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By: Blue Kae » Blog Archive » Maximum Warp

Blue Kae » Blog Archive » Maximum Warp — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:26:10 +0000

[...] previous thoughts on the game haven’t changed. I wasn’t expecting a virtual world sandbox game. I [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:38:48 +0000

There are tons of places you can try to get a free beta key from, there’s a list on the STO site. Feel free to message me on Raptr or Twitter if you wanted to know anything specific.

By: xXJayeDuBXx

xXJayeDuBXx — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:42:12 +0000

I am most interested in the space combat, but worried that the game will have content similar to Champions Online.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:27:46 +0000

I like the character animation a lot more in Champions than in Star Trek, that said I did find myself not as bothered when playing last night by the STO character animations as I was previously. I’m not sure if it is because I’m getting used to them, because I didn’t spend anytime on stations, or just running small map combat away missions.

By: Sente

Sente — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:39:26 +0000

Cryptic has done far better animations in both Champions Online and City of Heroes/Villains – it has been one thing that they have been quite good at. Ground combat used to be faster than it is now, they deliberately slowed it down to give room for more tactical choices, and added the pause button on top of that.

Either it is intentional, or not enough effort has gone into it yet – or they put the gfx team interns on it

By: Star Trek Online Impressions Wrapup « Bio Break

Star Trek Online Impressions Wrapup « Bio Break — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:24:26 +0000

[...] Blue Kae – “I am happy with what I’ve experienced so far in closed and open beta.” [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:54:32 +0000

I would be more worried if this was an NCSoft game, but Cryptic doesn’t have the same record (yet) of closing down under performing games. Hopefully as long as they stay at break-even or midly profitable (like the old SOE comment about having enough players to keep the servers running) the game will stay up.

Only time will tell, but I’m having fun now and that is what really matters to me.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:53:33 +0000

STO is definitely not the take on the ST Universe that the TV series had. I think this might disappoint a lot of Trekkies who envisioned more a Bioware style rich storyline driven gaming world.

But Cryptic – probably unintentional? – uses the strength of instances, “one world” and very casual (you got killed? you simply respawn) gameplay that might scare away more ambitious players, but it definitely has appeal to me.

Most groups I have played with were very nice. Except the group I formed at what is supposedly american prime time for gaming! Ha, this was my nasty Nazi-bashing of America. Sorry, I could not resist.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:50:40 +0000

I’m not a fan of the officer running animations either, but like you they don’t really bother me. The only animations I’ve ever had a real problem with were Warhammer’s Shadow Warriors.

That’s pretty interesting about your WoW buddy, had he actually been in the beta yet?

I haven’t decided yet if the combat will get old for me. Really depends on how obsessively I play, but I stayed interested in CoH for quite a while and Champions as well, so I think I’ll be okay with STO for quite some time. Depending on how the game grows, by the time I’m sick of combat there may be other things to do. That was certainly the case of LotRO.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:48:29 +0000

I might have unsubscribed, but I also cancelled my Guild Wars Preorder before I bought the CE in the end. Did not regret it. I think interesting relationships always start with a lot of friction. This does not mean I believe I will ever love the away missions part.

But let’s see. You will see me in the Beta a lot for sure.