Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

#36300368082 12/10/2007 08:14:57 Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

On the STO Devlog released on December 4th, the devs talked more about how players will interact with NPC's and other environmental objects, and posted the first in-game screenshot.

Full Article Here.

#36300368095 12/10/2007 08:41:40 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

I'm not a Trekkie but Sweet Thomas Anderson that's hawt.

#36300368098 12/10/2007 08:42:56 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

WEWT!!! looks AWSOME!!! I BETTER get into beta damit!!!!

#36300368105 12/10/2007 08:49:57 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

Looks like Eve online in the Star Trek universe. SMILEY

#36300368108 12/10/2007 08:55:35 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

odj wrote:

Looks like Eve online in the Star Trek universe. " />

Hah I thought the same thing. This game does look very nice!

Too many good mmo's these days to choose from.

#36300368112 12/10/2007 08:59:43 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

That is one very pretty screenshot. Now if they'd tell you the specs of the computer it was taken on.

However, there are two things I notice that I take issue with:

1. The ship looks way too much like the Enterprise... And I bet that's how most of them are going to end up looking for one reason or another. (I don't know much at all about Star Trek so if that's some sort of standard fleet ship or something, I wouldn't know)

2. The alien guy in the mission box looks very cartoony. To the point where it doesn't seem to fit in with the very real-looking screenshot and universe.

...And this strikes me as looking a lot like Star Wars Galaxies plus Jump To Lightspeed with some special angling and graphics tuned way up. The real test of the game's space engine is how much fun it is travelling those 50,000 lightyears from planet to planet with nothing to do but push the throttle to the max and sit back.

#36300368130 12/10/2007 09:27:15 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

*CENSORED*....thats so hawt...i want it now SMILEY

...even the cartoony character looks ok as he isnt a real render model(Like in mxo wit tyndall on the mission contacts? SMILEY

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#36300368135 12/10/2007 09:39:32 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

odj wrote:

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The Anticipation for STO is what made me pick up EVE online. I wanted a space game to hold me over until its release. lol

#36300368138 12/10/2007 09:41:39 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

Neoteny wrote:

1. The ship looks way too much like the Enterprise... And I bet that's how most of them are going to end up looking for one reason or another. (I don't know much at all about Star Trek so if that's some sort of standard fleet ship or something, I wouldn't know)

Yeah, it is something of a tradition to have the "saucer-front, Engines-back" design that we've had since the original series. Here's a link that shows all the Enterprise's.

But, it's probably not going to end up like that. While all starships in the Star Trek universe use variations on that design, there is wiggle-room. The USS Defiant from DS9 and the Norway and Steamrunner-class starships.

And here's another concept drawing they did for STO, the Sacagawea-class. I'm guessing it'll be a shuttle or scout-class ship.

#36300368154 12/10/2007 10:05:31 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

It looks like Eve mixed with WoW!!!

IT IS THE DEMONS!!!

#36300368155 12/10/2007 10:07:01 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

LOL @ the title of that picture:

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Also, that picture owns:

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#36300368158 12/10/2007 10:09:53 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

Very, very cool!

Lyr

#36300368159 12/10/2007 10:11:00 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

The way I understand it, everyone will have thier own small scout class ship of some sort that they can use at any time. Then later you can "join a starship ship" similar to joining a faction or a crew in MxO. How the assignment of starships works, I dunno.

As for the style of the ships, yea they all have the same basic layout almost, like Arch said. But the smaller ships have alot of variation.

Here is a link to what kinda ships exist in the ST universe. Theres TONS, but it also includes other races as well.

#36300368161 12/10/2007 10:11:48 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

Do we know what the playable races will be yet?

Lyr

#36300368164 12/10/2007 10:21:15 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

Illyria22 wrote:

Do we know what the playable races will be yet?
Lyr

From Wikipedia's Star Trek Online Page:

"The final list of playable races has not yet been announced; current candidates include Human, Vulcan, Klingon, Bajoran, Bolian, Cardassian, Ferengi, Tellarite and Andorian."

#36300368368 12/10/2007 15:02 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

It is kinda cartoony, plus I don't ever remember seeing that alien in the window in any of the episodes from any series. I'm more interested in how players will look. I just hope they understand that Star Trek is supposed to be complex and not dumbed down like the NGE for Star Wars Galaxies.

#36300369605 12/12/2007 16:49 Re:Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

First ground based screenshot was released today on Warcry.