r/sto • u/Sputnik1_1957 • Sep 15 '24

Monday Megathread - your weekly "dumb question" thread Megathread

Post all the questions you may have about anything STO-related. PC? Console? Everyone's welcome to post their questions here.

Last thread can be found here.

Stay safe out there and happy flying!

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u/31dirty Sep 16 '24

I am back after ~10 years and think I have most of what has changed figured out. Picked up the Lexington, MKXV'd everything I didnt replace, then did the same to pieces I picked up. I guess I used to play this game alot because I had a ton of assets.

So my new ship is MW, and I'm not understanding how people consistently trigger MAS. Turn off auto-fire and macro it and a turret/omni beam, then fire all weapons off of spambar? I feel like there is something obvious that I am missing...

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u/westmetals Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

The bonus is persistent enough that it really doesn't matter in what order your weapons fire. Each weapon firing will trigger the bonus to all weapons of other styles (beam, cannon, torpedo, mine), but that doesn't cancel any bonus previously applied, it just refreshes, so while your first volley may not be fully boosted, the second and so on will.

The key element though is that you do need to fire a weapon.

P.S. while the default is left to right, forward to aft, you can reorder the autofire if you really want to... right click all the slots on your tray (to turn it off), then re-activate them in the order you want.

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u/31dirty Sep 17 '24

Thanks boys, I suppose that I read the skill thinking it was on activation of a single weapon and not persistent. I can see now why it is regarded as powerful.