In the first of a 3-week long series of events, the STOked boys are taking you on an in-depth tour of the Borg Special Task Force missions. Up this week is a guide to “The Infected” which includes tips and tricks for painlessly eliminating the Borg drones, and their leaders.

Before we dig into that however, BIG NEWS landed this week regarding the impending purchase of Cryptic Studios by Perfect World International. Despite the community’s uproar over this news, we’re taking a more level-headed approach to the corporate nature of this acquisition, and intend to share our thoughts on why this could be one of the best business moves STO could potentially see.

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Chris & Jeremy prepare for a three week STF event, find out their thoughts on this event, and how you can participate and join the battle!

Then – with season 4 around the corner, we’ve got the latest updates straight from the STO devs, and some new info on the master plan for deep space encounters.

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Welcome to 2011! Looks like STOked aren’t the only ones that took the holidays off… with barely any new content or ground-breaking news, we’ve decided to feature a bit of the community’s outlook on some recent features: Aegis/Borg Sets, the Garumba C-Store ship, and more responses to the continued development of the Foundry.

Then we’ll go over some highlights from Dan Stahl’s recent interview on Trek Radio, and share the winner of our community-submitted UGC mission contest — complete with EPIC TRAILER! You can’t miss this!

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The big topic this week in the STO community with no doubt is the Foundry. Jeremy and Chris have had their nerdy little hands on it for a bit now and they share their first impressions!

Plus – We cover the highlights of the recent Ask Cryptic, and read between the lines on a few items, update you on a few great season 3 changes

Then – We’ve got an Exclusive look and a borg’d up ships captured during a Q&A session on tribble, and give you an update on our great Klingon experiment!

Last but not least it’s STOked’s holiday buying guide! We share a few of our favorite trek toys, and cover a few items that just might improve your game!

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STOked Season 2 Episode 3: We cover the new Borg & Undine game play coming to Star Trek Online, chat about some new game bugs, update you on the planned maintenance times for STO, and what to expect from up coming patches.

MATH: Learn the fine art of Martial Arts in STO, including what traits your character needs to have to vaporize someone with your fists!

PLUS: A look at a Jupiter Force fleet action in our MEDIA segment!

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Chris & Jeremy.
Bryan was ambushed by a mercenary band of midgets, hired by a viewer that didn’t appreciate his verbal abuse of goats.

NEWS:

Borg Content released! Rolled out via patch on Feb 11th
New Episodes include:
· The Cure – A planet has been completely taken over by the Borg. Players will fight them for control of the planet.
· Khitomer Accord – Travel back in time and uncover and participate in the events that led to the release of old Borg players encountered in the Tutorial Episode.
· Into the Hive – Track down a missing Starfleet captain and come face-to-face with the new Borg Queen.

Stahl tells us first Raidisode scheduled for Feb 18th: https://bit.ly/aG8rWO
… which leads to confirmation of weekly patch/update schedule: https://bit.ly/9ztKpu
And before this gets out of hand… I should give context.

We are targetting regularly scheduled downtimes on Thursdays instead of emergency bug or server fixes at the last minute. As stability improves we’re getting back on schedule as we were during Beta.
This also will include the opening up of the Test Shard where players will be able to play updates prior to them going live. We will of course push any critical fixes live as soon as we can.
The entire team is hard at work either fixing bugs or working on one of our future updates. We will be rolling out things as fast as we can – on a scheduled basis.

Additional Patch Content (Feb 11th) — https://bit.ly/awPwfi
Noteworthy from patch notes:
* Several repeatable missions for lvl 43+ players. Exporation, DSEs and Patrol-like missions.
— Funny (and yet sad) bug, apparently the text for DSEs is cut & paste from Klingon & Cardassian intros, including:
“Everything was going just fine until the Borg contacted us and asked us to work for them as well. I really don’t like the Borg and I think they figured that out. Before our conversation could end formally, they were screaming in their native language, and they let us know that we’d pay for our refusal.”
*** FIXED Feb 13th patch (but still funny!)
* Numerous bug fixes (Aceton Field bug, FPS on skill display, PvP mission objectives, Boffs can use bonus costumes, and more!)

NEW BUGS and PERSISTENT ISSUES:
* High end video cards are experiencing overheating issues. Fixed by limiting game FPS to 60 (new default as of Feb 13)
* Beam Energy problems, excessive energy drain or failure to apply EPS benefits?: https://bit.ly/d11FqT
* Science Team still cannot be triggered under the effects of Viral Matrix. (use Attack Pattern Omega – LtC Tactical)

ANOTHER PATCH (Feb 13th)
* Mostly fixed bugs introduced in the Feb 11th patch, or fixed bugs that SHOULD have been fixed.
* Modified RAMMING SPEED to deal less damage to large targets (like the Crystalline Entity, e.g.)
Undocumented changes:
— “Fire All Weapons” … isn’t. There’s something wrong with the UI interaction, causing people to have to spam even more than before — only one weapon can fire at a time.
— War Zone (aka Borg Hunt) now gives credit, and can be completed!

MATH:

The Fine Art of Face Punching (Martial Arts)

Intro:
* Tactical recommended due to skills that boost damage, and kit powers that help.
* Remains inferior to ranged combat due to movement issues & latency issues.
* Not enough burst damage for PvP.

Base Damage calculations UNKNOWN, but derived from:
* Rank (Lt, LtC, Comm, etc)
* Phys Strength (trait)
* Tactical Skills — Close Combat Training, Special Forces, Martial Arts

Primary Attacks, Demi-Combos, and Combos:

Primary Attack (1) = Interrupt
Note: This ability will only interrupt special powers that might be activated with Kits (such as summoning turrets, or initiating a heal). The window for these interrupts is extremely small, as most abilities require less than 1-2 seconds to activate.
Secondary Attack (2) = Snare
Note: The fact that this debuff only lasts 1 second makes it almost completely worthless. I believe it is supposed to prevent people from running while you beat on them, but its duration doesn’t facilitate this function.

Demi-Combos = String of TWO consecutive attacks
All result in a 1-second Root effect (except the last – no move = no effect), and deal 2x base damage
1-1 = Chin Strike
2-2 = Backhand
2-1 = Uppercut
1-2 = (nothing?)

Combos = String of THREE consecutive attacks
All deal 3x base melee damage (unless otherwise noted), in addition to other effects.

1-1-2 = Right Hook
* Chance to Critical Strike = 100% (or very near)
* (3x base dmg) x your crit modifier (1.5x by default, can be enhanced)

1-2-1 = Two-Fisted Backhand
* Slight Pushback/Interrupt, chance to Knockdown
* 3x base dmg

1-2-2 = Roundhouse Kick
* Melee Range Cone attack — 3x base dmg to all targets in a close frontal arc

2-1-1 = Left Backhand
* 3x base dmg, and applies a very small bleed DOT
* Chance to Stun/Hold

2-2-1 = Roundhouse Sweep
* Melee Range Cone Attack — 3x base dmg to all targets in a close frontal arc
* High knockback

2-1-2 = Forward Kick
* Increased damage (similar range to a Critical Strike — [(3xBase) x1.5] but can ALSO crit)
* Chance to Disable opponent (unable to perform any actions, only move)

MEDIA:
Undine Trailer:
https://bit.ly/clG3BL

massively.com has a few screen shots of the new Undine game play, looks crazy cool:
https://bit.ly/caFDRV

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STOked Season 1 Episode 9: We’ve crawled through the tubes of the Internet to verify some major game details from those in beta, we discuss the community’s reaction so far to Cryptic’s roll out of the closed beta and why keeping the beta player amount small is better for the game in the long run.

We cover the new combat trailer as well as the new the Futures Past part 2 time line video, and it includes some new juicy details that might give away a MAJOR bit of info about the game plus a major new alien race!

THEN – We round up the latest batch of awesome screen shots and provide our analysis, we pick through the details of the latest developer interviews and cover the Eurogamer game play reactions!

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