Haven't played in years. Had a Federation sci officer to max level, pvp wasn't that bad but most players weren't there for that. PvE was pretty repetitive. I think last I played I tried the Romulan tutorial.
t. pretty unhappy the direction the franchise has taken
Been shackled to this game since release, it's a parasite. Preys on your sentiments for Trek and roleplaying while giving you the shittiest MMO experience possible. The story is passable, the combat is "press spacebar to kill", and there's microtransactions to the point of parody.
It's a shame too, there's an unimaginable amount of interesting things you could do with a properly developed Trek game but this is far far from it.
I'm brand new to the game. I'm stuck between choosing Starfleet or the Klingons. I've heard about the best & worst of the game. I'm just in a kick for it.
Really you can just look up the class of the ship on google and memory alpha should be the first link right to the stats of the ships.
but for starters: Federation is good to start as. its the most straight forward way to go introducing yourself to the game. Klingons are all about combat so their ships obviously reflect that, Romulans use more support abilities and Jem'Hadar are swarm. But if built right you can use any faction to do as you please once you get far enough
I never had any luck at the hotspots.
Small instances with lots of clutter npcs make it awkward. I'm uncertain if the chat itself is any good (character count/rate limiting/profanity filter etc.)
I don't know how many of the devs are moronic, but ever since Andre (moronic CEO) took over, they've raised the prices of Zen bundles by 3 to 5x as much by stuffing useless gacha keys into them.
9 ship bundles used to cost 12,000 zen, even less when on sale. Now, 3 ship unlocks packed with gacha keys, coupons and tokens cost, wait for it, 52,000 zen.
When Gearbox bought out Cryptic, things got even worse. PVE updates have slowed to a crawl, while premium ships aimed at whales, most of which are reskinned turds, keep cropping up, and I believe that this is their new modus operandi going forward: baiting whales.
"25% - 35% off sales" aren't even sales anymore when they happen almost every week, and the game only thrives by hosting "limited time special events," offering "exclusive" rewards, back to back, non stop. All of which are simply replays of team based missions that no one outside of "limited time special events" ever plays because they're such chores for players to ever have to slog through.
TLDR: new players aren't signing up to play Star Trek Online. They're signing up to become unwitting patrons, to a shallow and unimaginative team of devs, who only pose as Star Trek fans, to give the illusion that somebody behind the wheel is still driving.
But it's cheap entertainment though, and the game runs fine on shitboxes, so give it a spin if you've got nothing else better to play.
The STO subredit is a pool of primordial goo inhabited by mouth breathing single celled amoebas, so I would avoid that place if you value your time in any way.
Oh, and watch out for that undercover dev shill, who never makes his own threads, but only ever shows up in complaint threads to defend Cryptic's pricing schemes and dev behaviors.
back when I still played more than 2 years ago, Craptic irrecoverably crashed their in-game gold 2 shop currency trading.
I guess then that that butthole and his ilk were responsible for it.
Great "wait-for-another-20-hours" gameplay. Can't wait to refine more 8000 dilithium so I can buy weapon upgrades and start causing some real damage to enemies ships.
It was great playing this with Ganker 11 years ago when it became f2p.
However all they do now is content-creep with truckloads of ships and other shit and it's impossible to keep track of anything because of the god-awful UI.
It's like feeding a corpse that died a decade ago.
Do you guys think it makes more sense for the Klings to help or hurt the Remans? Personally I chose to help him because crying about Thelaron weapons or w/e is pussy shit. Also their efforts just weaken the sectors outside of Klingon space. A big win.
Haven't played in years. Had a Federation sci officer to max level, pvp wasn't that bad but most players weren't there for that. PvE was pretty repetitive. I think last I played I tried the Romulan tutorial.
t. pretty unhappy the direction the franchise has taken
shit
After certain point, enemies can one-shot you with Artillary Barrage or using Dark Hole attack. Game now is pretty much anti-fun.
>gem
ok shill lol
enjoy not being able to flip your ship in 3d space
I saw someone in no fun allowed and I want in
>gem
homie this game is a mess with coding held together with duct tape.
Been shackled to this game since release, it's a parasite. Preys on your sentiments for Trek and roleplaying while giving you the shittiest MMO experience possible. The story is passable, the combat is "press spacebar to kill", and there's microtransactions to the point of parody.
It's a shame too, there's an unimaginable amount of interesting things you could do with a properly developed Trek game but this is far far from it.
Glad Craptic kicked me out of their crap-games two years ago,
when they went full nazi with the mandatory Microsoft WinX wienersucking.
So many better stuffs out there
and the nuTrek shit became insufferable anyway.
I'm brand new to the game. I'm stuck between choosing Starfleet or the Klingons. I've heard about the best & worst of the game. I'm just in a kick for it.
I do play quite regularly
My main toon is federation, I don't usually play Klingons but I do have a couple Romulan characters as well as a Jem'Hadar
Can I get a QRD on the differences between faction ships beyond cloaking?
So all the ships you might have questions about can be found here:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main
it'll tell you the stats of the ships, amount of equitable items what types of weapons you can equip as well as how to get said ship
Really you can just look up the class of the ship on google and memory alpha should be the first link right to the stats of the ships.
but for starters: Federation is good to start as. its the most straight forward way to go introducing yourself to the game. Klingons are all about combat so their ships obviously reflect that, Romulans use more support abilities and Jem'Hadar are swarm. But if built right you can use any faction to do as you please once you get far enough
How's the ERP?
People sit in quarks on ds9, or Risa just to erp
I never had any luck at the hotspots.
Small instances with lots of clutter npcs make it awkward. I'm uncertain if the chat itself is any good (character count/rate limiting/profanity filter etc.)
I don't know how many of the devs are moronic, but ever since Andre (moronic CEO) took over, they've raised the prices of Zen bundles by 3 to 5x as much by stuffing useless gacha keys into them.
9 ship bundles used to cost 12,000 zen, even less when on sale. Now, 3 ship unlocks packed with gacha keys, coupons and tokens cost, wait for it, 52,000 zen.
When Gearbox bought out Cryptic, things got even worse. PVE updates have slowed to a crawl, while premium ships aimed at whales, most of which are reskinned turds, keep cropping up, and I believe that this is their new modus operandi going forward: baiting whales.
"25% - 35% off sales" aren't even sales anymore when they happen almost every week, and the game only thrives by hosting "limited time special events," offering "exclusive" rewards, back to back, non stop. All of which are simply replays of team based missions that no one outside of "limited time special events" ever plays because they're such chores for players to ever have to slog through.
TLDR: new players aren't signing up to play Star Trek Online. They're signing up to become unwitting patrons, to a shallow and unimaginative team of devs, who only pose as Star Trek fans, to give the illusion that somebody behind the wheel is still driving.
But it's cheap entertainment though, and the game runs fine on shitboxes, so give it a spin if you've got nothing else better to play.
The STO subredit is a pool of primordial goo inhabited by mouth breathing single celled amoebas, so I would avoid that place if you value your time in any way.
Oh, and watch out for that undercover dev shill, who never makes his own threads, but only ever shows up in complaint threads to defend Cryptic's pricing schemes and dev behaviors.
back when I still played more than 2 years ago, Craptic irrecoverably crashed their in-game gold 2 shop currency trading.
I guess then that that butthole and his ilk were responsible for it.
Great "wait-for-another-20-hours" gameplay. Can't wait to refine more 8000 dilithium so I can buy weapon upgrades and start causing some real damage to enemies ships.
It was great playing this with Ganker 11 years ago when it became f2p.
However all they do now is content-creep with truckloads of ships and other shit and it's impossible to keep track of anything because of the god-awful UI.
It's like feeding a corpse that died a decade ago.
Do you guys think it makes more sense for the Klings to help or hurt the Remans? Personally I chose to help him because crying about Thelaron weapons or w/e is pussy shit. Also their efforts just weaken the sectors outside of Klingon space. A big win.
>Do you guys think it makes more sense for the Klings to help or hurt the Remans?
Help, if they prove to be capable warriors.
Everyone seems pretty incapable compared to how fast I can mash the 1 key.
>Klingon Empire bothers helping the federation in humanitarian missions for R*mulans
the frick?
How much do you spent on this game ? Do you buy Dilithium with Zen?