Comments on: STO Update: Cryptic Readying For Launch (& Beyond) + Midnight Gamestop Events + more

By: Aqua

Aqua — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:14:55 +0000

Eli, next big thing will be ray tracing which requires a one hundred fold processing power increase.

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:37:07 +0000

I’m loving STO. Hopefully I can successfully sneak in the fact that it’s 15 bucks a month to my wife at some point now that I’ve actually bought it.

Maybe if I promise to never buy anything else for myself for the rest of my life… :-)

Just a computer graphics question: Now that we’ve gotten to the point that we can put multiple processors on the same chips, isn’t it going to be soon that we’ll get to a limit to how fancy a graphic card for a PC or a game console can get? Short of someone inventing a full-on holodeck, that is?

By: Turgon

Turgon — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:27:10 +0000

STO is even now like a low budget version of bridgecommander combined with a low budget version of Star Trek Elite force. Okay, of course with the option to level the Char.
And you don’t avoid repetition with STO (compared to EVE). In fact, if you PVP, you will barely play more than one map (yeah, it’s like an ego shooter multiplayer map) a day. Surely there are some more ground and Spacemaps, but some of them seem to be preferred (like Ghostship map).
The Episodes take place in different locations, but i’ve noticed some basic pattern like “enter the system, defeat enemy ships, beam down to the planet surface and defeat enemies, leave the system” After the first 10 times its exciting like Ore harvesting in Eve (for 2 hours!).
If you still like STO, perhaps it will beat the shit out of you when you enter Sol Station or Qo’noS. Of course you will hear “where is …. [mostly Sulu]” at least 2 times the minute, and every RPer or Trekkie (well, anyone who expects Startrek atmosphere in the game] will have to fight down the tears after listening to the chat for more than 5 minutes. (well, it sets a new standard for OOC).
Oh, the character builder is such a nice thing. Even in beta i could create easily some canon alien species like cardassian, tarlac or Ellora. or some semi canon like Reman. The downside of it is:: At times you will see tiny klingons in pink armor, or some kind of blueskinned ferengi with horns, short legs and too long arms. Surely, some people have fun playing with proportions, but do the creations have to look like eugenic war victims??
So anyone expeting to play STAR TREK online : look for the right fleet and learn to ignore anything nonStarTrek.
The good point of the game is that you’ve learned the basics within 2 minutes (i guess EVE players who are profis in probing will find it far too easy)
The PVP will let you fight only against similar leveled players, so the death by superior force (like it happens in eve from time to time) will not be happening.

By: wowseruk

wowseruk — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:04:37 +0000

I’m loving this game.. can’t wait for it to iron out all the teething trouble and open up the entire Star Trek Universe (which they bloody well should!) :)
see you out there!

By: LegendSeeker.net

LegendSeeker.net — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:01:32 +0000

I’ve never had any issues with my 360. After watching Jolene Blalock in the most recent episodes of Legend of the Seeker I got to thinking about Star Trek again so after checking out http://www.legendseeker.net I ended up here and looking at Star Trek Online! I can’t wait for this to come out and may even upgrade to Windows 7 (all I need is a graphics card and I’m golden). Sure beats repetitive crap from EVE Online which I did since they were in Beta

By: ProperTrekkieUk

ProperTrekkieUk — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:55:48 +0000

To be fair, we got head start…which is a bonus, so I’m not complaining as technically we shouldn’t be playing yet…

…I like how the ‘Report to the Bridge’ event is happening on Valentines Day…guess few Trekkies will be out for a romantic meal….

(I am of course joking…I am a Trekkie and going out…)

By: The Bear

The Bear — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:20:12 +0000

I’d love to play the game, but gave up on running any serious graphic games on my PC some time back. For games I just use my PS3. I’ll just have to wait for this one.

By: Aqua

Aqua — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:37:40 +0000

Just got back from launch event, won a signed copy in a drawing, also got a copy of nvision magazine featuring the game, a cup and a poster

By: T2

T2 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:01:29 +0000

Started playing it yesterday with the preorder. Having a lot of fun. Over time, hopefully any bugs get worked out, but so far I’m having a blast.

By: NX01

NX01 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:49:55 +0000

Yeah , there is just no point in being first to something like this/

There are always problems of some kind or another at the beginning.

They have this thing running perfectly in a few months or so.

Speaking of which 10 minutes to mid night, we will see how it goes.