First(ish) Impressions - TheHiveLeader - Star Trek Online

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First(ish) Impressions - TheHiveLeader - Star Trek Online

TheHiveLeader returns to the final frontier for a second go at Star Trek Online! Star Trek Online is a premier free-to-play MMORPG from Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment set in the famous Star Trek universe. Don the official uniforms of the United Federation of Planets or the Klingon Empire, choose the path of Tactical, Science, or Engineering specialties, command Away Teams, captain your very own starship, avoid Borg assimilation, even breed (!) Tribbles, all in Gene Roddenberr

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ElRenmazuo

Just because klingons dont act like bitches doesnt mean they dont know anything about science. They have freakin spaceships.

Po_gg

It was... a bit odd. No jokes about the Collective, no sequel to the "I'm phasing!" punchline... your previous STO video was better   but yep, the game changed a lot since the previous video, so it's up for a second look. (changes, like the added trait trees. And sadly I agree with that part, it's fairly basic. Old traiting was much better...)
I noticed that back in the old video you knew about shooter mode, but this time no words about it during ground combat.

Don't really get the ! mark in the text description's "even breed (!) Tribbles". Tribble breeding is a serious business... Even if you're a klingon. Don't fall for the rumours about klingons' tribble hate, my klingon captain just loves his assimilated borg tribble

Also, a Klingon holodeck, without Orion slave girls? Seriously?

filmoret

ElRenmazuo said:

Just because klingons dont act like bitches doesnt mean they dont know anything about science. They have freakin spaceships.

Klingons are mindless brutes.  It wasn't untill TNG that they became more civilized.

brihtwulf

filmoret said:

ElRenmazuo said:

Just because klingons dont act like bitches doesnt mean they dont know anything about science. They have freakin spaceships.

Klingons are mindless brutes.  It wasn't untill TNG that they became more civilized.

Agreed, and even then it took some time for the transition. And I do get why they dumbed down the skill trees from the original setup, as I think it confused some people and didn't make the progression as clear. I'm not a big fan of the new iteration, but it can be hard to strike a balance between clarity and complexity.

rodingo

filmoret said:

ElRenmazuo said:

Just because klingons dont act like bitches doesnt mean they dont know anything about science. They have freakin spaceships.

Klingons are mindless brutes.  It wasn't untill TNG that they became more civilized.

I don't know.  They seemed kind of suave ( err...not so mindless ) in TOS.

Po_gg

Yep, the Klingon Empire was already pretty cool in TOS as well, definitely not mindless brutes. War-obsessed, maybe. Power, chain-of-command addicts, absolutely. Maybe even brutes, when necessary (hostage killing, anyone? ). But not mindless.

ceratop001

Ferengis get no love....

Sovrath

rodingo said:

filmoret said:

ElRenmazuo said:

Just because klingons dont act like bitches doesnt mean they dont know anything about science. They have freakin spaceships.

Klingons are mindless brutes.  It wasn't untill TNG that they became more civilized.

I don't know.  They seemed kind of suave ( err...not so mindless ) in TOS.

They weren't really "mindless brutes" in the original series.

TheHiveLeader

Po_gg said:

It was... a bit odd. No jokes about the Collective, no sequel to the "I'm phasing!" punchline... your previous STO video was better   but yep, the game changed a lot since the previous video, so it's up for a second look. (changes, like the added trait trees. And sadly I agree with that part, it's fairly basic. Old traiting was much better...)
I noticed that back in the old video you knew about shooter mode, but this time no words about it during ground combat.

Don't really get the ! mark in the text description's "even breed (!) Tribbles". Tribble breeding is a serious business... Even if you're a klingon. Don't fall for the rumours about klingons' tribble hate, my klingon captain just loves his assimilated borg tribble

Also, a Klingon holodeck, without Orion slave girls? Seriously?

I haven't watched my old STO video in... probably since I made it. So if there wasn't any throwback jokes, that's likely why. And the game didn't bring up shooter mode this time like it did in the past. So I assumed it was either taken out or something. Either way, if the game doesn't mention it, neither am I. And the video description is taken straight from MMORPG.com's site... so blame them.

Koboli

Looks like an interesting game. I've always liked Star Trek - not as much as Star Wars, mind you - although the ground combat in the series has always been exceedingly dull (and this game appears to do nothing to reverse that trend). If there was a way to just play the space side of this (you know, be one of those 'hands off' captains who just dispatches an away team to do all the dirty muckity muck planetside), I'd be all-in.

holdenhamlet

I really enjoyed the space combat. Like- A LOT. But the ground combat was so clunky I couldn't stick with the game.

Octagon7711

Didn't even mention the Romulans, they have a pretty good story line. Customization is so good I had a Klingon as a Federation Admiral before they even came out for the Federation. I also created Jem'Hadar Admiral.

The game also has difficulty levels you can pick which work out well and player created content. Also the quests system is well laid out once you get use to it. A problem is you can't go straight up or down in ships, you have to spiral, they said it's a limitation of the game engine they use. "Star date, ah, Tuesday..."

filmoret

Sovrath said:

rodingo said:

filmoret said:

ElRenmazuo said:

Just because klingons dont act like bitches doesnt mean they dont know anything about science. They have freakin spaceships.

Klingons are mindless brutes.  It wasn't untill TNG that they became more civilized.

I don't know.  They seemed kind of suave ( err...not so mindless ) in TOS.

They weren't really "mindless brutes" in the original series.

Guess they turned into mindless brutes for the movies.  But they were always portrayed as mindless brutes for at least 10 years.  Meanwhile the romulan's were always portrayed as dangerously smart.

Sovrath

rodingo said:

I don't know.  They seemed kind of suave ( err...not so mindless ) in TOS.

Holy crap! I just realized that is "Baltar" from the original Battlestar Galactica series!

Po_gg

TheHiveLeader said:

I haven't watched my old STO video in... probably since I made it. So if there wasn't any throwback jokes, that's likely why. And the game didn't bring up shooter mode this time like it did in the past. So I assumed it was either taken out or something. Either way, if the game doesn't mention it, neither am I. And the video description is taken straight from MMORPG.com's site... so blame them.

Hey, I'm not saying it wasn't funny (Captain's log, stardate... tuesday ), just the bar was too high, the first one is a classic (borg jokes, Nimoy's intro, Kirk - ok, that one was a bit eerie :awesome: ).

No shooter mode? I admit I wasn't on ground since almost 2 years, except for the festivals, so that's new to me as well. I plan to roll a new captain for this TOS expansion, just not now, currently I'm hunting golems in TSW...

ElRenmazuo

filmoret said:

ElRenmazuo said:

Just because klingons dont act like bitches doesnt mean they dont know anything about science. They have freakin spaceships.

Klingons are mindless brutes.  It wasn't untill TNG that they became more civilized.

By civilized you mean act like bitches.   What does that have to do with them having the knowledge of science before TNG

ZagatoMKR

@Hive Basically Engineer is a tank, Science is a healer and Tactical is DPS.

End-game content is all about instanced dungeons and a bit less instanced maps where you grind "reputation" and dailies. Overall I enjoyed my time in STO even through I'm not that much into Star Trek (more into Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica).

There's a lot of grind and a really grindy end-game equipment progression where you need to do multiple kinds of grinds unless you want to spend lots of $$$ and even then you'll only bypass a part of the grind (equipment upgrading is a killer).

Cheers.

rodingo

Sovrath said:

rodingo said:

I don't know.  They seemed kind of suave ( err...not so mindless ) in TOS.

Holy crap! I just realized that is "Baltar" from the original Battlestar Galactica series!

Hah!  I'll be damned. 

kage71

@TheHiveLeader dude I so much enjoy your videos they have me laughing so hard. Concerning your video, I use to play STO and gave up on it after a while because I saw nothing from Crpytic that seemed if they were taking the game to the next level. I think this video of mine will show you what I mean (yes I did create this video back during the time I was playing). I very much enjoyed the crap out of the space combats and messed around with my flightstick plus voice commands. So yeah the game can be fun at high levels but you have to be creative along with it.

DijonCyanide

Good video. Star Trek Online (STO) is still one of the better free-to-play games released considering all the free & pay options & content. The end-game is currently level 60, the storylines are good to really good & some are even worthy of becoming television episodes, & there are just now (3) expansions released: Legacy of Romulus, Delta Rising, & just a couple of days ago was Agents of Yesterday. There is also a lot of voice acting from original Star Trek series' actors. The end-game does become really grinding with all the Reputations, Specializations, & etc. Nonetheless, if you don't have to be one of the best & enjoy a journey STO is still worth recommending!

Dullahan

ElRenmazuo said:

filmoret said:

ElRenmazuo said:

Just because klingons dont act like bitches doesnt mean they dont know anything about science. They have freakin spaceships.

Klingons are mindless brutes.  It wasn't untill TNG that they became more civilized.

By civilized you mean act like bitches.   What does that have to do with them having the knowledge of science before TNG

Klingons actually changed over the years, because that is the way the story progressed. They moved away from things like science and art in favor of the more aggressive and militant warrior culture. I wouldn't say they became bitches, they just couldn't defeat the Federation so they declared a truce.

ceratop001

Did I see 7 of 9 in that review? I used to do weird stuff to myself watching her in star trek voyager...

Mitara

It is a good game. I have much fun in there. Bet highlevel has changed now htough, so wont say anything bout that.

rulmentu

Great job mate, as usual. LMAO. Keep up the good work.

Ghalesh

Soo... turn to the more important topics... like what happened exactly in the Holodeck?