http://www.startrekonline.com/

This game looks alright, and space combat looks pretty intense. I would prefer to try it in the beta before buying a game with a monthly fee, but it seems to me like all keys are gone.

Looks OK, still Im not a fan of Star Trek (although I liked the new film). Wish there would be capital ships command simulator based singleplayer game set in star wars universe.

I have played the beta and absolutely love the game. I have even gone so far as to pre-order it.

Pros:
The space combat is amazing - you have to keep track of where you focus your energy, watch your shields, keep th eenemy within your firing arcs, and at the same time be shooting them. Even for someone who hasn't really cared much about Star Trek for several years, the ability to shoot different types of beams and torpedoes is cool. The special abilities are fun to use to your advantage in combat also.

The ground combat is great too - you get to run around doing various objectives and fighting plenty of enemies. The problem I have is that you can't just click to shoot, there's a cooldown after every burst, beam, or whatever. This MMO ground fighting is a different kind of 3rd person combat for me.

The customization, abilities, and ranks were all very fun to toy with. I prefer a game with the maximum amount of customization, and this game has it. You can change anything from creating your own character to designing your own ship.

The graphics were fine, I didn't put mine up very high, but the game still looked very polished.

The main plot is well thought, but I won't get too much into that, no spoilers. The missions are also seem very much like the TV episodes, but there's a lot more combat.

Cons:
It takes forever to get from one system to another.

The game was still pretty bugged up in the beta, but I hope these problems are fixed up before release.

Some little things are not what they could be, such as bridges, diplomatic missions, etc.

Overall a 9/10 for the beta, and I'm hoping a 10/10 for the actual release.



BTW, if anyone on the west coast lives near a Del Taco and could grab me one of those codes and pm it to me, I'd love them. Who doesn't want a shuttlecraft pet?

I mostly agree with Silva. I didn't like ground combat as much as space, but it was pretty fun, especially when playing with other people instead of your AI redshirts. Space combat is also significantly better with other people (especially friends with some kinda voice chat going on), and never, ever got old for me. I got a cruiser about halfway through the beta, and came out #1 at pretty much every Fleet Action after that. And on that note, Fleet Actions are AWESOME! Plus, I could swear to you I played with Leeroy Jenkins in the "Break The Planet" one, mostly because he decided that waiting for the rest of the fleet before attacking the Klingon flagship & dreadnoughts was unnecessary. It was kinda funny, actually, we had like a dozen ships waiting just out of range of the Klingons, waiting for everyone to get there, and this random dude in a starter ship just flies out of the crowd, firing at the flagship. Of course, he got owned in about 3 seconds, but the rest of us followed his lead out of confusion, and actually succeeded in destroying the Klingons. Twas pretty epic.

In my opinion, the game didn't stop feeling like a drawn-out tutorial until I got to the second tier of ships. It didn't feel like that at the time, but after I got my cruiser, it took about 6 Negh'Var shooting me at once to take me down. I imagine escorts and science vessels are also good for their respective classes (why wouldn't they be?). The starting ships are great for, well, starters, but they start to suck pretty quickly. Though I guess that's why you keep a team with you. And, true, the beta was super buggy for most of the time, but they fixed almost all of the bugs within the last week of the beta.

Also, since I'm a fan of any game that lets me customize anything, I donno how much time I spent customizing my character, ship & crew. I invented my own race (like 99.99% of people who played the beta; the other 0.01% probably picked Vulcans... nerds), and created a uniform that I really liked. Of course, every time I acquired a new bridge officer, they'd have to wear the same uniform. lol

Not sure what all to say. I loved it, that'll do. Since it'll probably be at least 4 months until I get to play it, I didn't bother pre-ordering. Though I've been looking forward to this game for a very long time.

Nie reviews,Guys
i also purchased a Beta key but i missed to activate it due to some private Issues.
Im way interested and sure will take a look on this MMO.
btw:Nice Avatar,Raptor

Beta tested this, and it really wasn't my cup of tea. I'll give Cryptic this, they're really good at Beta crunch-time. Practically every problem I had with the game was fixed in the last week or so of testing, but in the end I just wasn't all that happy with it.

I think it's the away missions that did me in. It was less "Go where no man has gone before" and more "Beat up 5 groups of lizardmen, then collect two boxes, then beat up a group of Klingons".

I'll agree with you on the space portion, though. Very, very fun and more tactical than you would expect. The larger battles are a real blast, and the customization is quite good. I'd ask for more ship types, but I'm not actually sure if there's more canonical ships to use, so I can forgive that grievance.

Far too grindy for my taste, but it has potential. Shall be keeping an eye on it as it progresses.

Okay, checked the date to make sure I wouldn't get into trouble for bumping a topic.

My stance on Star Trek Online? It's one of the few games that made me feel like I was a part of the Star Trek franchise. It was quite awesome to beta for it. Yes, it had a lot of bugs, but MANY upon MANY people reported those. And I believe it's shaping up to be an awesome game. Sure, no final game will be without its bugs, but you shouldn't judge a game for slight bugs that really should not be much of an issue, unless they REALLY messed up gameplay. (I kinda did like Space more than ground, but ground was my more major...thing... lol)

I absolutely loved Beta testing and I hope Cryptic is happy for the feedback they got during both closed AND open beta. The fact that you can name your ship and give it its own registry is awesome. My uniform had a TOS style red (I only kept red because I'm the tactical type, plus during TNG/DS9/VOY beyond had red as Tactical and Command).

Overall, I'm going to go with Silva on this. As for the thing on the homepage, which I MAJORLY disagree with...meh. Wish it'd go away, cause it kinda makes me irritated for some reason. And I rarely get irritated. Meh, I don't visit the main page often anyways. *shrugs*

RevanSithLord wrote:As for the thing on the homepage, which I MAJORLY disagree with...meh. Wish it'd go away, cause it kinda makes me irritated for some reason. And I rarely get irritated. Meh, I don't visit the main page often anyways. *shrugs*

What are you referring to?

Anyway, I have this key thingy for a day 10 free trial. I'll trade it with someone for a Del Taco Shuttlecraft key (although I'll probably wind up giving it away for free).

The combat on both ground and in space has become so much more intense and is so much more fun now that I have reached Commander. Even near the end of Ltn. Commander the missions got better and better. The problem with reviews is that they only play for an hour, then judge. This game takes a little bit of time to pick up.

I'm a bit late here, but hey, I was trying to get money for a subscription. At any rate, IMO, the game - though a bit slow and grindy at first - quickly picks up around Lieutenant Commander, as noted above. On a related note, regarding the GT home page, the reports of constant game-breaking glitches seem rather...exaggerated. Short of typos, I don't think I've seen any glitches at all since the Beta ended. Furthermore, though there are only two factions, the Federation at least - I haven't tried the Klingons - has around ten playable races and an in-depth species creator.

Also, forgive me if I'm interpreting this incorrectly, but from my reading it seems that the topic on the home page was written by people who haven't actually played the game, and are basing their criticism largely on raging trolls. Are they really the most reliable source of information?

I havent played it yet, no game site has given the game reviews above a 63 rating yet.In alot of cases $9 spongebob games are ranked higher on 90% of the real game sites... most players i polled in their forums said they will not be renewing their contract next month. The details I posted were from the forums and polls i made on the official site for STO and the steam forums and although some people enjoy the slow grind game and must be blind to the issues... ill say most of the feedback online (anywhere) about sto is negative and even more recently comparing the game to champions online, which will soon share the same servers as STO for an upcoming server merge. The game is now $10 off any version and free items... 2 weeks into launch and already downloadable updates and content are for purchase for the game from in game stores. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this mmo will not be around long and if players do remain its only that they were "lucky" enough to get lifetimer subs...so my main page news is more a warning to people I care about then a "players experience", its more of a general view from most players on most websites , everywhere ...online....who do play or have already quit. As of today the bug issues, down servers, time issues with purcashes and quests that require 50 million kills from the same 5 models of mobs...are still rampant. If you like rinse and repeat mmos please write a proper review of your opinion of STO I would love to share it with others and see what kind of feedback it gets...i just think most people see thru the "get your very own 1970s original trek shirt" and want some decent content, for instance for someone who played swg for years, the depth in that game is literally never going to be somthing sto can offer, no matter what, even the dev/publisher are turning heads from this title and thats the same reason atari dropped it like a bomb mid alpha....im a fanboi of space games too but making a single square room as the "bridge" of your own ship in STO and making it so boring no one wants to go there is just sad and scammy in my opinion. same things with races , whats the point of a gillion races if the content isnt there and NO ONE is looking at you.

guru wrote:

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I havent played it yet, no game site has given the game reviews above a 63 rating yet.In alot of cases $9 spongebob games are ranked higher on 90% of the real game sites... most players i polled in their forums said they will not be renewing their contract next month. The details I posted were from the forums and polls i made on the official site for STO and the steam forums and although some people enjoy the slow grind game and must be blind to the issues... ill say most of the feedback online (anywhere) about sto is negative and even more recently comparing the game to champions online, which will soon share the same servers as STO for an upcoming server merge. The game is now $10 off any version and free items... 2 weeks into launch and already downloadable updates and content are for purchase for the game from in game stores. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this mmo will not be around long and if players do remain its only that they were "lucky" enough to get lifetimer subs...so my main page news is more a warning to people I care about then a "players experience", its more of a general view from most players on most websites , everywhere ...online....who do play or have already quit. As of today the bug issues, down servers, time issues with purcashes and quests that require 50 million kills from the same 5 models of mobs...are still rampant. If you like rinse and repeat mmos please write a proper review of your opinion of STO I would love to share it with others and see what kind of feedback it gets...i just think most people see thru the "get your very own 1970s original trek shirt" and want some decent content, for instance for someone who played swg for years, the depth in that game is literally never going to be somthing sto can offer, no matter what, even the dev/publisher are turning heads from this title and thats the same reason atari dropped it like a bomb mid alpha....im a fanboi of space games too but making a single square room as the "bridge" of your own ship in STO and making it so boring no one wants to go there is just sad and scammy in my opinion. same things with races , whats the point of a gillion races if the content isnt there and NO ONE is looking at you.

It's only repetitive for the first few days, and since that's how long that most game reviewers take to make their lame conclusions, they were misguided. The server issues have stopped, those were mainly in the beta and headstart. Cryptic is expanding the game so that you have your own ship interior and all, the problem was that the game was rushed and Cryptic didn't even have the time to make a new game engine. I'm 60% or more through the game and it is still interesting, diverse, and fun. And I doubt this game will fail since it has an IP with one of the largest fanbases.

SilvaDalek wrote:

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[quote="guru"]I havent played it yet, no game site has given the game reviews above a 63 rating yet.In alot of cases $9 spongebob games are ranked higher on 90% of the real game sites... most players i polled in their forums said they will not be renewing their contract next month. The details I posted were from the forums and polls i made on the official site for STO and the steam forums and although some people enjoy the slow grind game and must be blind to the issues... ill say most of the feedback online (anywhere) about sto is negative and even more recently comparing the game to champions online, which will soon share the same servers as STO for an upcoming server merge. The game is now $10 off any version and free items... 2 weeks into launch and already downloadable updates and content are for purchase for the game from in game stores. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this mmo will not be around long and if players do remain its only that they were "lucky" enough to get lifetimer subs...so my main page news is more a warning to people I care about then a "players experience", its more of a general view from most players on most websites , everywhere ...online....who do play or have already quit. As of today the bug issues, down servers, time issues with purcashes and quests that require 50 million kills from the same 5 models of mobs...are still rampant. If you like rinse and repeat mmos please write a proper review of your opinion of STO I would love to share it with others and see what kind of feedback it gets...i just think most people see thru the "get your very own 1970s original trek shirt" and want some decent content, for instance for someone who played swg for years, the depth in that game is literally never going to be somthing sto can offer, no matter what, even the dev/publisher are turning heads from this title and thats the same reason atari dropped it like a bomb mid alpha....im a fanboi of space games too but making a single square room as the "bridge" of your own ship in STO and making it so boring no one wants to go there is just sad and scammy in my opinion. same things with races , whats the point of a gillion races if the content isnt there and NO ONE is looking at you.

It's only repetitive for the first few days, and since that's how long that most game reviewers take to make their lame conclusions, they were misguided. The server issues have stopped, those were mainly in the beta and headstart. Cryptic is expanding the game so that you have your own ship interior and all, the problem was that the game was rushed and Cryptic didn't even have the time to make a new game engine. I'm 60% or more through the game and it is still interesting, diverse, and fun. And I doubt this game will fail since it has an IP with one of the largest fanbases.[/hide][/quote]

I agree with you, Lord Dalek of Silva. The game was a bit rushed, but at least it is not as buggy as when it first started in closed beta. I played open beta to the end and a lot of the issues were fixed before launch (but obvously, like ANY game, there will be bugs as always, no matter what...and slight annoyances. YAY...). From examination, they just need to polish a few more things and add the things they wanted to. The review on the front page, imo, is completely unfair and stupid (no offense). You shouldn't really go by reviews, but who am I to tell someone what they should and should not do? Reviews, imo, are REALLY biased despite them saying it's not a biased review. Reviews are way too one sided most of the time and mostly crap. You said you haven't played it yet, yet you give it this huge unnecessary flaming on the front page and here, which imo, it doesn't make a bit of sense whatsoever. If we could've afforded it, I would've had a subscription by now. I'm not attacking or judging you Guru, it just those kinds of posts seemed way too silly, ignorant, misguided, and elitist to me.

Reviews like that tend to get me upset somehow, I don't know why. Statistics shouldn't really mean crap, but people tend to go only by statistics and what other people think. I think people should go by what they think, not what a chart or a game percentage says. You're free to think what you wish, but passing stuff by as facts, when it's just opinion is....well.....ugh. I just find it ignorant and wrong, but I guess that's just me. You think STO is absolute crap, but I thought it was fun and everything. So, really, yes, to each his own....however....well, I don't know anymore. I'm just going to go and think of how much fun I had beta testing and submitting bugs to make the game as good as it could during launch.

There, I gave another honest opinion. I hope I didn't offend. Maybe I misunderstood some things, but oh well, still how I think. My thoughts may or may not change. Later, y'all.

i love that one of the March events for STO is called STFU, (Special Task Forces update), LOL!
they take money and still get to insult , awesome, check out the rating (and price LULZ) that falls daily here at gamespot:

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/Product ... t_id=73923

also all websites are now pointing out that this product has a WARNING :

This product is not eligible for refunds.

Yeah, well Gamespot can suck something that's not inappropriate (because of board rules). -_-