Star Trek Armada 3 - The Final Version IS OUT!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Its not every day we see a mod get an offiical final version. Let alone one thats so comprehensive. This total conversion of Sins of a Solar Empire turns it into one of the best Star Trek RTS's to date. Come on in and check it out!
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This is what got me hooked on the channel in the first place
Me as well 😜👍
Same here
same, everything else was just icing on the cake
Why can't we see the name and registration number on the hull
I love star trek lower decks, but don't like the dirt ly jokes
That attack run on 1:24:03 was extremely epic. I have watched that over and over in amazement. What a great mod.
Amen
That was one hell of a drive by.
That wasn't the final MOD. Its just been released a few days ago. If any of you have Discord, look up the STA3 Multiplayer Community and you can get it there, and you can find more players to play groups with :)
Sab and Massive and Rob have literally just released it :)
Captain - “Where is the Yeager that ugly piece of crap”
*“Spacedock” senses a disturbance*
Indeed
I started watching your channel back in 2015 I think. I was working on a military operations center at the time and when things were unbearably slow, watching you play against the Borg was a favorite way to help pass the long hours. Thank you so much for all the amazing content you produce.
Thank you for your service
You're watching RUclips at a Military Operations Center? That certainly doesn't give me much faith in the US Military...
This mod is the only reason I bought Sins all those years ago. I also think it's cool that you have picked up sto again around the same time I did. Starfleet Veterans Club still has some space if anyone is looking for a no pressure fleet. We are well on our way to a tier 2 starbase. Tell them Admiral Freefall sent you.
I just picked it up again too
Same
Appreciate the group mention for STO! I’ve played a lot but never found a good group. Will look you all up!
Love this! I may take you up on that. Gun2Mage.
Which copy of sins do I need?
Imagine how many sales the creators of SOSE owe to a mod. Kudos to the mod creators for such an amazing mod but also, to Paramount for not ordering a cease and desist against this mod for them to make their own crappy rts.
Honestly I think there is room for both. Granted I didn't think the Stage9 Enterprise would do much to suck sales away from Bridge Crew but what do I know, I'm just their target audience
@@Canoby I honestly only thought of this because of a mod being made for C&C Generals that was Halo themed. The work the modders had done at the time looked fantastic but received a cease and desist due to the development of Halo Wars. Halo wars turned out to be somewhat lacking compared to what the mod could have been. I have heard of stage 9 but not Bridge crew unless they're the VR versions which I thought stage 9 was just a virtual model to walk around. No rewal gameplay per se.
@@Pjs-ge7gk It's funny how history repeats itself, even inexactly. You bring up a great example too- and you're right, Stage9 was no game, mostly just a simulated map in the Unreal engine. Oh well, it might get a public release a few years down the road, who knows
most of them! I mean who plays vanilla sins?
@@ADMNtek I have. It’s actually quite enjoyable and there’s quite a bit of interesting lore to all the factions.
Watching you play Sins is such a nostalgia trip.
I found your channel through Sins of a Galactic Empire and Republic at War...simpler times that they were
I got Sins solely for this mod. Stellaris was a bigger investment, but New Horizons is my Trek mod, now... but I may have to try this again.
The Babylon 5 remake is being written by the same guy who wrote the original story, he said there will be similarities but he wants to tell new stories.
I'm pretty sure this mod was the whole reason I found your channel, Shack, all the way back in 2014. I've been waiting for a long time to see you play this again. Will you do campaigns for this like you do for Empire at War's mods?
The thing i love about SINS is I can change the AI based off saved games. So I can start them dumb, then turn them hard, or what ever I want when ever I want. Its a great way to throttle the game to your liking. No other game offers that.
Most of the "small maps" are 1v1 by design, except Sol System which was designed for a 3 faction FFA-style. In my mind, the small maps were designed so a player could set a single opponent and pit their chosen faction against both minors and a single enemy (either AI or player) to get a feel for their chosen faction and learn the ins and outs - like a tutorial without the hand holding. At least that's how I intended it, not sure if that directly translated into what I envisioned.
I hadn't noticed the new designation system (not played Sins, or STA3, for a while) however the PvE maps used to be designated [cailean_556] and were maps I designed with a lot of extra pirates and minor factions to fight against (so PvE makes sense). Basically, you had to break through the minors to get at your opponents, so your capital ships would have a decent amount of XP. 'Sol System' was just a fun little 'what if' type of map where the gas giants were habitable planets and Earth was still Earth, but occupied by A LOT of Bajorans - the Battle for Earth was usually an epic space-battle experience. Especially if you chose to play as Cardassia/Dominion (my fave faction, I was so happy when Maxloef, Gul and Bane told me the Dominion were going to be a playable faction).
It served to slow down progression, as you had limited resources until you took over planets held by minors. That was the intent, anyway. The medium and up maps (at least the ones that I did - you can tell as the little picture is usually a screen cap from the shows/movies and modified in some way and the map name is included on the picture - maps like Defiance and Q's Judgement were ones I did (and Sto'Vo'Kor, Ex Astris Scientia and Beneath the Raptor's Wings). I made a few... The maps were probably changed and/or updated after I left the team, I imagine.
Someone else took over as map-maker in 2017, I can't remember their name. Not out of spite, I literally cannot remember. There was a difference of opinion between the team and I as I hadn't been made aware of a new map guy, which made me think my work was shit and the team hadn't approached me about it. I jumped to conclusions, I took it personally, and (classic me) I went off half-cocked and burnt some bridges. It also worked for me at the time as I was going through the prelude to a divorce so I needed time to deal with that. Not that it helped as I separated the following year anyway.
Kudos to you Shack, for getting STA3 out there again - now that it's reached its Final Version, and kudos to Stellar Parallax for producing potentially the ultimate Star Trek mod for Sins.
“Super secret squirrely research, which makes them stupidly strong.” Say that 5 times fast.
The federation hero ships are very powerful, Voyager has abilities that taunt enemy ships: holographic fleet which creates several ships that do no damage but force enemies to attack them instead, so the enemies must kill the illusions before they really start in on your fleet. Ablative armor forces enemies to target the Voyager itself but the voyager's shield regen becomes so massive it actually heals while under heavy fire. Combat drones absorb some minor fire, but gives all your ships a damage and accuracy buff.
The Defiant has one ability that gives a fleetwide buff to several stats, and the other good ability gives you regenerating mines, which is incredibly OP. Not only are they the gift that keeps on giving, you can drop them on top of a starbase, they explode, regenerate, explode... eventually the toughest starbases die. The Enterprise-E has more mild powers, including reflect damage and being able to instantly summon a random fleet that you pay resources for.
That scout ship that crashed on the planet with Geordi was Romulan, not Cardassian, LOL!
I wondered what happened to Gul when he just dropped off 2 years ago. Wish he would come back to his channel, really enjoyed his content. Maybe Shack can get him to join a multi-player game.
same for one of the other Armada devs. first Bains stuff was on Gul's channel then they split and then one-day Bains's channel was just gone.
Anyone else remember the old Klingon Academy 2 mod for Armada 2 ?
One of the best early mods for it, and if you wanted to further mod your install the modder was more than happy to answer questions to the point I had some of the unplayable factions that existed as map objects like the Orions made playable.
this is the sole reason sins is the second most played game in my library :) i play this once a year for my birthday :) the only reason i stopped playing was that custom maps broke
Shack, you need to do a massive playthrough of this mod,
like several star systems, 8 players, playthrough.
Call it "The battle for the sector or something"
You all should check out Ages Of the Federation (another mod for Sins). It overhauls the game to a greater extent and takes place before original series. The fleet sizes are smaller but more durable, and that puts greater emphasis on ship abilities - to emphasise this very few ships come with 'auto-cast' enabled. Also every ship takes up the same fleet supply (one) but still cost different resources - further encouraging you to use the right ships in the right situations. The UI is also completely overhauled and feels immersive.
They've added a bunch of minor races that featured in Enterprise
Plus: Constitution Class is the Titan ship for the Fed. :-D
There are only 3 playable races.
It feels more like star trek to have tougher, smaller fleets and you can tell a lot of love had gone into the mod.
The mod developers are working another mod taking place in a later timeline.
I'll state that AotF is vastly superior to Armada. The final version of Armada looks like it was balanced by a two year old. Some games are just you steam rolling an AI that does nothing, not building not fighting, just nothing. Other games the AI seems to have ships that can't be damaged, within minutes of starting the its producing end game stations and craft plus the random drops of hostiles in the map ONLY targeting players. So whale probe, borg, rebel fleets, all with similar stats just spawn in and just flatline the player. That being said, while glitchy and poorly optimized, the pre-final version of Armada is fun.
@@Deepingmind yup to everything you said plus the much increased ship building times really encourage long term planning and discourage throwing away ships
@@delirious4565 OMG yes, I love that your ships feel like they have weight and value. They fight and run and fight again, they don't just instant die in droves because a random AI shows up. Even the small craft are fighting and fleeing like they truly want to survive even when you don't micro them. I have a lot of battles where I see a ship moving away and I'm thinking "I didn't tell you to run" then I see the hull damage and think "YES LITTLE DUDE, YOU FUCKING RUN! PLEASE GOD LIVE!" lol
Star Trek Armada 3 was one of the main reasons I found this channel.
"But if you drink enough of it, you begin to like it." This is my all time favorite scene
Borg: Assimilates any planet.
Borg: Another fine addition to our collection.
Anyone else miss the old gang when they used to play campaigns vs the borg 😭
I'm so glad to see sins on the channel again. Your original sta 3 videos are how I found the channel
Dang, that plot twist at the end there. XD
Armada & Armada II being released again is great news. Love those games and my Armada II will not run on Windows 10 no matter what I do. Thanks for mentioning they are being released again.
Yessssss more sinsssss used to watch all the old sins vids. So good to see ya back
I finished this and now I’m going to watch the 5v borg game now
I seriosly hope they made a STA4, because i REALLY want this guys continue to give amazingness like this
Final version? Madness.
Also I miss GulSurvives
Same. Love his intro
man I feel excited for a remake especially when it comes to the visuals.
Thank you for posting this. Played a match tonight, fed (me) vs cardassian. Its not bad having another skin over sins.
This is my favorite mod ever. Started playing because of you. Thanks man
Can you name a capital ship
USS Soufflé?
Because this play through will either rise or it won't. Sisko would be proud .
shack you had it right with building the embassy for the maquis, when the change to embassies instead of envoy itself was made something broke so it doesnt always work, since this is the final version the devs arent gonna fix it.
1:34:45 "You can't even warp unless reintegrated (galaxy class saucer)"
* saucer section proceeds to go to warp *
Heads up. Your next ship option in Star Trek online will include the constellation class heavy cruiser….
I love this. Man its like almost nostalgic to watch this, super enjoying this!
I still think the Star Trek mod for Stellaris is on a whole other level.
true, totally apples to oranges, and the best star trek conversion mod for any game
There are two things that really bug me about this update:
1) The alternate icons submod no longer works, so we have to pretend that using 6-ish icons to represent every single kind of ship is a good idea.
2) The new damage types are really intuitive and should feel familiar to Trek fans [/sarc]. A Miranda now does nearly 4 times as much damage as a Saber when shooting at a B'rel, but less than 1/4 when shooting at either a tiny Lanora or a chunky Dominus.
Fwiw it downloaded and played fine for me first try. And have gone through maybe half a dozen games so far without issue. If that makes anyone feel better about trying it. It's worth it regardless
Glad to see you returning to this mod. If some Borg start giving you a hard time I can bring in the Great Star Empire to back you up ;)
0:12 audio starts
3:00 getting into it
5:45 choosing a race
11:12 starting game
Can't wait for some multiplayer on this version!
That Intrepid-Maquis crossover ship looked so funny. :) :)
I played 1 and 2 since the start and this mod was so exiting, replayability is forever.
This is the best Star Trek mod for any game, ever. Truly impressive. I've been playing it since the 1st or 2nd version.
So glad see this back on channel shack
Shack, if you read the description for the Embassy’s special ability you were trying to use, it said that the target planet has to be fully explored first before you can use it or for it to work.
And interesting note about GoG releasing A1 and A2, i had no idea those games were being rereleased. I hope they improved the physics if nothing else. I hated the way ships and stations exploded in the second game, the first was so much more realistic.
I can all with minor factions, but the abilities seem disabled for me.
You and it mentions exploring the planet first, do they do that over time, or do you have to?
Also, my tab to activate or deactivate minor factions has a no string found tab?
I have forbidden worlds and minor factions dlc.
The no string found also appears when I click on a minor faction planet and the info tab comes up.
If you could offer any insight it would be great, cant seem to an answer anywhere else.
I love this Star Trek game! I can’t believe I we have to wait till Saturday!I think it’s time you get the Terran empire on your side!
Bought Solar Empire to play this and haven't regretted it. Only issue is that some ships and stations are too dark to see against space.
Just orient them against a light sourse like the sun or a nebula and it becomes a non issue. At least in my two hours of play that's what I've seen.
Lower Decks is my favorite Star Trek and I have seen every single show.
sweet! i just bought Sins of a Solar Empire because of that mod and your video! I loved Star Trek Armada!
I still have your 5 players vs the borg series saved in my library. Has it really been 8 years?!
Hope that you play this more often! Missed your sins content
Stuffed like a turkey watching the mid point of this... Loving the various ships in this game. I want it.
Love the old sins play through
Personally, I love the Yeager. First Eaglemoss Ship I bought.
Found my laptop can run Sins (for reference it says I only have half the minimum ram but in my testing there were no issues) and I spent most of last night getting this mod loaded up. Can't wait to play later today.
I played on my laptop for years. I do recommend you save regularly. I typically turned down things like planet detail and such to help it run smoother. I hope it runs smooth. The random events are one of my favorite features. Keep them on for a couple games at least.
@@tiredturtle9514 It crashed loading my first game so I changed some settings and hope it works now.
@@shadowofhawk55 good luck. I had a blast playing over the years. So i hope it works out
@@tiredturtle9514 It did and I had a great time making Glorius Victory for the Founders. VICTORY IS LIFE!!!!
@@shadowofhawk55 thats wonderful!
Around 36:40 someone asks about a mix type mod for sw vs st, as a massive fan of both (minus some of the new stuff) I gotta say that'd go real bad for star wars.
Trek involves enough real world science that we have a pretty solid (for a scifi show) idea of the kinds of damage that can be dished out and taken.
We see Voyager take a star going nova and survive (albiet damaged) in the Q episode, and we know their torpedoes use antimatter for the boom.... and given that the boom to mass ratio of antimatter IRL is known (a gram theoretically results in a greater boom than the nuke dropped on hiroshima) that gives trek solid numbers, where proton torpedoes are never shown to do much more than act as powerful missiles.
So 'heavy' fighter based anti ship missiles vs torpedoes that travel at high sublight and can be used while fighting at warp, all while being rapid fire and having far greater yeilds thab the strongest nukes on the planet.
Combine that with how trek can fight while at warp, and star wars cannot, and star wars ships would lack any sort of fire control systems for even targeting such shipd... yeah, any mod would have to have to be a generic reskin cause treks advantages overshadow what starwars can do..... not to mention the range advantage.
If you really want to change the ship icons on the top left of the screen then download the icon changer for the other mod and make sure they are both activated
Speaking of STO, i once saw a ship captained by someone named " A Karen" and the ship was called USS Epic Narcissism.
TheXPGamers : Man this video was most entertaing i ever see. Respect GW
I did not know this exists, just bought sins just for this THANKS
I hope that you do another multiplayer vs. 1-2 really hard borg. Probably 2 since the borg aren't inherently OP anymore.
1:37:50 I thibk Janeway was sorta Terran at least once, remember hearing “this is the warship voyager”. Not sure if TNG has one tho
Season 4 ep 23, Living Witness.
I like the Jager. Its a unique ship. I like the raiders too =)
With the Diplomatic Mission to the Maquis. I think every time you pushed the button. You recycled the shuttle deployment. It takes some time to launch the shuttle. It launched then you panic and push it again and recall the shuttle. Over and over again.
Love this Mod! Glad they fixed the absurd amount of random space creatures! I had 4 world destroyers roaming through my control area. Sucked.
whoa, stellaris meet star trek !!! amazing. gonna check this game for sure
@57:00 damn that looks like that red dodge viper car when it transformed into the grey one
This is the video that got me to play the game for the first time but the only thing is it's I can't get my mod to connect to others for multiplayer
Love this Mod. It's great. Been playing it since it first came out. Galaxy Forge is the best way to get the most out of your game. Takes a while to setup but definitely worth it. Romulan, Jem Hadar, and Borg are the ones I usually play. 2 vs 2 on a 5 system map (with Capital Victory Only) is awesome.
I had no idea this was a thing! Thanks for letting me know. I been wanting to play armada 2 with people forever! Of course all those people already have Sins hehe.
Holy cow I remember all the old play throughs, so good to see it back on the channel
I never new about Star Trek Armada's re-release on GOG so thanks for that.
Man Im getting my laptop do I can play this next week...just can't wait
I love sins, so many star wars mods and so many star trek....Since there are so many why hasnt anyone made a star trek vs star wars mod yet? I mean they are both cool, both have all the data needed on them both have a ton of mods yet noone has made one vs the other.....
Star Wars ships are so ugly they make the USS Yeager look good.
@@SIXPACFISH mehhh true. But it still would be cool to see star trek ships swarmed by star fighters or broadsided by a star destroyer
I hope that Shack gets to build the Typhon-class carrier in the next episode. I lobbied so hard back in the day to get it into the game on the forums.
The Maquis are my favorite faction in star trek, it hurt to watch them get blown up.
Stone mountain 64 what ever happened to that name used to love your old cod with you hard balling commands haha a true beast you are
Just stumbled on this & was pleasantly surprised. My friends & I played the hell out of Armanda 2 on GameSpy back in the early 2000s.
Huh for a second I thought Shack said "The Kardashians" lmao
IIRC they made the borg just like other AI's. But you can download a super borg add on which makes them like the good ole days
Looking forward to the sequel on Sins of a Solar Empire 2
The Hushnock were the race the old couple on the one planet genocided.
Very cool.
You think we'll ever see a Babylon 5 version of this ?? It's unlikely I suppose, but it'd be so awesome.
I've been watching your channel almost my entire life
It's funny reading the comments. It appears that many people foumd Shack through his Armada 3 Videos so long ago
Nice thing about the B5 reboot is that J. Michael Straczynski is the one doing it. :)
Love this mod, they've done an amazing job o7
At 1:50:19.Yeah!!!. 😂😂😂.Too funny. So you can reach in and take the planet.😂😂😂.TheXPGAMERS. Your one sick puppy.😂😂😂.
Everything you got!
half the group seems to be running away.
Some advice based on my experience with the last version:
1. Always choose quick start. Due to a bug with SINS itself, the AI doesn't upgrade its own homeworld properly. This also gives all races including yours a starbase constructor that prevents the homeworld from being easily genocided.
2. The upper-level planets are very difficult for the AI to acquire, as the AI usually doesn't build enough civilian research to colonize them, nor can it efficently fight their ships, as the advanced planets'ships have tricks like blowing themselves up or throwing out clouds of mines that devastate AI.
Borg's specialty is fighting multiple races, their capships can shoot many other ships simultaneously. They cannot conduct diplomacy of any sort, so choosing "minor factions" from the SINS DLC limits borg enemies, as they must fight their way through minor factions instead of merely sending an envoy to convert them. Oh, and if you let the borg tech up they get one that auto-feeds experience to any new capital ships.
Federation's specialty is powerful shields, many of their capships reinforce or recharge shields. They can also make their capships act like labs.
Cardassian specialties are heavy armor-increasing abilities and summoning distracting creatures from fluidic space. Dominion have the most powerful ship ability in the game: Weyoun's ship has dark matter cascade, which lets you propagate the damage you do to one ship to several others. THIS MELTS ENEMY FLEETS.
Romulans have a weakness with their capships not engaging as many multiple targets, so to fight enemy fleets rely on capship and cruiser AOE abilities, not raw firepower. Also the shadow capship can spit out decoys that absorb damage meant for your fleet.
Klingons are all about the damage. Their titan has two types of torpedo abilities: One that damages massive amount of enemies, but more importantly one that pushes enemies away from the point of impact. This means you can blow some of the enemies out of range until they fly back, letting you target part of their fleet with all of yours.
Anyone give any early insight what is in the final version compared to the recent armada 3 versions? I love this game!
Thank you for showing me this program as soon as I get some more gold press latinum I'll contact my local ferengi holoprogram dealer
I wonder if mods like this actually managed to grt the original actors on board or just got audio snippets for the lined
For this one audio snipets
I still have my original armada 1 and 2 disks and play them regularly
Space, The final Frontier,
These are the Voyages of the Starship Extra Parts,
It’s on going mission to Explore strange new Worlds and Civilisations,
To Boldly go where No One Has Gone Before…