Dead Men Walking

According to the developer the game will launch on 2nd February 2010 in the US and on 5th February in Europe.

http://www.startrekonline.com/

Closed Beta is currently underway.  These videos are not new, some go back to the previous developer, but they give a good idea of what is due to come our way next year.

Heard from a tester friend of mine that its very bad, although im not a trek fan so i wont be getting it.

i want it now..... :woot2:

I think my brother got on the closed beta. I'll have to ask him if it's any good.

would be interested in hearing the feedback. not that I'd ever play it but it does sound cool..

Sounds promising, looks like there will be quite some depth to it also :thumb:

Apparently it's not great. I asked his what is bad and he replied:

"animations... interface... plot devices... intuitivity"

He's usually pretty spot on when it comes to opinions with games, I don't think this will be something I'll look into any more. Maybe The Old Republic will be better.

Quote from: T-Bag;296432The Old Republic will be better.

It's Bioware. Nuff said.

Quote from: Carr0t;296484It's Bioware. Nuff said.

Loved Baldur's Gate and Mass Effect and now I'm really starting to love Dragon Age. Can't pick faults with their track record.

Finally got a Beta key this morning, just downloading the files now. Will post back my thoughts on it when its done :)

I've heard only bad things about this MMO. I'll certainly wait till there are proper reviews before parting with any cash.

Seems as theres already a thread for the game (a bit old but it's there)

I've been playing this the last week since it's now gone f2p & it's on steam, it's alright as it goes, reminds me of the battlestar jobbie, but seems more polished.

cool man. might give it a look.

Been playing since 25th jan its great and I can see why people said its not worth paying monthly for but as a free game its good bit of fun!

Whats your name ingame Khrispy?

I've had a play over the last few days and it does seem to cover all the areas where BSG is lacking.

Missions and a storyline, both single and teamplay.
Fleet operations are huge PvE missions and can be fun.
Free ships on promotion (at least I got one at lvl10).
Crafting seems to be rife, but I've not done any of that since the tutorial.
Hourly special events to get extra rewards.

And you can start a Klingon character once you reach a certain level in Star Fleet, to stop everyone joining as Klingon I suppose.

BSG wins hands down for space combat and beauty, but it's only skin deep, this has what we wanted on the depth side and the combat is still good.

Their payment model is based on buying Cryptic points to buy special ships and items, although you can buy these Cryptic's  with lots of dilithium, when the 'exchange' is available. But standard ships and such seem to be available with in game resources, energy and dilithium.

I'm enjoying it so far and I like that I can not play and not think I've lost a days subscription.

Darien Argon@RizZy28 is my ingame bod, should you fancy adding me, Tactical chap just turned Lv10, got myself a new ship & stuff.

I'm just giving this a nudge to see if anyone else fancies coming & having a bit of a fly around the galaxy with us, at the very least you might save Lib from having to put up with me all on his own.

i think arma is a no go tonight so yeah i will, though im only a level 7

Well I'd love to spend the day flying around the galaxy but unfortunately the sun is out so I need to get out into the garden and do some work!

Just gotta check my crew first though, make sure none of those sneaky DOFFs are skiving off!

I have a lvl50 Science Officer on Federation - Liberator in the U.S.S Wibble
and a lvl50 Klingon Tactical Officer - Kaplunk in the "Cuddly Bear".

I picked suitably fear inspiring names for my Klingon ships, I particularly liked the "Fluffy Bunny".

You get to execute your DOFFs for incompetence on Klingon.

I've been sending my spare cadres to Sn00ks.

Things have definitely got harder since they fixed the Jem'Hadar shield issue.

Still very wary about free to play MMO's. BSGO while lots of fun socially still leaves a bad taste. Tell me this isn't another bait and switch game, fun now but broken later when you refuse to whip out the credit card? I'm not criticising STO just unsure.

Both me & Lib have played through to max level on Star Fleet side & from what I can see you gain/lose nothing from not going Gold, it's even possible to convert ingame stuff (Dilithium) into store credits using the ingame exchange.

I'm playing it as well here and there, feel free to add me: @lydonb

Have 2x50 feds and a kling i don't really play.

Btw, re gold.  Just buy an old copy of the game, preferably deluxe/gold/ce/digital ce and you'll get the goodies and 1 month free gold ;)

There's a new KDF mission coming this Thursday.

http://www.startrekonline.com/node/3041

QuoteAlpha

Qapla', Warriors!
Great news from the House of Cryptic has arrived today. Starting this Thursday, April 5, Klingon warriors will have access to a new episode titled “Alpha.” This KDF-only mission has been designed for level-34 Captains and takes place in Romulan space in the Orith system.
Located in the Hyralan Sector of the Psi Velorum Sector Block, the Orith system is dominated by Orith Prime, a large hydrogen-helium gas giant with significant amounts of chlorine and sulfur in its atmosphere. In close orbit with Orith Prime is Orith II, a small M-Class planet covered in jungles and thick vegetation. Empire scientists say that the atmosphere on Orith II is not hazardous, although they speculate that the influence of the gas giant has led to unusual aberrations in the planet's ecosystem.
Intelligence reports indicate that Nausicaan pirates have taken up residence in clusters of asteroids drawn into orbit by Orith Prime's massive gravity well. Captains in the region are advised to use caution when exploring the region.
“Alpha” contains brand-new environments where adventure, encounters and challenges will be found around every corner â€" there are hidden areas to discover on the map, so take your time to explore thoroughly while on Orith II’s surface.
This new episode also features voiceover and new rewards. Players who complete "Alpha" will be able to choose one of the following rewards:
Hirogen Tetryon Blast Rifle: A ground weapon with a fairly fast and strong bolt for its primary fire, but its secondary power is a small-radius explosion.
Klingon Intelligence Stealth Utility Armor: A set of physical enhancement utility armor that provides a bonus to all stealth and perception powers. Equip it to enhance your personal cloak or Shroud or to increase your ability to see enemies using stealth technology.
Also, Alpha features variations on how the story unfolds, but there is no right or wrong answer â€" the choices you make during the episode will allow you to play your KDF character as a ruthless pragmatist or an honorable warrior.
Today is a good day to die, warriors! Glory to the Empire!
We’ll see you in-game this Thursday for the release of “Alpha.”

If by some chance we could get the 5 of us online together we could make ourselves a little fleet, that'd be nice wouldn't it?

I been playing star trek for ages where have you been :) I would be interested in a fleet just give us a shout if you want me to join

im playing too, but im off to the uk for a course for 3 weeks from next monday

Quote from: Khrispykhicken;348007I been playing star trek for ages where have you been :) I would be interested in a fleet just give us a shout if you want me to join

Whats your nic ingame Khrispy?

If you want to join a fleet just add me and send a message, I'm a founder/leader of Sector 7 Battlegroup (FED) and Gre'Thor (KDF).

i wanna play but the graphics are all blocky and missing pixels all over

Dirvek@khrispyk Ingame name and ID Vulcan Tactical officer level 23 at the moment its a new officer. @SneakyT the graphics are lovely whats wrong with them?

Sneaky, try re-installing/updating the vga drivers.

Also load the launcher, go to options and select force verify.  

Selecting disable on demand patching will also help to significantly reduce loading times(downloads everything).

Skyjelly@Spacejelly - Lev 50 Science Officer. Would be great to get a fleet going :D

Seems this is one that people quite like so I'll have a go over Easter. I miss my conversations with Liberator as well....

Me: Hello
Lib: Hello
Me: Where are you?
Lib: In space. You?
Me: Same.
Lib: Wanna team up and shoot stuff?
Me: Sure. Where abouts are you?
Lib: In space. You?
.......

Joyful days.

I've just started but, as SWTOR is not really rocking my boat, I'm going to be giving this a good try out.

What's your name in there oldie? & Smilo, post your name up once you join & Sneaky, what's your too?

Mine is Talset, ingame, but not online very often

Not a very promising start, the email verification system won't work in Chrome or Firefox so not able to actually register an account. Will keep trying but this crap never bodes well.

odd, I registered in firefox, though it was a while ago now! No problems back then.

Chrome & FF here too without any problems, an extension causing grief maybe?

Very odd. First attempt sent me a broken email verification link and i couldn't log in without the verification and couldn't verify as the link was broken...... Second try with a new email didn't ask for verification and logged me straight in???? Downloading through Steam as we speak.

Sometimes stuff simply fudges up.

Any level 50s interested in some elite stfs?

Also, all are welcome to join the fleets I'm in, just drop a message.  If you're planning to create one, it ain't worth it when there's an option available> Fleet bank tabs come at 1.4mill creds each.

I downloaded it through Steam and logged in Ok. After an hour it's clear this games not for me. Apart from some terrible connection issues and load screen bugs which may well be local to me it looks like a fun game but not something I'd want to spend any time with. It was nice to be able to try the game out for free though. Have fun.

noooooo we need smilo

Whatever the connection problems were Smilo, they didn't seem to be effecting anyone else today. No idea what it could be for you.

It's the same as BSG when you move between areas for the first time, it has to download that area. The annoying thing is that it calls it "Patching", it's not really, it's downloading content. I suppose they called it patching because it's updating files that you don't have.

Also, have a word with Oldie before deciding to run away, he came in today for the first time and appears impressed and is already lvl 3 after a few hours play.

Get past the introduction mission, set up some basic options and your you keys ,after talking with us, and it's plain sailing.

Don't think that because we've been playing at lvl 50 for a few weeks that there's nothing in it for us to come join a mission with you at lvl 2.

The rewards from a completed mission are specific to your level, although the rewards during the mission are at the level of the commanding character.

So during a mission with me at 50 and you at 2 inviting me to play, I'll get lvl 2 rewards during the fighting/problem solving, but at the end of the mission I'll be given a lvl 50 item. Also, any level specific stuff I pick up, I can email to you in game for your pleasure.

Oh yeah, every game episode you play is repeatable over and over, so when you reach CAP at 50, you can go back and replay the good missions at that level and get a better reward.

The latest "Special Series" which was called "The 2800" has been bolted onto the end of an existing DS9 series to become a normal episode run. Game content it being updated all the time with events and specials.

Although the model has obviously changed to one that supports people buying credits, it's not overly so. I've bought some game credits by earning Dilithium over the weeks and been able to get credits to buy 2 new character slots and a character 'respec' token to rebalance my first character.

It really is what BSG should have been, structure wise. BSG's space combat was a lot nicer, but it lost it's appeal after lvl 25. It was so damn repetitive on the dailies. The dailies are a lot more diverse and fun on STO and, even better, you can share them with friends and play at the same level as them for the same rewards on most missions.

It's still a subscriber game that's had to adapt to a F2P model and it shows, where BSG was all money driven, this seems (for the moment) to still be game first, money incentive later.

By the way, Rizzy knows the technical stuff, I'm just muddling through and gibing structural advice.

Give STO another chance when you have a better connection and someone to walk through it with you. No money required.

Thanks but I think I'll pass. It really didn't do anything for me at all.

Quote from: Liberator;348123...The rewards from a completed mission are specific to your level, although the rewards during the mission are at the level of the commanding character.

So during a mission with me at 50 and you at 2 inviting me to play, I'll get lvl 2 rewards during the fighting/problem solving, but at the end of the mission I'll be given a lvl 50 item. Also, any level specific stuff I pick up, I can email to you in game for your pleasure.

That is worth reading again and what impressed me so much last night. I really enjoy the team stuff and this allows me to jump on and play with friends of differing levels and be appropriately rewarded.

Quote from: Liberator;348123it has to download that area. The annoying thing is that it calls it "Patching", it's not really, it's downloading content. I suppose they called it patching because it's updating files that you don't have.

To eliminate this, go into the launcher options and disable on demand patching.

Once you click ok, the launcher will download everything at once, with the result being that the "patching" isn't done in game.


If anyone needs help with game mechanics/tricks/builds and whatnot; ask and you will be answered.  Level 50 in ~1.5-3 days is also possible (starting from scratch).


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check out my new ride

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Did the one time patch and I think my load screen problems are over. Cheers

how do you get it to dl all the areas

If you look in the launcher options you'll see disable on demand patching, tick that fella & off you go, but don't try it if you've not got a bit of spare time as it'll dl all the rest of the game - which is like the total universe man - which is pretty big.

As theres a few of us playing this, I thought I'd post this up -

http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/?build=Verlioness_0

basically a build planner so you can have a mess about without screwing things up ingame &

http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/share.php

is other peoples builds ideas, some of them are crap, but they'll give you an idea of whats what with your builds.

for e.g.

http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/?build=TFE28_0

is the build for my Star Fleet Tac officer.

Riz, in order to be effective as an escort in STFs (endgame content) you need to change your build quite a bit.

First, you need to switch from beams to dual heavy cannons.  Ex:

Weapons: (As for energy type either disruptors or tetryon, then once you get enough rare borg salvage/encrypted data chips switch to antiproton)
Fore 3x DHCs + Harg'Peng Torp or 4x DHCs
Aft 3x Turrets

Consoles:
Tac: 4x X energy damage(same type)
Engi: 1 of each: Neutronium Alloy (http://www.stowiki.org/Console_-_Engineering_-_Neutronium_Alloy), Ablative Hull Armor (http://www.stowiki.org/Console_-_Engineering_-_Ablative_Hull_Armor), Tetraburnium Hull Armor (http://www.stowiki.org/Console_-_Engineering_-_Tetraburnium_Hull_Armor) (pref XI rare or XII common, unless you can afford better)
Sci: 1x Console - Universal - Assimilated Module (http://www.stowiki.org/Console_-_Universal_-_Assimilated_Module) Field Generator (http://www.stowiki.org/Console_-_Engineering_-_Field_Generator)

I havn't gone anywhere near STF's yet so no need to worry about about it too much for the time being.

I don't see the point in having the same skill multiple times on the BoFFs as you've put there, as they'd share cool down times wouldn't they?

[video=youtube;FCARADb9asE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE[/video]

for you lib!!!.lol

Quote from: RizZy;348232I don't see the point in having the same skill multiple times on the BoFFs as you've put there, as they'd share cool down times wouldn't they?

They share the cooldown, however they last x amount of settings, which by the time the benefit wear off the next one will be available to use.

Look at it this way, epts1 have a 45 sec cd, you pop the first one, after 30 seconds you can use the other one, and you keep doing this for the whole duration of the stf - in rotation.  
Tac team will increase weapon damage and auto assign shield power to the side which is being attacked
epts will give you a shield heal on all sides and reduces shield damage by x% for x seconds
hazard em will give you a hull HoT and also remove certain hazards (plasma DoT is one of them - borg use plasma with the odd antiproton shot(usually gateways))
ap beta will debuff the target with less damage resistance = more damage

reverse shield polarity is your oh c**p button, pop it and balance shields (click in middle) and all your shields will regenerate to full (if you are under heavy attack)  it is also the only way to survive "invisible torpedoes"(super beams) which deal around 80k damage < no way of knowing when it will hit, but if you have revpol on and suddenly all your shields spike to full in an instant, you should have been dead.


Do keep in mind that ANY boff skill which has Team in it (tactical, engineering, science) share the same cd. < same thing applies to any emergency power to whatever skills.

P.S, you can start doing normal STF @ lvl 45 - you can do it with whatever gear you have handy; it's easy.
Once you have optimised your build and know what to do, you can move on to elites - uncommon stuff is fine as long as you know exactly what to do.


If you want, I can show you the ropes on my fed main < fleet escort as well.

So I just DL the game is it a bit complex at first? I should be on TS 2 morrow to play if you don't mind putting up with a newb

If you read a little of what your being told to do it's not to hard to pick up TE, there's a few hours worth of getting used to where you are & what your doing which can seem like a bit of a drag, but once your through that your into the game & away.

As Rizzy says, just pick up the Tutorial missions you are given at the beginning and read the information they give you.

It brings you in gradually and unlocks extra bits and pieces as you get to the higher levels. But you aren't bound by anything or have to do everything there is to do.

Take "Crafting" I never touched it until after I got to the lvl50 cap. But the tutorials and first few missions are all about getting you into the game and playing as easily as possible. Once you've played a few missions you'll have some questions that most of us can answer on TS.

For those of us who got the 30 day Gold access, it looks like we will lose the energy limit back down to 10 millions and some features we don't use or haven't actually seen working, when the 30 days expire.

This thread (http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=246741) includes comments from the Cryptic Devs and pretty much says we keep everything we have to that point, inventory and bank space etc.

I kept the 1billion EC cap after my gold time expired.

So leave it at around 10.1mill and see how it goes.

Quote from: Liberator;349291For those of us who got the 30 day Gold access, it looks like we will lose the energy limit back down to 10 millions and some features we don't use or haven't actually seen working, when the 30 days expire.

This thread (http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=246741) includes comments from the Cryptic Devs and pretty much says we keep everything we have to that point, inventory and bank space etc.

as  i cant seem to get onto that site with my phone can you bullet point how it will affect me plz

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines change your passwords.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/26/cryptic-servers-hacked-you-know-the-drill/

I don't know if I'm reading that right or not, but it sys the attack was in December 2010?

If that's the case then I think most of us should be safe as we've only just started playing a few months back.

Something that going on in game for those that don't visit the site much -

QuoteFor the entire month of May, rotating each week, the Feature Episode Series are once again offering their special, unique rewards* for completion! Don't miss your chance to (re)play the Feature Episodes and earn limited-time rewards. Read more to learn about which series will be featured each week.
Check out our Feature Episode Guide to learn more about this special content.
May 3 - May 9: Spectres (The Devidians)

Special Reward: Ophidian Cane*
Minimum level required to accept missions: 11 (Fed) 25 (KDF)
How to Play: Use your Mission Journal (Press J or click the Hail button next to your minimap) to hail and transwarp to the different episodes; for Federation Officers, use the Klingon War tab, and for Klingon Officers, use the Federation War tab.
Episodes in this series: Skirmish, Spin the Wheel, What Lies Beneath, Everything Old is New, and Night of the Comet
May 10 - May 16: Cloaked Intentions (The Romulans and Remans)

Special Reward: Reman Bridge Officer*
Minimum level required to accept missions: 34 (Fed) 36 (KDF)
How to Play: Use your Mission Journal (Press J or click the Hail button next to your minimap) to hail and transwarp to the different episodes; for Federation and Klingon Officers, use the Romulan Mystery tab.
Episodes in this series: The Vault, Mine Enemy, Frozen, Coliseum, Cutting the Cord, and Darkness Before the Dawn
May 17 - May 23: The 2800 (The Dominion)

Special Reward: Shard of Possibilities*
Minimum level required to accept missions: 45 (Fed) 41 (KDF)
How to Play: Use your Mission Journal (Press J or click the Hail button next to your minimap) to hail and transwarp to the different episodes; for Federation Officers, use the Cardassian Struggle tab and for Klingon Officers, use the Dominion Domination tab.
Episodes in this series: Second Wave, Of Bajor, Operation Gamma, Facility 4028, and Boldly They Rode
May 24 - May 30: Cold War (The Breen)

Special Reward: Breen Bridge Officer*
Minimum level required to accept missions: 48 (Fed) 46 (KDF)
How to Play: Use your Mission Journal (Press J or click the Hail button next to your minimap) to hail and transwarp to the different episodes; for Federation and Klingon Officers, use the Breen Invasion tab.
Episodes in this series: Cold Call, Out in the Cold, Cold Comfort, Cold Case and Cold Storage

*The limited-time rewards are unique and each character may only have one of each of them.

This is a great opportunity for you to get the limited-time, unique rewards for your characters that did not have a chance to earn them yet. For players whose characters already have all the rewards, you will still want to re-play each of the series -- all players will be able to find hidden, surprise rewards that have been added to each episode.
As always, thank you for your continued support. We'll see you in-game!

Well, my 30 day Gold Membership expired last week and I've kept everything I got from it, except for the 1 Billion EC limit, that took a few days to report back that it had dropped back to 10 mil.

So my £7 Digital Deluxe key got me

900 Cryptics
An extra character
1 respec token for each char when I got to lvl's 10,20,30,40,45.50
10 Bridge officer slots
106 Bank slots at lvl 50
72 Inventory slots at lvl 50

And for chars I'd already levelled to 50, I got the inventory increase and BO slots retrospectively.

Basic weapons guide. (http://www.stoacademy.com/guides/weapons.php)

To decrypt the types and their powers, to help you decide.

Nice find. While I do like the game I think the Devs might have over complicated the weapon variables a bit. I'm not familiar with the Star Trek lore but I imagine they went for authenticity over simplicity. I'm still not certain about how to 'build' a type of character ship in the game. For example I'm engineering and have tried where possible to pick armour, damage mitigation, shields etc in a tank spec. I've also gone for more DOT (damage over time for you non MMO'ers) and slow but harder damage types. I'm working on the assumption that as an armoured class I can simply outlast my enemy and wear them down.

Then again if in doubt I always refer to Liber-rizzy-pedia.co.uk

Seems that we'll be able to buy a star base for the fleet at some point -

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/22/exclusive-star-trek-online-season-6-reveal-fleet-starbases/

And i bet the first thing certain people have installed is a communal shower, so they can watch their avatars get all soapy !!!