Cryptic Studios unveils Star Trek Online, launches website
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With the intergalactic cat already out of the bag this weekend, Cryptic Studios has officially announcedStar Trek Online and unveiled a website for the in-development MMO. The developer has also released a handful of screenshots and promises to reveal gameplay footage at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention on August 10 (there's a countdown on the STO site if you need something to stare at for the next 13 days). For those who can't make the convention, or decide to stay home because your prosthetic Vulcan ears didn't look just right, Cryptic will be streaming the presentation online.
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If they learnt the few lessons needed from CoX they could have a winner here. I don't like Star Trek, makes me feel the bad kind of nerdy, but a well done MMO involving big spaceships* is okay in my book.
Dog Pants wrote:If they learnt the few lessons needed from CoX they could have a winner here. I don't like Star Trek, makes me feel the bad kind of nerdy, but a well done MMO involving big spaceships* is okay in my book.
*Yes, I know
any idea if this is gonna go elite-ish, or more standard MMO?
edit: that'd be a yes then.
You Are the Captain: Command your own starship as a Federation Captain or a Klingon Warrior. Outfit it with the systems that you need to make your mark in the galaxy. Customize your ship as you see fit. Recruit, train and mold your crew into an elite horse for exploration and combat.
Surface, Shipboard and Deep Space Adventures: Command your vessel in thrilling space battles, or beam down to planets with your away team for face-to-face confrontations. Missions will take you and your friends into space, planetside and even inside starships!
I seem to remember hearing that not everyone will be flying ships about, but everybody can fill roles on someone else's ship. Is that true or am I just making things up?
Dog Pants wrote:I seem to remember hearing that not everyone will be flying ships about, but everybody can fill roles on someone else's ship. Is that true or am I just making things up?
fuck knows. could be that ship = clan/guild? with captain being the leader, etc. etc.
I would welcome a Star Trek game that stayed true to the principles of the series creator, but an MMO which - if it is like most every other MMO - where you deal with every situation by hitting or shooting stuff until it is dead is not what he would have intended.
You should also have the option to wrestle ineffectively, seduce all attractive female aliens and win space battles by boring your opponent into submission by quoting starfleet regulations at them.
Key ingredients would also include an officer incapable of feeling emotion, a comedy sidekick to annoy the piss out of you, an advisor who will tell you when they sense somebody is hiding something, a few people to press some buttons for you and an engineer who will make you practically unstoppable and invulnerable despite claiming otherwise.
Plus time travel - the infinity of space and its promise of countless worlds and strange civilisations is clearly not entertaining enough and you should be able to visit modern-day Earth.
FatherJack wrote: Key ingredients would also include an officer incapable of feeling emotion
According to the creator of Star Trek being 'logical and emotionless' means walking around being a complete twat to everyone whilst being periodically lazy and irrational.
Lexy wrote:
According to the creator of Star Trek being 'logical and emotionless' means walking around being a complete twat to everyone whilst being periodically lazy and irrational.
You Are the Captain: Command your own starship as a Federation Captain or a Klingon Warrior. Outfit it with the systems that you need to make your mark in the galaxy. Customize your ship as you see fit. Recruit, train and mold your crew into an elite horse for exploration and combat.
To me this sounds like in space your avatar is a ship and your crew are items, rather than being other players. And on the surface you can group with other starship captains. I'd guess.
It'd be a shame if you can't be part of a crew and not very Star Trek'y, but I imagine the complexity of that being very problematic in terms of making it fun for everyone.
Cryptic Studios unveils Star Trek Online, launches website
