Star Trek Online thread

[Villain]

Hideous ships are hideous.  It's like they saw some DevianTart sketchups and said "Right, all the ships look like ass, let's just magnify that tenfold!" Seriously, are those meant to be Galaxy Class? Blech. +1 Fail for Cryptic, they should've just stuck with destroying Hero System like they were already planning. Though I've never really liked Emmert since I caught him on a CoH event back during i6/7, so it's not really a surprise that Cryptic would destroy whatever they get their hands on.

[Villain]

See, this, I don't mind, the colours are butt-ugly but Perpetual had something with it, but that.. Ugh... Just looks half-assed. Reminds me of the designs of that future ship we saw on Enterprise...

[Bones]

Hehe bring those ships to BC at leats we will have some space garbage for target exercise (STO Excalibur & that new monstersovereign & monsterakira)  :lol:

[Villain]

I'd do it if I weren't so disgusted by them.

[Bones]

they would look decent in any other non-trek game but in trek world they look like some terrilble bashes (u.s.s. yeager is example of such monstrously ugly ship) and there is no place for them... also it's odd why these models are being made by people who don't feel trek universe and what's worst they're taking money for this
The only hope for future ST gaming on PC is ST Excalibur I guess...

[lint]

i think there is a possibility that there will be so many class's of ship to choose/upgrade that a few of them probably will be stinkers.
Im not willing to make my mind up on this game just yet until i see something more than a short teaser.
And hey, if you hate the Fed designs so far, You can always just play as Klingon

[Vortex]

Canon Trek already has the estabilished uniforms from the time period that Cryptic has set their game. And the uniforms Cryptic has shown us, are not it. Plus the rank insignia looks extremely oversized on the uniforms.

They were shown in alternate timelines though.

I think that that Sovvy is just one that has been customised, since you can add on to your ship. As for the trails, maybe they're only visible at full impulse?

[Bones]

I wouldn't bother about those trails as they were present on some of the early pics/vids of Legacy tho they never appeard ingame...

[ChronowerX_GT]

Perhaps we could improve the models. I know you couldn't edit the scripts though. However, it does seem that Trek is on the verge of a comeback. If this and the movie are successful then it might just kick off a new series.

[Jay Crimson]

This is the excal....

everything but the nacelles are cool.

Those are ingame shots of a remake in BC or of the actual STO, Nebula?

[Amasov]

What they have done to that poor sovvy  :shock: that is the worst model I have ever seen... even my brother would make it better... at least they could make something cleaner and smoother similiar to DJs Century.
First we saw the Excalibur (which looked like a dog pooping) and now we see this - the worst sovvy on steroids ever
This game will fail with such ugly ships...

The person playing it decided to customize, rather badly, the look of the ship. The standard version would look like a normal Sovereign.

For example you can see a normal Galaxy-class and a Galaxy variant to its left in this image: http://ff.247xs.nl/startrekonline/trailer15.jpg

[Amasov]

See, this, I don't mind, the colours are butt-ugly but Perpetual had something with it, but that.. Ugh... Just looks half-assed. Reminds me of the designs of that future ship we saw on Enterprise...

That isn't the final colour for that design, here's an old news article showing the proper colours:

http://www.jeuxonline.info/jolfiches/popup.php?captureid=9084

http://www.jeuxonline.info/jolfiches/popup.php?captureid=9083

Going back to that Excalibur ship, it is pug ugly but oddly enough I quite like it. Deflector needs more work though.

[Voyager16]

Hmm, well I still dont like it, but I am going to get it..

[Voyager16]

The ship needs more work >,<

[martyr]

Just watched the trailer again, its shockingly bad. Is there anyone still hopeful about this?

bull.....crap

Please do feel free to explain your feelings whenever you are ready.

oh yeah.

well i've played plenty of games with pretty crap (at least by todays standards) graphics. i need only refer to the awesome star wars arcade games where is was just lines but it was still star wars!

but this game looks pretty bad

[Voyager16]

I dont care about the gfx, sure I dont want it to be th?t bad, but It's more about the gameplay for me..

[Rat Boy]

They guy on stage at the conference on the 10th (There is a video of it on the official site) mentioned something about the Excalibur, but ti might not be that Excalibur.

id guess it would be the excalibur perpetual showed off before the project died

Not exactly.  He was speaking about it while discussing cameos from ships from the novels, so likely he was referring to the Galaxy-class Excalibur-A from the New Frontier novels.

[Tuskin38]

They guy on stage at the conference on the 10th (There is a video of it on the official site) mentioned something about the Excalibur, but ti might not be that Excalibur.

id guess it would be the excalibur perpetual showed off before the project died

Not exactly.  He was speaking about it while discussing cameos from ships from the novels, so likely he was referring to the Galaxy-class Excalibur-A from the New Frontier novels.

Possibly.

[Mark]

why arent they using the canon designs? its like BC2 back from the dead (anyone remember back that far? )

[Rat Boy]

why arent they using the canon designs? its like BC2 back from the dead (anyone remember back that far? )

They are; in one shot there's a fresh-from-the-dealer Galaxy-class.  Chances are that most of what we've seen are either a few new designs (sensible given the time period) or refits to existing designs (also sensible).