Quote:Logan Darklighter wrote:To be fair, it is advertised as one of the main benefits of the monthly subscription or a lifetime subscription. But yeah, as a subscriber there pretty much isn't any sort of queue. Of course, there's also the fact that MD and I both would be logging in at what's the absolutely lowest population point for the game, the Asian/Oceanic primetime.
Wait a sec... Gold members get bumped to the front of the queue automatically?
I've been crazy busy with work so I've only managed to just do the new Romulan tutorial/starting mission and nothing else - but the new faction looks damn solid, and there's lots of quality of life improvements. For me, the key highlights are:-
- New Story Content - and this isn't just the whole Romulan campaign, they've also added a ton of new Klingon story missions.
- New User Interface - everything from the actual game UI to the inventory window, character creator, login screens, etc. Basically it's been upgraded to Neverwinter standards, using a lot of the stuff Cryptic developed for that game. I like the new dialogue interactions especially, it's all cinematic and stuff. It feels nice. It's polished and sleek.
- New Textures - this is why the update's like downloading a lead brick, but if you can play the game with the settings turned up, it looks even nicer now.
- Trait System - there's been a bunch of game system improvements, but the new character trait system is pretty sweet. This has been a long time coming, but now it's really Fallout-perk kind of nice.
The Neverwinter launch was very quickly followed by server capacity tweaks, but I have no idea whether they'll take immediate action for STO. I certainly hope so, but we'll see.
-- Acyl