Fuck you, I like Star Trek Online.
>>736214309its just a way of life eventually
>>736214364Based. Show me your ship. For me, it's the Tarantula with weaver pets, even if they absolutely refuse to be photogenic.
>>736214309>spend $50USD to get a Connie>if you want to be relevant in the endgame you need I stopped playing because of the price of fashion (I went and bought both Elite Force games on GoG for less than a Connie in STO, the day after I quit) and because of a couple of progression bugs in story missions (I laughed when I saw that almost all the search results I found were to just skip those missions).
>>736214775>if you want to be relevant in the endgame you need to buy multiple ships to strip their consoles of the good abilitiesFixed. I swear my PC hates me.
>>736214510I'm boring and just run an Odyssey variant.Not even the top tier Lexington either, just a Sojourner.
>>736214775They give out free ships pretty regularly now, both seasonals usually have one, plus the overarching yearly event thing gives all three rewards now, so infinity lockbox/1.5k lobi/2x T6 zen coupons. It can definitely be pricey to go meta, but for endgame RATFO/RETFO you can get by with almost nothing bought. That one captain upgrade for like $10 is almost mandatory though, so little inventory by default.
>>736214309The only good campaign was the Klingon one and no one can change my mind.That being said, I did get the Prometheus back when I was playing regularly (about 6-8 years ago) and man did I fucking adore that ship.
>>736214906Not to mention there's regular promotional giveaways from things like Alienware Arena. No ships from that usually, but they tend to give away unique items and inventory space. Really handy.
>>736214309It was never good because it was just recycled city of heroesBut it was the 4th best star trek game
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>>736215037>But it was the 4th best star trek gamepost your list
>>736214826Still wanna see it. I'll take a shot of my current tour the galaxy ship in exchange.
>>736215167SFC 1-3ST EF 1 + 2
>>736215041>>736215189excelsior superioritythe khitomer alliance shield looks so good
>>736215189Sexcelsior is best ship and pinnacle of star trek federation technology.NO better ship is worth building since for the time and resources you can just build more sexcelsiors.
>>736215251Yea, Hallelujah and Amen.
>>736215251Me too. My character was a Crusher clone and my crew wore the TOS movie uniforms. Once I had excelsior I lost interest in doing anything more.
I love the new Kumari. It has the setup up for the best Torp Platform while looking cool. >>736214775What >>736214906 said, but there are many shit that made it easier to just be "meta">do the Klingon leveling event and get the T6 ship that give you Withering Barrage aka the easily "free" meta trait in the game>get 4 or 5 Isomag of one damage type and just level them up during the upgrade event>save some money, buy christmas money, then spend it on Twinkling Lights trait (or just buy the trait from the auction house) in the winter event aka one of the best space trait for energy weaponThere, you got a ship that does tons of damage.
>>736214775I used a Donnie instead of a Connie because it was a carrier. Now I'm just waiting for the yearly events, paying the c-store coins to just unlock the points because I have years worth stored up from getting the lifetime membership like a decade ago, going to get the Vaadwaur Miracle Worker Juggernaut at the end of the year because afaik it's still the best cannon ship in the game.
>>736215293I love the look of the repulse impulse engines with the omega force hyper-impulse visuals.
>>736215167Modded armada 2Bridge commanderElite force 2Honorable mention to klingon academyThe other games are just not that good, away team is jank AF so was the new worlds RTS with a million whacky resources. shattered universe was ok but only for evil sulu. anniversary is over rated AF and the new voyager game is below mid tier. cursed franchise. someone at paramount has a raging hate boner for the franchise but they just cant kill TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY
>>736215421Yeah but on the other hand it's ugly as fuck
>>736215376The NP and the Kumari made me want the bundle, but I don't torp boat so I couldn't justify it. The human skin on the Kumari is sick.
Does this game still hate the Galaxy-class for no fucking reason?
>>736215467I love the Ent-B spec refit.>dem bow planes>gee Captain M'Beke, how come starfleet lets you have FOUR impulse engines?
>>736215357Haha, that sounds crazy.
>>736215534you need to F with it it ship barbie.
ugly mouse pointer v2the recently buffed trait is nice though
>>736215549>>736215549The Vulcan Ship being a Sci Destroyer doesn't help, either. I don't mind them, hell I bought the Dyson Destroyer Bundle because the Kardashev, Lo'laH, and the Rallus are good looking ships, but I understand why this type of ship is a negative for some of the trekkies. The mode switching timer suck if you want it as a pure tactical platform.
The story should've ended with the Gamma Quadrant arc, it was the last time they gave a shit and it shows (plus a bunch of actors died right after that arc so they can never come back)>>736215651I was talking about pic related, which >>736215421 said he wants. I can't tell if it's a spaceship or a meat tenderizer
>>736215614I definitely do love that too, really improves the look. I just like the racing stripe cutouts and the shape of the repulse's. Definitely one of the best space barbies.
>>736215590entirely. hell, years and years back they even got rid of crew to nerf cruisers harder and make it escortdakka trek online.because retarded PVP faggots, who were always a minority, tried to pretend the setting wasn't always about cruisers, and so they railed, loudly, against Cruisertrek online. until the fucking retard devs listened.
>>736215652>trait is broken tier>get banned from any DPS parse runfunny
>>736215695>mode switching timerwait there's a timer?i thought you could just switch to one or the other and forget the feature even exists
>>736215695Yeah, I don't know why they haven't tweaked how the science switch thing works, no one likes it and it's always an objective downgrade.
>>736215590Unless you could get your hands on the World Razers, lol lmao.
>>736215728I have literally never done the pvp. I log in when a new story chapter comes out then peace out.
>>736215705you only buy vaudwar ships for access to their polarons, which look like cannons shooting broadsides instead of standard star trek solid beams etc.
>>736215705On the plus side, in more recent arcs you and mirror universe you work together to disintegrate people from the Discovery show, so there's that.
>>736214309why are you saying "fuck you" to me, asshole?
>>736215834I fucking hate that I called Wesley being the Terran Emperor, I wanted so badly to be proven wrong.
>>736215783>>736215590The legendary terran galaxy dreadnought is also pretty good. Not meta by any means, but well capable of good parses
>>736215815well, the like 1.2 % of the player base that has done pvp is the faggots who scream the loudest and got so much shit nerfed.
cozy game. finally got my act together a while ago and started building my gagarin for a proper beam assault build. finished setting up my superior romulan boffs yesterday and now just need the right shield for synergy
>>736215834the fucking devs never should have included anything from the new Anti-Trek 'shows'.
>>736215893I like the black sections, really makes the rest of it pop.
after much stumbling they finally came up with the perfect uniform design. why did all the new shows reject it?
>>736215770I dunno the timer for the other Sci Destroyer, but its one minute for the Dyson Destroyers.>>736215778Yeah, its like the main reason its not popular. Otherwise, you will see people running the Lo'laH because it has Surgical Strike 3 and Scatter Volley 3 and not because they want the Proton Eruptor Module console for the EPG space magic.
>>736215946True, it really killed my enjoyment, but no doubt they were forced into it. Didn't they only recently break free of publisher control?
>>736215961hull 6 or 5? let's you go full hotrod painting the ship white with red and black trim and highlights.some designs also had 'vesta' hell paint added to them so you can actually paint the whole ship.
>>736216015>that>perfectTOS and Monster Maroon are the best uniforms.
Favorite>origin storyline>main story arc>ship type>weapon type>damage typeFor me it's>TOS>Gamma Quadrant (Iconian Arc close second)>Carrier>Beam Array (I'm lazy and don't want to aim)>Disruptor
>>736216015It's alright, but it looks more like a racing team than a Starfleet outfit.
>>736216064perfect for post-voyager continuity I mean. the classics are still the best
>>736216015I'm still partial to the DS9 look of "black and grey with the collar showing the color of your station"
>>736215946>>736215946Watch as they will shove this Cunt Ship into the game and you will get it because it has a meta trait. I fucking hate STD but I understand how important the trait Universal Design is. Fuck using any other trait with STD names on it.
>>736216016God damn that is a pretty ship.
>>736216015BECAUSE THE NEW SHOWS ARE MADE BY PEOPLE WHO OVERTLY DESPISE TREK.kuntzmann anti trek is made by teams of commiuefornian assholes who absolutely reject the uptoian, aspirational ethos of trek, where humanity HAS in fact, gotten better and improved itself. which is why every fucking UnTrek character is a vicious, incompetent, selfish narcissistic retard.
>>736216050yes, but no, but also yes. CBS control the IP, and force them to use antitrek, but the og publishers are dead and gone, the new devs are going the way of the dodo and I think they're becoming their own publishers now?
>>736216163>is made by teams of commiueforniantbf so was oldtrek. The difference is the ones today are just completely blackpilled on the future while californians of the 60s to 90s were maximum whitepilled on the future, to an almost childishly idealistic degree
>>736216163There's a Hercules&Xena thread on /tv/ atm and people there hate Kurtzmann just as much for ruining the final seasonsKurtzmann has the anti-midas touch. Everything he touches turns to shit.
>>736216234not even remotely. old trek was made by classical liberals.gene roddenberry may have been a hippie dippie sex degenerate, but the shit NuTrek is doing would have driven him to mass homicide.
>>736216016so it doesn't just stay in tactical mode once you switched to it?huh always thought it does
>>736216291I forgot that!jesus, how can someone have a career in an industry when they just fail at everything and fucking ruin everything?
>>736216148Thanks. I need to find a new build for her after the Kumari got her torp role platform. I should probably go for a full Proton build now that Aetherian Proton weapon set is a thing and I do not have to use those shitty discounted Protonic Polaron set.>>736216332It does. But if you die suddenly, you ganna have to wait.
>>736216080>origin storylineTOS>main story arcIconian, though Gamma is very close as well. >ship typeDreadnought >weapon typeBeam array, broadsider for life.>damage typeTetryon (tholians need a proper full arc, man, they're so cool, and they just get shoehorned into random episodes)I'd like to add a category.>Favorite TFOGuillotine (if you ever get queued into this with a Tarantula, is probably me queueing for it intentionally)
Please remember that if you WANT to play more actual star trek, 'aquire' the STA 1e rulebooks, and play the shackleton expanse campaign for yourself.
>>736216129Even if this ship had a trait that sucked my dick in real life, it will NEVER be on my roster. At least the Crossfield looked okay, at least it was based on Phase II, but this? Straight dogshit design. You know the worst part? Their commbadge IS the ship. Imagine any other trek with that. Imagine Kirk flipping open the saucer section of a little Enterprise in his hand, fucking STUPID.
>>736216294Again, because they've lost hope. There's just a real cynicism in the west these days that makes it hard to make something like Star Trek.As a contrast, I was in Japan last month, finally got to go there. I went to the emerging science museum in Odaiba by the Gundam statue. It was neat, very interactive so there were a lot of kids. But something I really felt as a difference between there and here in the west is a sense of optimism. I always hear here in the west stuff about the dangers of whatever technology, while the museum in Japan is like "Science is gonna fix EVERYTHING. We'll figure out a climate solution, we're figuring out new cancer solutions, we can 3d print meat so no one will ever go hungry again, robots keep getting better, everything is coming up Millhouse!"You need people who think like that in order to make Star Trek, you need people who think things are going to get better instead of always feeling down about things being bad. Remember, WW3 happened in Star Trek (and the Eugenics Wars which they keep pushing back when it happened), but we pulled through and came out of it better.
>>736216610no commiefornians are not classic liberals. they're dyed in the wool wannabe commie overlords.they literally do not see the rest of us as human, instea to them we are as slaves who need to be rules over, clearly by themselves. its the sin of pride, the sin of imagining oneself to BE god.they are the useful idiots imagining they are going to be the politburo and NOT the first ones put up against the wall.
>>736216080>origin storylineTOS or Fed>main storyNew Frontiers is what I want in a Star Trek story: Exploration, helping a new alien specie get use to space politic, being Space Cop. >ship typePointy. Kumari is my new favorite ship, but I always have the Hydra as my energy weapon platform. >weapon typeTorp because they're like sniper rifle. They're as effective long range and in short. Entwined Tactical Matrices let me spam torps at everything. Otherwise, Tetryon Beam with Surgical Strike/Beam Overload.>damage typeTorp again. Tetryon or Proton for Energy Weapon because Blue and White lights.
>>736216610>museum: japan
>>736216714I'm not talking about the politics at all, I didn't even mention it. I'm talking about the endless, crippling cynicism in society today.
>>736216772unfortunately, these are the fucking 'everything is political' lunatics. it is WHY they infested media, entertainment, they refuse to ALLOW any of us to have an escape from their messaging. its why their stories in star trek are so fucking godawful and demented.
>>736216769tbf I've been to China and they also are big on the whole "there's no problem science causes that science can't then solve and make things even better".
Absolutely love TOS and I'm around season 4 of TNG. Is this game worth the time? Just wanted to go around and enjoy the writing.
>>736216851play the story arcs, ignore /skip AntiTrek content, have fun.Also, Play Star trek Adventures.Highly Recommend:https://sta.bcholmes.org/
>>736216507Same with the trait like this. STD (Character name) + suffix. For fuck sake, they have a fucking hipster with a hair bun as one and its "meta". I am not going to slot this shit.
>>736216851>Is this game worth the time?Man i don't even fucking know at this point. I feel like I'm in too deep that I can't even give a valid assessment anymore, it's like Nightreign players who play at Depths 5, I don't think it's possible to be that good at that game and not fucking hate it.
>>736214309I used to play it way back when. When you had user made missions.
>>736216851If you love trek, then play it, but it's F2P so they'll try to rob you blind for cosmetics.
>>736216851Yeah, you can get through all the story arcs without spending a dime. There are plenty of TOS options for ships and crew, as well as a TOS character start.
>>736216851Don't put money unless you play for like a year and you really like the game. Play the story. Do the event to get free shit. Summer Event will always give out a ship if you do the event there. When you get the Delta Quadrant storyline aka fix everything the Voyager fuck up AKA giant difficultly spike, well be prepare for that shit.
My fellow blue shirts. I miss when you could use your sci trait to boost tholian web and trics. Reds cried so hard during that time, like dude, just put 3 points into the counter skill
>>736217005I'm still holding out hope that them breaking off from their publisher means we might be getting some of that back, obviously not right away, but over time. God, I miss the Foundry.
>>736216949>>736216991>>736217030>>736217040>>736217129gotcha thanks guys. I'll check it out this weekend. Not too worried about cosmetics but I'm just looking to scratch that old mmo itch. I've been enjoying the new voyager game but the mmo sounded cool too.
>>736216507>>736216987Sorry, I'm a metaslave, I'm the kind of person who unironically equipped the mishmash of multicolored gear in early wow that everyone made fun of because it maximized damage
>>736217137but then my dps drops by 15 % you evil monster reeeeeeee!
>>736215627So do you just watch or get into the furball?
>>736217129The only thing that ever posed a challenge to free player me was those fucking Vaadwuar ships that shit out minefields all around you. Now I delete them before they can even attack, but my god that spike was IN-SANE, nothing else got me fission mailed so hard in STO. First thing I did when I got my first T6 with max mk weapons was go back and just annihilate them in every mission.
Is star trek good I only watched first contact when I was a kid with my older brother and thought the borg were pretty badass and the first episode of deep space 9 and thought wow cool space battle. What's the best series to watch
>>736217160I hope you enjoy it. This game also let you have 4 followers in single player ground mission and you can customize their look. Image not related, just want to post a caitian from the Summer Planet.
>>736217137I'M THE CAPTAIN, WHY WOULD I BE ANYTHING BUT TACTICAL
>>736214510Kitbashing is the endgame of STO, and the devs need to pull their heads out of their asses and just start making cosmetic packs for various ship families to further enhance that.
>>736217168>mishmash metaGood news!
>>736217260>Is star trek goodYes but no show is consistently good, they all start going bad at some point.
>>736217254Yeah, for newbie, Vaadwuar cross bombs can go fuck themselves and can make their life hell.
>>736217232Center stage, as a Starfleet captain should.
>>736217324I WILL fire a christmas tree's worth of multicolored lights and you can't stop me!Literally, you can't, I'll be doing too much damage
>>736217227*Laughs feedback pulse* stop alpha striking yourself
>>736217324>>736217384I still think they didn't include Proton due to the exsitance of the Omni-Directional Pahvan Proton Beam Array.
I feel like I'm forever behind because I didn't play during the 5th anniversary and I STILL haven't gotten an epic token from phoenix boxes so I don't have that fucking DYNAMO module from the Bajoran Interceptor that lets you just shit out damage like no tomorrow
>>736217448Yeah, I honestly can't blame them. They let it stay overpowered too long and now we're stuck with it. They were on the verge with the hexacannons, too.
>>736217468>DYNAMODOMINO, I meant
>>736217409BUT THAT'S MEEEEEEAN! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SIT THERE AND LET ME DECLOAK ALPHA STRIKE YOUR BUTTHOLE !!!DEVS! DEVS! SCI'S ARE BEING VIABLE AGAIN! NERF PLS!
I never thought I would hate a space race has hard than these space corpse fuckers.>>736217489They already nerf both, and they might do it again. I love my hexacannons and any other experimental weapons are just meh.
look at this cute little monkey!
>>736217468I know paying sucks, but i'm pretty sure at least a couple bundles include epic tokens. That aside, the MI-6 Computer does a good job, if not quite as well.
>>736217550This feels "wrong" and I don't know why
>>736217329Ah. fair enough. What's your favorite show?
>>736217531>no one is allowed to ever do the right thing and side with the fucking vaudwaar to join in exterminating thee fucking space locust/zombies
>>736217468>I don't have that fucking DYNAMO module from the Bajoran Interceptor that lets you just shit out damage like no tomorrowThere are a fuck ton better consoles to use these day, it feels like DOMINO is outdated. Things like the Fleet Power Network Array from the Ahwahnee comes into mind. If you really want the DOMINO, just get a M6 comp from the Temporal Escort instead.
>>736217578it's like finding a cookie with a bite taken out of it
>>736217578SHE'S FREAKING ADORABLE. and you know it.
>>736217409>>736217509>meanwhile eng is turtling in a corner spamming their five "restore all hull and shields" captain abilities and ten BOff heal abilitiesmiraculous repairs can eat my asshole, that shit is broken
>>736217626But why is the dish...the dish doesn't go there!
>>736217615rude.
>>736217653that's her Nose, silly. her cute little schnozz.
>>736217595Nah, DOMINO is still meta, will probably always be, just like the DPRM, they synergize with everything too well.
>>736217595>just get a M6 comp from the Temporal Escort instead.I think I have that already
>>736217324Doesn't this not work with Beam Overload?
For everyone wanting to check it out, check on epic if you claimed that free STO bundle few months or years ago (reappearing). You have then free T6 tickets and other shit
>>736217642that's a funny way of saying nerf'd. since they gave it lockouts and hard cancels and shit, whereas tacs still have infinitely scaling BS.
>>736217653Could be worse. Could lack a deflector dish entirely.As well as impulse engines.
>>736217770It is strange how the devs clearly play favorites with the three types. You'd think they'd do their best to even them out, even if it doesn't make sense lore-wise, for the betterment of PvE and PvP. Sure, I guess lore-wise tac officers would have an advantage in combat, but if they're gonna go that route then sci and eng need something they're blatantly better than tac at. I guess eng might have the advantage on ground because they can spam mines, but then 1v1 tac also has that curved shot thing that let's us flank 100% of our shots. So strange.
>>736215695The sonak is one of the best looking things to come out of the entire game.I was fucking floored when I first looked at it.
>>736217950lore wise, engineering and science should be supreme, with cruisers ruling over all, and federation ships following the roddenberry rules should have an efficiency and power rating advantage over other techbases and designs.
>>736217950nta but>ground combat
>Watching through DS9>They put bobuzals on a ferengi
>>736218120I'm confused, why is that female ferengi wearing clothes?
>>736218151IIRC, that's from the episode where quark gets an assistant who helps him make a shitton of money, and becomes friends with him... only HE is actually a SHE pretending, and SHE is falling in love with quark.
>>736218094Ground combat PvE is pretty harmless, PvP may be the worst shit in any MMO ever, genuinely unbearable. please for the love of god make seperate ground and space random queues cryptic i beg you
oddy needs some love. she should have gotten her own show!
>>736218316Is this a barbie lex dread?
>>736217606Oh boy, here comes the Albanian State Washing Machine Company.
>>736218379legendary oddy gets all the doodads you unlock.
