On random event things, this was a lot funnier this year:
EDIT: Oh, and there's an ongoing 75% Mudd's discount, bundles not included. Bought the Kobayashi Maru device, partly because is apparently very good and partly because it amuses me. Nothing else seemed that important, there's the Imperial Rift set (BiS gear for Science builds) and the cat transformation that is also 200% speed on ground, but eeeeh. Already commited to this torpedo build, so going to keep at it.
The KM device and it's boost drops can keept a small fleet topped on up shields for pretty much it's entire duration if the formation is close enough. Very handy to have as an "Oh, shit?!" handle in emergencies.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
So, used some leftover Lobi to clean up things on my KDF character and didn't liked any of the ships he had, so fuck it, Fleet Arbiter, KDF version it is:
Ground is kinda on the more meta end, bought the Antiproton Herald staff with Lobi, so can buy the Kit Module that spawns Obelisks aka turrets that shoot Antiproton beams, and got the trait that does more damage on Antiproton or DoT damage. Rest is just more meta stuff, and I do understand why so many people use the Herald staff, it feels very satisfying to use.
On the ship end, I was using the Qugh, and is a better ship, and I don't care about it's appeance....but it drives like a brick, and is not that tough, and both things at once ended up annoying me. Fleet Mogh doesn't have Gather Intelligence, but Gather Intelligence is probably the worst specialization ship ability since it just takes forever to get it to work, so meh. Meanwhile, Fleet Mogh can get away with running Fire at Will without imploding, using the Iconian set because I'm also running double Override System Safeties, that shuts down a random subsystem for 5 seconds after the buff rans out, and if is weapons then I'm fucked, so the Warp Core restarting Weapons if it goes off is a blessing. This char has reps halfway through, which is why is missing the shield. Getting the build from here, just swapping Phaser for Disruptor and filling up with the stuff I do have.
Also ran Gamma Quadrant arc on this character. Goddamn, that's top tier Star Trek writing period. Everybody absolutely delivers and it fires at all cylinders, even the super long EV suit mission draws you in.
its funny I look up all kinds of ship meta and spend literal cash to get that. But don't give a shit about ground meta at all.
Deal with Ground is that is not bad, for MMOs. Like, I do not expect WoW-level of smoothness. Issue is that is almost completely centered on Kit Modules, and a lot of the baseline Kit Modules are not that good or interesting, and the really fun stuff over the years is on Kit Modules from the Exchange, Rep or Events. Add that ship combat is better, and, well. It is a lot cheaper to build Ground though, Reputations have a lot of very good Modules to play around.
On Ground, Rally Cry does a lot less than I remembered, even with Mudd's getting it's CD reduced, and Ambush is really good and had forgotten about it, so.
On Space, since this is a Beam build, can have Lorca's 2 pc with the Beam Bank and the Console AND the full Naussican set, which I also forgot about. It works really well, it was a noticeable increase in damage.
Also did the first part of the Disco arc, aka "go fuck around on the Holodeck to meet the cast". Not having watched Disco means that I kinda do not care about these people, and the whole point was "learn about J'ula" and what I learned is that she's good at beating people up with the bullshit she pulls out of her ass. No wonder people hold grudges against Starfleet, losing like that feels bad. Not a strong start, will see how it goes.
EDIT: Winter sale, Phoenix Prize event (go pick your free pack at DS9 and Drozana) are up:
Mostly fighting J'ula's forces are annoying as fuck because of the god damn viral burst bullshit.
nice to see the upgrade event is coming. I picked up that sci ship bundle from Mudd's store and I was waiting for it to max it out and take it for a test drive.
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Ill probably pick up the Ba'ul vanity shield for an account unlock, I was able to get one of them when trying to get my Ba'ul cannon set and a set of beams... and some auto rifles... and yeah. Those auto rifles were stupidly rare.
I totally did not use them a few times and then shelve them either *cough*
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edit: The 10th Anniversary Legendary Starship bundle also is available, though I kind of think I've spent enough on STO for a while. I really only just want the Legendary Glenn out of it for spaec magic colors. there were some other things that are maybes, but idk.I think I'll agree with reason.
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I bought the 10th pack, if I wasn't so heavy on my sci ship build I'd probably use more ships from it. it had a lot of good beam/cannon boats and the nice thing is the account wide unlocks for a variety of really good traits.
I had a write up a while back but mostly the voyager and the chris pine kirk a verse enterprise were the biggest let downs.
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I'm counting down the days till January 1 and I can bumrush the electronics counter and get out when the getting's good, probably gonna do $150 in ST:O Zen, 15000 on Xbonx, and the rest on various guitar/bass reissues 4 Rock Band: World Tour.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
On last minute Christmas offer, there's a Zen sale so spent 20$ on enough keys for Ateleth (I got tired of not having the Beam Overload extension trait) and Repair Crews. Think that this time is really it for now, want to see what the Anniversary event comes up with.
Update: It was not it. Christmas offers were too tempting, so bought the Legendary Battlecruiser Bundle.
I know that people complain that Legendary bundles are inflated with old Event rewards, but for people that missed them, like me, is actually really good to have them outside $Mudd's prices.
Meet the I.K.S Qam-Chee, named after the ancient city where Kahless and Lukara fought against Molor's forces:
(You have no idea how hard is to find a Klingon ship name that makes sense and is not already in use). Also, Jem'hadar Vanguard can use full Honor Guard helmets, but not M.A.C.O. helmets because reasons.
General stuff, finishing off the story arcs on this character.
New Frontiers and Gamma Quadrant are the Deep Space Nine movies we never got, and they are both amazing. The delivery is in all cilinders, from Kurn's disgust at the dishonor that is to have Torg work with the Tzenkethi, to Kuumarke's wide eyed optimism about things, to the DS9 cast all managing to get you on the edge of your seat all the way.
Age of Discovery and J'ula's Discovery are...ok? First is apparently the Disco tutorial for those that didn't watched Disco, second has a very strong start with Holo Statmets, then a bunch of filler chasing the Mo'kai around, then Measure of Morality. Measure of Morality is as insane and fanservice-y as the Picard S3 finale, but man, is still really cool.
Klingon Civil War: I liked it. J'mpok has long been fine with reaping the benefits of the dishonor of other men, so this goes to the logical conclusion of that and the political tension between him and Martok. Is a big, beefy chunk of Klingon content and it doesn't feel like a Fed arc with the word "Alliance" slapped on top of it. J'ula is...there, she's the archetypical warmongering dumbass Klingon, then she learns the hard way why the Empire looks like it does on the present time. Also, is one of the places nerd enough to add this reference (yes, that's the YT account of a dev), or to have Martok comment that Nog has more balls than a dozen of those cowards surrounding J'mpok. Akaar pulls it off as the villain, but is O'Reilly so of course he does.
Terran Gambit. It was good, though some of the bits with the Inquisitor (Mirror Player) drag since, man, Exocomps are an incredibly lame gimmick. Masterson and Wheaton have all the fun hamming it up as crazy, over the top super villains, everybody else like Marshall Janeway is kinda just there, and Killy just comes off as kinda bratty. Here's the team about to kick Wesley's ass:
Disco costumes are actually good looking, Kor Uniform (from the bundle) has that little bit of extra flair with the cape. Ground officers are everybody with Superior Creative aka make your powers do more stuff and this setup:
Now the Mirror Borg arc I suppose, that's ongoing so will have to see how that goes.
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to be honest the Legendary Battlecruiser bundle is, at least in my opinion actually an extremely good starter pack.
You only get 2 ships, yes, but they are both very good examples of the class, and more importantly come with a *complete* set of traits and consoles to have a very solid working build, even if you have absolutely nothing else available.
I definitely agree about the Inquisitor parts of the terran arc though, much like some of the bits in the civil war run, where you're not playing your actual character and you cant toggle auto shoot, your npc buddies are somehow even dumber than your boffs etc, it's awful
to be honest the Legendary Battlecruiser bundle is, at least in my opinion actually an extremely good starter pack.
You only get 2 ships, yes, but they are both very good examples of the class, and more importantly come with a *complete* set of traits and consoles to have a very solid working build, even if you have absolutely nothing else available.
I definitely agree about the Inquisitor parts of the terran arc though, much like some of the bits in the civil war run, where you're not playing your actual character and you cant toggle auto shoot, your npc buddies are somehow even dumber than your boffs etc, it's awful
Yeah, you get several BiS traits and two very good ships, so realisitcally you only need an extension trait and off you go.
I liked more the J'ula bits on the Klingon Civil War than the Inquisitor bits on the Terran arc. On the former, I was entretained enough with the writing and the atmosphere of the place and everybody hamming it up to ignore that I was not playing my actual character and that J'ula is kinda squishy and doesn't do that much damage. With the Inquisitor bits, that was not the case.
Terran Gambit. It was good, though some of the bits with the Inquisitor (Mirror Player) drag since, man, Exocomps are an incredibly lame gimmick. Masterson and Wheaton have all the fun hamming it up as crazy, over the top super villains, everybody else like Marshall Janeway is kinda just there, and Killy just comes off as kinda bratty.
The big issue with the Inquisitor is that almost every time you're forced to use a "puppet" (what the game calls it when your character or ship are replaced like that) it has OP abilities like infinitely spammable heals or AOE nukes or you're up against weak enemies.
The Inquisitor doesn't get either. He isn't OP (his best power is available to players as a kit module) and he's facing full fledged enemies and even takes on souped up bosses.
He's also just... Such a let down of a character. The player is canonically some kind of preternatural badass, Class of 2409 who by 2411 is a multi-bar admiral monopolizing a whole task force and bolting shit onto their flagship until it hardly counts as Starfleet anymore (assuming they didn't abandon their assigned ship for an alien ship they bought from a shady Ferengi).
The Inquisitor is flying around in Smiley O'Brien's old bootleg Defiant with a few random mooks and even though they're supposed to be the Emperor's personal muscle nobody gives a fuck when they show up and they get the least respect and authority in a room that includes two traitors and an alien. The player is embarrassed by proxy.
Finally, Kings and Queens aka the Mirror Borg arc.
Is, like, only two chapters so far, and we are about to get explained what is going on, so don't have an opinion. That said, having to stand waaaay too close to Harry to get him to move during the first third or so of the latest mission was a bit annoying. Did the event with the Guillotine and the new Defense of Starbase 1 TFOs, so have fought Mirror Borg, is a matter of just not getting caught by the Spheres exploding. The latest lore blog talks about the several centuries of time and dimensional travel finally breaking enough stuff, which is, uh, a bit ankward.
Yeah just imagine the characters in the blog looking meaningfully into the camera and then a jump cut to your chief engineer explaining to you how the new pattern enhancers sometimes make Klingons fall out of time. It's pretty unsubtle that the player was on site for if not directly responsible for a disproportionate share of that stuff.
Yeah just imagine the characters in the blog looking meaningfully into the camera and then a jump cut to your chief engineer explaining to you how the new pattern enhancers sometimes make Klingons fall out of time. It's pretty unsubtle that the player was on site for if not directly responsible for a disproportionate share of that stuff.
to be honest the Legendary Battlecruiser bundle is, at least in my opinion actually an extremely good starter pack.
You only get 2 ships, yes, but they are both very good examples of the class, and more importantly come with a *complete* set of traits and consoles to have a very solid working build, even if you have absolutely nothing else available.
I definitely agree about the Inquisitor parts of the terran arc though, much like some of the bits in the civil war run, where you're not playing your actual character and you cant toggle auto shoot, your npc buddies are somehow even dumber than your boffs etc, it's awful
Yeah, you get several BiS traits and two very good ships, so realisitcally you only need an extension trait and off you go.
I liked more the J'ula bits on the Klingon Civil War than the Inquisitor bits on the Terran arc. On the former, I was entretained enough with the writing and the atmosphere of the place and everybody hamming it up to ignore that I was not playing my actual character and that J'ula is kinda squishy and doesn't do that much damage. With the Inquisitor bits, that was not the case.
I seem to remember that the J'Ula parts only really made sense if you'd actually done the full Disco tutorial. I ran it originally on my Fed main and had no idea who she was what she was doing or why the Chancellor was being sketchy.
Then I ran a Disco toon off and it all came together. Then I complained about it on Reddit.
to be honest the Legendary Battlecruiser bundle is, at least in my opinion actually an extremely good starter pack.
You only get 2 ships, yes, but they are both very good examples of the class, and more importantly come with a *complete* set of traits and consoles to have a very solid working build, even if you have absolutely nothing else available.
I definitely agree about the Inquisitor parts of the terran arc though, much like some of the bits in the civil war run, where you're not playing your actual character and you cant toggle auto shoot, your npc buddies are somehow even dumber than your boffs etc, it's awful
Yeah, you get several BiS traits and two very good ships, so realisitcally you only need an extension trait and off you go.
I liked more the J'ula bits on the Klingon Civil War than the Inquisitor bits on the Terran arc. On the former, I was entretained enough with the writing and the atmosphere of the place and everybody hamming it up to ignore that I was not playing my actual character and that J'ula is kinda squishy and doesn't do that much damage. With the Inquisitor bits, that was not the case.
I seem to remember that the J'Ula parts only really made sense if you'd actually done the full Disco tutorial. I ran it originally on my Fed main and had no idea who she was what she was doing or why the Chancellor was being sketchy.
Then I ran a Disco toon off and it all came together. Then I complained about it on Reddit.
There is some context missing from the "simulation" series that the proper tutorial includes. I don't remember how clear they make how the temporal shit goes down during that last battle. It is kind of worth playing all three versions of the Federation tutorial because the timeline is kind of weeble wobble - the Federation player deals with the aftermath of all three tutorials, regardless of if they are the hero of Vega or one of the two temporal agents inserted into the timeline after the hero of Vega died.
Terran Gambit. It was good, though some of the bits with the Inquisitor (Mirror Player) drag since, man, Exocomps are an incredibly lame gimmick. Masterson and Wheaton have all the fun hamming it up as crazy, over the top super villains, everybody else like Marshall Janeway is kinda just there, and Killy just comes off as kinda bratty.
The big issue with the Inquisitor is that almost every time you're forced to use a "puppet" (what the game calls it when your character or ship are replaced like that) it has OP abilities like infinitely spammable heals or AOE nukes or you're up against weak enemies.
The Inquisitor doesn't get either. He isn't OP (his best power is available to players as a kit module) and he's facing full fledged enemies and even takes on souped up bosses.
He's also just... Such a let down of a character. The player is canonically some kind of preternatural badass, Class of 2409 who by 2411 is a multi-bar admiral monopolizing a whole task force and bolting shit onto their flagship until it hardly counts as Starfleet anymore (assuming they didn't abandon their assigned ship for an alien ship they bought from a shady Ferengi).
The Inquisitor is flying around in Smiley O'Brien's old bootleg Defiant with a few random mooks and even though they're supposed to be the Emperor's personal muscle nobody gives a fuck when they show up and they get the least respect and authority in a room that includes two traitors and an alien. The player is embarrassed by proxy.
My understanding of the the mirror universe is that it is not 100% opposite, so much as one or two traits are reversed but somehow largely ending up in the same point in time.
The Inquisitor, the mirror player character, is just your character without its "Player Character" trait... but you gain a voice...box.
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well the voice box is so the character can speak because yours doesn't and people have a thing about hearing someone else saying words from their character.
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Also the J'uula story line as a disco character felt like a huge betrayal. She allies with us after killing my captain! FUCK YOU LADY! That kind of excusing war crimes is reserved for me!
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as I didn't play the disco intro until SOMETIME after the J'uula stuff first kicked off (which iirc was literally that event where you go cruisin around a moon blowing up turrets) it was extremely
WHO??
like the first communication you get on the subject as a vanilla fed was "oh no j'uula is attacking" and not "a klingon warlord from the first contact war has somehow travelled to the present day and is attacking stuff!"
Also the J'uula story line as a disco character felt like a huge betrayal. She allies with us after killing my captain! FUCK YOU LADY! That kind of excusing war crimes is reserved for me!
IDK, given the number of times we partnered with Sela, it's on pretty on-brand for a *FED captain to forget everything that the Baddie has done because of some other Baddie... even if the repercussions ripple throughout the timeline.
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So this is what I'm currently rolling with, it's not particularly meta (ie I have the aligned shielding trait from the Kitomer, which is pretty far down the rankings) but I like it, reasonably solid, excellent overall power on all 4 systems, good damage, especially in the pop consoles and OSS phase.
About the only thing its missing is a beam overload extender, but I'm not sure what I'd be happy dropping to get it. Maybe History Will Remember?
Few things, since my build is very similar and I asked on Discord when I was making it:
Why aren't you using Ship of the Line? Is the trait of the Legendary Avenger and is really good.
If you aren't running a Broadside Build, Dual Beam Banks do more damage than Beam Arrays, even the Terran ones.
Tac/Eng/Sci team just aren't good powers. My suggestions are Kemocite and Emergency Power to Engines I for the first two (it triggers the Phoenix Store Doff that reduces the CD of Evasive Maneuvers, and it makes your ship go faster by itself), Sci powers have more to do with whatever you want or can afford Unconventional Systems or not.
Emergency Power to Shields should probably be Narrow Sensor Bands.
Only things on the expensive side are Kemocite and Unconventional Systems.
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I've used ship of the line a fair bit (I think I swapped out overpowered and overgunned or something?) and it was quite good but felt a bit too maintainancey if that makes sense? I don't really play STO seriously at all so having to keep spamming away wasnt really adding much to solo patrol play
single beams are also partly for the 2 sets (eg the haste from prolonged engagement.) I'll see if I can rummage up some duals and see what the difference is though
I keep the tac/eng/sci teams around because I *hate* subnuc, the viral impulse burst etc and that's how you get rid of em.
I might try out NSB though, see if it fits in.
Which is a lot of sentences on "because I cant be arsed :P "
So, the only things on bars are the big CDs and things that have to target, so stuff like Science skills and consoles. That's a lot easier to manage. It makes space play that much more fun.
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Alright, I dug out a couple of dual beams and swapped OpOgun back to ship of the line and it's things do feel a little more punchy. I think what I'm going to do next is try swapping EtS for EtE and see how that sits, will probably have to rebalance my power settings a fair bit but will see if I like the zoomies.
I'm stubborn and set in my ways so "hey why not try this?" is appreciated!
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The Alliance Rex Pilot Escort, much like the great Dukan’Rex himself, is a bridge between quadrants. It draws primarily from the Jem’Hadar Fighter and the Defiant, and is employed similarly – groups of three, made of a lead ship and two wingmates. Fully capable of reconnaissance, patrol, screening for capital ships and strike missions of their own, they are versatile, nimble, and deadly. The Rex often commands entire squadrons of escorts in battle, coordinating them and forming the tip of the spear with its superior maneuverability and ability to strip enemy defenses before a devastating strafing run. Like all the ships of the Alliance, it stands in testament to what can be achieved if even the most different of species learn to set aside those differences and stand together. Then even the most impossible victories come within reach, and as all Jem’Hadar know, victory is life.
That's an Adamant with Vanguard Wingmen, that's amazing. Not full spec, but the way event ships are going you can just do barrel rolls with Pilot Maneuvers and use Cannon: Scatter Volley.
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The KM device and it's boost drops can keept a small fleet topped on up shields for pretty much it's entire duration if the formation is close enough. Very handy to have as an "Oh, shit?!" handle in emergencies.
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On the ship end, I was using the Qugh, and is a better ship, and I don't care about it's appeance....but it drives like a brick, and is not that tough, and both things at once ended up annoying me. Fleet Mogh doesn't have Gather Intelligence, but Gather Intelligence is probably the worst specialization ship ability since it just takes forever to get it to work, so meh. Meanwhile, Fleet Mogh can get away with running Fire at Will without imploding, using the Iconian set because I'm also running double Override System Safeties, that shuts down a random subsystem for 5 seconds after the buff rans out, and if is weapons then I'm fucked, so the Warp Core restarting Weapons if it goes off is a blessing. This char has reps halfway through, which is why is missing the shield. Getting the build from here, just swapping Phaser for Disruptor and filling up with the stuff I do have.
Also ran Gamma Quadrant arc on this character. Goddamn, that's top tier Star Trek writing period. Everybody absolutely delivers and it fires at all cylinders, even the super long EV suit mission draws you in.
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Deal with Ground is that is not bad, for MMOs. Like, I do not expect WoW-level of smoothness. Issue is that is almost completely centered on Kit Modules, and a lot of the baseline Kit Modules are not that good or interesting, and the really fun stuff over the years is on Kit Modules from the Exchange, Rep or Events. Add that ship combat is better, and, well. It is a lot cheaper to build Ground though, Reputations have a lot of very good Modules to play around.
On Ground, Rally Cry does a lot less than I remembered, even with Mudd's getting it's CD reduced, and Ambush is really good and had forgotten about it, so.
On Space, since this is a Beam build, can have Lorca's 2 pc with the Beam Bank and the Console AND the full Naussican set, which I also forgot about. It works really well, it was a noticeable increase in damage.
Also did the first part of the Disco arc, aka "go fuck around on the Holodeck to meet the cast". Not having watched Disco means that I kinda do not care about these people, and the whole point was "learn about J'ula" and what I learned is that she's good at beating people up with the bullshit she pulls out of her ass. No wonder people hold grudges against Starfleet, losing like that feels bad. Not a strong start, will see how it goes.
EDIT: Winter sale, Phoenix Prize event (go pick your free pack at DS9 and Drozana) are up:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11560513-galactic-winter-events-&-sales
nice to see the upgrade event is coming. I picked up that sci ship bundle from Mudd's store and I was waiting for it to max it out and take it for a test drive.
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Also account level Vanity Shields returning, I wasn't around for that so neat.
Preview of them all, couldn't find one with less commentary though, sadly:
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I totally did not use them a few times and then shelve them either *cough*
Ditto, they are neat, but not almost 300k Dil neat. Though if I had to pick 2 I would pick the S31 one and the Kelvin KDF one.
edit: The 10th Anniversary Legendary Starship bundle also is available, though I kind of think I've spent enough on STO for a while. I really only just want the Legendary Glenn out of it for spaec magic colors. there were some other things that are maybes, but idk.I think I'll agree with reason.
I had a write up a while back but mostly the voyager and the chris pine kirk a verse enterprise were the biggest let downs.
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~ Buckaroo Banzai
I know that people complain that Legendary bundles are inflated with old Event rewards, but for people that missed them, like me, is actually really good to have them outside $Mudd's prices.
Meet the I.K.S Qam-Chee, named after the ancient city where Kahless and Lukara fought against Molor's forces:
General stuff, finishing off the story arcs on this character.
New Frontiers and Gamma Quadrant are the Deep Space Nine movies we never got, and they are both amazing. The delivery is in all cilinders, from Kurn's disgust at the dishonor that is to have Torg work with the Tzenkethi, to Kuumarke's wide eyed optimism about things, to the DS9 cast all managing to get you on the edge of your seat all the way.
Age of Discovery and J'ula's Discovery are...ok? First is apparently the Disco tutorial for those that didn't watched Disco, second has a very strong start with Holo Statmets, then a bunch of filler chasing the Mo'kai around, then Measure of Morality. Measure of Morality is as insane and fanservice-y as the Picard S3 finale, but man, is still really cool.
Klingon Civil War: I liked it. J'mpok has long been fine with reaping the benefits of the dishonor of other men, so this goes to the logical conclusion of that and the political tension between him and Martok. Is a big, beefy chunk of Klingon content and it doesn't feel like a Fed arc with the word "Alliance" slapped on top of it. J'ula is...there, she's the archetypical warmongering dumbass Klingon, then she learns the hard way why the Empire looks like it does on the present time. Also, is one of the places nerd enough to add this reference (yes, that's the YT account of a dev), or to have Martok comment that Nog has more balls than a dozen of those cowards surrounding J'mpok. Akaar pulls it off as the villain, but is O'Reilly so of course he does.
Terran Gambit. It was good, though some of the bits with the Inquisitor (Mirror Player) drag since, man, Exocomps are an incredibly lame gimmick. Masterson and Wheaton have all the fun hamming it up as crazy, over the top super villains, everybody else like Marshall Janeway is kinda just there, and Killy just comes off as kinda bratty. Here's the team about to kick Wesley's ass:
Disco costumes are actually good looking, Kor Uniform (from the bundle) has that little bit of extra flair with the cape. Ground officers are everybody with Superior Creative aka make your powers do more stuff and this setup:
Now the Mirror Borg arc I suppose, that's ongoing so will have to see how that goes.
You only get 2 ships, yes, but they are both very good examples of the class, and more importantly come with a *complete* set of traits and consoles to have a very solid working build, even if you have absolutely nothing else available.
I definitely agree about the Inquisitor parts of the terran arc though, much like some of the bits in the civil war run, where you're not playing your actual character and you cant toggle auto shoot, your npc buddies are somehow even dumber than your boffs etc, it's awful
Yeah, you get several BiS traits and two very good ships, so realisitcally you only need an extension trait and off you go.
I liked more the J'ula bits on the Klingon Civil War than the Inquisitor bits on the Terran arc. On the former, I was entretained enough with the writing and the atmosphere of the place and everybody hamming it up to ignore that I was not playing my actual character and that J'ula is kinda squishy and doesn't do that much damage. With the Inquisitor bits, that was not the case.
The big issue with the Inquisitor is that almost every time you're forced to use a "puppet" (what the game calls it when your character or ship are replaced like that) it has OP abilities like infinitely spammable heals or AOE nukes or you're up against weak enemies.
The Inquisitor doesn't get either. He isn't OP (his best power is available to players as a kit module) and he's facing full fledged enemies and even takes on souped up bosses.
He's also just... Such a let down of a character. The player is canonically some kind of preternatural badass, Class of 2409 who by 2411 is a multi-bar admiral monopolizing a whole task force and bolting shit onto their flagship until it hardly counts as Starfleet anymore (assuming they didn't abandon their assigned ship for an alien ship they bought from a shady Ferengi).
The Inquisitor is flying around in Smiley O'Brien's old bootleg Defiant with a few random mooks and even though they're supposed to be the Emperor's personal muscle nobody gives a fuck when they show up and they get the least respect and authority in a room that includes two traitors and an alien. The player is embarrassed by proxy.
Is, like, only two chapters so far, and we are about to get explained what is going on, so don't have an opinion. That said, having to stand waaaay too close to Harry to get him to move during the first third or so of the latest mission was a bit annoying. Did the event with the Guillotine and the new Defense of Starbase 1 TFOs, so have fought Mirror Borg, is a matter of just not getting caught by the Spheres exploding. The latest lore blog talks about the several centuries of time and dimensional travel finally breaking enough stuff, which is, uh, a bit ankward.
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I seem to remember that the J'Ula parts only really made sense if you'd actually done the full Disco tutorial. I ran it originally on my Fed main and had no idea who she was what she was doing or why the Chancellor was being sketchy.
Then I ran a Disco toon off and it all came together. Then I complained about it on Reddit.
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Which is what you do right after the Gamma Quadrant arc. Is a Holodeck simulation that is now important because reasons, so is a kludge, but that's STO.
That said, I wanted J'Ula's dual pistols for that explosion thinger. So sexy. ;o;
My understanding of the the mirror universe is that it is not 100% opposite, so much as one or two traits are reversed but somehow largely ending up in the same point in time.
The Inquisitor, the mirror player character, is just your character without its "Player Character" trait... but you gain a voice...box.
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like the first communication you get on the subject as a vanilla fed was "oh no j'uula is attacking" and not "a klingon warlord from the first contact war has somehow travelled to the present day and is attacking stuff!"
IDK, given the number of times we partnered with Sela, it's on pretty on-brand for a *FED captain to forget everything that the Baddie has done because of some other Baddie... even if the repercussions ripple throughout the timeline.
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About the only thing its missing is a beam overload extender, but I'm not sure what I'd be happy dropping to get it. Maybe History Will Remember?
Only things on the expensive side are Kemocite and Unconventional Systems.
single beams are also partly for the 2 sets (eg the haste from prolonged engagement.) I'll see if I can rummage up some duals and see what the difference is though
I keep the tac/eng/sci teams around because I *hate* subnuc, the viral impulse burst etc and that's how you get rid of em.
I might try out NSB though, see if it fits in.
Which is a lot of sentences on "because I cant be arsed :P "
So, the only things on bars are the big CDs and things that have to target, so stuff like Science skills and consoles. That's a lot easier to manage. It makes space play that much more fun.
I'm stubborn and set in my ways so "hey why not try this?" is appreciated!
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Yoooo, that's hype.
That's an Adamant with Vanguard Wingmen, that's amazing. Not full spec, but the way event ships are going you can just do barrel rolls with Pilot Maneuvers and use Cannon: Scatter Volley.
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