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Chapter One KotFE Free

December 11 2015
Hello, all!

If you have previously subscribed to SWTOR in the past you can play the first chapter in the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion for free! Keep in mind that this offer is only available to previous subscribers (e.g. preferred account status). Offer ends on January 4th.

For more information and to activate your trial visit this link. You will be given a level 60 character token that you must use to create a new level 60 character.


Dark side forever B)
~Andrew
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[EVENT/PIKKUJOULUT] TreksGiving BIG PRIZE Raffle

December 11 2015
Thank you
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Lars Zandor

Lars_Zandor

This Holliday Season I wish STO would...

December 11 2015
1) Playable Alpha Quadrant faction with several playable races, including but not necessarily limited to: Cardassians, Breen, Cardassian allies (forgot who they were and can't seem to find anything about it), liberated Jem'Hadar, rebelled Vorta. Maybe also some Bajorans.
2) A Federation cruiser with 10 weapon slots on both the front and the back (really, the Odyssey is big enough for a couple extra phaser banks).
3) Janeway (of course voice by Kate Mulgrew).
4) Picard (of course voiced by Patrick Stewart).
5) Pizza.
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Andrea Maria

AndreaMaria

Defera Invasion Zone - Hard Missions

December 10 2015
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Four hard missions


are available in the Defera Invasion zone (talk to the NPCs). Nomen non est omen in this case, they are actually easy to do.


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The difference to the easy and medium missions is, that you need a team of at least 3 people (from the same faction) to get the missions started and the hard missions will reward you with one Borg neural processor per mission.

The order of the following walkthroughs is also the order in which you´re doing the missions usually (remember: you´re in a Borg zone, outsmart them. Be efficient! You can do it!).

Oh, and don´t forget to equip a frequency remodulator. Just saying.


1. Temple: Uninvited Guests

Take the transporter to the temple and walk the short distance to the temple stairs.

One person - while the rest of the team is positioned at the bottom of the stairs - has to start the mission by activating the Preserver console at the top of the temple.


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Preserver console.


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First spawn point. Your team should wait here.


The first spawn point is at the bottom of the stairs (two groups of 8-10 Borg). Defeat them. A third group will spawn at the left.

Go up the stairs to the second (right stairs) and third (left stairs) spawn point. Defeat those groups as well. And also the four tactical drones (it´s easier than it sounds).

After defeating those Borg, go up the stairs to the plateau. In the middle there will be a group spawning, then at the right side of the building, then at the left side of the building.


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The plateau.


The last group will spawn at the bottom of the top stairs. Defeat them. And wait a few seconds... grab your reward and move on to 2 (head NW).


2. Probe: Counter Offensive

If you´re lucky, then the mission has already magically finished with full rewards (that was a bug, no idea if it´s fixed now).

If you´re not so lucky, then one person of the team has to start the mission by activating the Borg node. This will spawn an assimilated Gorn, accompanied by a couple of drones (mostly medical, and I think four of them).


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Assimilated Gorn. And Borg. Borg everywhere.


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Come closer!


Pew pew them. Mission accomplished. Move on to 3.


3. Power Plant: Getting To The Bottom Of Things

Head NE to the entrance of the power plant. Go to sublevel 3. Choose one of the three chambers to start your mission by activating the Borg node.


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In the chamber.


After interacting with the node, the force field in the middle of the room will be dropped, and an Elite Tactical Borg will be released, accompanied by a few drones. At the same time the entrance to the chamber will be blocked by another force field until the mission is accomplished. If you die: don´t respawn, you won´t be able to enter the chamber again. Wait for help.

Concentrate fire on the Elite Tactical Borg, which will retreat to the middle of the room (and again behind a force field) after reaching 50% health.

In the next stage, four heavy drones will take over the fight (in each corner of the room). After those drones are defeated, the Elite Tactical Borg will appear again, this time supported by three plasma mortars. Stay mobile, don´t get caught in the plasma fire of the mortars.


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Elite Tactical Borg.


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Plasma Mortars.


If you are not in a dps team, then concentrate fire on the ETB, if you are, then split up. Half of the team can fight the ETB, the other half can deactivate the force fields around the plasma mortars (and pew pew the mortars).

The Borg thought they were smart. You have been smarter. Mission accomplished. Wait a few seconds, grab your reward and move on to 4.


4. City: Knowledge Is Key

Go or transport to the city (head W). Once you´ve arrived at your destination, start the mission by activating the power node (upload a virus).


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The alcoves. At the right side is the power node. Hack that thing!


Your first objective is to free newly assimilated Deferi (the strange acting ones) from their alcoves. Interact with them (F key). Fight any Borg that´ll try (of course) to disturb you.

The second objective is to assist partially assimilated Deferi to leave the collective. Shoot them. When their health is low enough, they´ll turn into friendly beings with no more intention to assimilate you. Beam them to a medical facility ( F key). Fight any Borg that´ll...

You did a good job! But it isn´t over yet. Fully assimilated Deferi will leave their alcoves now. And they have full intention to assimilate you. Kill them. It´s sad, but necessary. Oh, and fight any Borg that´ll...


You did it! Congratulations! :woohoo:

Those four missions won´t take longer than 15 - 20 minutes and will reward you with 240 fleet marks, 40 omega marks, 4 Borg neural processors and 4 pieces of random Borg ground gear alltogether.
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Edited December 13 2015 by AndreaMaria

Unknown Person

Starship size comparisons

December 10 2015
That is amazing ! I completely forgot about Freelancer PC game until I saw this. I might have to see if I can find a copy of that from somewhere. It was epic.

Unknown Person

This Holliday Season I wish STO would...

December 10 2015
My Holiday Wishlist:

1) Bring Back the Breach
2) Keldon Class ship
3) Make Defera hards work without teams (or at least with people in the vicinity)
4) Do something with Andoria (Tornaments, etc)
5) Open up Ferenginar as a social zone (random markets, commodities, stockmarket mini game?)
6) Replace Borg Red Alerts in Alpha Quadrant with Terran Alerts and 8472 alerts
7) Add a Vaadwaar Red Alert in the Delta Quadrant
8) Turn the Voth Contested Zone into a Voth Space Battlezone (I mean, it is almost it, but no decent rewards).
9) Add an option for where you want to go before you enter a system (Perhaps a drop down menu when I hit sol, for ESD or SFA, or Sol System). Lazy Cai
10) add an option to warp back to Beta Quadrant without entering the Sphere in the Delta Quadrant
11) Make the delta quadrant bigger
12) More low grav PvE and content !
13) Gamma Rising ...

I can dream!
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Sej @Ereiid

Ereiid

Starship size comparisons

December 10 2015
Quote by Andrea Maria
Quote by Lars1091
Yeah, because there is such a big difference between the SR-1 and the SR-2 :P


But it´s the SR-1! :P


Found it for j00:

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Gareth GXV3

GXV3

Winter Fleet Missions

December 10 2015
Hi there!

Its already active in our main stonewall fleet, which i can see your in.
We queued the project on day one, and filled and finished instantly.

Its there... but the hologram is a lot smaller than the previous years.

Andrea Maria

AndreaMaria

Starship size comparisons

December 10 2015
Quote by Lars1091
Yeah, because there is such a big difference between the SR-1 and the SR-2 :P


But it´s the SR-1! :P
Lars Zandor

Lars_Zandor

Starship size comparisons

December 10 2015
Yeah, because there is such a big difference between the SR-1 and the SR-2 :P
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Nicolas J. Artley

Khazaan

Winter Fleet Missions

December 10 2015
I am just wondering, if the Fleet Admiralty is also putting these years "Special Winter Fleet Assignments" into the completion slot ... no Star Ship Hologram on our Starbase???
Andrea Maria

AndreaMaria

Starship size comparisons

December 10 2015
That poster is awesome!


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Andrea Maria

AndreaMaria

Hi Everyone!

December 10 2015
There can only be one answer (again):

http://fleet.stonewallgaming.net/forums/ten-forward/74609-volerons-guide-to-happy-fleet-interaction

Seriously, take the time and read it. That´s all I have to say.
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Alex

alex284

Undine Assault Advanced Walkthrough

December 10 2015
Undine Assault Advanced (UAA) gives out a ridiculous umber of marks - around 230 fleet or Undine marks, plus the 55 daily bonus for Undine marks. That's quite a few fleet marks and, if you don't need Undine marks, quite a bit of dilithium. And you get 50% more during a marks weekend.

So I put together a quick walkthrough to make fleet runs easier this weekend.

The mission is best completed in 3 phases: 1) Close Undine Rifts, 2) Close Errant Rifts, and 3) Kill the Planet Killer. Closing errant rifts is an optional, but that optional is worth around 100 marks during normal times and more during a marks weekend, and it takes almost no effort to accomplish. Closing the Undine rifts first maximizes marks because you get bonuses for speed in that phase.

Phase 1: Close Undine Rifts

There are 3 lanes and 2 Undine rifts in each. You will start at the left at a random lane. When you can move, go to your assigned lane (if your team assigned lanes) and get to the first rift quickly. Your job is to kill the ships while the NPC ally scans the rift. Then you can shoot the rift. And then you can move on to the next rift in the lane. Once both rifts in your lane are closed, go help people in another lane.



The NPC allies move from left to right, and you're supposed to be helping them get across the map. If they're stuck fighting Undine at the left while you're at the right clearing a rift, you're not helping them. You have to go back and kill the Undine so they can move to the right.

There are 4 ways to divide these lanes between players:

  1. Everyone warps in and does the lane they get randomly assigned. If no one is assigned to a lane, someone volunteers to do it. This strategy works if everyone can do high DPS (over 30k).
  2. Lanes get assigned before the round, with 2 pairs and one solo. When people can move, they go to their lane. This works for mixed strength teams.
  3. Lanes get assigned before the round, with 2 stronger players assigned to one lane and the other 3 to another, and then they go to the third lane when they're finished. This works in fleet runs if no player thinks they're strong enough to solo.
  4. Everyone does every lane together, starting at the top. This was the old strategy when the mission was released in 2014 but power creep has made it obsolete. Sometimes you'll see PUG players suggesting this.




Phase 2: Close errant rifts

Now is the optimal time to close those rifts that Tuvok was telling you were opening between lanes. Don't go on to the Planet Killer before these rifts are closed - you get over 100 marks for this optional and you will annoy your teammates if you're working on Phase 3 before Phase 2 is over.



Errant rifts come in 3 colors - red, yellow, and blue. If a captain of the same career as the rift (tactical with red, engineering with yellow, science with blue) closes it, then it takes a couple seconds and it closes. If a captain of a different career tries to close it, 3 Undine ships will spawn and you'll have to kill them first before closing the rift.

You can check your teammate's careers in the upper-left of your screen and call out the career of the errant rift so that someone of the correct career can close it. Or you can just open it and attack; these ships don't take long to kill.

There are 6 rifts and the objective will turn green when finished.



Phase 3: Kill the Planet Killer

All the way at the right, pew pew! You've seen these in Viscous Cycle and the Undine Battlezone, so there's nothing really new here.



It's over!
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Edited December 11 2015 by alex284

Unknown Person

Hi Everyone!

December 10 2015
I think if you had a bad reputation we'd have gotten complaints from people and members leadership would've contacted you in an official capacity to resolve any issues other members may have had with you multiple times by now. As that hasn't happened and as we've received no such complaints, may I respectfully suggest that perhaps these feelings of yours, while seeming very valid to you, come more from within than without?

I do not say that you haven't experienced something somewhere from someone(s) that caused you to feel snubbed or ignored. I'm merely pointing out that in our very considerable experience and well-informed point of view, it's more often than not entirely unintentional. I would humbly ask that you keep that in mind when no one says "hi" back to you in chat or doesn't return your greeting specifically by name.

Please don't take it personally it's happened to all of use for many reasons. The vast majority of which are not because of cliques and exclusivity.
Daniela Smith

Daniela76MN

Re:[EVENT] Little Winter Parties - Pikkujoulut

December 10 2015
Quote by Andrea Maria
Nanoprobes and Goo - Pikkujoulut AND a Bonus Marks Weekend! Yay! :woohoo:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9680403

If only they'd bring back Mirror Invasion for the weekend. I don't like the other Terran mark missions and I still need one more transporter device.


Sent from my LGLS770 using Tapatalk
Andrea Maria

AndreaMaria

[EVENT] Little Winter Parties - Pikkujoulut

December 10 2015
Nanoprobes and Goo - Pikkujoulut AND a Bonus Marks Weekend! Yay! :woohoo:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9680403
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Elder Scrolls Online Free Weekend

December 09 2015
From what I have read, people are saying it's not like Skyrim at all. I loved Skyrim, but honestly wasn't expecting nor wanting an exact copy :P I played the Beta and had fun! I wasn't able to get very far due to some tech issues so I guess I can't really offer a solid opinion in how it rates with GW2. I might give it a try this weekend myself! I know we have one or two that play, but I've not seen them on the forums in ages.
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Gareth GXV3

GXV3

Hi Everyone!

December 09 2015
Youve been in the fleet long enough now to know that we are not like that... the fact that a great many of us all tried to pull you back the last time you said something similar hopefully proves this.

Honestly, its really quiet lately, the euro time zones are hot and cold with chat.. i dont get a response from my hellos a lot.. i put it down to people to busy in a pve.. or afk.. or they simply arnt in the mood.
or when someone says hi or speaks and the chat is delayed, or we post at the same time and its scrolled up i don't intentionally mean to ignore anyone.

there are soooo many factors to consider.. even the size of someones chat window... read Volerons the link in volerons post (on page 1) its amusing and got some good truths in there too... and it proves your not alone in thinking things.

Try not to take it to heart. factor in the factors, and your time here already, people who have bought everyone raffle tickets, people who donate there time and own real money to put prizes together for events, or to make ship builds for nearing 100 members....

We are good people.. i promise,

and your one of us!

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Daniela Smith

Daniela76MN

NOW OPEN - OFFICE OF THE SHIPWRIGHT

December 09 2015
I want to send a big thanks to Gravity. He took a look at my ship build and helped me fix my crazy rainbow spaz ship. It really sucked having the T6 Arbiter and still getting my ass kicked repeatedly.
Setting me up with knowledge and gifting me proper weapons helped so much.
He also fixed my crazy flat maxed at Commander skills.

Big hugs!!
:laugh:
Edited December 09 2015 by Daniela76MN