Some STO Screenshots...
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lol, in the pull spread pic, you can see the error that plagues almost every Star Trek game ever. The phasers are passing through the nacelles.
Very true. The phasers should be fireing from outboard of the pylon, not the aft of the hull.
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So I may not be on par with some people when it comes to taking screenshots, but I was on STO last night (first time in ages) and stumbled across the Malon system. It had some nice natural lighting so I thought, this could work. No bad guys so had a bit of time to set up and show off the ol' gal in a good light.
Anyway:
Then I found out what happened when you flew through the ring...
Anyway:
Then I found out what happened when you flew through the ring...
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"What? Too flashy?"
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Oh that last one is sweet. I need a decent pc so I can play this. And to get off the Avengers online Facebook game lol
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Admiral Kurr finally got the requisition he filed with the Caitian Defense Guard filled. Presenting the U.S.S. Faurra.
With fighters deployed.
This is what happens when your ship is destroyed during warp-out.
With fighters deployed.
This is what happens when your ship is destroyed during warp-out.
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Nice to see you back in game. I personally have been taking a little break and playing Neverwinter (loving it too). On a personal note, any screenshots in sector space looks much better with the astrometrics turned off.
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And the lens flare and reflections turned off or on low.
I too haven't been on either, been trying to get TCW and Yesteryears released for the Human factions.
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Hello all. This thread had been all too quiet. I know that many on here that have been playing STO is either taking a break or have quit playing altogether. That said, I am done with my break and they have started some screenshot contests on the games forums. This is a monthly contest and the top three winners get zen for a prize. This is not regional restricted. I guess the in game rewards is the way they can circumvent national laws. 
I have not submitted an entry this month yet cause I have been busy around the house. Thomas Marrone (the UI artist for STO) has given players some very helpful tools in order to get some great HD shots. I will be playing around with these tools and posting some shots here. Towards the end of the month, y'all can help my decide which one to submit.
If you still even so much as dabble with STO, use these tools and post your own shots.
I have not submitted an entry this month yet cause I have been busy around the house. Thomas Marrone (the UI artist for STO) has given players some very helpful tools in order to get some great HD shots. I will be playing around with these tools and posting some shots here. Towards the end of the month, y'all can help my decide which one to submit.
Hi everyone! I'm Thomas Marrone (aka ThomastheCat/ThomastheCrypticCat), the User Interface artist for Star Trek Online.
I see a lot of screenshots on this subreddit so I wanted to take a minute and share a trick I bribed the UI programmer into adding to the game recently that will result in some better shots and might improve the game experience for some of you depending on your preference.
Some of you might already know you can use the command /gfxsetdefaultfov <number> to change your camera's field of view (which basically sets how wide an arc of the game world you can see at one time)
Why would you do this you ask? Well, the wider your field of view is, the more of the game world you can see at once and the smaller things look. The smaller your field of view is, the same amount of screen space is devoted to showing a smaller angle, so things look larger comparatively.
For example, here's a screenshot outside of ESD with the game's default FOV of 55 (degrees). Now here's a screenshot from exactly the same place with an FOV of 75. And finally, here's a screenshot with an FOV of 25.
I take a LOT of screenshots for STO's UI, and typically I use a smaller FOV than the default as it makes the scale seem more impressive in space and flattens out facial features on the ground.
But even for gameplay, changing your FOV can have some cool side effects. When you lower your FOV in space, it can greatly impact your perception of scale and make everything seem much more massive. (It also reduces how much of the game world you're aware of, so it can make combat more challenging too.)
Here's another set of screenshots: Parked at ESD, FOV 20 vs Parked at ESD, FOV 55. Notice how much larger and more imposing both Earth and Earth Spacedock are! Also , the angles on my galaxy are a bit more reminiscent of how they lined up in the miniature shots on TNG.
Additionally, lowering the FOV lets you zoom in a lot more closely on your own starship in case you wanna check out the nooks and crannies. Here’s what max zoom in distance and max zoom out distance look like using FOV 20.
On the ground, you might actually like a higher FOV to have more situational awareness and replicate the fisheye style camera a lot of third-person shooters like Mass Effect use. Here’s T’Moss the Caitian at Starfleet Academy using the standard FOV 55. Compare to FOV 75: you see a bit further to your sides and when you’re moving it feels like you’re moving a little faster.
Until Season 8.5, the FOV command was one-size fits all, which made changing your FOV for gameplay difficult because while a low FOV might be better for space, it’s not very good for ground.
Now though, there is a new command that lets you set your default FOV for space and ground independently from one another, meaning that when you switch regions the game will also switch your FOV!
The command is /setregionfov <region> <number>. So: /setregionfov ground 75 would give you a FOV of 75 on ground maps. /setregionfov space 20 would give you a FOV of 20 on space maps. And remember the default is 55, so you can use the same command to switch them back to that if you prefer the default.
That’s all I have to say on the subject for now. I hope some of you found it interesting and/or relevant to your STO gameplay and screenshot sessions! Let me know if you’ve got any questions and I’ll do my best to answer them.
SCREENSHOT COMMANDS BONUS ROUND: If you’ve made it this far also might be interested in the following screenshot commands and what they do:
TL;DR:
I see a lot of screenshots on this subreddit so I wanted to take a minute and share a trick I bribed the UI programmer into adding to the game recently that will result in some better shots and might improve the game experience for some of you depending on your preference.
Some of you might already know you can use the command /gfxsetdefaultfov <number> to change your camera's field of view (which basically sets how wide an arc of the game world you can see at one time)
Why would you do this you ask? Well, the wider your field of view is, the more of the game world you can see at once and the smaller things look. The smaller your field of view is, the same amount of screen space is devoted to showing a smaller angle, so things look larger comparatively.
For example, here's a screenshot outside of ESD with the game's default FOV of 55 (degrees). Now here's a screenshot from exactly the same place with an FOV of 75. And finally, here's a screenshot with an FOV of 25.
I take a LOT of screenshots for STO's UI, and typically I use a smaller FOV than the default as it makes the scale seem more impressive in space and flattens out facial features on the ground.
But even for gameplay, changing your FOV can have some cool side effects. When you lower your FOV in space, it can greatly impact your perception of scale and make everything seem much more massive. (It also reduces how much of the game world you're aware of, so it can make combat more challenging too.)
Here's another set of screenshots: Parked at ESD, FOV 20 vs Parked at ESD, FOV 55. Notice how much larger and more imposing both Earth and Earth Spacedock are! Also , the angles on my galaxy are a bit more reminiscent of how they lined up in the miniature shots on TNG.
Additionally, lowering the FOV lets you zoom in a lot more closely on your own starship in case you wanna check out the nooks and crannies. Here’s what max zoom in distance and max zoom out distance look like using FOV 20.
On the ground, you might actually like a higher FOV to have more situational awareness and replicate the fisheye style camera a lot of third-person shooters like Mass Effect use. Here’s T’Moss the Caitian at Starfleet Academy using the standard FOV 55. Compare to FOV 75: you see a bit further to your sides and when you’re moving it feels like you’re moving a little faster.
Until Season 8.5, the FOV command was one-size fits all, which made changing your FOV for gameplay difficult because while a low FOV might be better for space, it’s not very good for ground.
Now though, there is a new command that lets you set your default FOV for space and ground independently from one another, meaning that when you switch regions the game will also switch your FOV!
The command is /setregionfov <region> <number>. So: /setregionfov ground 75 would give you a FOV of 75 on ground maps. /setregionfov space 20 would give you a FOV of 20 on space maps. And remember the default is 55, so you can use the same command to switch them back to that if you prefer the default.
That’s all I have to say on the subject for now. I hope some of you found it interesting and/or relevant to your STO gameplay and screenshot sessions! Let me know if you’ve got any questions and I’ll do my best to answer them.
SCREENSHOT COMMANDS BONUS ROUND: If you’ve made it this far also might be interested in the following screenshot commands and what they do:
- /renderscale <number> - multiplies the rendering resolution of your game by the number specified. So /renderscale 2 will render the game at twice its current resolution. When you take a screenshot, that screenshot will be saved at the renderscale you specify. This means that if your desktop resolution is 1920 x 1080 and you run /renderscale 2, your screenshots will be 3840 x 2160. This can tax older computers though, so be sure to go back to /renderscale 1 when you’re done. If you forgot what you set your renderscale to, just use /renderscale without the number and the game will tell you what you’re running in your chat window. Also note that you can /renderscale less than one. Screenshots taken at /renderscale .1 offer a fun pixelated take on STO.
- /screenshot - saves a screenshot (without the UI) in pixel-perfect uncompressed .tga format in your game’s screenshot folder.
- /screenshot_jpg - saves a screenshot (without the UI) in compressed jpg format. This is keybound to Print Screen by default.
- /screenshot_ui - saves a .tga screenshot with the game’s UI
- /screenshot_ui_jpg - saves a .jpg screenshot with the game’s UI
- ALT+F12 - the default keybind for hiding the game’s UI, which can make it easier to compose screenshots
TL;DR:
- /setregionfov is a command that lets you change the game’s field of view angle for a region of the game..
- The format for it is: /setregionfov <region> <number>, the region names are ground and space.
- Lower FOVs offer a more cinematic experience with impressive scale
- Higher FOVs improve situational awareness and make your movement speed feel faster.
If you still even so much as dabble with STO, use these tools and post your own shots.
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Excellent pics, SciFiFan. As I don't play STO, I just have one question. What is that ship you're captaining? I'm not usually one for four nacelled ships, but I like that one.
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Nice work mate, while I am not a fan of the Fed's you know this better than most, I must say you've done well. Congrats. 
I might look at coming on tomorrow or Sunday, I will have quite a bit of updating to do before I do, haven't updated the game in months.
I might look at coming on tomorrow or Sunday, I will have quite a bit of updating to do before I do, haven't updated the game in months.
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Thanks. The ship I have here is the Mirror Heavy Cruiser Retrofit. The available skins are: Cheyenne Class, Dakota Class, and Stargazer Class. It is available from one of the lock boxes (don't remember which one) but it can be acquired from the exchange pretty cheap. I am using the following configuration:
- Saucer = Dakota
- Hull = Stargazer
- Nacelle Bottom = Stargazer
- Nacelle Top = Stargazer
- Pylon Bottom = Dakota
- Pylon Top = Dakota
Nice work mate, while I am not a fan of the Fed's you know this better than most, I must say you've done well. Congrats.
I might look at coming on tomorrow or Sunday, I will have quite a bit of updating to do before I do, haven't updated the game in months.
Thank you my friend. Yeah, There may be quite a bit, especially if you have dynamic patching disabled like I do. Also, they have begun pre-patching for 9.5 which wont affect you til you exit the game.
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So I was online yesterday (my excuse is that I just changed ISP and am trying to keep the usage high so they don't throttle me ) and I decided to try and earn me some Nukara marks... sadly there were only two ships on the map... needless to say it didn't go well!
That is the first time I have had my behind handed to me like that in my Fleet Defiant.
) and I decided to try and earn me some Nukara marks... sadly there were only two ships on the map... needless to say it didn't go well!That is the first time I have had my behind handed to me like that in my Fleet Defiant.
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I have a new Reman tactical officer that is aligned with the KDF. I did buy him the Vaadwaur uniform and I must say, he looks bad___.
On a side note, I think I failed to pay attention to which one was highlighted and bought one posted for about 9 - 10 mil more than the cheapest one. Lesson learned.
On a side note, I think I failed to pay attention to which one was highlighted and bought one posted for about 9 - 10 mil more than the cheapest one. Lesson learned.
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On a side note, I think I failed to pay attention to which one was highlighted and bought one posted for about 9 - 10 mil more than the cheapest one. Lesson learned.
Damn we've all done that, but maybe not to that much of a loss. I usually only leave 1 million on my main characters, the rest stays in the account bank until I need it. That way it saved me from making those kind of mistakes.
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Here are some pics of my Galor
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Yeah it's a great ship. Back in the Mirror Event we did, I remember taking Kevaas into the middle and tanking/destroying most of the ships allowing the rest of the team to close rifts etc. I couldn't do it with engineers in cruisers anywhere near as well. I doubt I will ever take Kevaas out of the Galor for any substantial amount of time.
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not only the Galor is a great ship, even the spiralwave disruptors rock and with the new lobi-shop console its even more deadly. 
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So Admiral Carter has finally been booted out of his Defiant and provided with a ship more suited to a man of his stature... The USS Endurance, a Rademaker T5U (which is probably the single most flexible arrangement in the game) with a Vesta-Aventine skin.
Currently still fine tuning her, for the moment set up with 2x AP beam arrays and a QTorp forward and a triple set of Omnis aft.
I just spent a good half hour killing borg spheres, at one point caught in a horrible crossfire between several groups of probes and spheres... hull dropped to 50% at one point but at no time did I disengage until they were all dead.
Good points - remarkable handling (although I may use the 8472 console to improve it slightly), more than able to use dual heavy cannons if one was so inclined. In fact, I found it was possible to do "hand brake turns", set speed to zero, turn 90deg whilst the speed comes to rest then hit full speed again. Nice trick to go in with torps blazing then immediately switch to a broadside (not that I need to with omnis).
The Lt Cdr and Ens universals are great - currently I'm set up with three Tac BOffs which gives a great variety of attack options. Being an engineer I've plenty of hull heals if the shields do go down (but the Vesta has great shields anyway).
Two runabouts as standard - I was pleasantly surprised about their effectiveness seeing as people were complaining hanger pets had been downgraded.
Bad points - despite have all three Vestas to play with, there are not a lot of good looking combinations, the nacelles are tiny and its easy to make the ship look unbalanced. Likewise most of the paint schemes look poor on a vesta hull - so I'm almost fully default Vesta paint (except the pylons). Also, the hull is only broken into four sections- saucer, sec hull, pylons, nacelle. Which is a shame because I'd have liked to mix and match deflectors on different hulls.
Its a science vessel, so only three fore and three aft weapon slots. However with the tactical BOffs, runabouts and the Aventines deflector weapon you don't notice much under "gentle" PvE conditions.
I've not looked yet into the secondary deflector as I'm concentrating on getting the rest set up well. But she's a good ship, almost handles like an escort, I'm not sure I'll be going back to the Thrace for a while, even if I did use one of my spare upgrades to take her to T5U.
And here's a few pretty pics.
Currently still fine tuning her, for the moment set up with 2x AP beam arrays and a QTorp forward and a triple set of Omnis aft.
I just spent a good half hour killing borg spheres, at one point caught in a horrible crossfire between several groups of probes and spheres... hull dropped to 50% at one point but at no time did I disengage until they were all dead.
Good points - remarkable handling (although I may use the 8472 console to improve it slightly), more than able to use dual heavy cannons if one was so inclined. In fact, I found it was possible to do "hand brake turns", set speed to zero, turn 90deg whilst the speed comes to rest then hit full speed again. Nice trick to go in with torps blazing then immediately switch to a broadside (not that I need to with omnis).
The Lt Cdr and Ens universals are great - currently I'm set up with three Tac BOffs which gives a great variety of attack options. Being an engineer I've plenty of hull heals if the shields do go down (but the Vesta has great shields anyway).
Two runabouts as standard - I was pleasantly surprised about their effectiveness seeing as people were complaining hanger pets had been downgraded.
Bad points - despite have all three Vestas to play with, there are not a lot of good looking combinations, the nacelles are tiny and its easy to make the ship look unbalanced. Likewise most of the paint schemes look poor on a vesta hull - so I'm almost fully default Vesta paint (except the pylons). Also, the hull is only broken into four sections- saucer, sec hull, pylons, nacelle. Which is a shame because I'd have liked to mix and match deflectors on different hulls.
Its a science vessel, so only three fore and three aft weapon slots. However with the tactical BOffs, runabouts and the Aventines deflector weapon you don't notice much under "gentle" PvE conditions.
I've not looked yet into the secondary deflector as I'm concentrating on getting the rest set up well. But she's a good ship, almost handles like an escort, I'm not sure I'll be going back to the Thrace for a while, even if I did use one of my spare upgrades to take her to T5U.
And here's a few pretty pics.
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So there was Admiral Carter, happily playing out his boyhood Iron Man fantasies... when his jet pack expired on him.
It was just fortunate he was wearing his EV suit at the time, or he could have become famous as the man who drowned on Risa!
It was just fortunate he was wearing his EV suit at the time, or he could have become famous as the man who drowned on Risa!
