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Star Trek: Bridge Crew - PSVR/OR/VIVE
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theosi
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I have this on the Vive, and just got done with a couple of missions with a full crew. All I could say after completing my first mission was "this is surreal!". What a trip to be sitting in the helm seat, and piloting this fake starship while executing orders from the Captain chasing down Klingons.
One of the best moments was battling a Klingon Warbird to get its shields down so we could beam this device from the Klingon ship to our ship. In the battle, we lost our shields and started taking hull damage, so the Engineer put all power to weapons, to assist the Tactical crew member to burn their shields down faster. Once their shields were down, I was able to lock onto the device, beam it over, and plot a warp course out of the system to complete the mission.
One piece of advice to all new crew members is to go through the tutorial and learn each crew's role! When you join a lobby for the first time you may be the last one to pick which role you want, so having some idea of how to perform your job duties will go along way to being a productive team member or Captain.
One of the best moments was battling a Klingon Warbird to get its shields down so we could beam this device from the Klingon ship to our ship. In the battle, we lost our shields and started taking hull damage, so the Engineer put all power to weapons, to assist the Tactical crew member to burn their shields down faster. Once their shields were down, I was able to lock onto the device, beam it over, and plot a warp course out of the system to complete the mission.
One piece of advice to all new crew members is to go through the tutorial and learn each crew's role! When you join a lobby for the first time you may be the last one to pick which role you want, so having some idea of how to perform your job duties will go along way to being a productive team member or Captain.
I would suggest for people getting this game to use the motion controls. It really just feels much more immersive with them.
Okay this game kinda blindsided me in how good it is. That first moment going into the game and seeing the menu screen console was amazing. Did the first mission with a random crew, the captain had already played it so I think that took a bit out of the fun as he was being super serious. Admittedly we did great all things considered.
HOLY SHIT, THIS GAME
They made me captain on my first mission and I was playing a total clueless Starfleet Academy graduate, half Wesley, half Morty. At the last section of the first mission you have to go
They made me captain on my first mission and I was playing a total clueless Starfleet Academy graduate, half Wesley, half Morty. At the last section of the first mission you have to go
rescue the Kobayashi Maru. I was like "OKAY GUYS I GOT THIS, I SAW A MOVIE ALL ABOUT THIS EXACT SITUATION. TACTICAL, HACK THE SIMULATOR"
"Captain I don't think I can do that"
"TACTICAL, LOCK ON AND BLAST THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF THE KOBAYASHI MARU"
Everyone else: "YEAHHHHHH!"
(Kobayashi Maru explodes, mission instantly ends)
Tutorial guy is like "IT'S THAT KIND OF PROBLEM SOLVING IN A NO-WIN SITUATION THAT MAKES YOU THE BEST"
"Captain I don't think I can do that"
"TACTICAL, LOCK ON AND BLAST THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF THE KOBAYASHI MARU"
Everyone else: "YEAHHHHHH!"
(Kobayashi Maru explodes, mission instantly ends)
Tutorial guy is like "IT'S THAT KIND OF PROBLEM SOLVING IN A NO-WIN SITUATION THAT MAKES YOU THE BEST"
You should get an e-mail with the Steam-code. Add it to your steam library and when launched it'll connect to uplay.
I'm usually hesitant on Co-op with people I don't know, but for this I very likely will play some. As soon as all the little nagging issues are resolved for me anyway.
Digital PSVR version? I don't think that's possible.
Stayed up til 1am playing this.
So good.
A lot of folks just diving straight into the game without playing the tutorial, which is unexpectedly hilarious.
As the captain you really do need to put your foot down sometimes to make a success of things. For the timid, engineering seems like an easy/passive role.
So good.
A lot of folks just diving straight into the game without playing the tutorial, which is unexpectedly hilarious.
As the captain you really do need to put your foot down sometimes to make a success of things. For the timid, engineering seems like an easy/passive role.
Valve has actually increased their support turn around times by quite a bit
When TotalBiscuit visited Valve he was actually told Valve hired 2 external companies to handle most support tickets although there are still a small group of Valve employees that handle more advanced issues.
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Don't have a psvr but an watching streams of this on twitch and am thinking now is the time.
ranmafan
Member
Wow sounds like this is getting lots of great impressions. Makes me so excited as I just got word mine is shipping sooner than I was led to believe earlier. Anyone have any plans on doing an OT for the game? Would be nice to have for people to let others know their PSN names and such to join games and all. I know I'm going to need to find gamers to play with once my copy arrives in a few days.
What are you watching?
Nothing on my email either, other than the paypal receipt. It was the first place i looked when the game didn't show up in my library.
Tumle
Member
Thanks for the info it helped a lot 😊 Just played a couple of matches coop! So much fun
So I'm guessing no one else has had issues with body position, and the console being too far down?
Checked junkmail and such as well? Mine arrived right away as I ordered.
Checked junkmail and such as well? Mine arrived right away as I ordered.
I too had some minor troubles with that on PSVR, but even a colleague of mine on Vive, which whom I played yesterday, said the same. He mentioned Captain was particularly difficult to control becaus of that.
I checked my camera, Move still had plenty of trackable room below, but I couldn't sometimes reach stuff. What I did was sitting bolt upright, stretching my neck, calibrating, and then back to playing in a relaxed position.
I checked my camera, Move still had plenty of trackable room below, but I couldn't sometimes reach stuff. What I did was sitting bolt upright, stretching my neck, calibrating, and then back to playing in a relaxed position.
I'm on the Vive as well. Out of curiousity, how tall are you?
I can't see how that matters sitting, but my height is 195cm.
It's a great game, if anything the star trek angle is underplayed as it doesn't have the music or most of the races, and the ship is an original one too.
FTL feels very different, you don't move about the ship at all or see any of it other than the cockpit. Even as an engineer you access the various systems via one control panel. You do feel connected to the outside universe, structural damage and so forth happens. But yer, you don't really feel like you are piloting an actual functioning ship as your interactions are too abstracted.
FTL is probably the worst example I could think of. Anyway since this is most likely a multiplayer focused game, how in depth is the single player? Is there a "survival mode" type where missions are randomly generated and it gets harder?
The taller torso maybe? I don't know, trying to figure out why some seem to have the issue while others don't. I mean, I've seen people playing infront of their desks pretty much.
Frustrated_Grunt
Member
If the shield is at max power and 100% repaired, there's nothing else the engineer can do to help when they're depleted right? Or am I missing something.
Any good anecdotes or places to read them?
So when will we get Star Trek: Away Team expansion with Aim support? 
Woah... I didn't even know this was cross-play... oh my.
Woah... I didn't even know this was cross-play... oh my.
CloakedPuppet
Member
Jumped in to just try this out last night and 2 hours just melted away. Game is freaking awesome and cross play is seamless. So much fun!
SoldierIce64
Member
Started playing it this morning, really fun so far. Hopefully it sells really well, we need more VR games like this.
Neuromancer
Member
I played last night with randoms and we had a blast. Everyone was good natured and was making funny hand gestures and generally being very silly. We did pretty well until we didn't and shit went sideways but that was fun too. One of the coolest experiences I've had in VR, ever.
And you can identify the difficulty setting by the uniforms - on the highest difficulty, everyone is wearing a red shirt.So when will we get Star Trek: Away Team expansion with Aim support?
Octavianus
Banned
NPC helm guy sucks at flying. Holy shit.
Feeroper
Member
I did a drop in game last night but I hadn't played the tutorial so I had no idea what I was doing. Everyone else did though so I was holding them back. They were good natured about it, but I got booted understandably. I thought it would be very easy to pick up but the tutorial is definitely a must!
This game has been amazing though! I was totally taken aback by the level of detail in the gameplay and how well it simulates a bridge crew. If you are a trek fan this will be a dream come true for you. This is definitely a great argument for the benefit/viability of VR!
This game has been amazing though! I was totally taken aback by the level of detail in the gameplay and how well it simulates a bridge crew. If you are a trek fan this will be a dream come true for you. This is definitely a great argument for the benefit/viability of VR!
get2sammyb
Member
Can you play this sitting down?
It's a sitting down game. Doesn't take advantage of room space tracking at all, you are glued to the chair.
richard_wiggler
Member
I played a mission as helm with 3 randos before getting roped in to some PUBG with some friends. I only wish more of my friends had VR, because it was a lot of fun.
Although after playing, the VR doesn't feel absolutely necessary. I think the game could definitely be played on a traditional screen. Maybe they plan to update with traditional controls when numbers start getting low?
I played on Vive with the motion controllers, how is it with a normal controller?
Although after playing, the VR doesn't feel absolutely necessary. I think the game could definitely be played on a traditional screen. Maybe they plan to update with traditional controls when numbers start getting low?
I played on Vive with the motion controllers, how is it with a normal controller?
A desk chair with wheels is probably best too. Will simulate the closest to what your avatar is sitting on.
yeah, if I even lean back too far on my chair I get "outside of tracking" warning.
From what a PS4 user said in one of my lobbies, it sounds like the controller takes a big part of the fun away. He said you have to toggle through console options.
Pretending to throw Hadokens with my avatar never gets old.
Yeah, nothing in Junkmail either, but i had gotten to code from the customer support when i woke up so everything is fine now.
SuperPoncho
Neo Member
Well ordered this today from Amazon based on this thread. With prime discount 54$ CAD seemed ok from a deal perspective
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