Topic: Star Trek Online

[NWR_insanolord]

This may be a longshot, but does anyone here play Star Trek Online? I got it about a year ago, played it for a while and enjoyed it but didn't want to commit to playing enough to get my $15 worth every month. It recently went Free-to-Play, so I've gone back to it and I'm completely hooked.

The game has improved significantly since I last played it, especially the ground combat. You can now play it with shooter controls, which gives it a kind of Mass Effect vibe. You really feel like you're in the Star Trek universe, with lots of fan-servicey touches and a story that takes place in the original timeline that follows up on the destruction of Romulus that kicked off the recent movie.

This is my first MMO, so I don't really have anything to compare it to, but I'm really liking it. Any Trek fans here should definitely check it out now that it's free, and if you do make sure to post here so we can get together and do some missions together.

[Chozo Ghost]

destruction of Romulus that kicked off the recent movie.

Actually, it was Vulcan that was destroyed.

No, I haven't played it.

[NWR_insanolord]

Vulcan was destroyed in the new timeline; Romulus was destroyed post-Nemesis in the original timeline. That's why Spock went back in time: to prevent that from happening.

And you should play it. It's really good if you like Star Trek.

[Chozo Ghost]

Hmm, its been a few years since I've seen those movies. I thought in Nemesis it was just a moon or something that blew up?

I might give it a shot. I was playing Mass Effect 2 recently and it made me miss the fact there haven't been any decent Star Trek games in a long time. I remember one way back on the Super Nintendo made by Spectrum Holobyte which was pretty good and had a similar feel to it as Mass Effect where you navigate the ship to planets and then you can choose your away team/squad and then beam down and do whatever needs to be done. We need more Star Trek games which are about exploration and things like that instead of some generic HALO FPS shooter.

[NWR_insanolord]

Sorry, I might not have phrased it clearly enough; it didn't happen in Nemesis, it happened after Nemesis in the original timeline. This game happens even later than that, in the early 25th century. The fall of the Romulan Empire followed by a Klingon invasion of the Gorn led to an end to the alliance between the Klingons and the Federation, and eventually open warfare between the two powers. In the game you can play as a Klingon or a Federation officer, and there's a lot of player-vs-player content that I haven't gotten into yet.

Because of that, there's a lot of combat in this game, but you'll also get diplomatic, exploration and scientific missions (at least if you play Federation like I did). Combat is all action-based, with space combat being similar to a lot of previous PC Star Trek games, such as the Starfleet Command series, and ground combat being essentially a third-person shooter with the new control scheme.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I am getting back into playing this.

[Kairon]

I am really tempted to try this out, even though I'm not a big Star Trek fan.

[NWR_insanolord]

Well it's free to play, so the only thing you have to lose is your time. I think it's a good game on its own, but the Star Trek trappings are a big part of the appeal for me.

[Morari]

I gave it a try the other day. It felt pretty much like any other MMO... which is to say I quit playing after an excruciatingly boring couple of hours. The graphics are terrible, the controls are sluggish, the combat might as well be turn based, and the objectives are about as mundane as you can get. This is pretty much how I feel after trying every MMO, though. Chances are it's worth a look if you actually like the genre.

On the plus side, the character creation portion seemed pretty robust... especially if you're creating a random alien-of-the-week type of person. On the downside, you don't even get access to the Klingon Empire until you go through the first 25 levels as Starfleet.

[oohhboy]

Gave this a shot about a month ago. Got around 5 hours in before an update rolled in. Updated and ever since then the game refuses to play. It doesn't work in WINE, VMs or real windows anymore. Splash logo then cryptic oops. Rubbish log files with extremely generic errors. Yes, you told me this is an Hogg error, now which one?

The ship combat is nice. It generally requires some thought to it and is satisfying to a point when you manoeuvre the ship just right to get a torpedo pass the shields directly into the hull. Ground combat however is pretty terrible. It degenerates into the usual WOW style melee. Turning on shooter mode doesn't help since it doesn't remotely feel like a shooter and it certainly doesn't play like one.

Overall it felt like a singleplayer game slaped with Pollock style MMO paint. I would play it some more if the game would start for the ship to ship combat. But I can't see myself ever spending any money on this in anyway or form.

[Spak-Spang]

Vulcan was destroyed in the new timeline; Romulus was destroyed post-Nemesis in the original timeline. That's why Spock went back in time: to prevent that from happening.

And you should play it. It's really good if you like Star Trek.

Actually, Spock never went back in time on purpose.  He was dragged into the black hole with the Romulus mining ship.  Being sent back in time was an accident by both parties involved Spock and the Romulans.  However, because how the Black Hole worked the Romulans came back to the past first and waited for Spock ambushing him.