Season 5 Dev Blog #37

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Details about Alpha, the new Klingon mission, are revealed in this entry of the Season 5 News (http://startrekonline.com/season_five_news) Dev Blog series.


Link to the news article. (http://www.startrekonline.com/node/3041)

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Frickin sweet.

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Missions sounds awesome, I'll have to level my Klingon.

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Well there is our Klingon content for the year.

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I hope the items aren't bind on pick up. I want to be able to sell them to Fed players too lazy to create a KDF toon.

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That sounds AWESOME.

EDIT: Wait, isn't level 35 a Captain rank? My Klingon is 27, and he's a commander.

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That sounds AWESOME.

EDIT: Wait, isn't level 35 a Captain rank? My Klingon is 27, and he's a commander.

Fixed!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

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Frickin sweet.
Understatement of the year. ;)

Play your Klingon toons during Klingon Awareness Week #2, taking place RIGHT NOW! Alpha awaits!

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Intriguing.

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This is definitely awesome and I cant wait to play. I can only hope we'll see more to follow in a timely manner :)

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nice.. what does the armor look like?

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Sounds great! I look forward to playing it!

This is definitely awesome and I cant wait to play. I can only hope we'll see more to follow in a timely manner :)/QFT! :o

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:eek:
ZOMG!!
Soooo sweet to see.
Can't wait.

Thank you sir can I have another!!

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Well there is our Klingon content for the year.

Nice to know there'll always be someone trying to bring everyone else down.

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More alpha, less mugato

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Well there is our Klingon content for the year.

Just the kind of attitude I was expecting. Glad to see I wasn't disappointed!

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Thursday will be a good day to play STO with this and First contact

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it its orbiting the gas giant it would be a moon. i believe there are some moons of Jupiter or Saturn that are at least as large as mercury, but they are moons none the less.

sounds awsome though, and it looks like it playable on tribble right now!

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Credit where it is due, Cryptic... I think I'll actually dust of Karn the Angry Klingon for this. He's been getting grayer by the day waiting for something to do.

Thanks. Might be the kick in the pants I needed to do something about it. :)

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Awesome, just finished leveling my 3rd Klink to 50, 6th 50th level toon overall. Can't wait to run all three through the mission.

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That Dev Blog is written really well, gets the adrenaline pumping, now I'm seriously looking forward to playing mission "Alpha" and the rewards sound totally cool. Hirogen have to be involved, especially with that mission title. :cool:

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The missions is up for testing on tribble right now.

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Details about Alpha, the new Klingon mission, are revealed in this entry of the Season 5 News (http://startrekonline.com/season_five_news) Dev Blog series.


Link to the news article. (http://www.startrekonline.com/node/3041)

Amazing, but will similar rewards become available to feds any time? Also Hirogen involvement sounds exciting only one of my favorite species.

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Klingon Intelligence Stealth Utility Armor

Will it have a visual armor?

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Looking good! Can't wait to run my KDF chars through this one. :D

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Amazing, but will similar rewards become available to feds any time?
No, but Feds will be getting a handheld Hargh'peng launcher. :D:D
It's like a taser except there's a bigger crater.

Really looking forward to catching up on KDF missions, and this will fit right in my current mission sector chain. Great job all!

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Qapla!

May the combat we encounter in alpha satiate our thirst for honor and combat for a short while in the hopes that Cryptic will continue to deliver KDF content!

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That looks fantastic! Grats to Cryptic on getting KDF Only content flowing! I can't wait to get in there. :D

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Will it have a visual armor?


I tested this on tribble. Equipped on KDF, of course no armor is visible as is the norm. I mailed the armor to a fed toon, and it just looked like normal armor.

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Amazing, but will similar rewards become available to feds any time?

I certainly hope not, kdf doesn't just need more content, it needs UNIQUE content.

Why not just play the mission on your KDF toon, then mail the loot to yourself?

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I tested this on tribble. Equipped on KDF, of course no armor is visible as is the norm. I mailed the armor to a fed toon, and it just looked like normal armor.

I'm surprised that the rewards aren't bind on pickup like other mission rewards eg Overcharged Plasma Sniper Rifle, is this working as intended? If so when can the KDF expect new toys mailed from their Federation counterparts?

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This is definitely awesome and I cant wait to play. I can only hope we'll see more to follow in a timely manner :)

same here nagus same here

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They're prolly not Bind on Pickup for the reasons stated before, to sell to Fed Players for ungodly prices because they're too lazy to make a KDF toon. Much like how Klinks would sell Bat'leths on the exchange until mishes came out where Feds could get them.

I myself, I'm glad the KDF is getting more content and hope more appears for them, after all the lies and broken promises they deserve a fair shot.

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I played the mission on Tribble It's very fun. There's a certain mini-game you have to do a number of times that could have used a tutorial, but once I screwed up a few times I got the hold of it. Also It didn't credit me for the mission completion so you might wanna check on that. But otherwise. I REALLY liked this mission.

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Well there is our Klingon content for the year.

I'm going to laugh if that turns out to be true. Somehow I doubt it though. Season 6 is coming.

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:D LOL you funny even when it turns out to be true :p

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Can't wait to try it. Thanks to our Cryptic overlords on getting KDF only content out :)

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it its orbiting the gas giant it would be a moon. i believe there are some moons of Jupiter or Saturn that are at least as large as mercury, but they are moons none the less.


Andoria is a habitable moon, but the description in this blog seems to imply that the planet in question is in an orbit close in radius from its sun to that of the giant planet, rather than being in orbit of the giant planet.

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ASSUMING i'm not plagued by another torturefest of lag, skips, screen freezes and disconnects, i'll be lucky to get Kor Jag thru the 2800 for the Jem'Hadar Tactical BOff and the Space Set on Friday night, let alone grind to Captain/Lv 30.

So ASSUMING the Event Calendar & KDF vs. Terran Empire are working for the next three weeks, i should be able to start Alpha sometime around the start of Season 6.

i better not hold my breath...




FYI, Craptyc, i'm still mad as HELL...

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The armor is only one piece of the set, so will there be more missions with more set items for a new sort of set for the KDF? :)

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I certainly hope not, kdf doesn't just need more content, it needs UNIQUE content.

Why not just play the mission on your KDF toon, then mail the loot to yourself?

Are you sure you can mail both items to the fed character? While it does make sense due to Cryptic's apparent policy of making mission rewards obtainable for either faction, I feel like this may, sadly, end up differently.

Nonetheless, I look forward to the mission, and now have yet another reason to urge Cryptic to make it possible to change career, even if only via C-Store :)

GIVE US CAREER CHANGES! :cool:

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My Klingon doesn't need a new weapon or armour, I'd much prefer the armour to be a special kit. As for the weapon, I may just have it and use it as my backup.

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My klingon secondary weapon is a trusty batleth theres nothing better than going toe to toe with a enemy with a trusty blade. Wish There was Dtahg knives though

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All i can say is. Thank you! im very curious as to what we'll discover on Alpha and the chance to act out the fact that my KDF klingon values Honor above all else will be absolutely amazing. I do hope there arent to many people fed side who will rage about this only being available for Klingons.

The FE left me thinking that the Devs in general see the KDF as a bunch of thugs and nothing else. But from what ive read about it in the blog its clear that there are some of you Devs out there that value the Klingon culture.

Thank you again!

Edit: link to it here http://www.startrekonline.com/node/3041

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Well generally I agree... It may just be a single mission, but its a step in the right direction.

But Cryptic does see the KDF as thugs... That much is obvious.

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Well generally I agree... It may just be a single mission, but its a step in the right direction.

But Cryptic does see the KDF as thugs... That much is obvious.

Didn't you know?
This game is actually set in the Mirror Universe.
The Feds are trigger happy (Treasure Trading Station) war criminals (Divide et Impera) and the Klingons are just thugs.

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Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome
I'm A Kid In Freaking Candy Store Jonesing On A Sugar Rush.
Thank You Devs For This Mission. Much Honor On Your Houses And Glory To Your Names.

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I'm Just Happy That A Dev Or Devs (it Takes A Team They Say) Was Kind Enough To Write This Up Just For The Kdf And Give It New Enviroments To Boot.
Thank You.

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The armor is only one piece of the set, so will there be more missions with more set items for a new sort of set for the KDF? :)
Or maybe more brilliant: There will be Fed mission that contains another item.
And more insidious: The 3rd part will be a C-Store item. :p

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So its basically the Venus jungle idea from 50's B-movies?

AWESOME!

BTW:
[...]although they speculate that the influence of the gas giant has led to unusual aberrations in the planet's ecosystem.

I'm going to be really disappointed if giant Mugato's don't chase me around after I explore one of their caves.

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Hold on:
Stealth shroud stuff+Jungle+Hirogen Hunters = Glad I got my minigun! I just need the hat now.

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Nice so this the armor is a set piece. Is the weapon a Set piece also?

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Well there is our Klingon content for the year.

I alsmost don't want to believe this...but yeah..look at the record so far.
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Hmmmm so hidden areas with accolades I'm guessing? And will either choice at the end matter or can we just replay and do both like in the Romulan-Reman FE?

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Actual Klingon Content? where did that come from?

PS: that bird of prey wreckage in the screenshot looks suspiciously identical to the Bird of Prey wreckage from the last DS9 FE Mission.

PPS: is the Hirogen gun a REPLICA from the Series or just another Named but 0815 Copy&Paste STO Art Asset? hmmm...

http://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/original/yp_4f5e3142d36211.38933562/Star-Trek--Voyager-TV-1995/Hirogen-Hunter-Rifle.jpg *rrrr*

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CONTENT WOOOO!!!!! (speaking as a player of both factions)

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Just the kind of attitude I was expecting. Glad to see I wasn't disappointed!


Just goes to show how desperate you people are when you go all bananas over a single mission that will probably at most take 30 minutes to finish then right back to the same nothing we have had.

Yeah sorry but it will take much much more than a single mission to get me excited over anything on the Klingon side given the track record so far.

If Cryptic can prove me wrong and not just with lip service saying they are planning content but actually release more on a steady basis for Klingons then that would be great,I simply am not going to get excited until they do this.

Only then will I say that maybe things are looking up for the Klingon side.

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Mission sounds fun looking forward to it, but rewards are yet more stealth enhancing garbage? awesome. :(

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Uh yea ground pvp really needed more stealth... its not like there wasn't already more then 3 ways to stack stealth way above _any_ (even with all buffs and traits!) perception levels for the ultimate undetectable supercloak. *facepalm*

Nice job on the quest though and adding something for klingons is definitely a good thing.. but more stealth is really the worst thing that could be added to ground.. uncounterable one-shots out of perfect stealth are not improving the quality of ground pvp and are not really trek either.

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Awwww, new update made Alpha rewards BoP, so now I can't give them to my fed D:

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Loved the ground map. Am I the only one thinking that it would be a great pvp map too?

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Didnt have access to the mission till this morning so most likely will play it tonight. However it is a pity it is only one mission hopefully they will add some more missions soon. But from what most KDF player say it's unlikly

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I certainly hope not, kdf doesn't just need more content, it needs UNIQUE content.

Why not just play the mission on your KDF toon, then mail the loot to yourself?

QFT *hint*Cryptic*
The Klingon side has few missions and ships, and new players can't start off with a KDF character. Maybe because the Powers That Be decide that Klingons are the mostly PvP side and we have to master PvE first.

But I'm still looking forward to Alpha, as long as it's more complex than the regular quest missions that are a straight line through from one objective to another.

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Am I correct in assuming that this mission is in no way linked to the "First Contact Day" celebration? In other words, it's not going away when the celebration ends?

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Ok, either I'm blind or bugged? I'm level 44 but can't start the mission?

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Ok, either I'm blind or bugged? I'm level 44 but can't start the mission?

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I can't seem to do the 'Alpha' mission. It's ghosted out and I can't click the Hail button. Its at the top of the Romulan list of Episodes, the others in that catagory are all complete. I am LG(50) so as far as I see I should have access to this mission.

I tried asking in Zone chat, but they were as useful as a chocolate fireguard.

The tooltip doesn't explain what I need to do to unlock this mission.

Please help!

EDIT: The mission is catagorized wrong. You have to complete or skip all the Fek'Ihri mission first to unlock this one. This is awful work, it should be clearer on what is needed to do it.

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maybe we just dont want a KDF toon

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Just goes to show how desperate you people are when you go all bananas over a single mission that will probably at most take 30 minutes to finish then right back to the same nothing we have had.

Yeah sorry but it will take much much more than a single mission to get me excited over anything on the Klingon side given the track record so far.

If Cryptic can prove me wrong and not just with lip service saying they are planning content but actually release more on a steady basis for Klingons then that would be great,I simply am not going to get excited until they do this.

Only then will I say that maybe things are looking up for the Klingon side.

AGREED. Yes it's a new mission out of the blue, yes thats good and yes we're all thankful, but thats exactly what it is. A mission. Give me half a rank's worth of Klink content every 3 months and we'd have a finished Klink faction in 12 months time, THEN i'll woops and cheer. As I say, it's nice. But c'mon people.

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I can't seem to do the 'Alpha' mission. It's ghosted out and I can't click the Hail button. Its at the top of the Romulan list of Episodes, the others in that catagory are all complete. I am LG(50) so as far as I see I should have access to this mission.

I tried asking in Zone chat, but they were as useful as a chocolate fireguard.

The tooltip doesn't explain what I need to do to unlock this mission.

Please help!

EDIT: The mission is catagorized wrong. You have to complete or skip all the Fek'Ihri mission first to unlock this one. This is awful work, it should be clearer on what is needed to do it.

really i have done all this missions long time ago before the made this system... all should be set to done by gamemakers

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I really enjoyed the new mission but next time you guys need to make more then one.