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News:

• New Featured Episodes Delayed Until February [link].
• Geko’s upcoming skill change information [link]
• Crafting System – Material Blocks Introduced [link]
• Tweet Leak of new skills UI
• Update to usage / purpose of Red Alert chat channel[link]
• New Icons On ESD [link1] [link2]
• STF Queue Timers [link]
• Broadcast UGC episode 10 released – play through of “City Of The Polmar Ree” from last weeks Foundry Files with guest player Admiral Murphy. Broadcast UGC is the show where the UGC team play Foundry missions live! Join them on Fridays at 3pm US Pacific / 6pm US Eastern / 11pm UK / 8am (Saturday) Australian Eastern time at livestream.com/cerberusfilms.

A.C.T. (Advanced Combat Tactics):

Ground Weapons Part 1 with Ciphertazi.

• Single target weapons
• Multiple target weapons
• Special weapons e.g. CRM 200 (Breen freezy gun)
• A key bind to merge aim & crouch so save crucial seconds in combat

“Old” Infected Recap:

• Reacquaint yourself with how the first of the Borg STFs used to be with these video summaries created by Lee Andrew.
• Space Infected – Video 1 link
• Ground Infected – Video 2 link

Tactical View:

• Cryptic Gozer has worked feverishly to revamp the Borg STFs and we start to explore what devious surprises he has in store for us by taking on the “Infected”.
• Silverwings guides us through the major changes to the mission and goes into some new tactics that will help you to be successful.
• Final loot is now provided to every player on the mission removing the whole Need / Greed / Pass mechanic from that aspect of the mission.

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PERFECT WORLD BUYING CRYPTIC
It was announced this morning that “Perfect World” has penned a deal to purchase Cryptic Studios for 35million Euro. 

Other links/Cryptic responses:
Compilation of pre-responses
Official announcement from PR Newswire

Thoughts:
J-RANT: Chinese Racism on Forums (for shame!)

F2P, Pay-to-Win
Star Trek IP in China?
“Angelica” 3D Engine — aging? Perhaps this acquisition is for the Cryptic engine?
PWE obtained Runic (makers of Torchlight) in 2009 and haven’t meddled at all.
R&D / Tech angle
“More importantly, Cryptic Studios’ highly reputable development team and its technology platform will further strengthen our well-established R&D capabilities.”
Jupiter Uniforms are here! C-Store: 280 pts
– Not a bad price for 5 new tops and pants.
– Pooooor Klingons…

TWEET LEAKS
– Earth Badge: https://twitpic.com/559m31
– Gatling Turrets: https://a.yfrog.com/img610/8388/62484048.jpg
– Qo’nos Courtyard: https://a.yfrog.com/img611/4751/dq60.jpg
– Exocomps to replace Drones: https://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg612/scaled.php?tn=0&server=612&filename=7xvjt.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640
— REALLY, DAN? A picture of an EMAIL?! Now you’re just taunting us.

Enterprise-F Dev Diary (How The Winner Was Chosen)
– Includes a “clay model” with more angles to view (still a WIP)

Infected Tips

Watch the uncut full stream here & Part 2 here:

General Tips:
– If you’re new, get experienced players to lead you through. There’s plenty out there now.
– Voice chat is highly recommended. (Vivox coming soon!)
– Follow directions. Or if you’re leading, give clear directions that are easy to follow!
– Do not progress any dialog pop-ups until the Team Leader gives the OK, or does it him/herself.
– Do not go in unprepared! Make sure you have a solid spec that plays to the specific strengths of both your Space AND Ground abilities.

SPACE:
Zip around BEHIND the gate, and do not activate the two popups until the team is in position.
With high DPS, you may be able to destroy the gate in a single activation sequence.
If you destroy the gate without killing transmitters, you get better loot.
If you do not destroy the gate in a single activation, you will be faced with 3-4 waves of borg ships that get progressively more and more powerful with each wave.

Good Space Boff Abilities:
Hazard Emitters (practically a must-have)
Tactical Team
A lot of DPS/buffs/debuffs
Gravity Well — good for chain reactions on warp cores!

Tactical Cubes have a ~5km explosion radius. If you are trying to keep the Transmitters alive, and have a Tac Cube spawned, be sure to lure it away from them before destroying the cube.

Tweet Update:
Cryptic_Gozer Dan Griffis
Weekly STF Update… Infected space 85% complete. Battle to destroy the Transwarp Gateway is much more interesting now

GROUND:
Ground Weapons:
Tactical — Sniper(x2)
Engineer+Science — CRM200 + Melee

Ground Kits:
Engineer: Fabrication or Bunker Kit
Tactical: Fire Team or Squad Leader
Science: Medic (at least one on the team)… if you want to DPS, I recommend Geophysicist

Order of Ground Targets:
Interlink Node
Infected
Drone
Medical
(Protos? Can be cleaned up at any time after Medical. May despawn on their own.)
AFTER ONLY TACTICALS ARE LEFT, SWITCH TO MELEE WEAPON
Tactical
Heavy
Elite

FIRST BOSS: Ogen
Pull him OUT of his room, into the hallway.
He will stop and summon friends halfway through the fight. If you are in the hallway, they will not join the battle.

END BOSS: Manus
Get into the alcoves on the wall opposite from the entry doorway.
This blocks line of sight between group members (meaning, no heals!), which prevents her “chain lightning” attack from hitting more than one target at a time.

NEXT WEEK: “The Cure”
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NEWS:

December “Ask Cryptic”
* Hints of Season 4 content:  Crew System
* More voiceovers coming! hurray! (I think? Be careful what you wish for.)
* When asked about PvP improvements, references were made to ground improvements only and no discussion of territorial conflicts, player-run starbases, etc. This has me worried.
* ThomasTheCat has joined Cryptic’s staff, and may be helping with UI refinements.
* Cut-scenes are planned to eventually replace some loading screens (turbolifts, e.g.)
* Adding dailies to Romulan and Cardassian space, and maybe a Betazed sector.
* The next weekly series will take place in either Romulan or Cardassian space.

Official Launch Date of Season 3 = Dec 9th

In-Depth Details of the crafting improvements
* First of all, MORE CHANGES are coming, and this may all be different on Holodeck.
* And then THE REAL CHANGES came.
* As mentioned previously, KDF now have access
* Adding nearly 100 new items
* “Base” items previously required (like a Mk IV Photon Torpedo Launcher, common) have been replaced with Schematics that are mark-agnostic and crafted using basic ingredients.
* Skill-ups & material requirements have both been standardized per rank.
* Harvesting has been tweaked so that it is more likely that you’ll find the materials you are looking for — the level range has been reduced on all clusters, etc.
* New consumables on their way, unique to each tree.
* UI Pics:  #1 … #2

Borg Ship Pieces
* Details on obtaining from Gozer
– “Assimilation” replay, then STFs (Infected, Cure, KA)
* Pictures:  Kar’fi Carrier, NX-01, Runabout
* To answer a few questions that have been floating around:
1. These will work on every ship, fed or klingon
2. You can turn off all the borg bits and maintain the powers if you don’t like the look
3. You get set bonuses the more pieces you have, with a special click power for having all pieces equipped
4. There are 4 pieces to the set
5. 3 pieces will drop off of the borg themed STF’s
6. 1 piece will drop off a regular old borg mission on replay or on your first play if you havent played it yet.
7.Everyone on the STF will get the piece as a mission reward

THE FOUNDRY LAUNCHED!  … and then, un-launched
starbaseugc.org — tutorial videos

UPDATE on the KDF experiment:
– I’ve reached Lt Comm 10, and run out of non-grindey content, waiting for the Pi Canis sector.
– Dailies are a great alternative to exploration, pvp or sector defense.
– There are a lot of options, but all are basically the same thing — killing time in non-story content, to reach the next story.

GIFTS

Replica Captain’s Chair

JJ Trek:
Hand Phaser (with flippy front)
Enterprise from the 2009 Movie
Electronic Tricorder

Star Trek TOS:
DVD Edition
Blu-Ray Edition
Tricorder Old School Toy
TMP Wrist Communicator

Star Trek TNG:
Transwarping Enterprise D (very rare)
MicroMachines collector set

Game Enhancers:
Wireless N Router
Logitech G7 Mouse
Microsoft Sidewinder X6 keyboard