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Offline FarShot

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1160 on: January 18, 2010, 03:04:18 PM »
Could one of you guys post something about the ship customization?  I'd like to see that.

There was a vid posted about 2 pages back showing someone messing around with their Miranda.

Edit: Tell a lie, its not 2 pages back, its about 6. :P

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Holy cow, that is awesome.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1161 on: January 18, 2010, 04:10:53 PM »
Anyone else getting a message that says you're not allowed to log into the server at this time?

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1162 on: January 18, 2010, 04:19:10 PM »
same here >.<
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1163 on: January 18, 2010, 05:06:31 PM »
Keep logging in until ur actually in!

Got a message though.

After I got to my ship got a popup that PvP is up again.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1164 on: January 18, 2010, 07:02:27 PM »
I got that too. You all need to add me: F9thKirk2164 (I made the login back in my 9th fleet days.)

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1165 on: January 18, 2010, 07:28:20 PM »
So I overestimated this game by a lot. First off, ground combat is just about the most unintuitive thing I have yet to encounter. The tutorial levels did nothing to teach me the controls or nuances of the game play. One of the first things it tells you to do is not leave your away team, fine. It doesn't, however, go over how you control your away team, who's in your away team, or how to find out. Mr. Quinto just lets you know that it's a bad idea to shoot borg by yourself. Next, firing your weapon. If I wanted a point and click adventure I would've bought and downloaded a Nancy Drew game off Steam. Let me aim and shoot my weapon, or a least make it easy for me to tell my character to start shooting. Maybe I'm missing something, but double clicking, once to select the enemy, once to fire, every time I want to attack a person is just tedious. It doesn't help that the away team bots run in front of you and cause you to click on them. Also, if you don't have an enemy selected, I've found the camera just snaps back to looking straight out, which doesn't help when trying to look around and down hills, etc. I like the space combat, but the less I have to beam down, the better.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1166 on: January 18, 2010, 09:17:58 PM »
hit tab(to cycle through targets) then just hit the 1 though 0 keys to select what you want to fire...
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1167 on: January 18, 2010, 11:30:42 PM »
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hit tab(to cycle through targets) then just hit the 1 though 0 keys to select what you want to fire...

but do not rely on tab in space combat. a common tactic being used now in pvp is mine deployment.,.it counter measures your tab targeting to select mines anbd get  pew pewed while u cycle.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1168 on: January 18, 2010, 11:57:53 PM »
tabbing through the list also allows you to multi target.... (space combat)
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1169 on: January 19, 2010, 09:51:11 AM »
its standard mmo combat..

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1170 on: January 19, 2010, 09:52:02 AM »
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hit tab(to cycle through targets) then just hit the 1 though 0 keys to select what you want to fire...

but do not rely on tab in space combat. a common tactic being used now in pvp is mine deployment.,.it counter measures your tab targeting to select mines anbd get  pew pewed while u cycle.

I have lev 2 quantum mines equipped on my miranda they are nasty but i havent had the pleasure of PvP yet

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1171 on: January 19, 2010, 11:49:26 AM »
That was a big "awww"
After impact hehe.

yeah crappy gfx, but I'm playing the game on low.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1172 on: January 19, 2010, 11:53:52 AM »
I finally got my Constitution-Refit class. I'll take some screenshot references of the variants so I could possibly build them. I can now explore the systems with one of my favorite ships. :)
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1173 on: January 19, 2010, 12:58:21 PM »
You mean like this, Wiley? :P



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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1174 on: January 19, 2010, 01:09:03 PM »
Level cap and huge patch coming this week, will have a LOT of features as apparently what we are testing is the closed beta release :P. The real beta begins this week, the last week was server stress load.

I am flying an interesting cruiser config. It's the Vesper nacelles and saucer and neck, constitution pylons and Excalibur secondary.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1175 on: January 19, 2010, 02:00:16 PM »
I am flying an interesting cruiser config. It's the Vesper nacelles and saucer and neck, constitution pylons and Excalibur secondary.

Any chance of a pic? It sounds very interesting :).
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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1176 on: January 19, 2010, 03:24:46 PM »
Wiley, do any of the Excalibur class variants resemble the JJprise?

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1177 on: January 19, 2010, 04:02:08 PM »
josh u SOLD me on that class that looks awesome its definetly the desired end ship look for me. I am still only lev 6 ibeen playing champions with a new respec i did so took up some time,and as the second in command of our supergroup i had to do my thing as an officer and be around to help, but i also am not rushing thru sto because its open beta and i have to restart anyways :P

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1178 on: January 19, 2010, 04:21:18 PM »
its standard mmo combat..
Which is exactly why I think I had a hard time with it at first. I've been playing a lot of wRPGs and FPSs lately.

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Re: Star Trek Online thread
« Reply #1179 on: January 19, 2010, 04:31:27 PM »
i can now offically announce i managed to swing some stocks and get enough cash from them to get STO and the lifetime subscription