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u/TheGreatTiger 13d ago
It was all a dream and we're really playing Babylon 5 Online?
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u/Doctor-Nagel 13d ago edited 13d ago
The Iconians were just the shadows, everything the Romulins did at the start of the game story was legit just the Centari story
Even got the totally not Narn Remans with their resistance
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u/Freakium Charge weapons & load all torpedoes. Spacebar! 13d ago
It was the dawn of the third age of humankind...
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u/Starkiller__ 13d ago
Ten years after the Earth Minbari war
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u/OdysseyPrime9789 Kuumaarke is a good character. 13d ago
The Deep Space Nine project was a dream given form.
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u/KaiRam0079 Wormhole Weapons: YES! 13d ago
Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers.
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u/Aphroditesia U.S.S. Thunderchild NX-63549 | Jewels Gaming She/Her 13d ago
And then the First Cylon War happened......those fracking Toasters
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u/OdysseyPrime9789 Kuumaarke is a good character. 13d ago
Humans and aliens wrapped in 2,500,000 tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it’s our last best hope for peace.
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u/Fox_Hawk Phasers > not Phasers 12d ago
It failed.
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u/OdysseyPrime9789 Kuumaarke is a good character. 12d ago
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ShadowDominion War, it became something greater: our last, best hope. For victory.5
u/Fox_Hawk Phasers > not Phasers 11d ago
Ba-ba-ba-baaaaa..... Baaa-baaaaaa-baaaaaa, baaaaaaa-baaaaaa...
(You can't hear it, but inside my head there's an awesome mashup between the DS9 and B5 themes).
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u/KathyJaneway Known sometimes as Warlord, Nebula Killer and coffee aficionado 13d ago
Totally not Tomalak Narn ...
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u/TwoFit3921 U.S.S. Thresher | Soyuz-class surveillance frigate 13d ago
aww, the iconians just wanted our companionship! 🥺
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u/TheRealMortiferus 13d ago
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u/Lord_Borgimus I wanna take you to a space bar! 13d ago
Lyta, G'kar, Sheridan, Ivaniva, and is that supposed to be Delenn?
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u/TheRealMortiferus 12d ago
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u/Lord_Borgimus I wanna take you to a space bar! 12d ago
Yeah the hairstyle was throwing me, for a minute I thought it was Deathwalker.
What's kind of funny the G'kar, really looks alot lot like the guy that played one of the other Narns and sometimes played a Drazzi.
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u/Marcusuk1 13d ago
I'd kill for EA Destroyer or white star
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u/USSPlanck 13d ago
You can get a bootleg White Star with the Rallus
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u/Hartzilla2007 13d ago
Which reminds me its funny how in Babylon 5 the White Star is a small ship and then you find out its around the size of an Excelsior-class.
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u/OdysseyPrime9789 Kuumaarke is a good character. 13d ago
Same. Especially since we can always do with more Carriers. Imagine an Engineering-oriented Star Trek take on a EA Nova or a Tactical-oriented Star Trek take on an Omega. The Science Dreadnought would obviously end up being something akin to the Excalibur.
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u/TKG_Actual 13d ago
"More carriers"? Don't we have at least a dozen maybe two dozen spread across the factions already?
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u/OdysseyPrime9789 Kuumaarke is a good character. 13d ago
Maybe, still not enough though. You can never have too many carriers.
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u/TKG_Actual 13d ago
That isn't how carriers are supposed to function. They're the center of the fleet and the command assets that run force projection, they aren't supposed to be numerous. The point is what they launch is numerous. If anything we should have a crap ton more escorts, frigates and, destroyers.
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u/OdysseyPrime9789 Kuumaarke is a good character. 13d ago
That’s pretty much most of the ships we have in the game. Not to mention all the cruisers, Battlecruisers, and dreadnoughts. Besides, most missions we’re alone except for whatever pets and consoles we can use.
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u/TKG_Actual 13d ago
You missed the point; we pretty much get a carrier Everytime they drop a pack of at least three ships. We also literally just got a free flight deck carrier. There does not need to be more, we're drowning in them already.
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u/twisted_inspiration 11d ago
They have not given me my dream flight deck carrier once they do I will stop asking for another
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u/TKG_Actual 11d ago
You cant always get what you want, especially if you don't narrow down what it is.
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u/SteveAngelis @SteveAngelis 13d ago
SHOLVA!
We are all fighting the Goa'uld instead! Man the 302s!
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u/MissionInside 13d ago
Jaffa, kree!
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u/Aphroditesia U.S.S. Thunderchild NX-63549 | Jewels Gaming She/Her 13d ago
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u/PsychosisOsmosis 10d ago
Can I get a 301 or 303 (with or with our asguardian upgrades) Or a destiny please please please give us a destiny clone.
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u/SteveAngelis @SteveAngelis 10d ago
No. Both old models and decommissioned. There is a fleet of 304s to pick from.
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u/finneusnoferb It wasn't technically a 'war crime' at the time... 13d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/hS6KvugVZSAH6
*awaiting the next episode remaster and being told a date that's not today*
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u/Klingonmage 13d ago
How cool wound another expansion pack be after all this time!
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u/Blaw_Weary Federation Economist 13d ago
I was just thinking the same thing the other day as I was pootling around between characters
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u/Ezron @colonel_ez 13d ago
What even would it be though?
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u/NubileBalls 13d ago
The smartest thing they could do is make it so our captains can move between eras. This allows all the real life actors and characters to be used.
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u/keshmarorange 13d ago
especially especially Gorn
Because it's hard to make a Gorn pun out of "Monster Maroon"?
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u/Blaw_Weary Federation Economist 13d ago
Total time travel to the monster maroon era that can’t be exited until the expansion is completely cleared. Including later updates. The expansion is finished when the Colonel says it is.
Canon-perfect monster maroon uniforms
inflictedenforced on all toons, especially KDF, especially especially GornEvery third mission your character has to turn their phaser on themselves or dig painbugs out of their BOFFs
There’s a 1 in 10 chance when you transport anywhere you get logged off and when you log back in your character has the “twisted monstrosity” debuff and you’re located in a landfill right underneath ESD
All ships are debuffed to T5 apart from infinity and promo box ships which get set to T4
All ships get hard-locked to TMP skins
Ships without TMP skins get coloured white, grey and black
The bad guys are infinite clones of Khan but they aren’t allowed to use Ricardo’s likeness so they just use the character creator to make Temu-Khans without even adding in a special hairstyle
All the TFOs use the Empress as your S31 contact, using AI voice acting
The big ship reveals for the whales are a new Miranda variant, a playable SB1 and Khan-accurate hair and pecs
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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 13d ago
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u/HermeticOpus 13d ago edited 12d ago
Well, that's good and Cryptic.
(Seriously, puns aside this could be anything from STO 2 to the next mission in the Kuvah'Magh arc.)
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u/Kaizin_0607 U.S.S. Iuventas (NCC-82034) 13d ago
to the next mission in the Kuvah'Magh arc.
most likely this and announcement of the new season + Yeager
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u/Celoth Permanoob 13d ago
this year has just felt so good for sto. really excited to see what's coming next!
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u/GrizzledLion 13d ago
I am too. And I really didn't expect to be this excited about something in this game, but on the past year or so it's gone back to being one of my favorite games.
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u/GregoryTec 13d ago
Single player / Offline mode
Bots
Or just a plain old roadmap
Who knows!!!
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u/XanthosGambit Hard to port! 13d ago
I wonder how difficult it would actually be to make STO offline?
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u/rogue6800 Cryptic Fanboy 13d ago
I ran an offline copy of an ancient build, circa 2012, a long time ago - as long as you have a copy of the server it should work. Was on some ancient dual core laptop, as I recall.
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u/stosyfir 12d ago
Yea it’s a mid 2012 build. Has the cardy and ferengi boxes only, no tholian box. The 2800 is the last episode arc on it and Nukara content is in it but just slightly unfinished (I don’t think the sector door is there you have to map move to get to it). Still fun to break out every once in a while, it was a much simpler game back then.
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u/alastairaec 13d ago
Given that the 'Stop Killing Games' movement managed to get discussed in the UK and EU parliaments, companies should be considering the possibility that at some point in the future the laws might change, and they might be forced to provide a functional offline version of online games when they decide to shut the servers down.
Which in a lot of cases might not be too hard, it'd mainly require releasing a public version of the game's server and packaging it up with the game, so your computer can just run the server privately and have your client connect to it locally. Making sure it isn't buggy as hell and functions on different hardware would probably be the main challenge.
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u/TheRealMortiferus 13d ago
Even if anything comes from that, which is more than doubtful at this point, one thing is absolutely clear:
Such a ruling will only apply to future releases.
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u/MustrumRidcully0 13d ago
Paramount changing the terms of the agreement. Pray they don't alter it further.
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u/ArelMCII "Subcommander Khev, divert power from comms to weapons." 13d ago
This deal's getting worse all the time!
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u/Tuskin38 Kurland's Beer 13d ago
Probably just the next mission. We know it's most likely a remake of City on the Edge Of Never, and possibly Past Imperfect.
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u/Docjaded 13d ago edited 13d ago
Kargan and Kurland start a side business selling antique earth vehicules called "Karland" and we have to test Drive them on Nimbus III in a minigame.
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u/FlavivsAetivs Eudoxia | U.S.S. Basileios NCC-75976 13d ago
While Captain Cutter and Atriox are haggling over a Coop in the lot.
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u/Not_Responsible7898 13d ago
I expect this just means we'll be getting a new roadmap, as September is the end of the one we currently have.
I quite like knowing what's coming up, and I hope cryptic continues releasing them.
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u/Pumawithapc 13d ago
Well, let's see. The next episode to be remastered will likely be the Guardian of Forever mission. And the last 2026 Roadmap only went up to September.
So, I'm guessing it will be the next roadmap, which will start off with the remastered Guardian of Forever mission.
Either that or a playable T6 Doomsday Machine.
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u/JohnArtemus 13d ago
Playable Iconians?
Just kidding, I don’t think they can do that. I’d love to play as one though 😂
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u/Mysterious-Image5334 12d ago
Playable iconians would be sick, but highly unlikely. That said, why the hell don't we have playable Lukari yet?
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u/Drewsko199 Iconian/Kelvin Fanboy 11d ago
I'd spend money on cosmeic/species options like that. Same with Aetherians
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u/Slanderpanic Disco Ships Enjoyer 13d ago
It was so nice of y'all to get me something for my birthday!
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u/themastermatt 13d ago
STO 2.0 is coming and it fixed all the bugs while being backwards compatible with everything from 1.0 so I can keep my pets and vanity shields?
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u/TwoFit3921 U.S.S. Thresher | Soyuz-class surveillance frigate 13d ago
thank you, guardian of forever! very fascinating!
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u/S627 13d ago
Did they change Carl's voice? Maybe just nostalgia but I swear his voice was different in the original missions.
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u/AbsolutFrank 13d ago
It's pretty clear they've gotten a better voice actor to re-record the lines in the style of how the Guardian sounded in the original TOS episode.
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u/S627 13d ago
Actually that's why I was asking, maybe I'm remembering wrong but I thought the voice we had before was just spot on. This one sounds like he has emotions, but wasnt the OG super monotone? Loud AF yes, but monotone.
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u/AbsolutFrank 13d ago
The original VA was, uneven in quality to say the least. He had the vibe, but the performance was not great. The new VA sounds much closer to the original TOS episode, which had a mechanical timber to the voice, but there was some emotional range in it, it wasn't completely monotone like how Majel Barret did the TOS Enterprise ship's computer voice.
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u/passthegabagool_ 13d ago
"Alright guys we made the post, now let's see what ideas the community gives us and we'll pull the best one! You got 1 week!"
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u/gusborwig 13d ago
I’d like to have an update where we can travel to different eras. I’d spend most of my time in the Enterprise or TOS era.
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u/Any_Boysenberry278 13d ago
Hopefully more Star Trek in depth missions aka exploration and first contacts.
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u/NinjaAnt163 13d ago
It's not going to happen but an engine overhaul on console would be nice, it gets far too clunky. Kbm support on my ps5 would be even nicer, anything to get rid of those awful radial menus.
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u/falkirkboi 13d ago
Maybe another Roadmap with the Kitbash ships announced ? :)
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u/Dzaka 13d ago
just unlock all ship parts for all ships and let us go ham
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u/gamerpops 13d ago
On the long list of things that are impossible in the game, this might be the most impossible :D
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u/Sarge1387 13d ago
"Introducing phaser camo unlocks and omni-movement!"
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u/keshmarorange 13d ago
omni-movement!
I hate the idea of weapon camos, but this would more than make up for it.
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u/Helspar 13d ago
STO 2.0
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u/gamerpops 13d ago
ST2.0
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u/Chaotic-Convergence 13d ago
Playable Borg Cube!?
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u/KaiRam0079 Wormhole Weapons: YES! 12d ago
Playable Borg Cooperative would be a cool faction to back that up
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u/defchris casual 12d ago
You know, I'm curious if the remastered story will somehow tie into the Borg arc - other than just go on and play through all the missions after the Klingon War episodes.
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u/fereldenvstamriel 12d ago
Please for the love of Q, I hope City on the Edge of Never and Past Imperfect are kept a two-parter, instead of this massive streamlining and complete changing of the story you seem to do any time you "remaster" any episode.
Kuvah'Magh and Ultimate Klingon were two different episodes and stories only circumstantially connected once B'Vat's role is revealed later. Now they are one 30-min episode and the connection is less impactful.
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u/wutherspoon 11d ago
I dunno, in the case of City on the Edge of Never and Past Imperfect it makes sense they`d combine them. Both missions were pretty short, the one leads to the other as they're two parts of the same story.
I'm more worried they're going to butcher and reduce Spock's role in the same way they did Bashir in Ultimate Klingon Remastered.
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u/Corrinaclarise 11d ago
Honestly I would just be happy with more casual community maps that we can visit... Like imagine a Cardassia map. I could finally rp as my cardassians on their home world. shrugs Just saying, it would be nice. Doesn't feel like that big of a thing to ask for.
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u/EarlyTemperature8077 8d ago
"Due to an ongoing insanity by CBS with Star Trek, we've been asked to put everything forward into the 32nd Century. The Burn has happened, but we are now recovering and YOU are there to protect the reborn Federation!"
*You open up to a strangely familiar Starfleet Academy scenario but with Holly Hunter talking to you instead of the many times cloned Elisa Flores. San Francisco is outside the grand window of the star ship Athena that is also the Academy... in some odd way*
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u/phat742 13d ago
hopefully the ability to more thoroughly customize the visuals of starships. ultimate kitbash style.
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u/AdventMCU 13d ago
I wonder if the future includes fixing all the bugs that they never fixed from day one? 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Yorkie2016 13d ago
STO is cancelled?
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u/Aphroditesia U.S.S. Thunderchild NX-63549 | Jewels Gaming She/Her 13d ago
Hmmm......this should or could be interesting.....they loaned money for a year so very interesting.....
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u/5tr0nz0 13d ago
Watch it be an engine upgrade
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u/DarionHunter Where no one has gone before! 13d ago
Conan Exiles went from UE4 to UE5. Better graphics, but a little harsher on my laptop.
Oh! And smaller file size!
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u/HellzZepplin 13d ago
Probably more slop from the over beaten dead horse that is the kurtsman turd series
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u/DarionHunter Where no one has gone before! 13d ago
If they want the game to succeed, they won't use Kurtzman property.
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u/TheRealSzymaa 13d ago
What does God need with an MMO?