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Don't you just hate it when you beat up the bad guys, down the bosses, run to get your loot and bam, kicked out to login screen. :) I love beta's. heheh
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Always wait for the 2nd service pack before you deploy.. oh wait.. nvm
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I also played WoW since [open] beta, but I have canceled my account several times. I just get burned out on it. What you need to know about STO: It uses the same kind of formula for missions that you're accustomed to. You pick up a mission or two, head out, and do what needs to be done. Where it's a little better than the average MMO is that you have space combat and ground combat. This isn't like your character in a siege vehicle or on the back of some drake, it's a major part of the game and has it's own skillset dedicated to it. Also, as the content is all entirely new, you'll probably actually read or listen to what's going on in the story. Personally, I was rushed a couple of times due to environmental hazards, so I had to read faster than I wanted, but I go the gist and headed out. Hopefully the types of mission variance will allow for different encounters in the game and there will be enough of a challenge w/o being Pass/Fail (gear check) encounters. If it's same story, different sector (think CoH), then it will get old pretty fast. |
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This is just a dog's breakfast MMO. So buggy and meaningless.
General Discussion « Star Trek Online 1/15/10 4:49:49 PM
...because we've all played end level content to know that the beginner areas are fully representative of the entire game. Good call man, good call.
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I think the HUGE bridge that I'm noticing people can't get across is that this isn't the Star Trek game they would have designed. STO was developed by Cryptic, so they made choices about how they wanted their game to run. For whatever reasons they had, they made decisions that caused the game to be where it is today. So now as gamers, you decide, do you like this game or don't you? Yes, it's Star Trek, but that doesn't mean it needs to fit a specific formula to be Star Trek. I'm more of a Star Wars fan. I really enjoyed Star Wars Galaxies when it was released. I enjoyed it when Jump to Lightspeed came out. I kind of stopped enjoying it when they started changing it from the game I liked to something else. The final nail was when they went to a class based system. I quit playing it. It was still Star Wars, but it wasn't a Star Wars game I wanted to play. The point is that I understand what you're saying. This game is definitely a "phaser" game. I've seen a few phaser-less interactions in my brief couple of days playing, but in general, I can agree with the assessment. Is it ready to be released? Not the STO I'm playing. Would I play it right now if it were released and I had pre-ordered it and paid for it already? Sure. There are still plenty of enjoyable things to do (to me) in the game. The "character" depth in this game is really interesting. Not only do you choose your skills, you choose the skills of your individual officers. You also choose your ship (eventually) and all the components that it can be equipped with. The character depth and development is something I'm interested in. That's "RPG" to me. I do understand your points Slysar, although I may not have conveyed that. What I can accept that you can't, is that there isn't enough in this game that's broken so that I don't get enjoyment from my time in game. If my tolerance for the game was less, then I would definitely wait. I've done that for many MMO's in the past. |
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I upped my hype from a 2.0 to a 10.0 as it's currently the ONLY game I'm actually interested in that I think has a chance at lasting more than a couple of months. I'm sure others will take this time to 1.0 hype it, but hey, that's up to them. :) |
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I initially tried the official torrent link as well and it was horribly slow, around 3-40KB if I remember correctly. I ended up getting it from FileShack for around 600-700KB (much better). You may want to give up on the torrent if it's having issues. |
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I thought it was pretty cool when I did a team mission in space and then we all beamed down and completed the ground part as well. No hassle finding a group. No queue to get it done, just auto-grouping and handing it to the enemy. |
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Cool, but this was already posted. |
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"Go to my bridge" is about the lamest thing in this game in my opinion. Let me rant on this for just a second please. When Star Wars Galaxies was released, there weren't any ships in the game. But a year later they released Jump to Lightspeed. This was space combat like the old X-Wing or Tie Fighter versus X-Wing games. The real difference was that it was an MMO, and oh yeah, YOU COULD WALK AROUND ON YOUR MULTI-PASSENGER SHIPS!!!! This was the coolest thing ever! You get out of your seat and walk to a window and you could actually see space battles taking place, or the traffic around the area at least. Also, there wasn't a LOADING screen. How is it that SOE got this so right all those years ago, yet STO has such a miserable implementation? Honestly, they should have left this out of the game because it demonstrates the flaw in their overall design. Well, I guess if you've played beta you know that your spaceship is actually about knee height, so unless they shrink everyone in space, free-roaming on a real vessel isn't going to happen. This isn't a deal breaker for me, but it's a HUGE slap in the face to STO that it couldn't get something write that was already accomplished in a MUCH older game (October 2004!!!!!!) Anyway, I guess my thoughts on this are pretty clear so no need to continue on. |
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Well, if I'm not going to play a game, I typically don't haunt that games' forums here on MMORPG.com. It's almost as bad as politics and religion when it comes to games people like and don't like. Once people develop opinions, they tend to stick to their guns, write or wrong, good or bad. I try not to get too defensive about games I enjoy, but I do like to present opposing arguments when I see them as valid. |
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Well, they really need to work with nvidia so that the latest and greatest drivers work best with the game. It's much more acceptable for a company to tell you to update your drivers to resolve performance issues instead of being told to roll back to old drivers. |
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I had to scroll down past your avatar to read your review. It kept looking at me. Stop it! |
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You could add Vanguard to that list as well.
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Where did you pre-order STO and why did you pre-order from that *store*? (ex: Was it the perk? If so, why that perk over the others?)
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dude, thanks! JIH MUSHA SOH! |
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There was a dev that made a post about this and so I tried as well, it seems to have helped a lot. I'm running Win 7 64bit. I actually already had this version downloaded as it was a previous version installed, so I just reinstalled it. |
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It's OB! There, I said it. Now I'm going to get on with my criticism. It's not ready for primetime. OB should be final clean up. It should be stress testing. There shouldn't be load screens taking forever. There shouldn't be "use nvidia's 6 month old driver b/c the new one's are causing lag." There really shouldn't. I like the premise of the game, but like we've talked about in the forums here, in countless threads, it's just not ready. The game is being released before it's ready for someone who just dropped $50+ to expect their monies worth. The first 30 days that's free with the box are really a consolation prize to an incomplete MMO. It shouldn't be. Again, I actually like the game, but the polish that needs to be there is missing. btw, this entire post and this edit, was made during a single loading screen to get to Andorian space. |
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Are there scenario's where you simply drop in and start firing? Really? I haven't seen those. Usually ships are already engaged in combat or the enemy ships are bording friendly ships. The federation usually doesn't fire first. This doesn't mean they wouldn't fire first in a war situation. When the borg are in your sector, there's usually little time to talk. When Klingon's are attacking homeworlds in your sector of space, it's war. I guess I should ask, in what mission do you drop in and immediately start firing on a ship where a peaceful diplomatic solution was in order? |
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