Hey Deca if you're listening... 1: Throw Borticus and Kael out of a airlock. 2: Bring back Jonathan Herlache! 3: Give the art dept a attaboy.

My biggest concern is that Borticus is the one training the new DECA devs, so unless they will get creative once his influence is gone, I don’t like that this is where things are starting.

2,500 secondary shielding for 20 seconds? We just recently got a trait for 18,500 secondary shield for 30 seconds AND up to 15% weapon cycle haste rolled into one. Geebus.

Can we just appreciate the first new Klingon ship in half a decade?

What would have been fun is to have Proton weapons come with these ships, FED Proton Beam, KDF Proton Heavy Cannon and ROM AUX Proton Heavy Cannon. Which unlocks buying them from the Dil Store and includes a non set Proton Omni and Proton Turrets in both normal and AUX flavours. At the same time change the Proton Isomags to include Energy weapons damage. Think those would have made a very interesting new play style that would have had far more interest and value to this bundle intoducing a 'new' energy weapon type. Really wouldn't have been much work to do these things.

This is what you get when you have devs who are openly disdainful of their player base. Hopefully DECA can turn that around.

They are good looking ships but that isn't enough for me to spend money on them in sto these days. I'll throw money at things that I can use on other ships like traits and consoles. Bort coming back means dark times for power creep which translates to me saving a lot of money till he is replaced once again.

I like the ship looks and will pick up the ships individually. Also for those who are wondering, yes you can buy the dyson science outfit from the fleet spire tailor for dirt cheap

This feels like a bunch of people worked on this bundle, all assuming someone else working on it would be the one to make it worth a damn.

The accessories are hilarious, I agree with your assessment on those. I think the ships are decent allrounders and a good addition to the cstore. Not every ship must have meta impact, I think the cstore is a good place to put almost top tier ships. Also I think it will be a lot of fun to play with these (I really like science destroyers), but I'll probably get only one with a free coupon.

The T5 Romulan uses a singularity. Concerning these ships, I do like how they look. Never was a fan of the T5 KDF and FED versions, but I always liked the T5 Rom. These T6 all look good, although I'm not too wild for the Fed version, but it does look better to me than the T5 one. IMHO. I am leaning to get these new ships, I am not impressed with the traits, but maybe I can make it work for my playstyle.

Took me half the video to realize you had my reddit post in the background lol. I agree completely that the accessories are absolute trash tier. Valdore console continues to reign supreme if you want to restore shields. So glad that's unlocked now. I love the KDF/ROM ones from visuals to the stats. Sure they're not amazing but I still fly my Titan all the time and it's not anywhere near a top ship but I just love it. Those animated pop out guns on the kdf one are amazing. I assumed it would be 12000z and no way I would have considered the bundle at that price and figured I'd just use t6 coupons on the two but at 7500 it's really tempting. Get the FED ship too that I do somewhat like, T6 token to use on something else, and since I'm only going to really fly two of the ships I'll have 2 tokens leftover. For $75 that's really not bad and $65 is a steal but I don't know if I have the patience to wait that long. My only concern with dropping 7500 now is maybe not having enough zen leftover for a legendary later this year, but with Bort being back, as you said, future ships this year will probably continue to be a bit disappointing stat and/or accessory wise. So definitely going to get the KDF/ROM just not sure if coupon, on their own, or bundle yet. Probably make final decisions after your and other videos are up tomorrow so can see them in action since we only saw the FED one in combat during the stream.

Around 2.5K secondary shields... how long would that last against a normal difficulty borg sphere? like 3 secs tops? maybe if the secondary shields would be 350K that trait would be worth the 3K zen for the ship. The bundle is not worth it, and to think we were all b*tching about 14th anniversary bundle being "underwhelming". I only fear what the new legendary ships and bundle would be this year.

I might grab the Romulan ship, see if I can drag my ROM captain out of his Legendary Valdore 🤔

If Cryptic wants to be stingy with only 8 experimental starship upgrade tokens knowing they're leaving us players/customers 1 short for all 3 Dysons then I have no problem waiting till a -35% sale till I even consider buying. Dilemma is I like the KDF Dyson's console best, & none of the 3 are good/great but I like the Rom Dyson's look the best (B5 Whitestar). Cryptic neuters their hybrid ships too much & there's plenty of good ships with better focuses. The bundle's "fluff" is old gear & nothing new.

After watching your stream, I decided I wanted none of these, despite the good looks. However, I have now decided to swap in a T6 token for the KDF version to have a play

feels like they made a typo and forgot to add the extra two zero's on the end of each console. in theory if he wants to push shield, secondary shield and drain they could make some general game changes. eg - secondary shields stack and only take damage when under 90% hull. -or on elite, torpedoes deal 6x more damage against unshielded targets or targets without secondary shields. borg weapons deal stacking increasing 10% more damage each time they hit hull -or they could make secondary shields scale with EPG so 1 epg gives 2% bonus to that 2000 secondary shield number. so at 400 epg you would get 1.6 mill secondary shields. -Could also buff drain in general so it gives 1 to all power levels for every 10 drain. this way a drain build would buff your weapon and Aux power dramatically scaling damage. but these would be sweeping changes that would effect the entire game and need so many balance tweaks :( with a pay to win game like STO balance is always hard because its more difficult to make changes(nerfs) after people have paid money.

2 points. 1 - given several of previous ships traits and consoles just flat out don't work even now (not even going near the sirius and being told they won't ever fix it) - what's the point of buying anything from them. 2 - Kael and his typos - he can't be surprised that they want him gone

My initial thoughts when the stream was going on were 'not a chance in hell' mainly due to the console/traits and the fact that Kael never puts a build on the stream to show what the ships can do. The guys that did the graphics on the ships really knocked them out the park, despite the Rom being the Whitestar :D. I do have other ships for Sci type builds, so definitely won't be getting the bundle. There just isn't anything in there that will help me improve my play style in the game. If I have a spare T6 Coupon, and I have all the other ships I want, then I may get the Romulan one purely for looks. I had really hoped that these ships would have had some better traits and consoles in them that would have added something more to the game. I was sitting all ready to buy the bundle. As I've said before, and during the stream, we have had some really impactful content lately, and with the Pahvan Omni being proton and a console boosting proton damage, I had hoped that these ships would have been the start of a the proton damage revolution resulting in being able to buy or craft arrays, omnis etc. of the proton damage type. This year is probably going to be a bit rough with the change over, but I am very confident that things will improve next year so I am willing to weather the storm just now.

Finally a KDF ship. Its been so many years

Been waiting for your opinion forever. Thank you

You can tell how bad the trait/consoles are when Spencer is smirking while talking about them like he does when Warp Core is making one of his "terrible"/dad jokes (no offense Warp Core) 😂

I really wish they would make new areas to explore (like add in to the Dyson sphere area) that say maybe these ships may have an advantage in exploring? Also would be cool add built in ship mechanics like built in DPRM or Weapons Haste or Weapons Damage, etc clickies you can use. This way you can open up a console slot for something else and have 1 more slot or even ship trait slot to work with.

I don't mind attempting to improve shields: this is a Star Trek game and shields should be the primary defense for a ship because of that. They just don't seem to be very good at doing that improvement. I wish the Experimental Weapon was not tied to getting a weird ship with limited utility but rather was an event reward. It looks interesting for proton builds on ships with the appropriate slot.

I’ll pass on this bundle but once the legendary Valdore bundle goes on sale I’ll be sure to pick that one up

thanks have a great weekend since it almost upon us see you in tomorrow's vid hope the ship is good love the old version💯👍

I think we need a good C-stosre Excelsior, I would have also accepted a Dyson version.

So sad. Because I waited for years for this ships to come. But I have T6 coupons or will buy the bundle anyway. Like the designs and the seating. But the rest ... is just sad... thanks for your vid as always!

The original rom Dyson the Aves has a sing core

Sure, the Solanae EV suits are in the dil store IF you have completed the step between stars missions sufficient times to collect the suits there, BUT that mission is broken in multiple places (only two of which have a work around requiring the engineering career) so this is now the ONLY way to get that EV suit.

imho they even could add from 1 to 3 t5 coupons in this bundle, just for kitbash

I wonder if Borticus will nerf the Maelstrom again.

The Dyson Sphere Researcher uniform is a Fleet uniform.

While I like the looks of the Romulan ship, the lack of a decent trait, console, and seating arrangement means this is an easy pass for me. Also the fact that the devs can't even do the math to determine how many experimental upgrades we need to upgrade all three ships is getting comical. For me I have better ships I've gotten for free so why spend money on an inferior product? Nice analysis Spencer, thank you.

Do they have unique bridges?

If you haven't already seen, the Vesta omnidirectional wave siphon provides more secondary shields than these consoles put together and is way older. Sad day. I bought the bundle in an excitement to home my Vulcan sci aspiring proton build but wasted money. The environmental suits are lame too. Should have just spent a t6 coupon. Time to go back to my Fleet Laeosa.

All new ships look cool, as well as tactical mode animations. The idea of secondary shield as a reservoir energy for additional proton damage is also good imo. But why the heck so ridiculously low numbers? 2K temporal shield or +10 drain expertise from starship traits , is that a joke? Similarly with consoles. I wouldn't be afraid of a 20x larger value at all.

What about directly comparing these ships to their closest existing neighbors? Are they unique enough or better than what came before? Or are we better off sticking to other ships in their class? Gimmick aside, of course.

Yep you can buy in dylon fleet sphire

only like 2 of them. fed and rom. which is odd, cause I do not like how the t5 rom looks where I like the t5 klingon

Bort's back? Now I get it. These new traits will be meta in a couple of months because he's going to nerf every other trait to bring them into line with these LMAO, so glad I don't pay or play anymore.

The Romulan ship seems better. I love my sci/torp setup on my Leg.Glenn…but dew/sci for that Romulan ship would be fun

You have to enter when the next key sale is that's all I'm going to spend the money on with the future thanks

not comment on the new obelisk possibly?did you get my last messages?

These all seem like solid dewsci ships. Not great. But if you just ignore the tac mode they've got decent seats a 4-3 isnt terrible (not a 5-3 but still better than 3-3) and the console set is serviceable if not inspiring. These wont be meta (obviously) but not every thing has to just push meta at the expense of all other players...i think the will make decent budget epg boats. One thing i dont get is why the devs are so obsessed with making sheild tanks a thing. But never want to buff actuall shield hp numbers

So the EX weapon has a proc chance LESS than a standard weapon. Way to go Cryptic.

Honestly, compared to the Atlantis, all of these ships are inferior both in stats, capabilities and equipment. The only reason to get them over the Atlantis would be for looks or RP. But the Atlantis alone has more meta impact for DEWSCI hybrid builds than all 3 of those ships combined. Plus being a very capable and sexy ship. So this bundle is an excessively underwhelming and uninspired offering compared to what we were treated to with the last bundle. The outgoing systems team clearly couldn't be bothered to put in any effort into this. So i can't be bothered to put any Zen or T6 coupons into this. Until those ships get a proper overhaul, that is. NEXT!

It just makes you're just a ship looks like the justacar?

Wait for a 35% sale, sell the T6 coupon and the experimental upgrades. For $65 you get three ships and around 1 billion EC.

right no I am so disappointed that they put TAC seating on these without specialization instead of universal. if the TAC seat had been the other specialization we could do actual full sci build. Also, I am not seeing a special secondary deflector like Solonae.. wish they would have done something special there???

Too bad, I was hoping to get something interessting. This is okay, but I also don't want to be forced to use the Klingon variant only because it alone has Cmd Int.

Didn’t Bort leave?? That’s why we got Johnathan? Sigh oh well. I’ll buy it at the 35% discount because I love the design and have been levelling up a proton alt character for fun recently

I've wanted this ships since I played that stupid mission... I am... Well... Meh.

So no bundle sale as long this new one is not over and that's another 2 weeks minimum! Damn I am not buying anything. We are in 5th month without a bundle sale??

Not Worf it to me, not even with the fluffyfluff.

they really dropped the ball on this. They had an opportunity to create a whole new energy build, a new meta with the reward space set and they screwed it all up. Complete waste of time. I hate being negative because that isn't my nature but this is unimpressive.

As C Store ships go, they have very good layouts. Also, fleet grade right out of the gate.

fire them alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

Borticus did these? Hard pass. Aside of his outspoken disdain for the player base, my concern is that if they keep creating ships so far behind the meta, due to his complete detachment from how the game works now, then at some point nothing new will sell well enough to justify developing more new ships. Borticus already fulfilled this prophecy years ago by giving ships that were garbage stat wise to the non Fed factions to justify discontinuing ongoing development of ships for the non Fed factions. Hopefully, boycotting his bundles will see him swiftly removed again.

The ONLY I would get that bundle is IF they would pay me to get it, other wise SO NO, I will not be wasting any of my money on it. I guess if you are into the Barbie in the game, get them, if not, don't waste your time and money.

Why needs to be "meta" or do dps numbers. just play the game, the bundle if good like it is the ships are good thematically

its such a shame that these are so poor, just copy and paste ships. makes me wonder what the other T6 is going to be like with the down turn of Cryptic.

I will buy this one. Cool ships. Very stylish.

pass I hate the mechanic

Yeah the traits are ass.

Consoles and traits are garbage. At least there is 3 ships and a t6 and 8 x upgrades. There is the money for.

IMO none of the bundles are worth it, they are preying on hardcore fans who jump at any idea of a new shiny ship, and Mudd's are on a whole other level of grift. I used to love this game but about 5 years ago it just became too much and I'm a lifetime sub...

Useless bundle