Star Trek Online Meta Update - June 2024 

Hey Casual, since the cutting beam is nearly up all the time as you say and you are running the torment engine I see, I wonder how Varuvian Explosives, trait would work?

Good i hope they see my post on here about warp core nerf lie !

Binning the tooltip and showing what is hidden in the more detail's would be even better. As that shows everything. One look at the Disco Lobi rifle proves this. Its main and best feature is only shown in the more details. Not in the base tooltip at all. Similar for ground weapons. They do like to mess with weapon ranges. As a fair few weapons don't have the normal 25/35 metre ranges.

@@Yandarval Doesn't the Advanced Herald Antiproton Beam Projector staff have a really long range? I have it on two of my toons and it feels like it hits at about the range of a sniper rifle.

@@psychotheunsane7285 3 for primary and 30 for secondary. I assume you are seeing it chain further from your hit. So it looks like the shot went further. Another hidden range from standard (35) rifle is the section 31 heavy rifle. As a rifle, you would think it’s 35 range. It’s 20 or 25m range.

You're welcome. -Sizer

Same here i love the fact he does not solely focus on the meta, cause lets face it not everybody chases DPS.

@@timfogelson7076 absolutely again I enjoy a kick ass ship as much as the next guy but honestly I don't want to complete a TFO in under 30 seconds

I have 8 of them on my Neo Conny

8 in Legendary Avenger

​@@TheChillee 7*

Be even better if they fixed The Terran Task Force Quantum Capacitor Warp Core from shadow nerf they GAVE it ! they clam they never nerfed it that is a lie !

lol

Makes sense to me--considering that anyone watching this will definitely have fun...said fun being "against STO terms of service" 🤣

Facts

Also, so if I am on a phaser build with cannons and beams using MAS with a CSV2 and FAW1 with vincent kish do I see more dps switching from trilithium omni (haste) to the Pahvan omni?

Thanks! And aye, you should see more from the Pahvan omni.

The Ahwahnee is a very capable support carrier platform. Solid all around. But if you slap its pets and console on a Suliban Silik with its IFF Manipulator console, the sheer amount of DR debuff you can stack upon enemies, especially with a SCI toon, is nothing short of devastating.

Power Transfer Emitters. Requires someone else with the console to use it on you.

Her Khopesh T6-X2 dreadnought warbird runs 7 plasma tactical consoles and 2 plasma isomags. Combine that with Plasma Wave, Hull Image Refractor and Flagship Tactical Computer (Ablative Hazard Shielding for defensive bulk), and FILTHY damage...and she hasn't even been fully upgraded to mark XV!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eB0DJ5UTgw8.htmlsi=J4a9Dj3U_qxBL6KI Covert does not stack with Ferrofluid.

It's the Friendship console.

@@99Cheops99 ok cool tyvm :)

37:52 goes over that

The agony redistributor console shows up on the combatlog file often as the name of whatever you hit it on.

@@CasualSAB Thanks!

Yeah, even in solo it can be handy. The downside to tachyon net drones is the activation time, but it lasts a long time and can heavily debuff a group of foes. If you look back at my solo Gravity Kills, is what I used vs the Tzenkethi at the end to get through them so fast.

Yeah, there are ways to optimize for each type of environment. Many of the initial items discussed here will also help solo.

Some were random luck and some were well crafted by Jonathan.

No, can only be used on other players.

Vaad Jugg should have highest potential, but I like flying the L-Avenger more due to better mobility.

It's posted in my discord but not done a vid on it yet.

37:52 Friendship console from a teammate. Can't be used on yourself.

For channel/pug runs I would still do the Dhailkhina. KCB is good in those unshielded environments, but will fall behind in pugs where enemy shields are up more. That gorn exp weapon does really good in that random content.

Console from the friendship. But you can't use it on yourself. A teammate must use it on you.

Good day to you aswell

np, glad to help! And 2-3 weeks atm is what I'm hearing.

thanks that will keep me fro puling it and then reposting 💯👍

Teammate used the console from the Friendship on me. You can't use it on yourself, someone has to hit it on you.

@@CasualSAB Aww, shame. I need more lightning stuff given some of it is locked behind premium ships and that looked like a pretty nice ability. Thanks anyway!

37:52 - friendship console. Has to be applied to you by another player.

The [Phaser] mod ones are certainly not the easiest to get. 40+ possible mods has made those Phaser ones typically cost 15-20m per console.

@@CasualSAB I tested it cpl times and to get a phaser is a looong way sometimes 20+ and sometimes 50+ rolls which is ridiculous amounts of Dil spent and everyone should buy the damn thing of the exchange no matter the cost :)

No, will have a vid out on it in the morning. Very underwhelming bundle

Had some PC issues, will fold it into news vid later today.

Sorry bout the problems I think the Earth Defence is the only good ship that had💯

The Sagan is pretty close

KDF can still access all of these toys thanks to cross-faction flying. And the Legendary Bortasqu that dropped last year is quite nice.

@@CasualSAB I did get the legendary Bortasqu thanks to your advice. It is a great ship! I didn't know I could get those pretty consoles from the FED side though... wow... I just came back after years not playing. I had no idea I could get ships from the FED side now. lol thanks!!

Yeah, cross faction flying was a huge change a few years back. Being able to use any ship on any faction tore down one of the biggest faction barriers.

Domino is still great and something that I still use on some solo/pug/random content builds.

You must be new to STO. I have played since it came out. It has always been fundamentally broken. Cryptic has done more to amplify the meta than anything. Their idea of "difficulty" is to simply turn every enemy into a damage sponge. The meta builds exist to get around the fact that virtually everything in the endgame has 10X the hull and shields that the average player does. A player is either running non-meta and is cherry tapping or is running meta and insta-popping everything. If a specific meta gets too prevalent for Cryptic's taste, they hit the skills responsible with a nerf bat or introduce a new enemy-only skill or mechanic to instakill unprepared players. Power creep is a very real problem in the game, as well. Max level has been capped at 65 for almost a decade whereas the new factions, ships and enemies have long justified at least a cap of level 80 and a tier 8 in terms of ships. Balance issues are so endemic to STO that the only way I see to fix it is to start a new MMO from scratch to get away from the antiquated spaghetti code behind the game itself.

@@schwartzritterx5905 No I'm not new at. I started in 2011 I know exactly how the game became steaming dung. It's basically 'Magic Ships Online'. Not even Star Trek anymore to be honest. HP sponges was the absolutely worst way to do things. Giving the NPC's attack pattern Alpha or RSP would have changed things up. More skill and better Ai was needed, 1,000,000 HP for everyone is the most 'Novice' move a game dev can do. I use to do that with my RPG games. I stopped because Enemies with better skills were more exciting and fun. My game don't have a meta. I was smart enough to make everything useful in some way, and didn't create a 'universal' solution to every enemy. One STO dev said: "We don't want to create a 'thing' everyone must use and have to use. We want to create options for players." Ironically they failed horribly! Personally I would nerf everything Meta as soon as people say it's meta . That's just me as a game dev...

@@QuantumNova and that way you will be ruining the instant self gratification for every whaler out there who play MSO - magic ships online. ALL I really ever wanted is Star Trek Simulation where the ships will be in their real sizes as in the movies and fight like that, STO became just an pew pew arcade wannabe that we played back in the '80s like space invaders :D But since we don't have and will not have anything better than this I have no choice