Escape Goat
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Thats what I noticed too. It seems like it could be a single player game and just connect for Raid Battles. *shrug*
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Thats what I noticed too. It seems like it could be a single player game and just connect for Raid Battles. *shrug*
Why aren't there any good, modern Star Trek games?! I want to be a captain in a single player game without the MMO jank.
Escape Goat
Member
I liked Bridge Commander. It wasn't AAA but it was fun Trek capital ship battle fun.
I have one of the SNES games. It uses 3D graphics, but without the SuperFX chip (I think). Split screen mode is... slow.
I think it's this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Starfleet_Academy_Starship_Bridge_Simulator
EDIT: Yep, downloaded the ROM to verify, this is the one and only Star Trek game I own.
I'm pretty happy with STO. I've always wanted a game that covered the entire galaxy with all the major alien factions. This game is pretty close, no gamma or delta quadrant but if it stays profitable long term, they will finish fleshing out a Klingon campaign and might add the delta quadrant.
Just registered my STO Collector's Edition this weekend and just logged into the game just now. I went to the C-Store and was able to claim my Borg BOff and Red Capacitor. However I was not able to find the TNG and DS9 costumes on the C-Store to claim anywhere.
Anyone have any ideas how I can claim the costumes that are supposed to come with the CE?
Anyone have any ideas how I can claim the costumes that are supposed to come with the CE?
In that case you need one of the STF series engines. Warp 16 bizzitches.
Space combat is where this game shines. Basically you can tetermine a speed at which your ship flies and you can pretty much freely steer it around with mouse or keyboard. You have four shields (front, left, right, aft,) and you take damage to the shield depending on where the enemy hits you. So you have to keep moving during harder fights to let the damaged shield regenerate with either powers or blancaning shield energy.
You have weapons like phaser, torpedos and cannons. Additionally you have skills you get from your bridge officers which are like magical powers to debuff, buff, or shoot a barrage of torpedos etc.
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Got that green checkmark on some costumes, too, but everytime I actually try to use them, I get a "buy c-points" message. Thought they might be from the Alienware thing, so what's up with that?
Hmmm I haven't tried going to the Tailors yet.
So far I've had to click the "Claim" button on all the bonus items I get (whether from the Alienware code or the CE) on the C-Store page for the item. However, I couldn't find the C-store item listings for the TNG or DS9 costumes at all. Perhaps those costumes are automatically added and I just need to check the Tailor for them?
Think I remember seeing locked "TNG" stuff when I was outfitting my dude at the tailor (not that I can do much being a purely F2P pleb).
So far I've done the first Borg War Zone thing, then Starbase 24, and just finished the Gorn one, which was pretty damn epic I must say. Lasted for quite a long time. Quite amazed at the teamwork which 20 randoms can display against a whole shiteload of enemy ships. We mostly stuck together smashing anything that came along, and then worked at blowing up the mines in a coordinated fashion. Quickly learns you when you try and take on some ships by yourself. First real large scale space combat I've had, and yes it was awesome.
So far I've done the first Borg War Zone thing, then Starbase 24, and just finished the Gorn one, which was pretty damn epic I must say. Lasted for quite a long time. Quite amazed at the teamwork which 20 randoms can display against a whole shiteload of enemy ships. We mostly stuck together smashing anything that came along, and then worked at blowing up the mines in a coordinated fashion. Quickly learns you when you try and take on some ships by yourself. First real large scale space combat I've had, and yes it was awesome.
I really want to get a private game going so we can run through "Romulan Temple" - that ground Fleet Action can be a bitch to do, but satisfying if everyone is on form.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I must say, I was pretty surprised when I saw my tiny science vessel had a mess hall with a 20-foot ceiling.
Looking at the C-Store now, I scrolled to the right, chose Appearance, chose the Federation Uniforms subsection, and TNG uniforms are listed on the first page. DS9 the second page.
BattleMonkey
Member
I was subbed for 6 months and never actually actively grouped with anyone in game, it was a single player game for me. Only time I had to play with others was when I did a few pvp matches. Enjoyed the game but yea didn't feel worth the sub and it was extremely lacking in content since much of the content is really just randomly generated generic quests that you will see repeating itself, all the game does is change certain visual aspects to make the mission seem different.
Came back for the Foundry stuff though as it added a bunch of content that felt better than alot of the stuff the devs put into the game originally. The feature episodes were also awesome but you play through each series in one sitting and not enough of them.
Game being F2P though, it's worth jumping in once in a while...
Also, since everyone's posting their stuff, here's my dinky little ship, the U.S.S. Khan Singh II. The first one is my starter ship which I didn't have the heart to discharge yet, so I couldn't name the new one similarly.
And here's my character sitting in her ridiculously oversized chair in her ready room. It seems like all the interiors are just oversized. I know they were going for social environments, but the bridge just seems at least twice as large as it ought to be, to say nothing of the huge corridors.
Was one of my first complaints when playing the beta.
The interior art direction is just all wrong. The internals are all wrong scale-wise, and don't really have any 'solidity' to them, if that makes sense. The transporters are comical, the mess hall is like something on a giant star base than on a tiny ship.
The explanation given at the time was that it was because some player-created characters could be relatively giant etc.
BattleMonkey
Member
I think it's merely an issue with them not being able to get the corridors and ship interiors to be that small without screwing up the camera in game. Notice ALL corridors and interiors and stations are massive in size. Corridors in ship the size as we see on the TV screen series probably are just too hard to replicate with the engine since we have full camara control. We would basically have ton of black space around the screen as we mouse around the view.
Yeah even though my first time trying that map was horrible on my second try I actually had a good group. When you actually have a group that can actually work together it made a world of difference. The second time was actually fun and I might do it again.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah, I would love this game a lot more if it was single player and a lot more polished. It gives me the large levels of customization and large galaxy to explore that I enjoy.
BattleMonkey
Member
Don't worry, we have that Gears of War like Trek gaming coming! lol
Just want to verify a few things:
A) Dilithium for C-Store points: In the exchange today, I saw 279 Dilithium for 1500 C-Store points or something. That's not 279 for all the points right? It's 279 for each point for a total of like 418,000 Dilithium?
B) Should I always be training up my main crew for whatever they have available? Seems like crew member training points aren't that hard to come by. Wasn't sure if I should be saving them for when I get better quality crew members.
C) Being level 14, I know I'm still early, but where can I start to pick up more diverse crew member for missions? I am doing some, but I need alot more diverse stats to successfully finish missions different missions.
I'll probably think of more later.
A) Dilithium for C-Store points: In the exchange today, I saw 279 Dilithium for 1500 C-Store points or something. That's not 279 for all the points right? It's 279 for each point for a total of like 418,000 Dilithium?
B) Should I always be training up my main crew for whatever they have available? Seems like crew member training points aren't that hard to come by. Wasn't sure if I should be saving them for when I get better quality crew members.
C) Being level 14, I know I'm still early, but where can I start to pick up more diverse crew member for missions? I am doing some, but I need alot more diverse stats to successfully finish missions different missions.
I'll probably think of more later.
Wow I'm a complete idiot... There are multiple pages. D'oh!
Yes, getting cryptic points is a very slow and painful process if yer not outright buying them with real world money... gotta collect Dilithium for awhile
You don't have to keep training your crew if you don't want to mess with the skills they offer... bear in mind, their skills in space are limited by the console stations max ability... so while you may have promoted your crew various times, the consoles still hold back if you gave them higher abilities.
You can get more diverse crew if that's what you really want, but I stuck with the exact same 4/5 crew that was handed to me at first and just trained them up with proper skills for my play style and I made it to the top in no time.
I've asked for help getting a gamepad setup but nobody seems to have anything to offer. I couldn't even figure out how to run. lol
There's a gamepad binding guide on the STO forums somewhere, but I'm too dumb to understand what it's talking about. Perhaps it can help you?
BattleMonkey
Member
Alot of playing hehe. Yea that or poney up real world moneys
Sell items for energy credits. Run "Fleet Actions" and such for Dilithium.
I'll put together another section for the OP dealing with currencies sometime this week hopefully.
Thanks. That was a stupid question as I saw the bottom of the window say that when I went home on lunch break. :lol
I keep training them because they seem useful right now. I may be kidding myself but I figure at worst, if I'm misunderstanding things, it's not hurting me.
Sorry, I didn't use the correct term. I meant for Shipboard and Sector based assignments. I want more diverse skills to reduce my failure rates and up my critical success rates on the different types of assignments.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Bridge officers and duty officers are completely separate. There's no training of the duty officers; just getting new ones.
Use your replicator to recycle items you don't want for EC.
how?
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
The option is on the inventory screen (I believe under replicator). However, some items won't garner you any EC at all.
Escape Goat
Member
If you right click and discard you get rid of it and gain the energy cash.
The rate of return.
BigJonsson
Member
Holy fuck, answered a distress call or something and ended up with a bunch of people fighting a Borg fleet........we got all the cubes and spheres down in the time limit eventually but then the command ship completely pwned us
Escape Goat
Member
If I fly too close to the regular Cubes I get one shotted. Splosions!
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
Here's my current ship:
I liked the default name, the USS Caspian, so much that I decided to keep it.
I liked the default name, the USS Caspian, so much that I decided to keep it.
BigJonsson
Member
I'm close to level 10
I have one tactical officer, 2 engineers, 1 science
Things are finally starting to get a mildly difficult
I have one tactical officer, 2 engineers, 1 science
Things are finally starting to get a mildly difficult
jakershaker
Member
SO how do I use Attack Patterns? Where do I find the skill? From what I can find it's some kind of buff which need to be applied.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
The difficulty of this game is definitely all over the place. The most difficult mission I've had so far involved 150 year old Klingon battle cruisers. It's impossible to gauge which ships are going to give me the most trouble, and past experience is a terrible guide. Some ships are easy to destroy on one mission and impossible to destroy the next. If things are particularly difficult, I'll drop it back down to normal. But the challenge has seemed to increase drastically since level 17 or 18.
BigJonsson
Member
Evasive was on my action bar for a few levels and now I have attack pattern alpha, I'm not sure if they got there because I put some points into attack patterns or if they unlock by level
Do you usually get more from recycling or from selling to shopkeepers?
jakershaker
Member
Never had any on my action bar but just found that clicking on one of the small buttons on the side of it brings up the "choose skills" menu.
Then just drag'n'drop. But seems like patterns unlock by level, only have one now.