Ready for Battle | STOked 104

Posted on: November 21, 2011

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Ready for Battle | STOked 104

Star Trek Online’s next featured episode series gets a release date that’s close on the heels of the January F2P launch. Early hype indicates that it will be the best FE series to date!

Chris takes some time to explain the style in which STOked is delivered and why it should not be confused with the intent behind the weekly production of the podcast. We also cover some new skill UI changes, an update to the purpose of the Red Alert chat channel, some new artwork on ESD and go on a deep dive through the newly revamped Special Task Force mission, Infected.

The new Advanced Combat Tactics (A.C.T.) segment debuts this week and promises to be a great companion for new and established players alike.

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News:

  • New Featured Episodes Delayed Until February [link].
  • Geko’s upcoming skill change information [link]
  • Crafting System – Material Blocks Introduced [link]
  • Tweet Leak of new skills UI
  • Update to usage / purpose of Red Alert chat channel[link]
  • New Icons On ESD [link1] [link2]
  • STF Queue Timers [link]
  • Broadcast UGC episode 10 released – play through of “City Of The Polmar Ree” from last weeks Foundry Files with guest player Admiral Murphy. Broadcast UGC is the show where the UGC team play Foundry missions live! Join them on Fridays at 3pm US Pacific / 6pm US Eastern / 11pm UK / 8am (Saturday) Australian Eastern time at livestream.com/cerberusfilms.

A.C.T. (Advanced Combat Tactics):

Ground Weapons Part 1 with Ciphertazi.

  • Single target weapons
  • Multiple target weapons
  • Special weapons e.g. CRM 200 (Breen freezy gun)
  • A key bind to merge aim & crouch so save crucial seconds in combat

“Old” Infected Recap:

  • Reacquaint yourself with how the first of the Borg STFs used to be with these video summaries created by Lee Andrew.
  • Space Infected – Video 1 link
  • Ground Infected – Video 2 link

Tactical View:

  • Cryptic Gozer has worked feverishly to revamp the Borg STFs and we start to explore what devious surprises he has in store for us by taking on the “Infected”.
  • Silverwings guides us through the major changes to the mission and goes into some new tactics that will help you to be successful.
  • Final loot is now provided to every player on the mission removing the whole Need / Greed / Pass mechanic from that aspect of the mission.

Community Feedback:

  • Community to make submissions to community feedback through STOked@Jupiterbroadcasting.com
  • We will take all questions, comments, concerns regarding STO & F2P, Cryptic, STOked and its segments (News Roundtable, Advanced Combat Tactics, Tactical view, Foundry Files).
  • Website:  Jupiter Force.org
  • Email:  Asmick@Jupiterforce.net
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  • OPROUND

    Well side Chris behind you 100%. I have been playing STO for over a year now and I fing myself getting bored playing the same runs over and over and waiting on Free For Play to start. I’m one who supports the FFP but if they don’t do something new to keep us old timers interested and reward us for staying in there for so long we may all go over to the Dark Side… if you know what I mean!

  • Colonialwarkel

    where is this better frequency modulator?? is it the craftable one in the deferi ground event??? the one that
    costs 50-50-50 to craft?? is it the elite missions??? that you get the special drops???

  • Omega_glory

    Go on Preacher Man! I agree with your commentary Chris. I play STO for the Trek, not the MMO. It’s a GAME and I’m not going to flip out over a GAME.

  • Colonialwarkel

    what are the best ground weapon’s for tac toons to use against the borg???

  • http://www.facebook.com/BarGamer Jesse David Wan

    The STOked-box episode. XD

  • Stur2006

    Belly Clap big time for you Chris! :D

  • http://twitter.com/QuadraQ QuadraQ

    Good rant. I’m a programmer by trade, and a long time Star Trek fan. I’ve been paying my monthly subscription since the game first launched even when I’ve been too busy to play (which was for almost a year because of moving). I’ve been happy to pay because I want a Star Trek game of this kind of scope to exist in the world. It has been a hard year for STO, but 2012 is looking to be fantastic. In fact my greatest fear is that they’ll stop making the lifetime subscription available, since I want to switch to that soon. And really I don’t mind being patient, since there is a whole world of great games out there to play.

  • Earthcrusher

    Thank you man!  I’m so sick of the negative things that people say about this game.  It’s all about Star Trek!  

  • Talos

    Huzzah! Well said Chris!

    (sic) Don’t be too hard on the Tellarites, they can’t help it, it’s their nature to act like a&^%’s.

  • Rdoherty41

    I LIKE  SEE A RE VAP OF THE LIBERATED BORGS  GIVE THAM A MOER ASSIMILATED LOOKE

  • @Commander88

    You really need to understand who Dukat is/was as part of Trek canon…you’re comparing someone who was an apologist for a government (and also) that engaged in mass murder, plundering, rapine, and a host of other crimes against “humanity” in Trek, and not just against Bajorans but their own people, in the same light as the host of a webshow about a computer game.

    It’s called perspective. In some ways, you act like most of the baseless gripers on the forums; the Bajorans would have a word for you: “collaborator”.

    If Chris says he’s not going to run a non-stop negative show, but at least try to find the truffles in the woods, it’s his podcast to do that. STO has never been a perfect rainbow, and I wouldn’t watch this podcast or the livestream of STOked if that’s how they promoted it…and there are other STO podcasts I’ve stopped listening to because they’re truly so far up Cryptics’ dupa they can count the fillings in people’s mouths.

    Furthermore,  as he stated in this week’s episode: “If you don’t like it (STO), feel free to play another game.”
    If you don’t like this webshow, you can watch another, and stop calling the host a faux fascist.

  • @Commander88

    If “Bug Tracker” became a weekly segment, it would only have the same 5 things in it until maybe Cryptic fixed them. Even though I’d honestly have the cloak bug fixed rather than new ships…fixing the cloak bug doesn’t seem to be a priority since it doesn’t bring in money.
     
    And quite honestly, the work that PhyrexianHero and others did on the Dil conversion “discount” for players’ emblems/marks/tokens that’s going to hit Holodeck soon could take 30 minutes alone just to walk through the calculations…but would something like that be fitting for a STOked ep? Or some other major game change?
     
    I do agree with some type of ongoing bug tracking in the background that could be brought up every other show (as long as it wasn’t a game breaker) in Community Feedback or somewhere appropriate to keep Cryptic on task…but I think it would get pretty depressing after a while.

  • Tinkertenordoctorspy

    I LOVE YOU CHRIS. TREKKIES RULE.

  • TerranGuy93

    I’ll probably stop watching the show if its gonna constantly be a rant about feedback to people that are critical of him. 

    Chris, if you don;t like the feedback, just ignore it and move on. Getting ticked and spending show time yelling at them is a bit pointless. It’ll just drive away people.

  • TerranGuy93

    I do want to say that I wish you luck with the show Chris, hope it goes well :)

  • Leprech

    Passionate and enough to make a lurker and former Jupiter Force Member to post a comment. I might not be playing the game anymore, and am waiting for new content before I bother reinstalling it, but I do watch Stoked every week. Thanks for your time and commitment Chris. It’s much appreciated.

    A member of the silient majority.

  • WarHorseOne

    ……………………. Do it again next week Chirs.

  • Sh4dowrunn3r

    I’m old subscriber watching this waiting for f2p :)

  • Merlin

    I agree with your Chris!

  • Eugen Božić

    Great speak Chris. I was in beta and decided its just not worth 15$ sub for me.. but I will try it when it goes f2p. Keep up the good work :)

  • Irishwars

    Constantly? 100+ shows and this is the only reply back Chris has given. Grow up

  • Retardednamerequired

    Really liked your soap box speech chris.   I have found myself upset with things but am trying to hope for the best, and you bullet pointed things great to help me keep looking for that silver lining and to just march on :)

  • MikeHawk69

    lol very funny & very true. Let the haters hate. It keeps them warm in their moms basements. Stop giving them air time & lets get to the details. I did like the way Chris put it out there.

    I was trying to wait til F2P went live. But wasn’t able to cause of this show. So I bought it & have been playing for awhile now.

    If there are other podcasts that flame, they must be the crapiest shows.

  • http://twitter.com/psyche1701 psyche1701

    I’m an STO player since day one but I’ve been away from the game for a few months… I’m one of those people that are definitely coming back to the game when F2P lands – fact!  I love Star Trek, and I love the game… in fact, I’m strongly considering re-subbing just for December to check out the new stuff a month before F2P hits.

    Keep up the good work, STOked – and thank you!

  • Harry Young

    Thank You, Chris. Altough it might not have been your intent I – for the first time in a good while – have the feeling that someone shares my view on Star Trek and it’s positive future.

  • Doug3575

    Well said Chris! Show is looking good.

  • Eklinaar

    I agree with you Chris.  I’ve played STO since launch and enjoyed it the whole time and anticipate that I’ll enjoy it even more after F2P.  Flaming and bitching accomplishes nothing.  Constructive, calm, respectful criticism does accomplish something, and that’s what you do on this show, and that’s what everyone should do on the forums.

  • Eurrsk

    The /bind c ” crouch $$ aim does not work. : 

  • Eurrsk

    Ahh okay I get it now, the crouch bind is actually /bind c “crouch 1 $$ aim 1″

  • Akaar

    Here’s hoping I don’t get yelled at this week for something I didn’t do. While I understand your frustration and agree that this show is for the positive aspects of Trek, I feel you went a bit over board ( just my opinion ).

  • Mkalust

    Love the show…  one request the keybind in the ACT section  wasn’t shown in full…  looked like a graphics issue.   could you repost the keybind in the show notes? please!!! 

  • Ron

    Yeah I agree Chris this is a game after all. I for one would not like to watch your show every week and sit and listen to you bash what is wrong with the game and all the other stuff that doesn’t work. 
    I like to see all the new stuff you cover in the game. You are doing a good job Chris Keep up the GOOD work :)  

  • IowaGuy

    I loved the rant. I’m not thrilled with the current state of the game (as it sits on Holodeck), but as Chris alluded to, part of Star Trek is an optimism about the future. The game has been improving since launch. Maybe not as fast as some would like, but overall I think it is definite improvement and I think the future looks good.

    Dirty little secret. I don’t so much log on to play an MMO, I log on to play a Star Trek game with my friends (who have through life moved to different locations).

    And you know what, all my interactions with devs have been very nice (still waiting for my Khan necklace, mhighison).

    One of the moderately silent majority

  • Colonialwarkel

    if you get all 3 parts, does ur toon need to wear all 3 for the free remodulator???

  • CPForever

    ::you used = Epic Rant::

    ::you gain +1 Belly Clap::
    :)

  • Ajnabix

    Well said. The reason i left the sto forum was that most of the threads were flames.

    I am waiting for the F2P

    The haters can go to some other game, if they hate it soo much.

  • Guest

    アジア杯の上の惨敗は私達を中国のサッカーの立ち後れることがはっきり見えさせて、日本のサッカーはすでにみごとに世界に向かいました。アジア杯の(以)後で、pumaはエアマックス95日の本文で霊感の2足のサッカーシューズに変わることを出しました――PWR-C1.10 TokyoとV1.10 Kanji。PWR-C1.10 Tokyoは東京街頭の文化を霊感にして、下手な字を書く方法は日本語の“東京”の印を白色の靴の表面の上にあります。V1.10 Kanjiの中Kanjiは日本語の“漢字”の意味です。設計者は漢字の“高速”の印を靴の表面の上で、際立っているV1.10のスピードは思います。哀れみを誘うのは中国の文化の代表の漢字にするのが意外にも日本の文化の元素にして今回の付けてはいけない設計の霊感の出所になったのなのです。見たところサッカーシューズの領域にもっと多い発言権を持ちたくて、中国のサッカーの後れているレベルは最大の妨害です。

  • MikeHawk69

    F.Y.I. I just saw you CAN buy the Borg STF gear from vendor in DS9. It’s under retro STF gear @ conversion NPC

  • Worf2012

    You the man Chris! Very Well Said! Keep Up The Great Work! Thank You

  • Mrlee95

    Chris I
    understand where you are coming from. I have been Watching STOked since Beta
    but I have not played Star Trek Online for over a year BUT I still watch your
    show. Hoping and praying that Cryptic will make the game good FOR ME again. I
    am watching the F2P changes and so far I am not happy, BUT I hope that it does
    well so I can check back in another year and like what I see. I will still
    watch your Podcasts because it’s sorta turned into my “ritual” over
    the past years! :P

    Keep up the
    good work Chris!

    Chris I
    understand where you are coming from. I have been Watching STOked since Beta
    but I have not played Star Trek Online for over a year BUT I still watch your
    show. Hoping and praying that Cryptic will make the game good FOR ME again. I
    am watching the F2P changes and so far I am not happy, BUT I hope that it does
    well so I can check back in another year and like what I see. I will still
    watch your Podcasts because it’s sorta turned into my “ritual” over
    the past years! :P

    Keep up the
    good work Chris!

  • Mrlee95

    Oops no edit key! Sorry abou that!

  • TerranGuy93

    Not every rant has been in the video, several have been in the feedback section. 
    I think he needs to grow up past a childish sense of “Everybody who doesn’t like my show and tells me is a big stupid meanie that should go away.”

    That is how it comes across. I am not saying that he is right or wrong only that he asks for feedback, then he gets feedback, doesn’t like it and explodes. 

  • http://twitter.com/camenecium Iohannes Camenecium

    I’m still a little concerned about length (although 105 is shorter) with this coming in at just under an hour, the pacing was good enough that it didn’t feel too long. The news with just Irish worked better than more, so again I’ll suggest in sticking to the PBS New Hour format which you seem to be zeroing in on: Anchor does new summary followed by several in-depth features with a reporter giving the story then discussing it with the anchor.  Sorry Chris was feeling the heat, and I hear you, but all I could think of during it was “Leave Britney Alone”!  Damned Internet memes.  Future editorials might be pre-taped (and edited after a cooldown period) and placed at the end of the show along with the wrap-up/conclusion/summary.

  • NecroBones

    Well said, Chris. But I agree, keeping that out of the podcast is best. Now that it’s been said once (and it probably NEEDED to be said), no need to do it again! :)

  • http://djsilverfox.wordpress.com Will Blackmon

    Chris,

    I totally agree with the comments made at the top of the show. Haveng been a sub to STO, and now waiting for F2P, it’s been a long road, and there have been some pitfalls that have been found along the way.

    That happens to EVERY MMO Game.

    With that said, you are quite right in taking the stance you have. It’s about Trek itself. Not a game, but of the…essence it embodies. It’s not an  easy thing to do what Cryptic has done. Yet, they’ve managed to do that even with the limitations placed on them by Atari, and the sale to Perfect World.

    I’ve watched the show from the beta episodes, and all the way forward. And yeah, I’ve said a few things along the way, but STOked has never lost it’s vision, and still puts out a quality podcast every week for fans of the game, and the show to enjoy. And THAT my good man is what matters.

    Keep up the good work. And, don’t let the folks who are the deterrants get to you. After being in net radio for as long as I was, I can totally understand how you feel. 

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  • V_Silverwings

    All my STF walkthrough notes are now available on stowiki.  Thanks to Phyrexian Hero for setting up the initial draft.

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