I'm officially out. Grace period expired a few days ago. Time to go find something more interesting to do.
cronos
Diamond Member
- Nov 7, 2001
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Why don't you go find your way into SW:TOR beta and report back to us
That is.. if you're not already in it
Punter
Senior member
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At first I hated the ground missions as they seemed clumsy and simple. Now that i understand a bit more of the tactics involved it is becoming a real fun aspect of the game. For some reason I get a real kick out of using a disrupter.
It is going to be a tough deciding how many points to allocate to ground abilities vs flight combat.
It is going to be a tough deciding how many points to allocate to ground abilities vs flight combat.
lupi
Lifer
- Apr 8, 2001
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Couple tricks I've learned to make ground stuff easier; ability 1 for all weapons is standard attack while ability two is strong attack with c/d and possible secondary effect. You want to have some (or most) of your squad use expose weapons and keep an exploit on yourself. If you hit someone with an exploit effect while they are exposed you really take the HP down (generally 1 shot kill in lower levels). Now the one problem here is that if you give all or most of your peeps expose weapons at the low levels, their general damage will be something just north of a spitball unless they are able to trigger the exposed effect or you often enough. To help make up for this, I keep a couple of them with exploit and maintain an exploit and expose on myself (use Z key to swap weapon). I generally walk into a fight with exposed selected, use secondary fire then swap weapons, after a couple seconds of fire if no one has been exposed I use my exploit as a standard high damage attack then switch to the expose to use that secondary ability again repeating the cycle. Main thing here is that you want to be careful and keep your exploit c/d up as much as possible to nail someone who gets exposed with the big one.
Haven't heard hide nor hair about beta information (other than the sign up early last year). Honestly this and Jumpgate Evolution are pretty much the two that I'd like to try out.Why don't you go find your way into SW:TOR beta and report back to us
That is.. if you're not already in it
lupi
Lifer
- Apr 8, 2001
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384mb patch today.
General
The pre-order bonus Borg Bridge Officers should now display their traits. They were always there, but they were not visible.
You no longer receive an error message when clicking the "Call for Help" button after dying when you are not on a team.
Added the ability to filter the types of PVP Queues displayed when looking up what Queus are available.
Updated instructions given during game play on how to assign Bridge Officers
Closing the mail window no longer prevent you from interacting with objects and contacts until you walk away from the mailbox.
We've improved framerate when viewing the Skills window and reduced the lag when decreasing the rank of a skill.
The Character Rename button should now work properly
Missions
Borg missions are now available to Fed players when they arrive in the Borg Sector
New Daily missions are available for level 43+ players that offer Marks as rewards which can be used in special stores in the Staging Fleet, K7 and Ganalda. To to your remote contacts for details.
Added repeatable Star Cluster and Deepspace hunting missions versus the Borg for both Fed and Klingon players
Updated the Klingon Player introductory mission progression to help get players to Ganalda
Federation PvP missions have been added
Updated Miral Paris' following/combat AI on Regulus IV ground to be more robust
Fixed some bugs in the Klingon daily PVP missions - players with ground objectives (kill X captains on ground) might not have seen this complete if they were in an indoor PvP map
Fixed some text bugs with the Klingon daily PvP missions
Fixed the number of Klingon PvP missions required at each rank to be 3 per rank
Made all repeatable Star Cluster missions have a 30 minute cooldown from start of mission instead of from turn in.
Made all repeatable Deep Space Encounter missions have a 30 minute cooldown from start of mission.
Powers and Skills
The ability to skill up captaining the Negh'Var is now available in Klingon skill trees. Some space weapons tooltips were reporting 5% chance, when the chance was actually 2.5%. Disruptor damage resistance proc now works correctly
Tri-cobalt mines dropped correctly now
Mines only slot in aft weapon slots as design intended
The primary explosion from abandon ship no longer affects friendly targets. The resulting delayed warp core breach will still affect friendly targets.
Field Logistics is now correctly listed as an Admiral skill
The Engineering ability Aceton Field had a bug that caused it to appear as a ground power on Bridge Officers even though it's a space power.
UI
Added a missin icon for the Anesthesine gas applied power.
Corrected a bad description on one of the Tribbles.
Corrected a bad display name on the Pre-order Automated Defense Turret.
Added the missing icon for Vulcan "Logical" trait.
Updated message text when renaming characters to be clearer
Added a Crew button to the inventory window that opens your status assignment window
Updated the the Cancel and OK buttons
Rearranged elements of the Ship customization window to match the layout of the character customization window.
Updated the headshot displayed for a saved costume
Added proper indentation to objectives displayed in the mission journal.
Spending skillpoints on your captain, then attempting to spend skillpoints on a bridge officer without first hitting accept will no longer trigger an error message to be displayed.
Upon deleting a Klingon character, if the next character in character selection was a FED, the UI no longer remains in the red-Klingon scheme.
Updated the power tray sensitivity so that you must drag an element completely off the tray in order to remove an item. This prevents losing an item when trying to move it to another slot and dropping it accidentally.
Add lots of additional information to the character selection screen.
Purchase and Cancel buttons are now always available when customizing a costume.
Visual and Sound FX
Hooked up correct beam up fx for some critter groups
Fixed Plasma sniper rifles so that the laser sight no longer comes out of the player's foot
Adjusted shields on Borg ships that were sticking out strangely
General
The pre-order bonus Borg Bridge Officers should now display their traits. They were always there, but they were not visible.
You no longer receive an error message when clicking the "Call for Help" button after dying when you are not on a team.
Added the ability to filter the types of PVP Queues displayed when looking up what Queus are available.
Updated instructions given during game play on how to assign Bridge Officers
Closing the mail window no longer prevent you from interacting with objects and contacts until you walk away from the mailbox.
We've improved framerate when viewing the Skills window and reduced the lag when decreasing the rank of a skill.
The Character Rename button should now work properly
Missions
Borg missions are now available to Fed players when they arrive in the Borg Sector
New Daily missions are available for level 43+ players that offer Marks as rewards which can be used in special stores in the Staging Fleet, K7 and Ganalda. To to your remote contacts for details.
Added repeatable Star Cluster and Deepspace hunting missions versus the Borg for both Fed and Klingon players
Updated the Klingon Player introductory mission progression to help get players to Ganalda
Federation PvP missions have been added
Updated Miral Paris' following/combat AI on Regulus IV ground to be more robust
Fixed some bugs in the Klingon daily PVP missions - players with ground objectives (kill X captains on ground) might not have seen this complete if they were in an indoor PvP map
Fixed some text bugs with the Klingon daily PvP missions
Fixed the number of Klingon PvP missions required at each rank to be 3 per rank
Made all repeatable Star Cluster missions have a 30 minute cooldown from start of mission instead of from turn in.
Made all repeatable Deep Space Encounter missions have a 30 minute cooldown from start of mission.
Powers and Skills
The ability to skill up captaining the Negh'Var is now available in Klingon skill trees. Some space weapons tooltips were reporting 5% chance, when the chance was actually 2.5%. Disruptor damage resistance proc now works correctly
Tri-cobalt mines dropped correctly now
Mines only slot in aft weapon slots as design intended
The primary explosion from abandon ship no longer affects friendly targets. The resulting delayed warp core breach will still affect friendly targets.
Field Logistics is now correctly listed as an Admiral skill
The Engineering ability Aceton Field had a bug that caused it to appear as a ground power on Bridge Officers even though it's a space power.
UI
Added a missin icon for the Anesthesine gas applied power.
Corrected a bad description on one of the Tribbles.
Corrected a bad display name on the Pre-order Automated Defense Turret.
Added the missing icon for Vulcan "Logical" trait.
Updated message text when renaming characters to be clearer
Added a Crew button to the inventory window that opens your status assignment window
Updated the the Cancel and OK buttons
Rearranged elements of the Ship customization window to match the layout of the character customization window.
Updated the headshot displayed for a saved costume
Added proper indentation to objectives displayed in the mission journal.
Spending skillpoints on your captain, then attempting to spend skillpoints on a bridge officer without first hitting accept will no longer trigger an error message to be displayed.
Upon deleting a Klingon character, if the next character in character selection was a FED, the UI no longer remains in the red-Klingon scheme.
Updated the power tray sensitivity so that you must drag an element completely off the tray in order to remove an item. This prevents losing an item when trying to move it to another slot and dropping it accidentally.
Add lots of additional information to the character selection screen.
Purchase and Cancel buttons are now always available when customizing a costume.
Visual and Sound FX
Hooked up correct beam up fx for some critter groups
Fixed Plasma sniper rifles so that the laser sight no longer comes out of the player's foot
Adjusted shields on Borg ships that were sticking out strangely
lupi
Lifer
- Apr 8, 2001
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some new info:
Originally Posted by zerosoul
when can we expect the first raidisode ? next thursday?
The schedule shows it going live on the 18th, provided internal testing approves it, otherwise it will get some more iteration and updates before going live.
Originally Posted by zerosoul
when can we expect the first raidisode ? next thursday?
The schedule shows it going live on the 18th, provided internal testing approves it, otherwise it will get some more iteration and updates before going live.
Nothing about fixing the borked Borg War Engagement either. It looks like it would be pretty fun if you didn't have to deal with mobs that could shoot you but you couldn't shoot back (stuck in objects) and idiots who don't know that Hub != Hulk and the fact that you don't get credit for completing it.
Besides that, they REALLY need to fix the "enemies stuck in walls" thing.
Besides that, they REALLY need to fix the "enemies stuck in walls" thing.
paperfist
Diamond Member
Why don't you go find your way into SW:TOR beta and report back to us
That is.. if you're not already in it
Hmm that isn't a continuation or part of the old dev team that did Star Wars Galaxies is it? I mean I see it's BioWare, but I just remember the SWG beta being very crappy.
I see that SWG is still going, I wouldn't have thought a competing MMO would be able to come out.
lupi
Lifer
- Apr 8, 2001
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- 126
Greetings!
The team has been hard at work not only adding new content to the game, but addressing the bugs you are reporting.
We are increasing our presence in the forums to ensure that the team is aware of issues you are having. Please continue to report the bugs that you find.
edit: We are taking advantage of the unscheduled downtime to push this new update now instead of the previously scheduled 3am update.
Release Notes
Fixed a crash that was happening often on high traffic social maps like Earth Space Dock.
Made some improvements to ease lag during peak play times. We will continue to monitor and are working on additional performance increases.
It has been very difficult to find rare anomalies in Star Clusters. We have put in a fix to ensure that all anomalies have a better chance of being scanned and discovered. This should also help improve Memory Alpha trade.
Lower level repeatable missions no longer show on your remote contact options unless you are in the area where they take place. For example, if you are in Cardassian space, you will no longer see Grall in your remote contacts asking you if you want to explore Delta Volanis.
Crystalline Entity is no longer located at sector XXX, system YYY. We now tell you the proper sector block to find the Fleet Action in.
There was a UI bug with the Science Bridge Officer power “Dampening Field I” in the skills window. Based on the skills UI, it looked like the skill had been incorrectly training into the Commander-rank slot instead of the LT commander slot. If this has happened to you, it appeared that you lost two powers. We hope to fix this when you log in so that you will see that Dampening Field I is now in your LT Commander slot, and your prior Command power is still there. As Dampening Field I was intended to be a Commander power, we are working on another version which will be the correct Commander power which will be introduced into the game in a future patch, and at that time we’ll remove the LT Commander version from the power store.
Some players had acquired ships that were not slotting properly as ships and showing up as bridge officers instead. A fix has been put in that will fix these characters up when they log in.
Pre-order bonus TOS Federation uniforms now come with skirt options.
Added missing files to improve French and German translations of game text.
The Borg were showing up in the B’Tran Star Cluster in missions they should not have had access to, which lead to un-Borg like mission text and behaviors. If you do encounter the Borg in this Star Cluster, the mission will be more appropriate.
Auto-teaming was not working properly in some sectors. We’ve addressed this issue so that auto-teaming should now function across all sectors.
Some players were not getting credit for defeating the Doomsday Machine in the Imaga System. This mission has been updated so that all players should have credit for completing the mission regardless of whether they closed the last mission dialog box or not.
Two new Video Options were added in the prior patch to help deal with overheating issues: Limit Frame Rate and Reduce CPU/GPU Usage. These are available under Options | Video | Advanced | Troubleshooting.
Frame Rate defaults are now limited to 60fps.
Also released in the last patch, players who had purchased Pre-Order costume bonuses may now apply those bonus costumes to their bridge officers.
Ramming Speed was updated to cap modifiers based on speed of ramming ship. We also improved the damage formula to use the smaller vessel's HP as the base, modified by speed and size ratio between both ships involved. In general, ramming similar or smaller sized ships can be tactically beneficial, ramming larger ships becomes a self-sacrificing last resort.
Emergency Power to Engines - When used in a specific sequence with Evasive Maneuvers, the speed modifier from this ability was improperly applied so that it was multiplied by Evasive Maneuvers. It should no longer matter which order you use these two abilities in - they will stack, but not multiply.
The team has been hard at work not only adding new content to the game, but addressing the bugs you are reporting.
We are increasing our presence in the forums to ensure that the team is aware of issues you are having. Please continue to report the bugs that you find.
edit: We are taking advantage of the unscheduled downtime to push this new update now instead of the previously scheduled 3am update.
Release Notes
Fixed a crash that was happening often on high traffic social maps like Earth Space Dock.
Made some improvements to ease lag during peak play times. We will continue to monitor and are working on additional performance increases.
It has been very difficult to find rare anomalies in Star Clusters. We have put in a fix to ensure that all anomalies have a better chance of being scanned and discovered. This should also help improve Memory Alpha trade.
Lower level repeatable missions no longer show on your remote contact options unless you are in the area where they take place. For example, if you are in Cardassian space, you will no longer see Grall in your remote contacts asking you if you want to explore Delta Volanis.
Crystalline Entity is no longer located at sector XXX, system YYY. We now tell you the proper sector block to find the Fleet Action in.
There was a UI bug with the Science Bridge Officer power “Dampening Field I” in the skills window. Based on the skills UI, it looked like the skill had been incorrectly training into the Commander-rank slot instead of the LT commander slot. If this has happened to you, it appeared that you lost two powers. We hope to fix this when you log in so that you will see that Dampening Field I is now in your LT Commander slot, and your prior Command power is still there. As Dampening Field I was intended to be a Commander power, we are working on another version which will be the correct Commander power which will be introduced into the game in a future patch, and at that time we’ll remove the LT Commander version from the power store.
Some players had acquired ships that were not slotting properly as ships and showing up as bridge officers instead. A fix has been put in that will fix these characters up when they log in.
Pre-order bonus TOS Federation uniforms now come with skirt options.
Added missing files to improve French and German translations of game text.
The Borg were showing up in the B’Tran Star Cluster in missions they should not have had access to, which lead to un-Borg like mission text and behaviors. If you do encounter the Borg in this Star Cluster, the mission will be more appropriate.
Auto-teaming was not working properly in some sectors. We’ve addressed this issue so that auto-teaming should now function across all sectors.
Some players were not getting credit for defeating the Doomsday Machine in the Imaga System. This mission has been updated so that all players should have credit for completing the mission regardless of whether they closed the last mission dialog box or not.
Two new Video Options were added in the prior patch to help deal with overheating issues: Limit Frame Rate and Reduce CPU/GPU Usage. These are available under Options | Video | Advanced | Troubleshooting.
Frame Rate defaults are now limited to 60fps.
Also released in the last patch, players who had purchased Pre-Order costume bonuses may now apply those bonus costumes to their bridge officers.
Ramming Speed was updated to cap modifiers based on speed of ramming ship. We also improved the damage formula to use the smaller vessel's HP as the base, modified by speed and size ratio between both ships involved. In general, ramming similar or smaller sized ships can be tactically beneficial, ramming larger ships becomes a self-sacrificing last resort.
Emergency Power to Engines - When used in a specific sequence with Evasive Maneuvers, the speed modifier from this ability was improperly applied so that it was multiplied by Evasive Maneuvers. It should no longer matter which order you use these two abilities in - they will stack, but not multiply.
Elcs
Diamond Member
- Apr 27, 2002
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- 6
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Another maintenance today at prime time Europe time... 2 hours booked out, 2 1/2 hours and still going.
I don't mind it but they had no information up about it when i went to bed last night so I had only a few hours notice.
Cmdr. Grade 7... Loving 2 Dual Tetryon Beam Bank Mk VI's fore alongside a Quantum Torpedo Mk VI and packing 2 Phaser Beam Array Mk VI's and 1 Tetryon Beam Array Mk VI at the rear. Technically this means i have a 10 degree blindspot on each side of my ship but I have as of yet found no cause for concern.
The idea is that the Quantum Torpedo autofires and the Tetryon Dual Beams slice open the front Shielding. On lesser craft, the Quantum ends up hitting hull plating. With Battleships, the beam banks and quantum soften it up, a raking of high energy beam damage from my Aft section and it's ready for it's second HYT II salvo.
There are some extremely good missions in the game. The story seems to flow nicely though in my opinion it suffers from a lack of voiceovers. Lenoard Nimoy does his usual best at presenting some one-time voiceovers but these are few and far between.
So far I have faced the Gorn, Orions, Romulans, Hirogen, Klingon, Remans, The Borg and the Urdine (Species 8472). Each species has their own little foibles which makes them different and interesting during the first few encounters.
Good fun and I cannot wait for my Tier 4 Cruiser... which I hoped would come today.
One thing which makes me smile is the diversity of Bridge Officer skills and abilities for your Captain. Although a few skills are used very often, there is a variety of skills which will have you wondering over.... Polarise Hull Vs. Hazard Emitters etc.
I don't mind it but they had no information up about it when i went to bed last night so I had only a few hours notice.
Cmdr. Grade 7... Loving 2 Dual Tetryon Beam Bank Mk VI's fore alongside a Quantum Torpedo Mk VI and packing 2 Phaser Beam Array Mk VI's and 1 Tetryon Beam Array Mk VI at the rear. Technically this means i have a 10 degree blindspot on each side of my ship but I have as of yet found no cause for concern.
The idea is that the Quantum Torpedo autofires and the Tetryon Dual Beams slice open the front Shielding. On lesser craft, the Quantum ends up hitting hull plating. With Battleships, the beam banks and quantum soften it up, a raking of high energy beam damage from my Aft section and it's ready for it's second HYT II salvo.
There are some extremely good missions in the game. The story seems to flow nicely though in my opinion it suffers from a lack of voiceovers. Lenoard Nimoy does his usual best at presenting some one-time voiceovers but these are few and far between.
So far I have faced the Gorn, Orions, Romulans, Hirogen, Klingon, Remans, The Borg and the Urdine (Species 8472). Each species has their own little foibles which makes them different and interesting during the first few encounters.
Good fun and I cannot wait for my Tier 4 Cruiser... which I hoped would come today.
One thing which makes me smile is the diversity of Bridge Officer skills and abilities for your Captain. Although a few skills are used very often, there is a variety of skills which will have you wondering over.... Polarise Hull Vs. Hazard Emitters etc.
paperfist
Diamond Member
Elcs
Diamond Member
- Apr 27, 2002
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- 6
- 81
They mail it?
No, I just had a spare day to rattle through some grades and hoped to reach Tier 4 (Captain) so I could pick up my Tier 4 Cruiser
Hell, it's never turn up... Cruisers just can't turn.
Elcs
Diamond Member
- Apr 27, 2002
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Will do. I am not convinced that many of the ships in STO look good. Even the Defiant class looks a bit shoddy. It may not be fair to compare the STO Defiant to the DS9 Defiant as the one in the DS9 series was a one off, a special Defiant (Aft Torpedo launcher, Cloaking device and all that).
I have found once I hit about Grade 7 or 8 of a Tier, it starts to get difficult.
Everything on my Heavy Cruiser (T3) is Uncommon Mk VI or more than satisfactory for the job at hand. I am running some of the best skills available (Tactical Team I, High Yield Torpedo II, Science Team I, Science Team II, Emergency Power to Weapons I, Emergency Power to Shields I, Reverse Shield Polarity I, Extend Shields II) and yet I am starting to struggle a little.
Recent changes I have made were to remove the two RCS Accelerator Mk IV's I had (2x 15% Turn Rate) and replaced them with 2x Ablative Hull Plating Mk VI (Uncommon) and my effectiveness has seemed to plummet in amongst the last couple of grades. Not sure whether my effectiveness is directly related to this change because really I am getting off my HYT's the same and everything else.
Transphasic Torpedos unlock at Tier 4 so I am probably going to run 2 Transphasic Torpedos with 2 Tetryon Beam Arrays fore and 1 Tetryon Beam Array and 2 Phaser Beam Arrays aft in my Tier 4 Cruiser. The other details will have to wait until I finally get into the game and check out the slots available to me
paperfist
Diamond Member
Is anyone piloting an escort? I'm wondering if an engineer would make a good compliment to that ship?
Is there an AT guild?
I'm about to give up on the game already because of the pure lack of any kind of community whatsoever. That and Klingon's are outnumbered 50-1
I think 99% of the playerbase are chinese nobody speaks a single word... EVER.
I'm about to give up on the game already because of the pure lack of any kind of community whatsoever. That and Klingon's are outnumbered 50-1
I think 99% of the playerbase are chinese nobody speaks a single word... EVER.
paperfist
Diamond Member
Sadly I rolled before reading your post
I read some posts in the official forum where some players had success going that route, but they didn't go very in-depth. I guess I'll use the first slot to experiment with. Thanks for the feedback.
lupi
Lifer
- Apr 8, 2001
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- 260
- 126
no idea of what time you play, but the zone chat flies by like a stock ticker when i'm on.
I'm talking about actual groups. Anytime you end up in one, or you do PVP. Not a single soul will speak or reply to anything you say.
Honestly, until they fix PVP i cannot play this absurd piece of shit game.
I'm tired of joining the queue and ending up in a game half way over with 5 klingons and JUST me.. nobody else on fed. Or joining an arena only to have NO klingons in it! AT ALL!
PVP is soo fuckin broken in this game its amazing. Fuck Cryptic.
A group of shit-eating monkeys could make a better game.
I'm tired of joining the queue and ending up in a game half way over with 5 klingons and JUST me.. nobody else on fed. Or joining an arena only to have NO klingons in it! AT ALL!
PVP is soo fuckin broken in this game its amazing. Fuck Cryptic.
A group of shit-eating monkeys could make a better game.
And people wonder why I say PvP should not exist in PvE-centric games. All it does is serve to ruin game balance for PvE.
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