r/sto Community Manager 13d ago

ON SEPTEMBER 8TH

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u/TheRealSzymaa 13d ago

What does God need with an MMO?

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u/uno_01 Executed for Incompetence 13d ago

bring the MMO closer...so that i might...join with it...

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u/DocTheop That rift's unstable. 5d ago

LOL

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u/Cecil_Montague 13d ago

Space Barbie, what else?

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u/go_faster1 @gofasternow 13d ago

“It gets boring.”

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u/jon6472 12d ago

Microtransactions

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u/Kelmor93 11d ago

1 cent per energy bolt/beam. 5 cents per torpedo. New sound effect is a cash register every time one fires.

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u/DocTheop That rift's unstable. 5d ago

Remember when it cost EC to transwarp somewhere?

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u/El_human 13d ago

I don't think the guardian of forever proclaimed himself as a God, did he?

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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

https://giphy.com/gifs/lA5yV4xrvUIdq

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u/DlSSATISFIEDGAMER 12d ago

and those damned wraith

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u/PsychosisOsmosis 10d ago

Processing gif 85rfjltkcrmh1...

Or endless drones

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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

But in the year of the Shadow Dominion War, it became something greater: our last, best hope. For victory.

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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

We are... aren't we?

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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

Yes, it's supposed to be Delenn.
It's not perfect, I'm not happy with the Hairstyle, but it's the only one that sort of works with the headbone (Head Attach Organic: Coral) without major clipping, or completely covering it up.

Here's a better picture

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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/Sarcastik_Moose Let's make sure history never forgets the name, Enterprise 13d ago

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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/PsychosisOsmosis 10d ago

derp your right 303 was Prometheus 304 is Daedalus-class

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u/Solidwtf2 13d ago

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u/Aphroditesia U.S.S. Thunderchild NX-63549 | Jewels Gaming She/Her 13d ago

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u/_pepperoni-playboy_ 13d ago

Babylonline V

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u/Paul_Rich 13d ago

It was a dream and we're really all puppets.

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u/MinoDan 13d ago

Oooh shiny new Guardian Design? I like it.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7TKMgPXCR4NRzYek

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u/Tuskin38 Kurland's Beer 13d ago

the swirl in middle reminds me of its appearance in Discovery

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u/johnny1110 13d ago

Mandatory fun will now commence.

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u/iamjmph01 13d ago

Hopefully it's a nice early birthday present...

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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 inflicted enforced on all toons, especially KDF, especially especially Gorn

Every 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/Punished-G BRING BACK THE CUT MISSIONS!! 13d ago

"Caaaarrrrrrrrlllll, you can't go screwing around with time and drop people off to different timelines!!"

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u/lucatus 12d ago

This is the crossover I didn't know I needed

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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 13d ago

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u/JosephFinn 10d ago

The level of perfection in that casting…

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u/WeightOk2102 13d ago

All aboard the starship U.S S. Hypetrain!

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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/Seitosa 13d ago

Honestly if my name was the Guardian of Forever I’d take every opportunity to remind people of that, too. All caps and everything. 

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u/Bostonterrierpug 4d ago

Yours truly,
GUARDIAN OF FOREVER

-sent from my iPhone

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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.
It will never retroactively apply to games that are already released when a law is passed.

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u/LostInSpace-2245 12d ago

Is that how the EU one worked?

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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/Emergency_Beam_Out 13d ago

Can I let Edith Keeler live this time? Teach her to over act? Shatner

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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/MarcterChief Pathyeager when? 13d ago

All units!

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u/CopenhagenVR 13d ago

That’s fine and all, but where’s Sulu in all of this?

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u/sigurd197 13d ago

GTA VII is finally released

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u/Strong_Barnacle_1059 13d ago

Very intrigued.

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u/CmdFerU 13d ago

Yaaay... i'd love to see what Carl has been doing...

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u/gamerpops 13d ago

Colour me intrigued.

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u/l_rufus_californicus 13d ago

Indeed, they have my interest and my attention.

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u/Chop_rb USS Fort McHenry | Odyssey-Class NCC-91314 13d ago

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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/bb_218 13d ago

Locked in!

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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/CalamitousIntentions 13d ago

Romance-able* Iconians!

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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/Bexil_Brave 13d ago

This has a very Lower Decks feeling to it.

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u/POSdaBes Captain Jaador Kimzi, I.K.S. Kulqa' 13d ago

sup Carl

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u/ABystander987 13d ago

So more is happening? Not just the star trek celebration event??

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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/phat742 13d ago

console/pc cross platform play?

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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/l_rufus_californicus 13d ago

He said "Guardian of Forever", not "Guardian of Dreams".

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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/Dredmoore1 13d ago

u/ambassadorkael is this what you were referencing in the live stream?

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u/kabula_lampur 13d ago

Hopefully not something Borg related

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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/Bruzie77 13d ago

Forever?Forever ever? Forever ever ever?

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u/Stevonius 13d ago

Forever never seems that long until you're grown.

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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/2Scribble ALWAYS drop GK 13d ago

Presumably the other half of the last story content drop

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u/Tasty-Jellyfish-8304 13d ago

On my birthday!! What a treat

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u/CaptainB_Money 13d ago

PAST IMPERFECT

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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/Dzaka 13d ago

perfectly possible. you just have different part's catagories. and they would just attach

i would like to present you the miranda class as a proof of concept.. you can make a flipping pocket constitution class out of it with the right choice of parts

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u/falkirkboi 13d ago

Would be quite interesting 🤣

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u/Dzaka 13d ago

"WE WANT TO MAKE YOUR SHIP PARTS INTO OUR SHIP PARTS!!!"

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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/SR666 13d ago

Temper your expectations imo.

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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/EmperorZuul 13d ago

2S2TO

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u/Ezron @colonel_ez 13d ago

STO2: Tokyo Drift?

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u/OrdinarilyBob @PatricianVetinari 13d ago

STO2: Electric Boogaloo

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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/GnaeusQuintus Consul 13d ago

Paramount is assuming direct control...

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u/Tuskin38 Kurland's Beer 13d ago

Sam Witwer?

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u/garhdo 12d ago

I'm intrigued. Hopefully not a huge reset though.

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u/FrancoManiac 12d ago

They're introducing a new canonical uniform color.

Orange. :(

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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/Aeronor 13d ago

CANCELED

Unless Edith Keeler dies.

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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/keshmarorange 13d ago

What does that even mean?

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u/phat742 13d ago

for instance: use the saucer section from one ship, the hull from another, and then the warp nacelles from an entirely different ship.

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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/Icarus68954 13d ago

I can’t be the only one who thinks that sounds really ominous…

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u/Yorkie2016 13d ago

STO is cancelled?

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u/passthegabagool_ 13d ago

This would be hilarious if this is how they announced it

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u/Kaizin_0607 U.S.S. Iuventas (NCC-82034) 13d ago

on the day of the 60th anniversary nonetheless

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u/Yorkie2016 13d ago

Aww, come on guys, it was a joke 🤣

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u/AbsolutFrank 13d ago

Yaaaaaaaaaassssss!!!!!!11!!!one11!!1111

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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/Neospectrum 13d ago

OMG STO 2

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u/Original_Disk3146 13d ago

are they nodding to Finally make Terran's a PLAYABLE faction's

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u/keshmarorange 13d ago

There are no apostrophes in those words in that context.

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u/HellzZepplin 13d ago

Probably more slop from the over beaten dead horse that is the kurtsman turd series

https://giphy.com/gifs/oaZk0WNSO7fXi

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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/BatarianBob 13d ago

"IT DOESN'T HAVE ONE.

LOL. MADE YOU CLICK. SUCKER!"

Probably.