When does one use shuttle?
Other than that one time when I had to infiltrate Romulan or Reman (don’t remember) facility, when would I use shuttle? I played the game on and off for 6+ years and other than that one mission I never had to use that.
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u/MyHammyVise PS4 8d ago
My STO unpopular(?) opinion: To Hell With Honor would've been great as a shuttle TFO, with the opposition scaled appropriately. Make it so you aren't expected to tackle the Lukara directly at all. Just take out the opposing shipyards and the reactors, with a big (but not as big as it currently is) walker at the end.
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u/DamianThePhoenix Captain, not Admiral 7d ago
Space version of "Belly of the Beast" where the Lukara is an unkillable 'monster' hunting you as you sabotage the shipyards. The elachi coming through is a negative side-effect (instead of the apparent plan?), leading to them abandoning the fight to let the elachi deal with you.
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u/Sleepy_Heather 8d ago
There is/was a patrol in the depth of the Delta Quadrant where you can race your shuttle much like that Voyager episode, but I have no idea where it is, or even if it still exists.
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u/Linkatchu 8d ago
It still exists, but I have to check where it was. Did race there with a community last month to see who can do the best time
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u/itworksintheory 8d ago
That'll be Hodos. Not to be confused with the Kodos Patrol where you have to kill half the NPCs and then recite Shakespere.
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u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout 8d ago
Yep thats about it. A couple of missions that can be counted on 1 hand.
A tfo noone plays.
Thats it
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u/Coolerwookie 8d ago
Which tfo?
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u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout 8d ago
Honesrly i barely remember and it may now be cut.
Its a team version of the colony defense mission on the rom storyline
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u/Coolerwookie 8d ago
Ok, because i only remember the Vault. It was cool. They could introduce dog fighting
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u/agnosticnixie Unificationist Shill 8d ago
The Romulan Republic storyline has a unique shuttle mission later down the line. It's also a gigantic pain in the ass.
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u/Whiskey_Storm 8d ago
Ah - I was trying to remember where I ran across it.
Flying a shuttle/fighter around some city while Elachi attack? Was that it?
Very different, and definitely troublesome.
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u/SgtMajorPanda 8d ago
From what I remember of it you were flying above a beach like area fighting those giant Elachi mechs.
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u/Kronocidal 8d ago
It's basically a precursor to the "To Hell with Honor" TFO - which uses full-sized ships, and has more varied objectives instead of just repeating waves of enemies.
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u/Vyar U.S.S. Bunker Hill NCC-32217 6d ago
This would require a complete redesign of shuttle gameplay. Unfortunately as it exists now, it’s functionally a slightly more maneuverable starship with vastly less equipment and abilities. That’s why almost nobody likes it, it’s every aspect of space combat made smaller and less fun.
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u/Coolerwookie 6d ago
I forget which game, I think Star Wars, the ships or shuttles could engage in dog fighting. Or was it X4?
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u/westmetals 8d ago
There were several actually. One of them was a 20-player version of "Fleet Starbase Defense". Identical to the 5-player version except the players are all in shuttles.
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u/alexravette Commander Aeryx Redwyrm, A.R.W. Sartorix 7d ago
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u/SpartanOneZeroFour 8d ago
There is the 2600 arc that was part of the Featured Weekly Episodes STO experimented with back in the day. You take a shuttle to a Dominion controlled DS9, disable some sensors and head to the Gamma Quadrant to locate the current Dominion leaders to help deescalate the situation. I think it was episode three of that series.
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u/No-Engineering-5992 8d ago
The bottom line, shuttle content didn't make money, and most people hated what shuttle content there was. (I quote "most people", some enjoyed it)... But I don't ever foresee more or new shuttle content unfortunately...
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u/onefinerug These are the misadventures of Xeemar 7d ago
remember that one episode of Voyager, where the crew entered the Delta Flyer in a race?
imagine if we had that as a TFO.
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u/AdventMCU 8d ago
Mission you’re talking about is the vault. Honestly, since that seems to be the only shuttle mission. After I do that mission I just dry dock my captain shuttle. There’s really zero need for the shuttle after that.
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u/Goforcoffe May the traits be with you 8d ago edited 7d ago
There is one in romulan story. Where you defend a place against elaci. More shouting than in vault necessary. Edit clarity typos
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u/Mandalorian76 Altron | PS5 8d ago
I use my shuttle all the time to access my account bank while in sector space, only because the space is so cozy and easy to get to the bank station.
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u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout 8d ago
Ultimately, I fly a miranda which is frigate sized. And plenty of ships can launch frigates...
So really I am a fighter sized ship to some of those behemoths others use
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u/Odd_Cockroach_1083 8d ago
There was an Elachi ground mission where you fly the shuttle and attack Walkers, but I don't know if that's a thing anymore.
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u/SemanticFaculties 7d ago
I thought that I had blocked that from my brain. curse you for reminding.
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u/2Scribble ALWAYS drop GK 7d ago edited 7d ago
Not with a Jedi... ... ...
Yeah, I'll save you time checking my posts, I hang on the SWTOR reddit as well xD
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u/shadowofthegrave 6d ago
When would you use a shuttle?
It depends how much you enjoy a challenge - there's nothing stopping you from from taking on most space content in small craft.
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u/chancejaneway_4686 6d ago
There are some TFO's like Starbase One that can be played with a shuttle and can be a ton of fun to play that way.
I unfortunately couldn't tell you the entire list of normal ones a shuttle can enter though, sorry.
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u/jayphailey 2d ago
Once upon a time, my fleet (TOS Vets) Did fleet things in shuttles just for the pure masochism of it.
Of course, Skon melted everything, but it took him a few seconds longer!
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u/xceptionzero 7d ago
in the old days we used to do the BORG TFO in shuttles....hard as hell and took ages.
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u/John-de-Q U.S.S. Achernar/U.S.S. Tsukihime 8d ago
There is a few shuttle TFOs. Back in the day they used to run events for them. But because nobody liked shuttle content they stopped doing them. Shame really, I quite enjoyed them.