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Malkarris
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"STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
 
   Slightly surprising that I'm the one starting this, figured that someone else would have already, but guess not.

So, this July, STO is kicking off its next expansion, Agents of Yesterday, which gives you the option to play as a TOS captain. SPOILERS past this point.

Well, you can play as a TOS captain for currently six missions, then you get swept forward to the main game timeline. Cryptic is doing its usual IMHO bad job of promoting this, but say there are more than just those six missions coming. I'm skeptical. But cryptic is happy to say they are selling you a full set of T1 to T6 ships which can all be made to look like TOS ships, and I will say that they seem to have done pretty good with them. There is also a free T1 TOS ship Pioneer class, which I must say looks gorgeous.

If anyone wants to see, well, subscribers can go play those six mission on Tribble, bugs and all. The rest, well, Yuzral on youtube is doing his usual spoilers run on the missions and he's pretty good on the whole youtube thing I think.

I won't fight you Atton.
I don't care, I just want you to die.
(Disciple and Atton KOTOR2)


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS BeardedFerret Jun-01-16 1
     RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS Verbena Jun-02-16 2
     RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS Malkarris Jun-03-16 8
  RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS CdrMike Jun-02-16 3
     RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS Nathan Jun-02-16 4
         RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS CdrMike Jun-02-16 5
             RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS Verbena Jun-02-16 6
                 RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS BeardedFerret Jun-03-16 10
  RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS BZArchermoderator Jun-02-16 7
     RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS BeardedFerret Jun-03-16 9
         RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS Verbena Jun-03-16 11
  RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday NO SPOILERS BeardedFerret Jul-11-16 12

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BeardedFerret
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Jun-01-16, 09:11 PM (EDT)
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1. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   STO interest seems to have died off fairly quickly around here, but that's cool.

There are definitely more than six missions - it looks like ones beyond the first arc for TOS players will be sprinkled through the main story, which is cool.

Two other interesting facts:

1. There will be some degree of crossover with the JJTrek universe. An NPC was briefly spotted in Earth Spacedock who was also present in Into Dorkness. To what degree has not yet been announced, but I'd expect some sort of cross-promotional event with Beyond hitting soon.

2. The game is also getting a huge graphical overhaul and heading to modern consoles. This speaks well to its longevity.


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Verbena
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Jun-02-16, 10:38 AM (EDT)
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2. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   Oh, I still play STO, but on occasion, I admit. I still have a couple missions to go to actually get all my Delta Recruit rewards, for instance. =)

Regardless, if they have more than six missions plus Delta-style rewards, I think I'll be making a new captain when it drops.

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Malkarris
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Jun-03-16, 05:19 AM (EDT)
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8. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jun-03-16 AT 05:19 AM (EDT)
 
Welp, they just dropped the next dev blog about the next new mission. Looks likes its not exclusive to the TOS faction. Not sure how I feel about that, but new missions are better than none I guess.

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I don't care, I just want you to die.
(Disciple and Atton KOTOR2)


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CdrMike
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Jun-02-16, 12:19 PM (EDT)
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3. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   Yeah, I got back in STO the other day after having been away for close to two years (last time I played, the Odyssey class was brand-new) and have been slowly powering my way through a new character. Decided to go Fed tactical after having played Fed engineering last go around and have been amazed by the changes. Though one of the items that drew me back, namely being able to own my own Ambassador class, has fallen by the wayside as I've come to realize that a cruiser doesn't work well for a build meant for escorts. Maybe if I could fit some cannons on that Amby, I'd take her out for a spin.

So when I saw the advertisements for AoY, I was tickled pink. I see they're even introducing the Daedalus class to the game. But it's a science cruiser, aka the squishy mage class of characters. May have to create yet another character...

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Nathan
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Jun-02-16, 12:22 PM (EDT)
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4. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   >Yeah, I got back in STO the other day after having been away for close
>to two years (last time I played, the Odyssey class was brand-new) and
>have been slowly powering my way through a new character. Decided to
>go Fed tactical after having played Fed engineering last go around and
>have been amazed by the changes. Though one of the items that drew me
>back, namely being able to own my own Ambassador class, has fallen by
>the wayside as I've come to realize that a cruiser doesn't work well
>for a build meant for escorts. Maybe if I could fit some cannons on
>that Amby, I'd take her out for a spin.

You could try what I call the 'Turret Farm' build - put every slot you can into turrets, then back it up with the cannon-escort powerset and climb into your victim's face. The damage output isn't fantastic, but you've still got cruiser durability, and the ability to shift angle to whichever shield is healthiest, so really it just takes a little longer.

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Is BBs are wonderful things
Their sides are made out of iron
Their guns are made out of pain
They're crashy smashy bashy flashy fun-fun-fun-fun-fun
But the most wonderful thing about BBs
Is there is more than one
The~re is more than one!


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CdrMike
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Jun-02-16, 12:34 PM (EDT)
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5. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   >You could try what I call the 'Turret Farm' build - put every slot you
>can into turrets, then back it up with the cannon-escort powerset and
>climb into your victim's face. The damage output isn't fantastic, but
>you've still got cruiser durability, and the ability to shift angle to
>whichever shield is healthiest, so really it just takes a little
>longer.

Ah, so you turn an Ambassador into a "ye olde Earth" battleship, nice. Yeah, I could look into that, though it means a bit of farming for turrets. In the mean time, I have been eyeing the Vesta class in the Z store. That can mount cannons and has a pretty tough hull, plus it comes with goodies even if you don't collect the whole set. Perhaps after my next paycheck, I'll give it another look.

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Verbena
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6. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   I think the Vesta package was the first set of premium ships I bought. They were actually a lot of fun, but be advised they're tier 5 IIRC and the tier 6 ships are considerably more powerful, and can also be used starting at level 50. The tier 5 upgrade tokens aren't -horrible- but still aren't as good as a tier 6 ship.

That said, a lot of the single player content doesn't depend on you being very powerful. You may have trouble with the Vaadwaur or Heralds but that's a long, long way off for a new character.

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BeardedFerret
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Jun-03-16, 08:50 AM (EDT)
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10. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   >I think the Vesta package was the first set of premium ships I bought.
>They were actually a lot of fun, but be advised they're tier 5 IIRC
>and the tier 6 ships are considerably more powerful, and can also be
>used starting at level 50. The tier 5 upgrade tokens aren't -horrible-
>but still aren't as good as a tier 6 ship.
>
>That said, a lot of the single player content doesn't depend on you
>being very powerful. You may have trouble with the Vaadwaur or Heralds
>but that's a long, long way off for a new character.

This is true, you can pretty much succeed in anything so long as you put some thought into skills and weapons. With that said, if you're looking at the Vesta, one of the Temporal ships in the new bundle looks to be some kind of 31st century Vesta and will be T6 - looks like a no brainer.


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BZArchermoderator
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7. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   I kinda dwindled off STO due to lack of people to fly with, but I may have to drop in and take a look soonish. :)

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BeardedFerret
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Jun-03-16, 08:49 AM (EDT)
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9. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   Feel free to look me up, I'm @beardedferret in game. There's a summer event starting in a couple of weeks, so you can do a daily for a few days and get a free endgame ship for your trouble.


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Verbena
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11. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday SPOILERS"
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   Actually, does there happen to be a casual (Fed) fleet for people from here? I have one character in a fleet but TBH that fleet isn't for me.

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BeardedFerret
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Jul-11-16, 01:18 AM (EDT)
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12. "RE: STO: Agents of Yesterday NO SPOILERS"
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   Well hey, the expansion came out last week and it is great fun. I'd seriously recommend it for players who might have fallen off following Delta Rising - the new content is great; especially if you're a TOS fan. I'm having an absolute blast putting my Wrath of Khan uniforms to proper(ish) use and blasting fools with a type 1 phaser.

If you're at all keen, get in soon - they're running a Temprial Recruit event similar to Delta Recruits, but with more objectives to hit and way better account-wide prizes as a reward.


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