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Offline Odee

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Re: Star Trek Online?
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2009, 01:58:52 PM »
It's being develops by a company named Cheyanne Mountain but close to closing their doors due to lack of funds.  On top of that, the president of the company has been accused and being investigated for financial misdealings.

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Offline Warspawn

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Re: Star Trek Online?
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2009, 02:54:35 PM »
I'm in the beta now; was a CO lifetime subscriber so got an invite a couple of weeks ago.  {we're allowed to say we are in the beta, but that's about it atm...}
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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2010, 12:51:53 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8HEH7Tmvc


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« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2010, 01:01:17 PM »
Pretty much the same as here:


I'm guessing...wait and see.
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Re: Star Trek Online?
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2010, 02:52:42 PM »
Mount & Blade, then get the Star Wars Conquest mod.

Combat on speeder bikes, light sabers, blasters, you name it.

Offline Vulcan

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Re: Star Trek Online?
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2010, 06:30:38 PM »
No orion slave girls = total failure.

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« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2010, 06:44:05 PM »
No orion slave girls = total failure.

It's got Orion slave girls.  There is an episode (quest) story line involving time traveling Klingons where you have to rescue an Orion slave girl to get some information.

It's a rather fun game I've come to find while playing the closed and open beta.  Space combat is fun and surprisingly requires some tactical thought, reminds me of the ship fights from Sid Meier's Pirates! game.  Ground combat is also fun but for the most part, combat is the same as in most MMOs though at a tad faster pace. 

The addition of Bridge Officers that will act as your away team if you play solo is a nice feature and surprisingly, the AI away team isn't all that dumb and reacts well.  My away team consisted of me, 2 engineers, science officer and another tactical officer and the engineers will set up on their own a shield and phaser turret and go around regenerating any team member's personal shield while the science officer is there with her medical tri-corder healing us as we fight. If you're grouped with other players and go on a ground mission, the away team is then filled out with the players and any empty slots filled by one of the bridge officer NPCs.

The game is also heavily instanced and isn't 'free to roam' like most other MMOs and it's also very linear in design, with little exploration outside of the exploration episodes.

Still, the space combat is enjoyable enough that I'm probably going to play this game some more when it launches next week.

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Re: Star Trek Online?
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2010, 09:50:12 PM »
Mount & Blade, then get the Star Wars Conquest mod.

Combat on speeder bikes, light sabers, blasters, you name it.
that mod was a fail when i tryed it the speeder bikes moved like the horse !
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« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2010, 11:03:37 PM »
I'm definitely going to give STO a try.

We'll see how it does...
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« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2010, 11:51:28 PM »
It's got Orion slave girls.  There is an episode (quest) story line involving time traveling Klingons where you have to rescue an Orion slave girl to get some information.

So do you get some of that good green action if you rescue her? :D

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« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2010, 11:55:12 PM »
I'm messing with the open beta at the moment and having fun with it.  Playing Warspawn@Warspawn as my character if you want to send me a quick note in-game.
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« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2010, 01:42:50 AM »
I'm messing with the open beta at the moment and having fun with it.  Playing Warspawn@Warspawn as my character if you want to send me a quick note in-game.

Delavega is the name I use in there.  If you go in the game options, there is an option in there that removes the @<name> in chat.


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Re: Star Trek Online?
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2010, 03:06:37 AM »
ill try and get the open beta to try it out.

so far the youtube videos ive seen invoke nothing but 'meh' feelings on me. spaceship combat in that link you provided is just plain ...well.. dumb. 3 ships just blasting each other for 6 minutes and I dont see the guy's mouse cursor doing nothing but mash the 'shoot' key. cant target subsystems? cant try anything else BUT 'fire at the bad guy' ? gah.


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Re: Star Trek Online?
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2010, 07:07:21 AM »
So, Why do Space craft maneuver(Fly) like aircraft in space games? Air, theres NO AIR..

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« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2010, 07:25:19 AM »
Played around in the open beta for a week or so... and then cancled my pre-order  looks good but not worth the $15 a month + $45 to buy the game, or you can do a life time for $320 or 1 year A $120
Btw if you pay in Euros, the drop the $  the amound stays the same !!

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