ground combat is actually my favorite.......the pvp arenas are an enjoyable way to grind xp, and the sandbox away-team mass pvp is a hoot,especially forming abd equipping youir officers.....wish there was more ground content tho
ground combat is actually my favorite.......the pvp arenas are an enjoyable way to grind xp, and the sandbox away-team mass pvp is a hoot,especially forming abd equipping youir officers.....wish there was more ground content tho
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I really like Ground Combat too.
I love how you can fully customise your officers, it was really a clincher to me. I got all sorts of wonderful characters which I love dearly.
It reminds me of Kotor.
The open-world sandbox is good, as in where it is you and other players in a fleet-action style set-up. It took a while to do, but it was fun.
Biggest problem is that in many ways, you have to choose between ground combat or space combat and with them now capping skill points, you can't just max them all out or anything.
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I think leveling will be easy enough that keeping a ground and space guy will not be too hard.
I love the customization, too, you can even name them and change their looks. I practiced with an away team in pvp a few days ago that was hilarious -- 4 science healers, gave them all 4 pvp shield regenerators, we were practically unkillable. Next I want to use 4 turret/shield bubble engineers equipped with 4 stacks of pvp stims.
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Heres some more videos and stuff for those people who havn't tried the BETA.
http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/startr...ine-daily-demo
I have to say, the more I play the BETA the more I swing towards buying this.
Also what do you all make of this? Posibble next playable faction maybe? Or jsut a fancy trailer to show of an adversery.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ca...tar-trek/61083
It's been long speculated that the Cardassian's and the Romulan's would be next on the playable empires list. The Cardassian's are still weak though. They've gotten some help from the Federation in rebuilding, not to mention they have a whole new form of government but there are still some hardliners who want the military to take over again.
Plus based on the screen shot of the map of the STO universe, the Caradasian's aren't anywhere near Romulan space so the likelihood of an alliance seems low, not to mention the Romulan's are divided into two factions (I think two). I think they have the possibility of being a dormant power if they play it safe. Let the Federation slug it out with the Klingon's while they secretly build up their fleets, and when the time is right, strike at either faction.
Last edited by Mailman653; 01-25-2010 at 04:56.
OUCH they just made the ground pvp win score go to 40 instead of 15. This has angered many. In 10v10s its okay, but in a 5v5 match it takes 20 mins unless you just roll over the other team, and rolling over the other team increases the chance they quit or stop respawning and just lie there out of spite.
I know why they did it: to make klingons level slower. Hope they change it to 25 or something, although I must admit I like being the highest damage dealer now since I have longer to find my groove and figure the other team out.
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With launch roughly a week away it would be interesting to know which Orgers are planning to get this.
I think I'll probably take the plunge and buy it, if not at launch probably some time fairly soon. I'm just debating whether this or Mass Effect 2 deserves my love more.
Last edited by tibilicus; 01-26-2010 at 00:56.
Well, for those of you who didn't play the end of beta event where klingons could invade federation space it was quite predictable:
Once a group got a stronghold, they camped the spawn. Despite your own persoanl experiences, both sides did it, but since there are more feds and they were defending they did it far more.
Basically all the space and ground missions i went to were spawn camped. what perplexes me is that noithing was at stake, all u stood to lose from spawn camping was a good fight....so i honestly dont understand why 30 feds spawn camp a big open ground match and don't let in the 30 klingons who want an honest fight.
Meanwhiloe, klingons did the same thing to areas they took and held.
After bouncing around and getting frustrated i finally went to Sol starbase because i heard it was under attack by the borg, which was a vast understatement. Probably 500 borg npcs on constant resapwn were in the base. The chat apm was unbearable, but for a while some of us on both sides tried to rally klingons and feds to unite and take out the borg generators, but this did not work due to peoples stubborness or inmability to read chat because it was moving so fast.....
So Sol starbase became a free for all where no ground was gained against intermittant 50+ strong mobs of borg.
I could almost take out a borg generator by myself, so i know a team could have done it. And the borg NPCs were tough as nails, and I am high tier 3. So basically I ened up just hiding in corners and on high ledges and sniping feds and not helping klingons since no one really had any idea wtf was going on
the end. until friday at least.
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I'm from the UK so I actually stayed up late for the event. What a waste of my time, I left after an hour.
After being camped in Sol for a good 5 minutes I managed to escape by switching instances and quickly pressing warp to sector. I wasn't aware klingons were doing the same but it was defiantly more of the feds ruining things than the Klingons. Was kind of a shame as it showed the ugly side to the community, it wasn't so much that Klingons were being spawn camped it was more the fact that some people though it would be a good chance to also verbally abuse the Klingons via tells/Private messages. Obviously some kiddies took the whole thing a bit to seriously and ruined every ones fun. I think the whole idea was to have Klingons come over and then add the Borg and thus force the two sides to unite, obviously it failed though.
Within about 45 minutes I was back at Qu'nos, I moaned and grumbled with some other klingons a bit and then logged off. Awful end to the BETA if you ask me which is kind of a shame.
Last edited by tibilicus; 01-27-2010 at 11:31.
When I played, it was just a mass attack of Borg NPC's from men and ships at the Sol Station.
Though the Klingon's I saw were the ones insulting everyone, as they kept getting killed.
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http://www.startrekonline.com/upcoming_content
Rumour has it that all the content mentioned in that link is planned for a "45 day patch". I personally welcome the stuff mentioned in it, particularity more Klingon Content. I'm pretty tempted to wait till this content is out to buy the game. I just kind of wish all this stuff was there from the start.
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