Star Trek Online - QtTHREEEEE IIIINNN SPAAAAAACE! (launch/roll call/gameplay thread)

So how is this on the Xbone? I’ve played it on the PC over the years and had fun for a while what with building ships and whatnot. But the last time I tried last year it was so complicated getting started. But if I can sit on my bum on the couch and play, it was good enough to warrant another few missions. Maybe even spend some money on SpaceBucks since they’re on sale on the Xbone store this week.

lostcawz, you are so lucky because I may be the only dude on these boards who can answer your question: STO on Xbox is pretty cool! It had been a while since I played on PC when I started on the Xbone and I noticed the early missions had changed. And keep in mind that nothing will carry over to the console game, you’re starting over and that includes anything you bought on the PC, if that makes a difference to you. But I much prefer playing with a controller personally and don’t find the load times or graphics to be all that bad - I expected worse honestly.

Nice! I really didn’t figure anyone could answer this until I saw your post a few weeks ago (or noticed it a few weeks ago anyway). I have no cares about carrying over anything as I have little to carry over and the initial few weeks of building up a cool spaceship was the most enjoyable part.

Have they added the away missions for officers? Seems like I read they had.

Oh, sorry Tom, for bumping without adding any cool spaceshipporn. maybe this will suffice…

They have. I log in every day to at least go through those.

So I finally jumped in. Enjoying the whole thing from sitting on my couch and playing with the controller is pretty intuitive so far anyway.

The whole linking of accounts is insane though. I couldn’t link the xbox account to my arc account because it said it was already in use (from a while back I guess when I tried Neverwinter maybe) so I de-linked that, but now don’t think my sto/xbox account is linked to anything. So damned stoooopid.

Anyway, I’d like to spend a little money but am not really sure at this point until I get the linking thing straight.

Oh, and how do you take screenshots? Need me some spaceshipporn

If you’re already linked from playing Neverwinter, you should be good and will get your free stuff. It’s not great, mainly I remember the Khan costumes which look dumb next to the average fleet uniform.

Screenshots are going to be handled by the Xbox UI, so double click the big glory white button and choose to take a screenshot. Mine never turn out very well, I think I posted one earlier in the thread, but good luck to you.

STO is giving away free T5 ships this weekend as part of its seventh anniversary celebration. After you load up the game, open the c-store and check under the ‘ships’ tab to claim it.

The ship type is different for each faction. Federation characters get an Avenger Federation Battlecruiser:



Thanks for the heads up.

Yeah thanks! Reinstalling now!

I don’t really ever play this on PC anymore but I can’t turn down a free ship!

Yep. As well it looks really good on my new laptop. May have to start actually playing again.

Grabbed the ship for my 3 federation mains, sadly my 1 klingon character isn’t high enough level to get the free ship for that faction. And I haven’t played at all since the Romulans were introduced, so I am wayyyyyy behind on playable content apparently.

Also how much free Zen do STO Lifetime Subscribers still get? I logged in and have like 28k zen coins. :o

I also got slathered in awards as soon as I signed on. I went and checked to see how long I’ve been “active”.

Subscriptions
Subscribed For: 2553 Days
Subscription Status: Active

Also did some news reading, and it appears 3 new dreadnoughts were added back in October!

AND! Back in 2014, they added 10 levels, you can now rank up to level 60!

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Player_rank

New ship from the 7th anniversary event: the Lukari Ho’kuun Science Vessel (screenshot taken outside DS9):

The flying wedge design isn’t as interesting as some of the other ships, but the animations on the lit sections are a nice touch. Also, I like the interior:

Why didn’t the Enterprise have any plants on the bridge?

Hey cool, I wonder if that will be made available on consoles? Speaking of which, Agents of Yesterday is finally making it to the consoles, Feb 14. Haven’t tried that out yet on PC, this will be my first run through, heard good things.

Whoa, LaVar Burton to do a few story episodes in Star Trek Online!

https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/2017-04-08-levar-burton-geordi-la-forge-himself-joins-star-trek-online

Why doesn’t he have on his visor?

Before the events of Star Trek First Contact he got cybernetic eye implants.

Thanks. I think I even saw that movie, but I had forgotten. I guess LaVar got tired of the visor.

My understanding is that the visor was painful to wear, much like Spock’s ears.

I got back into STO over the weekend and had a really great time. I closed off a couple storylines and started a new one, the Delta Quadrant. It’s surprisingly good - downside is that it centers on the crew of Voyager, which I never really got into myself. But the upside is that there’s some interesting story stuff going on here, two warring aliens that have much more interesting motivations than they seem to at first glance. Plus the reappearance of a villain from one of my favorite Next Gen episodes! Really glad I came back to this, feel like I may even try Klingon and Romulan characters at some point.