Continuing on from Star Trek Online Open Beta LiveBlog Bonanza Part 6.
You could also head to the beginning of this saga with Part 1!
9:33 am GMT, day 5.
Day 5 is a good day to die! Ent’er Ark’toth, proud Klingon warrior and tactical officer.
Klingons begin in the Great Hall of Qo’nos. Born at level 6, he has already outlevelled Lieutenant Reh. His starting equipment is a little better than the Federation, but not by much. He also has 3800 skillpoints to spend.
 Today is a good day to blog! The skills available to the Klingons appear to be identical to those available to the Federation. That’s a good thing from a PvP-balance perspective.
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Continuing on from Star Trek Online Open Beta LiveBlog Bonanza Part 5.
You could also head to the beginning of this saga with Part 1!
3:44 am GMT Day 4.
We’re up to version 20100108b.23, with the patch notes here.
When last we saw Arkturos Reh, he was getting ready to head to the Paulson Nebula in the Lackey System, Orion Sector.
First though, I’ll spend some of these Bridge Officer points I’ve been accumulating. You can spend Bridge Officer points to raise your BO’s skills, in a similar way to how you spend skill points to raise your own skills.
The Bridge Officer skill panel is much like you’re own but with far fewer choices, just one ground and one space skill per rank. You can swap those skills out for different ones back at Spacedock but I’m happy with what T’Rix has available at the moment, and I’m going to put all my Bridge Officer points into improving his Torpedo: High yield 1 skill. Using that skill in combat increases the power of your torpedo salvos for 30 seconds, so it comes in quite handy. I also boosted Luc’s Tachyon Beam power which helps to strip away enemy shields.
 Teaching a young dog new T'Rix. When you have spent enough Bridge Officer points on a single BO you can promote them to get them access to their next tier of skills. You can’t promote someone higher than the rank below your own, of course, so there won’t be any promoting going on until Reh becomes a Lieutenant Commander.
There we go. With improved firepower, NOW we’re ready for the Paulson nebula!
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Mostly more stability fixes.
General
* Many changes were made to improve game performance, especially time to transfer between areas.
* Address issues where level ups, rewards, skill purchase, and item transactions would lag for several seconds.
* Fixed an issue where some clients would freeze on the loading screen.
* Fixed an issue where some powers you dragged to your power bar were not saving their location when logging back in.
* Fixed an issue were some powers could not be placed on the power bar.
* Added a notification when a player tries to purchase something but does not have enough currency.
* Fixed an issue where level up FX were not playing at all level ups.
* Tuned the max players in early Fed Deep Space encounters.
* Fixed a rare issue where some items were getting lost on some characters.
* Fixes some map transfer issues with teams attempting to go to a player’s bridge.
* A message is now given if the map a player was attempting to transfer to has crashed before they got there.
Known Issues
* We are looking into long PVP queue times and actively working on addressing these systems.
* When in a Star Cluster exploring unknown systems, please bug missions that cannot be completed due to missing objectives.
* Chat has been lagging at times up to several minutes. The team is hard at work on a fix.
* Klingon starting equipment is below where it should be. Fix coming in another patch this week.
* Klingon stores are not selling very many items. These will be updated soon.
* Some Exploration Planet Surface missions are not completing due to missing objective.
* Klingon players can join PVP queues prior to completing their starting mission which will make the character unable to complete their mission chain and progress any further. Do Not Join PVP queues until AFTER you’ve completed your starting mission and leveled up to 6.
* There are UNTRANSLATED text errors in stores if you cannot purchase an item.
* C’zann, a Klingon contact, has a doppleganger in the bar at Qo’nos that offers the same content.
* Skin color choices run off the left side of the client when customizing a character.
* Bridge Officer descriptions in the store run off the screen. Trick is to move the Store window to the top of the screen and the tooltip descriptions will scroll down.
* We have reports that auto grouping may not be working in all systems.
* In some rare cases the bridge officer reward you accept while still in Sector Space may disappear and not be rewarded. If this happens to you – bug it.
* The Map Systems List has some text and UI errors at the top for sector blocks that is messed up.
* Comparison Tooltips may sometimes not updated as you equip and unequip items in space.
* If you crash out of a map during a warp cutscene – you can end up invisible until you map transfer again.
* Food items that are equipped to your device slots will show up on your power bar with a multiplied stack number.
* Random buttons in the uniform page of the character creator will randomize your body shape as well.
* Loading screens are still work in progress.
* Anti Aliasing support is disabled for some video cards at this time.
* Contact headshots may animate and move in odd fashion. This is being adjusted.
* There are some placeholder sound FX being used in contact windows to denote where VO will go.
* Alt-Tabbing out of the game window can cause performance stuttering when returning to the game.
* Enemy ships will show the incorrect faction icon in the target status window.
* Completed mission objectives do not clear from the hud tracker until the mission completes.
* Some powers may not slot as expected on your space power tray.
Continuing on from Star Trek Online Open Beta LiveBlog Bonanza Part 4. You could also head to the beginning of this saga with Part 1
00:01 am GMT, Day 3
Upon logging on after getting cut off by the emergency maintenance last night I find myself back in the Delta Volanis cluster. There is a button on the right that offers me the opportunity to return to the mission I was in, and I accept.
Beaming down, the planet is the same as I remember it, but my number of objectives completed has changed from 2/5 to 0/5. This would be fine, except that my objectives were to defeat groups of Klingons, and there no longer appear to be any Klingons to be found. Never mind, I’ll just abort, and find another planet to explore.
Before I go I have a quick run around to try to find the two anomalies my scanners say are here, but they prove as elusive as the Klingons.
Continue reading Star Trek Online Open Beta LiveBlog Bonanza Part 5
We’ve had another downtime and patch tonight in the Star Trek Online Open Beta:
Star Trek Online 2010108b.16 Patch Notes
General
* Fixed an issue where the client would freeze at the loading screen.
* Fixed for several of the performance issues that were causing powers to not draw as well as FX not playing.
* Made several server side adjustments to ease an issue where transactions were being delayed. This would have many different impacts such as spawning as the inappropriate character or ship, not getting your rewards, and hiccups in game play.
* Fixed a game crash when some players exiting the tailor.
* Upgraded the code that checks for what maps are available to help with the “Map is Full” issue.
Known Issues
* Chat has been lagging at times up to several minutes. The team is hard at work on a fix.
* Klingon starting equipment is below where it should be. Fix coming in another patch this week.
* Klingon stores are not selling very many items. These will be updated soon.
* Some Exploration Planet Surface missions are not completing due to missing objective.
* Klingon players can join PVP queues prior to completing their starting mission which will make the character unable to complete their mission chain and progress any further. Do Not Join PVP queues until AFTER you’ve completed your starting mission and leveled up to 6.
* There are UNTRANSLATED text errors in stores if you cannot purchase an item.
* C’zann, a Klingon contact, has a doppleganger in the bar at Qo’nos that offers the same content.
* Skin color choices run off the left side of the client when customizing a character.
* Bridge Officer descriptions in the store run off the screen. Trick is to move the Store window to the top of the screen and the tooltip descriptions will scroll down.
* We have reports that auto grouping may not be working in all systems.
* In some rare cases the bridge officer reward you accept while still in Sector Space may disappear and not be rewarded. If this happens to you – bug it.
* The Map Systems List has some text and UI errors at the top for sector blocks that is messed up.
* Comparison Tooltips may sometimes not updated as you equip and unequip items in space.
* If you crash out of a map during a warp cutscene – you can end up invisible until you map transfer again.
* Food items that are equipped to your device slots will show up on your power bar with a multiplied stack number.
* Random buttons in the uniform page of the character creator will randomize your body shape as well.
* Loading screens are still work in progress.
* Anti Aliasing support is disabled for some video cards at this time.
* Contact headshots may animate and move in odd fashion. This is being adjusted.
* There are some placeholder sound FX being used in contact windows to denote where VO will go.
* Alt-Tabbing out of the game window can cause performance stuttering when returning to the game.
* Enemy ships will show the incorrect faction icon in the target status window.
* Completed mission objectives do not clear from the hud tracker until the mission completes.
* Some powers may not slot as expected on your space power tray.
Continuing on from Star Trek Online Open Beta LiveBlog Bonanza Part 3!
1:32 am GMT, Day 2
So, I speak to my new friend, Lieutenant Grall, and he gives me a mission to explore the Delta Volanis cluster, near Sirius Sector. After a quick trip at warp speed I find myself in a zone full of anomalies.
 My God! It's full of anomalies!!! These aren’t the sort of anomalies you harvest. As I understand it, visiting any of these will be a randomly generated mini-adventure. How I can resist? Engage!
Continue reading Star Trek Online Open Beta LiveBlog Bonanza Part 4
Continuing on from Star Trek Online Open Beta LiveBlog Bonanza Part 2
7:02 pm GMT, Day 2
There’ve been no further patches or patch notes since the emergency patch of last night.
Our replacement hero, Arkturos Reh is getting ready to leave Stardock in search of new adventures. So he beams back to his ship, and heads, for the first time, to Sector Space! And then gets disconnected before I can take a picture, and I can’t get back in just yet.
Think of this as a commercial break during an episode (though I suspect everyone just watches them on DVD or downloads them these days!).
7:23 pm GMT, Day 2
We’re back in. This is Sector Space:
 Sector Space in Star Trek Online This particular sector is called the Vulcan Sector, lying in the Sirius Sector Block. From here we can see a variety of star systems, and other points of interest. When you select them, you can choose to warp to their location, but it seems like you can also choose to chug about at impulse speed so I’ll do that for now to get a feel for it. You can also see a wide variety of player and NPC ships going about their business.
Lieutentant Reh’s purpose here is to find a merchant vessel called the SS Azura which has gone missing. Turns out it really isn’t all that missing as I can see it from over here. We’d better go make sure they’re alright.
Continue reading Star Trek Online Open Beta LiveBlog Bonanza Part 3
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