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Chibibar
open beta starts??? oh snap. I better go download it. Dang work, detracts me from my gaming habits.
Star Trek Online
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sent you a pm
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lol..yea my bad, 1.5 mb/sec. I got it in like 2.1 hours off fileplanet
PM sent.
I get 20mpbs (speedtest.net pegs it at 19.77 today)...oh how I love fiber optics.
PM sent back to you with the info.
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I agree with this statement. Doesn't an MMO completely ignore that ideas behind Star Trek; that the Star Trek universe is about bettering the human condition, bettering yourself, society etc...
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haha.
At least you could get your download started. I was stuck at 41 minutes away from download at Fileplanet for over 2 hours before I decided to go to bed. Couldn't get any of the other sites to work for my download and the torrent file was downloading at like 2/kbs. Going to try again in a bit.
I agree with this statement. Doesn't an MMO completely ignore that ideas behind Star Trek; that the Star Trek universe is about bettering the human condition, bettering yourself, society etc...[/QUOTE]
How does killing Klingons not better society?!
Ok... first impression of this game:
- This game CHUGS. Even on the lowest of settings, I can barely move around or do anything when I'm on the ground. This is despite my specs being more than adequate to run the game. In short, Cryptic lied about the specs again (or didn't bother to fix the fucking Engine when they decided to use the Champion's Engine).
- Space Combat/Exploration is a bit slow, especially considering you do most of it at the small scale of Space. They need to speed up ships a bit and make it more fast paced. The controls are a bit awkward too.
- Creating your character is fun, and it does allow you to make custom races. You even get parts for some of the enemy races, which is fun.
- I guess everyone get's their own ship right out of the gate? I understand the reason for this, but it kind of cheapens the experience when everyone you know is a Captain.
- Why can't I choose to hook up with a friend and join the crew on their ship, allowing my abilities to enhance the ship? Sure, it's a passive play style, but it could be fun with the right mini-games. Besides, not everyone wants to control the damn ship.
- This game CHUGS. Even on the lowest of settings, I can barely move around or do anything when I'm on the ground. This is despite my specs being more than adequate to run the game. In short, Cryptic lied about the specs again (or didn't bother to fix the fucking Engine when they decided to use the Champion's Engine).
- Space Combat/Exploration is a bit slow, especially considering you do most of it at the small scale of Space. They need to speed up ships a bit and make it more fast paced. The controls are a bit awkward too.
- Creating your character is fun, and it does allow you to make custom races. You even get parts for some of the enemy races, which is fun.
- I guess everyone get's their own ship right out of the gate? I understand the reason for this, but it kind of cheapens the experience when everyone you know is a Captain.
- Why can't I choose to hook up with a friend and join the crew on their ship, allowing my abilities to enhance the ship? Sure, it's a passive play style, but it could be fun with the right mini-games. Besides, not everyone wants to control the damn ship.
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- I was surprised the game runs so WELL. My laptop is below specs for CO/STO. And while CO ran, it ran pretty poorly for me, 10fps or below with all settings on low. STO? Knock on wood, works well. Granted I play with settings on low, I'm getting 20-30 FPS depending upon what is going on in game. Which is easily playable.
- Space combat does take some getting used to. I do love how I need to rotate and/or redistribute power to shields as needed, thats pretty cool. I do agree it could use speeding up, some.
- You kind of get your ship but you aren't a Captain. Notice you start out as an Ensign with a single Pip for rank, and "level up" progressing in Rank? Sure you control the ship for space but on the ground you are still Rank X in the Away Party
- This, I do agree with you on. When STO started, by Perpetual Entertainment in 2004, this WAS how STO was going to be played, each ship was like an instance, and you could choose which path to progress, Command, Security, Science, etc, so if you went Command, eventually you could become Captain or Admiral and command a ship, which you could have a certain amount of players who were crew, on your ship. Sadly, Cryptic didnt choose to go with that.
So far I'm loving STO, its a little different, and while I'd like not to see the holy trinity in ship form, its still enough Star Trek in it to satisfy in my inner Trekkie
Dave, if you still want a key, let me know, I'll see what I can do, I've gotten a few people keys already. Least I can do for all you've done for HF
How far did you get? Once I landed on Vega, it's a crawl and impossible to play.
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Not sure, I'm like a lvl 3 Lieutenant, doing this mission chain where you have to visit 4 planets in the Vulcan system, one of the submissions is escorting a frieghter to a minining colony, then you auto party with 3 or 4 other real players and have to take down a small battle group of Orion Raiders which was pretty sweet. I didnt get to finish that one, I had to go to work but its like the third or fourth big mission/quest after the starting zone.
See, that's the thing: I'm stuck in the starting zone because I can't fucking move. I've taken everything down as low as I can... and yet I have higher than minimum specs. I may need to revert to an older driver or something.
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Damn and I wanted to be in since the closed beta 
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Chibibar
downloading.............
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Yea I'm tapped for keys, several people have asked, plus I gave a few out at work, my source for keys is out at the moment.
Its a little laggy at times mainly cause they haven't opened up all the instances yet so all the thousands and thousands of people are piling into whats available
Its a little laggy at times mainly cause they haven't opened up all the instances yet so all the thousands and thousands of people are piling into whats available
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This game may suck up my life for..a long time once its released. I mean if I like stop posting on the forum its cause I'm most likely hip deep in some space sector engaged in combat 
Its like a drug addict taking their first hit.. you know you'll never stop after that
Its like a drug addict taking their first hit.. you know you'll never stop after that
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Chibibar
first hit was free 
(close beta) they get you on subsequent hits (i.e. live)
(close beta) they get you on subsequent hits (i.e. live)www.tentonhammer.com is where i got mine and then gave it to AshburnerX. I will look for more when I can and let you guys know if there are any left.
That's pretty much my sentiment when Dragonball Online gets a state-side release.This game may suck up my life for..a long time once its released. I mean if I like stop posting on the forum its cause I'm most likely hip deep in some space sector engaged in combat
Its like a drug addict taking their first hit.. you know you'll never stop after that
Here try this http://www.startrekonline.com/openbeta
That's pretty much my sentiment when Dragonball Online gets a state-side release.[/QUOTE]This game may suck up my life for..a long time once its released. I mean if I like stop posting on the forum its cause I'm most likely hip deep in some space sector engaged in combat
Its like a drug addict taking their first hit.. you know you'll never stop after that
Let me know how it is... and hopefully the Japanese/Korean players won't be jack asses like they were when FFXI was released Stateside. They'd buy out everything in the shops, dry hunt low level areas, and basically decided American's weren't welcome in "their" game.
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