Star Trek Online

[Major Robert Dump]

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.

[tibilicus]

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

[Mailman653]

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.

[Major Robert Dump]

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.

[tibilicus]

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.

[Veho Nex]

I will, hopefully...

[Mailman653]

I'll buy it eventually, maybe in a few months from now.

[Major Robert Dump]

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.

[tibilicus]

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.

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.

[Beskar]

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.

[tibilicus]

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.

[Mailman653]

Being sent back in time by the Q sounds interesting. If they have classic NPC ships to encounter instead of recyled ship's from the current line up of star ships, that would be awesome to see. What's the point of going back in time if you're going to encounter ships that you'd see in any other mission.

[Major Robert Dump]

You dont need to go to level 6 to unlock klingon.....just do tutorial, azara, diplomacy, hide and seek, both starbase 24s and and the silence the comm stations mission (cant remember that ones name atm). After u beat those u chould be around level 4, and the next time u enter aninstance u get themagic message


Also, you can attach items into mail messages, so you can email stuff to your klingon since they get garbage for loot and their vendors are borked

[Beskar]

I am wondering what Alien this is on the Star Trek Homepage.


It doesn't look PG-13 friendly.

[Major Robert Dump]

She is very hawt tho

[tibilicus]

Enjoying the server stability major Robert Dump?

[Major Robert Dump]

No. But I really don't care since I choose my work hours.

What I amnot enjoying is getting pwnt by federation scum who has access to pve loot that I do not.

Doesn't matter,though, as my guild is alsready hitting high tier 4 and we are doing space instances with lots of loot abd space pvp with all wins.. Seems I am the only ground pvp guy in the fleet atm, so no one appreciates my special "skills" but whatever. Beskar has made a good ally, but he really needs to get his ass on ventrillo because it makes all the difference in the world

[Beskar]

ok, it seems the forum ate my message, but this was my proudest moment, getting a 27:0 kill:death ratio.


This was me at level 14 in a 11-20 level bracket, and being Klingon, don'thave free PvE loot thrown at me, better ships, science vessels, etc that the federation have.

Also, I basically never used cloak either, which made it more amusing.

Shame that you don't get skillpoints for defeating your enemy though, which is a major hiderance to my quest for levels.

[Mailman653]

What kind of weird or interesting aliens have you seen other players use in the the Klingon faction? Anyone using the other species that are in the Empire now, Gorn, Nuasican, Orion?

[tibilicus]

Are you playing Klingon side Beskar?

Easy thing to do is just follow the Raptors into combat and pick of the flank of the feds engaging them. No problem when they re-spawn and try and come back for revenge as you can just cloak and star the cycle again.

[Beskar]

Though the Fed-Ball is impossible to counter, also any Fed-player who actually knows how to play are very hard work, as soon as that skill difference is made up, Federation is at massive advantage which gets worse.

[Vladimir]

Syfy just finished their marathon. Every commercial break had a commercial for this game.

It was a pretty good end to the series.

[tibilicus]

Syfy just finished their marathon. Every commercial break had a commercial for this game.

It was a pretty good end to the series.

Unfortunately I'm from the Uk but back to back episodes of The Next Generation sounds awesome. The only thing which could possibly be better is a Deep Space Nine marathon, that show was beautiful.

[Major Robert Dump]

What kind of weird or interesting aliens have you seen other players use in the the Klingon faction? Anyone using the other species that are in the Empire now, Gorn, Nuasican, Orion?

I am playing a Lethean on th eKlingon side. You can also play Naisc, Gorn, and Orions

[Major Robert Dump]

Though the Fed-Ball is impossible to counter, also any Fed-player who actually knows how to play are very hard work, as soon as that skill difference is made up, Federation is at massive advantage which gets worse.

I don't know how much you PVPd with Anxxil, Chaktak and Wrath but when they were tier 3 (i still am) I joined them for ship pvp and we rolled every team we fought, usually 15 to 3 or less, with htose 3 deaths almost esxclusively being me because I am a squishy support who they get a hard-on to shoot because they know I die easy. I don't know how they are doing in tier 4, but the FED BALL can be anniahlated if you can focus fire and take out the first target in around 10 seconds and keep the team healed, then squishys battle cloak to ensure they keep shooting your tough teammates, then unlcloak and start healing them again. In those fights I would avarage about only 40k damage, compared to my teams 130k etc.

Anyway, the fed ball can be defeated.

[Mailman653]

I'm curious, is it possible to create a character that looks like this? Or does the creator not let you paint faces?

[Beskar]

You could with an "Unknown" race type character. I believe.

[Mailman653]

I just checked out the STO forums, there sure are a lot of negative threads on there. For those who have the game, is it suffering that much?

[Beskar]

I just checked out the STO forums, there sure are a lot of negative threads on there. For those who have the game, is it suffering that much?

There are always such threads.

What suffering are you referring to in particular?

[Mailman653]

I think the main complaint is leveling up and the lack of varity in missions. One thread I saw earlier today predicted that half the community will leave after their 30 days are up and that the only people will remain are the hardcore.