Protect Pahvo! | Event Campaign & the Future of STO all in one go
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arcgames.comPosted Apr 29, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC
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arcgames.comSo, the glimpse of the future is the expected summer event, and then something Klingon related. Had hoped for a bit more news, but I'll take it
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Well, there's no dates attached, and the disclaimer even says they might not be released in that order.
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True, but i can see the PC version being released in that order, considering it's all been done already, with new KDF Content coming sometime between mid July-mid September. For all the event TFO's they only have to design a new console/kit module/ground thing. For KM Sompek, i have my fingers crossed for Sompek ground Armour
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Love the face on the drones. Also looking forward to this year's summer event.
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I'll be so burned out on this game by then... winter event and anniversary event always kills my enthusiasm for the game for a while and I don't get it back until later in the year. I always end up neglecting the summer event because of it.
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New kdf content!
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Tier 6 Ship and 200 Lobi or 1000 Lobi (the same prize on both PC and Console)
Huh, I wonder if they referring to just the 1000 Lobi, or have they figured out how to grant T6 coupons to console player? Not that I would say no to another Epic Phoenix ship though.
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They might have been able to work out a deal with Microsoft and Sony.
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That's nice, now we know what events are going to be part of the campaign. Glad I saved my legacy tokens so I can skip the KM event.
Probably going to use a few on the Pahvo event too, it gets a bit grindy after a while. KIDD drones seem like a fun little module.
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It includes Sompek as well, that isn't so bad. They both are the same essentially these days. Get to round 7. No penalty if you all die in Sompek, no penalty if the KM loses all health.
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They don't really give details about the passive effect on the drones, it sounds kind of like it applies one of its attacks or buffs occasionally.
Looks like a good addition to my drone-spam eng build, though. ^_^
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Update for the future part: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11423783-the-year-of-klingon
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The blog says the new reward is the first kit module with a passive effect, but I thought the Kits R&D school has one passive kit module for each profession...?
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It says it's the first to have a passive effect AND an activated one.
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Whats the shield type or vanity on that ship, looks lepic!
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That's just the DSC Terran material, I don't think you can get it as a vanity.
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All i see is the promise of something I might play in less then a day, more mindlessly repeated tasks and little in the way of new story. Remember when we used to have new things to explore?
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Remember when the devs weren't stuck working at home because of a pandemic causing work to slow down?
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While that does influence recent days.....how much story content have we received in the last 18 months?
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https://sto.gamepedia.com/Season_Nineteen:_Legacy
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Season_Eighteen:_Awakening
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Age_of_Discovery#Part_3_.28Rise_of_Discovery.29
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Age_of_Discovery#Part_2_.28Mirror_of_Discovery.29
All of this was released in the last 18 months.
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I can't look at the links right now but as my memory serves me there's I believe 6 story episodes and three task forces spread out between that which again covers the space of 18 months the majority of what we've gotten has been constantly repeatable task forces that are the same thing over and over again and that's my complaint. Now with that said it possible that this nebulous Klingon content could be an epic 24 episode juggernaut but right now I've given my current cynicism with the focus of our EP I tend not to believe this
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Stop embarrassing yourself by making excuses for a years-long shortage of story content by invoking something that's only been an issue for a handful of months.
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Sorry, I’ve only been playing for 9 years; when was this golden age you speak of?
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While it sure feels like an eternity the pacing of new content and stuff isn't that bad. Disco stuff started in november 2018, since then we got:
- 1 reskinned tutorial - with some extra starpower
- 9 episodes with all of them containing the original actors of major characters
- 6 TFOs
- 1 new rep + addition of T6 reps
- personal endeavours
- scaling T6 ships
- beginning of the revamp of patrol system with 5 new ones added
- FCD mission with seven of nine
- also a whole lot of ships but I really don't count $hinies as "content"
I can totally get where you're coming from because it sure feels like we've been going nowhere ever since disco became the main tune but it's really not the case. I blame the terrible unfocused "plot" of these arcs for that feeling.
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Okay so my numbers were somewhat significantly off from my memory I'll concede that. A lot of it for me has to do with a feeling that there's no emphasis on driving a narrative and more emphasis on just pumping more money into random number giveaways then anything. I guess a lot of it has to do with the fact that I miss plugging to the game and finding something new to play vs my current play which is login for at most 15 minutes a day while there's some event going on to mindlessly run through that and then log off because I have nothing else better to do
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1 reskinned tutorial - with some extra starpower
So replay existing content, only with a Celebrity
9 episodes with all of them containing the original actors of major characters
Where we mostly hang out while the Celebrity does everything of note. Its their story not ours.
6 TFOs, 1 new rep + addition of T6 reps, personal endeavours, beginning of the revamp of patrol system with 5 new ones added
Grind, grind, grind, more grind
FCD mission with seven of nine
I'll admit a better mission, but I think it would have been better without the Celebrities.
Despite that we're supposedly the main character its not really our story anymore. We hang around while the celebrity of the week does everything in a shotgun story that can't decide what its about other than Julie's villainous plan of the month. Instead we're supposed to let it slide because we're apparently star-struck by whoever it is this time. And when we aren't doing that, its grind, grind, and hey do your daily grinds. I want a story-driven campaign and focused coherent narrative where I am the main character again.
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Saving Pahvo is Out of Character for my toons so I'm just going to pretend these TFOs are simulations to preserve my sanity.
Hopefully I can get the campaign done by the end of Stage 3.
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Hopefully Disco Klingons are finally being worked on.
I hove a Klingon Eras Duty Officer pack, DSC, TOS, and Current era.
And give us some of the costume unlocks, like the jacket the all wear, Kurn or Gowron hair and Both both hairstyles, Kurn Holo-Boff.
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I was like "well that sucks ANOTHER repeat TFO" but I guess they are working on some new KDF content, so I'm down.
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Yay time to do PDE (One of my favorite ground queues) with people who don't know how to do PDE or even like ground combat.
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Let me just say I am excited for kit module. Drone ground spam for the win!!
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Did I miss the dates on there?
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So I'm a little confused, it says Pahvo is the first of Event Campaign II to get the T6 ship/Lobi, but we already had Battle at the Binary Stars, I'm already almost halfway done with the campaign. Them saying it spans four events does match up with there being three events listed and one finished, it's just that if they're counting Binary Stars they probably want to be a bit clearer that one of the four events has already completed, heh.
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Knowing how Cryptic announcements can be that might have been a typo and the Pahvo missions are the next two in the track we are currently running. That just leaves one unannounced TFO to wrap up event if they haven’t forgotten about the battle of the binary stars TFO we already ran.
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It does already have the next three on there, Pahvo would be two, then To Hell With Honor as the third, and finally the Kobayashi Maru/Arena of Sompek event as the fourth. They just forgot in the blog (I assume) that Binary Stars has already come and gone, so the "four events to get progress during" is already down to three.
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I didn’t count the to hell with honor and Maru/sompek listings since they were under the console column. The language of the rest of the blog covered Pahvo missions and didn’t mention the others so I assumed that the other missions were for console since I don’t think console had run To Hell with Honor yet as an event
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There's no reason to assume that PC will not get the console listed stuff as well.
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QAPLA'!!!
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Damn Pahvo again. I already hated it from when it was FTFO.
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Klingon hype! I really hope it'll be something special for the KDF faction.
Wouldn't that be nice? KDF really needs a lot of attention.
They did say Season 20 would be Klingon focused.
I'm hoping for something good. They'll probably tidy up some of the older KDF content as well. Im guessing we'll see it in August, after the KM/Sompek TFO.
Update, they've released another blog detailing the plans. They're remastering the old KDF story and KDF assets. They'll probably add a few new bits as well.
Eh, it's probably just more J'Ula shenanigans.
There are also some art revamps coming for the 'present day' Klingons. New B'Rel model at least, and the TNG Era outfits might be redone.
Oh right, they have been teasing those.
New Blog out detailing what they're up to with the KDF
Oh sweet, time to peruse.
It's likely to be especially disappointing and insulting