RPGCrazied
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So, what time you think they will have it up tomorrow? Morning, afternoon or evening?
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Star Trek Online Free to Play |OT| Boldly freeloading where others have subbed before
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BattleMonkey
Member
What didnt you like? They have added alot, the core game is the same outside of the ground combat is faster now. Newer content is better and less repetitive but all the old content still suffers from way too much combat with tons of waves of bad guys and such. User content is often pretty good with some even better ideas than what the devs have put in the game. Little improvements everywhere
Sickboy007
Member
After coming back and playing for a few hours yesterday i'd say the biggest improvement is how the content is presented to you. Still have to try the user created missions.
Only if you deleted your characters yourself. Otherwise you should still have access.
BigJonsson
Member
Do you have to buy the game files or is it a free download as well?
RPGCrazied
Member
Free. You can go download it right now, just can't log in until tomorrow.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Downloading now. I hope I didn't delete my character from early access.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Yeah I was going to start a new one anyway but I wanted to copy the look of my old one. He looked pretty damn cool.
RPGCrazied
Member
Dunno. But the launcher now says it'll be down for 2 hours for maintenance tomorrow. .... wait. It says holodeck. Is that a server name or what?
RPGCrazied
Member
Someone says you can. Though they said you don't get cube ships.
Seriously, the one faction that should be playable, is borg. I'd so be on the bad side for them!You can, but I think it's one of the races you have to unlock for C-Points. You get all the standards for free, but to get... I want to say a liberated Borg or a Caitian (cat dude), or to play as a Klingon in the Federation, you need to use C-points.
If you don't have any, you can trade for some using dilithium, explained in the OP.
I played this at launch and liked it, though the ground combat sucked and it was too damn broken for me to justify paying another month. I've been back in on the early ex-subscriber access, and it's noticeably improved. Not a whole different game, but the interface has been much improved, the skill tree is streamlined in a good way, they've added the Duty Officer system (which is, essentially, like when you send out assassins to do missions in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood), crafting is a lot easier to figure out, there are tons of pretty decent user-generated missions, and they improved the ground combat and added a "shooter mode" of control for it.
I made some dumb videos a couple days back, which are just me screwing around in the game a bit.
Space Navigation and Combat
Ground Combat
Oh Good,and yeah I'm going to start fresh I just want to keep my crew colors and naming scheme down. Probably going to try Escort side although I will miss my final cruiser and how boss it was.
This game looks pretty awesome. I'll definitely be trying it tomorrow. If there's a GAF fleet, count me in!
Quick question: I heard from somewhere that this game actually has missions that continue the Star Trek story (i.e. Picard becomes an Admiral and Data becomes Captain of the Enterprise). Is this true?
Quick question: I heard from somewhere that this game actually has missions that continue the Star Trek story (i.e. Picard becomes an Admiral and Data becomes Captain of the Enterprise). Is this true?
RPGCrazied
Member
Is it true you can trade the ingame currency for cstore points? So in theory, you could get other ships if you had the earned money?
I think so, or if not trade for C-store points, you can trade for the items that C-store points unlock, but you'd probably be trading at a really bad exchange rate. How badly do you want to grind to save a few bucks?
100% true, though it's a few decades past any of the shows, so you don't tend to run into the actual characters THAT often.
The game takes place in the original timeline, showing what happens after the Hobus supernova and Spock's disappearance.
The Path to 2409
DiscoJer
Member
Woot! That's what I wanted to know.
I really wish more F2P games used Steam, so many of them have really dodgy downloading sites, and while presumably they have to give Valve a cut, it's better than infecting people with Pando or simply not being able to download it at all...
RPGCrazied
Member
Dunno. But the client I installed was only like 3.6 gigs. Tried logging in just a sec ago for the hell of it, and had an update of like 109megs.
I'm sure we will have to download more tomorrow. Someone in this thread with the game that plays, says his install is around 10gigs.
Why is it weird? Maybe people who get bored with SWTOR after their "free" month will try STO since it's free.
At least STO feels very different than most MMOs, with ship combat providing a distinctly sci-fi and tactical feel to combat not typically seen in MMOs.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
You should be good, I've booted up my Steam client yesterday with no problems.
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Hmm. This is kindof a wierd situation for me.
When it first came out I really wanted to play this, but decided my money was best spent elsewhere. Now that it's out all I really want to play is Star Wars TOR but don't want to spend money on that one either.
I don't know if I can play this if all im going to think about is how the SWTOR players are playing the newer fancier game...
When it first came out I really wanted to play this, but decided my money was best spent elsewhere. Now that it's out all I really want to play is Star Wars TOR but don't want to spend money on that one either.
I don't know if I can play this if all im going to think about is how the SWTOR players are playing the newer fancier game...
Perfect timing with the free month ending on the same day. At least for me.
If it's any consolation, SWTOR is much more WoW-like than STO so STO will be a more different experience if you played WoW before.
STO is pretty great, particularly the lore and spaceship combat. I recommend you play STO instead until SWTOR goes F2P inevitably.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah, I made the observation last night that STO is more creative and more janky, while TOR is more polished and safe, just like the original properties they were based on, badum-tish!
AlimNassor
Banned
Game looks awesome but my PC cant run it ):
Really? I thought it had low requirements.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
I'm disappointed with how they handled the Klingons. Departing from the course that DS9 had set, with Martok as chancellor, is a bad way to create conflict within the game.
The client is 3.7 GB and the downloader is pretty speedy.
Yet it was inevitable IMO.
The Klingons are always itching for war. Martok was a hero of the Dominion War and a great general, but he was no politician, and ultimately politicians always steal back power. I think the way the Klingons went mirrors almost exactly what was happening during the middle seasons of Deep Space 9 where the Klingons got aggressive and started a war to claim Cardassian territory under the false premise of ousting Changeling infiltrators. As Worf said in DS9, even if it was a Changeling Martok that started the call for war, the Klingon people were already very trigger happy and itching for a fight and would have likely started one soon anyways regardless of outside influence.
In STO, the Klingons waging war on the Gorn had the same premise, only it was the Undine they were claiming to be ousting. However, unlike their war with Cardassia, they managed to win and conquer the Gorn and make them a vassal empire, along with the Nausicaans and Orion Syndicate. This development makes a lot of sense, the Gorn, Nausicaans and the Orions are pretty big brawlers with aggression issues and they fit right in as vassals of the Klingons.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
It's a retread of the very same themes that DS9 already covered. It's also a betrayal of Martok's entire character arc, which is of a leader who has greatness thrust upon him and must bring honor back to the empire. There is nothing inevitable or not inevitable about history; I just wish that they would've found something interesting to do with the ideas established at the end of DS9.
Including anything from Voyager was also a mistake.
At this point you're asking the impossible. They're not going to leave out any of the shows.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
I was under the impression that fans didn't even like that species. I also didn't mean to imply that Voyager had nothing compelling to offer, just very little.