will be at least 10 ships.

[Darkthunder]

And they'll be made available in Lockbox 1, Lockbox 2, Lockbox 3, Lockbox 4 etc.

I don't mind possibly buying ships, but I prefer a set fee for the ship. Not through gambling boxes, and not through the overpriced capitalist-gouging Exchange.

[Tuskin38]

Well they said on the stream that they're going to try to get all of them 'directly accessible' instead of 'indirectly', so not random chance.

We really want to do something special here [for the 10th anniversary], it's tough to talk about without spoilers, but I can say that there are things that have been asked for over the years that we're certainly going to deliver against. 'Ships you've been waiting for' and the ability to get them in ways that you haven't been able to before. We're going to try to make them directly accessible rather than indirectly accessible.

We know CBS doesn't allow certain types ships to be bought directly, so it's probably all down to approvals.

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25th century Somerville variant screenshots posted by a reddit user: https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/cxzyen/tribble_2410era_somerville_in_kinjer_system_patrol/

I hate how big the bussards are to be honest.

[Tuskin38]

They did a visual pass on the Vengeance as well
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/cwrl4k/updated_vengeance_modeltextures_on_tribble/

[Tuskin38]

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11245823-command-the-elachi-qulash-frigate%21
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11245833-the-kelvin-divergence-lock-box

[Tuskin38]

Ah cool, the Kelvin's turrets deploy when at red alert, it's experimental weapon uses them

[Darkthunder]

So much for "narrower phaser beams". Those beams are YUUUUUUGE!!!

[Tuskin38]

Those beams weren't touched, they were created more narrow then the ones they changed.

I also have the camera practically inside them.

[JimmyB76]

i wonder if i should buy this game and start playing it...  i havent been following anything about it, barely know anything about it, havent paid attention to anything about it, havent read any of the pages in this thread tbh...  the bridges are huge and that sucks...  but i am itching for a new game to play...  i have even replayed EF2 and want something ready for when i finish going thru that lol

[Darkthunder]

I will say one thing in the positive... Their newer bridges are a lot closer scaled to what they should be. But...

Most of those bridges are attached to ships that are either in lockboxes, or on the C-Store (Cryptic Store).

[Tuskin38]

i wonder if i should buy this game and start playing it...  i havent been following anything about it, barely know anything about it, havent paid attention to anything about it, havent read any of the pages in this thread tbh...  the bridges are huge and that sucks...  but i am itching for a new game to play...  i have even replayed EF2 and want something ready for when i finish going thru that lol

The bridges aren't even essential to gameplay. The only real point of them is for pictures or role play.
Also the game is free to play. Funded by in game purchases.


Anyways, the Kelvin was another Colab ship between Cryptic and Tobias Richter
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/w8w2q5

This ship, the U.S.S. Kelvin as seen in Star Trek (2009), was modeled by famed Trek artist Tobias Richter. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with Tobias on several STO ships over the course of the past year. Given the unique nature of our ship materials, I will create a material for Tobias, he will model and unwrap the ship, and send it back to me. I will then finalize the model and the material and intake the model into Star Trek Online.

[Tuskin38]

So a TNG Klingon Uniform revamp appeared on the test server, and the Community Manager (and lead ship designer) has teased a Galaxy Class model revamp on twitter
https://twitter.com/trekonlinegame/status/1178090520586805249
https://twitter.com/Cryptic_TtC/status/1178097409244553218
https://twitter.com/Tuskin38/status/1178109328844365824
https://imgur.com/a/gmgXpbp

[Tuskin38]

There's a deal going on for the PC version if you donate to a Breast Cancer Awareness, you can get some goodies
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11267723-join-the-fight-against-breast-cancer%21

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Winter event ship stats: https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/dymhby/winter_event_tab_is_presumably_accidentally_up/

Ship itself:

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Finally getting the breen cryosuits
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11306923?fbclid=IwAR3z8NnM4Rli2P54wCmjZJkbLVU6POtW8zudZUITbuQeXoy8MMSvcT0hzxE

EDIT: Off-duty only.

EDIT 2: https://twitter.com/AmbassadorKael/status/1201933960281899008

[Tuskin38]

The Defiant, Intrepid, Sovereign, Galaxy (plus the Galaxy-X) have all gotten remodels, currently on the test server
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/epcw28/tribble_new_hero_ship_remodels/

[Tuskin38]

I took some screenshots
https://imgur.com/a/WnRwMEm