Star Trek Online officially launched today in the US with a massive patch, and while the character customization options seem quite endless – if you plan on being a Federation Ferengi or Klingon it will cost you a bit extra.
The long-running, free-to-play Star Trek Online has expanded once more - and this time it's the new Both Worlds season that comes to Xbox and PlayStation.
Cryptic Studios appears to be the latest Embracer-owned company to be impacted by layoffs.
Fans are getting their Janeway fix with the latest update. Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a leading publisher of online games, and Cryptic Studios announced Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager will make her Star Trek Online debut in Shadow’s Advance.
Was never really a big Voyager fan I did watch it they reused a lot of the same story arcs time travel, slip stream, the borg, thrown closer to home. Best aliens I like that were introduced in the series were the Hirogen would love to see the Klingons take them on in a war.
The big issue was it was hard to have any consistency as you knew they were not going to mysteriously get home and Villains had to be infrequent as they were going through their space and would in time be out of range of their influence. There was a plan for the ship to get home via a new technology early in a mid season and then have them go to and from the Delta Quadrant and Federation as the story needed but that was nixed. I think not showing what happened when they actually set foot on Earth was a huge issue. I am hoping Picard addresses it.
There were plans to show a few episodes of what happened to the Voyager crew once they came back to the Alpha Quadrant but that fell through. Voyager was ok but it's not TNG or DS9 those two series I liked Enterprise with Scott Bakula was good I could never get into the Captain Kirk Star Trek that was before my time.
DS9 was great. I have not been able to get into Discovery. I do not like the characters or stories. I do not expect Xmas lights but the fact that it is 10 years before Kirk yet the ship is so much more advanced even before they went into time has not worked for me. Mainly dislike the characters. Prodigy lost me at the first episode but Lower Decks has grown on me and I have liked Picard.
Star Trek Online is great! Those epic space battles with 20 plus Federation ships vs. 50+ enemy ships is super fun. The landing party missions are great as well, I really hope STO is able to keep this momentum growing, it always sucks seeing a MMO game go from millions of users to on the ropes.
For reference this is 1 million forum accounts, not subs.
I can see this really growing over the next couple of years...it's really exciting!
im debating wether or not to grab this,it looks amazing and it would be my first MMO experience .. (WOW sucked balls).. and since im a fairly big fan of star trek it helps to decide some what. (grew up watching it) .
anyone know if this game is worth it?
If you're a die-hard Trek fan, you'll be disappointed in this game. If not, you'll probably like it. To put it simply, the game is boring. More than 1/2 of the missions are go here, scan this and leave. Space combat is good, and looks great. Once you've beamed down to a station or planet the graphics go to hell. Character animations fail miserably, and the a.i is complete sh!t. Sure, a few backdrops on some planets look really good, but they're few and far between. Sector space "warp" feels like you're crawling and was done cheaply. Lets not get into ship class placement, and how off Cryptic is.
Hard to even consider ST:O an mmo. There isn't much of a push to interact with other players. The game should be more single player, with the option to go LAN/online for increased difficulty.
...flame on...
On topic, having to pay extra to be a "race" you should have gotten from the beginning.. you know, for free is crap. There are countless Klingons in the Federation, but Crypic/Atari feels the need to charge you for it. You pay for a game/sub fees, things like this should be given. Give us a free-to-play mmo, and by all means charge us.