STO actually does have a fishing mini game, during the Winter Event you're transported to a location that has a frozen pond and you're able to do "Klingon ice fishing"...aka punching into the ice and pulling the fish out with your hand
There's a fishing minigame in Star Trek, fishing? Who'd be eating that shit when food replicators exist? Even the reboots of Star Trek had replicators! Is it like a holodeck simulation of a fishing vacation? Have the creators of this game ever watched Star Trek?!
@@secludedmisanthrope6388 calm down, it's a gummy fish in a holiday pond that Q transport you to doing their annual Christmas event and if you want to get into the lore then you should know that lots of characters have talked about how real food tastes so much better than replicated food and they always prefer to eat real when they can
@@secludedmisanthrope6388 replicator food seems to not taste as good as actual food, at least according to people in universe. Otherwise why would anyone still run a diner back in Earth?
@@zhitchcresttail3387 I'm betting money food from the replicator tastes far better than their combat rations and when Riker made scrambled eggs in a TNG episode and everyone thought it was God awful except Worf.
@@zhitchcresttail3387 Food from a replicator vs freshly cooked food I imagine would be like a microwave dinner vs a home cooked meal or something you'd get from a restaurant. It would come down to the cook, ingredients available on a starship in space and tools available. So the meal is only as good as the availability those things. A starship replicator can make anything in the blink of an eye. Even in DS9 Quark said he would have to pay insane amounts of money/currency or what food items are available from the aliens that visit the star base. There aren't a ton of fresh ingredients being shipped around the vast expanse of space and getting enough to actually cook a meal seems like it would be insanely difficult.
Kevduit and friends: "If a MMO don't have a fishing mini game it is actually not a MMO" Guild Wars 2 Devs: "Shit! They are right! Quick add fishing on the feature list of the next expansion!"
As someone who's actually played quite a bit of this, the tutorial is MUCH LONGER on the original Starfleet due to its story, literally every other faction has a much shorter one.
According to Steam, I've played 730.1 hours of this game, mostly with my brother. Starts off really boring, picks up in the middle then just turns into an absolute grind if you want any of the known ships, unless you want to pay....then Zen costs an arm and a leg. If you play it for each factions campaign it's not bad, just keep your credit card far away from it.
On just my main character, I've spent 272 days, 9 hours and 10 seconds in game... I'm not going to check my other 55 characters on this account, nor the 18 characters on other accounts!
That couldn't be farther from my experience. In under a hundred hours I had the Enterprise E. Didn't ever have to do grinding, the story missions were enough to get to level 50-sonething.
@@Sky_Guy - I think they were referring to the Tier 5 or 6 ships that aren’t free. The ship you’re talking about was probably the free T4 version that you get for hitting level 40. The stats are worse than the T5 or T6 (even with level boosting) and they don’t come with any special abilities or consoles. Even though, technically, you could get anything from the Zen store for free by trading your dilithium for Zen Coins, it’d take forever. I actually did that for my first Z-Store ship, it took me over half a year of grinding almost every day. If you really want a T6/endgame ship for free, just wait around for the Summer, Winter, and/or Anniversary Events. They’re not too bad. Most of them aren’t iconic or hero ships, though.
@@CJ-442 I responded specifically to "then just turns into an absolute grind if you want any of the known ships," because there's no way you will ever have to spend real money on the game to collect most of the famous ones, which aren't Tier 5u or 6.
I’ve been playing for years and have amassed almost 70 ships, beaten every mission, played as every faction and maxed out every character. Now my ships pretty much one shot everything. Wether it’s TFO’s or at times, PvP. That being said it’s still fun to hop on and play when they add new story expansions. Or add new ships to work towards. And of course just playing with a group of friends and wiping everything out in one weapon volley. Considering it’s 12 years old and still has a decent fan base across the platforms I’d say it’s still impressive
If you see the USS Tugz-A-Lot, thats me. Tiny section 31 escort built around the chains of fire console from the felkiri ship. Its a combat tow truck. Nab 4-5 ships with chains of fire, then just zigzag as you tow them, causing fire dot, collision damage, drop mines and other rear-facing attacks just for good measure. And on the defense tfo... i forget its name, with the 3 stations.... you can instantly clear 1 station at the start. Chains of fire on the battleship, then just hit full impulse ability (the one that gives a huge, short speed boost) and tow it as far away as you can. It will just stay there, out of range and no more battleships will spawn. *terrible commercial jingle* If yer ship's been shot by a borgy bot Call 1-800-Tuggz-A-Lot! 😋 (Xbox version, but im sure the same strategies work on pc)
I actually really love the space combat of this game! I wish another game would come along and make something similar but without the mmo grind and extraneous bits.
Ngl this game had issues but ive put 100s of hours into it and its easily the best star trek game ever made with not a single close comparison. Which is the strangest thing because this universe is so ripe for high quality game experiences
Elite Forces isn't the worst game I've ever played, lol. You're right though, it's odd that there aren't many good Star Trek games given the material they have to work with.
STO was the first MMO i put triple digit hours into... not necessarily proud of it, but i loved the ship combat, the stories grabbed my nerdy teenage ass, user designed missions allowed for random flashes of action or genuinely fascinating stories that had more love put into them than the canon story, i was in an RP guild that had like a promotion ceremony with a cameraman and everything... it was weird but fun
Instead of clicking your weapons, if you right click each one once, there will be a green glow around each weapons box, and then press space bar while you are targeting an enemy, all of your weapons will continue to fire at once raining hell down onto the enemies until they are dead lol. A tip I picked up over the years. It allows you to focus more on flying and your bridge crew abilities rather than your weapons firing haha.
Kev: We just beat the hardest mission in the game. VAADWUAR, ICONIANS, and BREEN: Allow us to introduce ourselves. You did complete the most recent mission, though, so congratulations. You can see everything in story order by going to the Episodes tab on the tablet looking icon thingy.
Actually....it does have a fishing minigame in the Christmas event. But it's Klingon fishing so you punch a hole in the ice with an armored gauntlet and then pull the fish out with your hand.
10:19 Look at that team! HAHAHAHA -HUGE MASSIVE TALL WEIRD ALIEN -BUFFED GALDALF. -VOLDEMORT -A HOBBIT -A NORMAL HUMAN PERSON. with a normal human name.
"It'd be nice to have more then one laser." Me: *laughs in my Tier 6 ships equipped with inbetween 7 to 8 different weapons mounted fore and aft* Seriously though, I've had a blast with this game. Especially since while there is stuff you can spend money on, I've never felt obligated to actually spend money on the game. As long as you're willing to grind out dilithium to exchange it for the money bought store based currency. Plus, my dad had me hooked on GOOD Star Trek when I was a little kid, so playing this game and flying some of the most iconic ships of Star Trek is pretty sweet.
Considering I'm a massive trek nerd, I've played this game for a long ass time and honestly it's enjoyable for me. Though you did get something wrong in the intro, you said why play the actual trek game where you play the notable characters... In this game all the original actors voice their characters bar James Doohan who passed away so his son Chris does his voice perfectly. Early on, it's fun and if you know there universe... Its great. Mid game its really good story wise due to good arcs and characters returning. Endgame it's a blast that's fun, but leans into the mictotransaction hellscaps and any memorable ship you'd like is behind a pay wall or event. I have I think 20ish ships of various sizes from the small defiant class escort to the universe class dreadnought cruiser aka THE MIGHTY PANCAKE OF DOOM. I get your point of view as you may not be a massive trek fan, but honestly if you have the time and want to have a laugh, boot it up with some mates and play for a bit. It might grow on you.
Played about 200h in it, when the player made missions were still a thing and it was quite enjoyable. It has a niche audience that mostly log in to do a story chapter when it comes out then dont log again. It's grindy by design, but the grind has little point to do so other than buying the premium currency for ingame cash. The combat system is unnecessarily complex for something that you only click the skill on the screen (there were set items with multiple procs depending on each other) and the pvp was literally unplayable because of the server couldnt keep up with calculations. Had a good time though, main story quests are fully voiced by the actors from the series and the plot and overall feeling of universe is better than Star Trek Discovery on Netflix.
Yeah I've played this game a lot and it does have that classic star trek feel to it, but its not perfect of course and the story quests are the main highlight, also its quite f2p friendly for old mmo standards
@@blisterfingers8169 a few? half the TNG cast is in the game, the entire DS9 main cast minus the 2 siskos are in the game, most of voyagers cast including janeway are in the game now as well as the main cast members from discovery playing key parts in a lot of the newest missions. honestly it seems like a like a lot of the new and returning trek cast are contractually required to do voice work for the game if they want to come back to trek.
@@exilestudios9546 Thats what I was thinking, I found it pretty crazy just how many of the original actors they managed to bring into this. Blister must not have played enough of the game...
sadly... they never really got roles down in STO its more "how do you like to play"... one of my buddies was always an eng using a tac ship... and my tac often had an eng ship... loaded for bear but still... he sucked at dealing with slower turn rates and it was not an issue for me at all really.. i can use any ship type given a few min to set it up and get the skill bars setup... thats actually part of what made sto so fun from the time we started just prior to it going f2p, was how you could choose a combo that suited your play style, and sometimes thats the ship everybody avoids... shit we got free ships back in the day that i swear were "discovery" class or some crap, and people kept saying you couldnt use them for elite runs..so my whole group outfit outs and did runs that night... often split in 2 so we could dominate the scores and have people who gave us crap for our ship choice get salty that if outfit correctly.. it was more then capable... the one really annoying part with new ships is getting the BO's setup and the bloody skills... so man things to place on skill bars... so damn many... thats one place newer mmos tend to do a bit better, hell if it would just auto equip skills for new ship loadouts and let you tweak the layout that would help alot.. but yeah.. the "tank" was often squishier then the redshirt from my exp ;)
STO's feature that allows you to explore your ship is so much fun for me because I am a lore nerd and love Klingon and Romulan ships. Federation ships are cool too!
This game DOES have fishing. Just only at christmas. You punch the ice of a frozen lake in the hopes that a 10 ft long gummi fish will deepthroat you. Not one word of that is false.
i remember there was an awesome and HILARIOUS bug when this came out, where players could appear as their spaceship while on an away mission, so you'd be running around on foot and suddenly a federation vessel about 3 feet long would zoom past you
STO can be fun, but it absolutely sucks that I’ll look up a bug and find forums from 10 years ago saying “it’s been years and it still hasn’t been fixed?” Like sir, I’m so sorry to inform you that they, in fact, still have not fixed it lmao
Look, no one can pass judgement on this game until they have been made aware that if you have two tribbles and food in your inventory, they multiply until they’ve either filled up your inventory or eaten all of your food. And now that you know that, *now* you’re allowed to say that the game is a mess
I started playing in 2012 and have played on and off for the past 10 years. I have a lot of cool old event gear which makes the tutorials actually pretty easy and fast for new toons. I'm still kicking myself for missing certain events and free ships when I was more inactive, but I enjoy it enough that I've put in a decent amount of money into the game for some quality of life upgrades and some old event stuff I missed and really wanted. I've definitely gotten my money's worth, and I have 5 max level characters at the moment with plans for another one or two next time the delta recruitment runs around.
I've been playing this game on and off for years with 2 max characters and I still don't understand how it works lol but as a Star Trek fan the mechanics are not what I'm there for
Haha im more or less the same, playing for years, have several characters, only use the equipment with the biggest number without knowing exactly what it does, and just spam every skill hoping to kill the bad guys
When I started STO, it was still during the Borg incursion, when DS9 was the hub for trading in STF tokens for ship gear. Then, they added the grind, but they didn't add any new gear or events. Just gated everything with a giant unnecessary progression wall: the very same gear you were getting the day before from STF drops (which was fun), now you have to grind and there are no drops. STFs barely had a purpose in space. On foot, there was zero purpose. Most messed up thing was I actually was only on F2P and was purchasing ships as a way to reward the devs for the time I invested. My wife had the worker bee healer one and I had a Sao Paulo-class named USS Brooklyn. I chatted with one of the devs aboard a space station, told him if they released a carrier, I'd buy it that day. They did, so I did! One for me and my wife. That's how fun the game was. Then some ****** with no concept of how MMOs are played decided to fuck the entire system up. DS9 gone as a hub. STFs pointless. What used to be fun was converted into grind. STO died that day.
yeah the game not only isnt dead more people are actively playing it now thanks ot a combination of the return of star trek tv shows as well as the mass exodus of wow players seeking new mmos to spend their time and money in
Holy shit. Right as I get back into STO you release a video about it? It must be a sign. I'M BLOWING MY ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS IN THE ZEN SHOP!!! Also, Kev spamming his shield zones trying desperately to save his ship while saying comforting nothings to her as she dies is both hilarious and painfully relatable XD
I have played that game off and on since the Beta. I have a lifetime sub and pop in there every few months; realize I have no idea what I was doing when I left and start a new toon. The game could really really stand to do something about its season/episode systems.
I'm glad you are playing one of my all favorite mmos!
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Everybody should start this game with a veteran friend (not like a long time/lifetime subscriber, but a person with 150h+ experience) who helps you through the beginning stage confusion, because this gameplay caused me physical pain and not because of the jokes and memes. Not putting beams on autofire, wasting BOFF skills, not broadsiding (mind you, at this level it pretty much doesn't matter), firing by mouse clicking on targets, using more torps than beams.... I remember when I used to be this way. Well not quite as bad, but close xD
This is the only mmo I have ever played to max level before. That was back in 2012ish so I think the level cap was around 50 then. I liked the universe and story. I felt like I was a dude just rising through the ranks of star fleet.
Klingon Ice Fishing, with a spiked gauntlet no less. It's part of Q's Winter Wonderland, which they all _just_ barely missed. By a couple weeks. Oh well, next year. Or in July, if they decide to do a sort of Winter In July thing again. It's Q, he can do whatever the heck he wants.
if this game had double the newbies and fresh players, or more high tier players willing to chill tf out without needing to show off how they can one hit everything within 10km---- i'd say it's a solid 8/10. you'll almost always have an elite player in easy tfo lobbies, zooming around killing everything before you can even fly up to it lmao. other than the obsessive and insecure ass mega players who feel the need to flex on everyone none stop, the game and community is awesome. love chillin at ESD jus lookin at the ships rolling thru. for the age of the game, she holds up pretty damn well. its a free to play so the zenn part of the game makes sense, gotta keep the servers running and the devs employed. plus free updates and content constantly.
I have played a good few MMOs in my time but nothing was like star wars galaxies some of my best mmo memory is from that game. You could be anything from rebel, sith , jedi, musician, bounty hunter or empire ect. Great mmo well beyond its time i wish I'd heard of it sooner!
This games fun dad got me into awhile back and is still a blast. It's just fun to shoot a ship sometimes and blow something up while remembering shows as a kid.
God damn, it's been two years- The craziest thing about the tutorial is that despite being super long, it still doesn't quite tell you everything you need to know. A lot of what you need to know for the later game is pretty much relegated to outside sources like RUclips or Reddit.
STO recently had the choice of launchers. As in you had to choose to bind the game to Steam or Arc Launcher. Many used the Arc Launcher already, because you did not need to enter your password everytime. That might fuck up the Steam statistics.
the vast majority of players use the arc launcher. the game just reported a record number of players last year and more importantly to their share holders record profits. the return of star trek shows combined with massive amounts of players fleeing wow and looking for new MMOs are the only reason this game is still alive
I've put a couple thousand hours into this game and it's still fun. If I'm not making a shuttlecraft that can blow up a dreadnought, I'm doing 17k damage with my fists in ground combat because punching borg into orbit is a great pastime. Then again, flooding space with torpedoes is pretty amazing too. :D
I used to love STO. I probably still do, and I can see myself replaying the old/lower level content where utility and support builds are actually meaningful. Endgame was basically just maxing out your dps and HP when I last played, which made it incredibly boring and pointless. Pop your wormhole thing to group it all up, pop your aoes and spam away. I can hope (but not expect) that they changed things and buff/debuff heavy builds are actually viable again. But I'm not keeping those hopes very high. Oh and the custom mission maker thing was removed because they lost the code for it or something? How do you misplace data (the information, not the android)?
they say the lost the code but in reality they removed it because players were using the system to skip the intentional grind that the games owners wanted in the game.
Debuff/Nanny builds have always been a thing. You complain about DPSing, but to make a record you need a debuff tank and supports. I'm not sure where you think those builds went.
You'll be happy to know there is fishing in the game during Q's Winter Wonderland event. It is Klingon ice fishing where you punch the ice (with a Klingon fishing item) and catch a fish!!
:( you can press space to autolock on to ships and fire all weapons, have your best beams on the side and torpedos in the middle front and turrets in the back ALSO KLINGONS ARE THE SUPERIOR RACE, FOR THE GLORY OF THE KLINGON EMPIRE
I used to play a lot of STO back in the day, then I just ended up doing daily away team missions that I could do offline. Then they nerfed those and I uninstalled, never played again.
I spent way too much money on this game. Experimenting with ship and equipment sets was so fun, but PWE milk the hell out of the players with the most scummy business system.
You fell into the Trap! Between Kirks time and Picards Time, Yellow and Redshirts switched places. Unless you are the replacement black man who just in time replaced the regular black man
Just found your channel and really enjoying the "Forced my friends to play" videos. Have to recommend Unreal Tournament 3, it was the apex of old school arena shooters after everyone stopped playing arena shooters. So many players, maps, and mods and that not including anything you find molded. Game is made for doing wild stuff if you have a bunch of friends to play, and game has bots to fill any empty player slots for whatever game type you play.
I've noticed that a ton of people who do "We tried STO" videos seem to have no idea that you can hit B on the keyboard to turn on Shooter Mode. Not a biggy, but it does completely change ground combat from a typical tab combat rpg to an action combat RPG lol
Thanks to Wargaming for supporting the channel, play World of Tanks for Free tanks.ly/33D7d3n #ad
Game as good yes
Kev I love your videos
Play amkngus
Force your friends to play spellbreak that game is super dead
Thank you for making a sponsorship ad actually sound somewhat funny and not like they are holding you hostage.
STO actually does have a fishing mini game, during the Winter Event you're transported to a location that has a frozen pond and you're able to do "Klingon ice fishing"...aka punching into the ice and pulling the fish out with your hand
There's a fishing minigame in Star Trek, fishing? Who'd be eating that shit when food replicators exist? Even the reboots of Star Trek had replicators! Is it like a holodeck simulation of a fishing vacation? Have the creators of this game ever watched Star Trek?!
@@secludedmisanthrope6388 calm down, it's a gummy fish in a holiday pond that Q transport you to doing their annual Christmas event
and if you want to get into the lore then you should know that lots of characters have talked about how real food tastes so much better than replicated food and they always prefer to eat real when they can
@@secludedmisanthrope6388 replicator food seems to not taste as good as actual food, at least according to people in universe. Otherwise why would anyone still run a diner back in Earth?
@@zhitchcresttail3387 I'm betting money food from the replicator tastes far better than their combat rations and when Riker made scrambled eggs in a TNG episode and everyone thought it was God awful except Worf.
@@zhitchcresttail3387 Food from a replicator vs freshly cooked food I imagine would be like a microwave dinner vs a home cooked meal or something you'd get from a restaurant. It would come down to the cook, ingredients available on a starship in space and tools available. So the meal is only as good as the availability those things. A starship replicator can make anything in the blink of an eye. Even in DS9 Quark said he would have to pay insane amounts of money/currency or what food items are available from the aliens that visit the star base. There aren't a ton of fresh ingredients being shipped around the vast expanse of space and getting enough to actually cook a meal seems like it would be insanely difficult.
Im glad Zhu Zhu pets is FINALLY getting the recognition it deserves
I still have that goddamn game. In my DSi. Oh god. The flashbacks. The fucking hamster noises.
I still have Zhu Zhu Pets and Kung Zhu for the DS
Kev: "It'd be nice to have more than one laser"
Photon torpedos and officer abilities: "Are we a joke to you?"
The reply above this for me is from a user with the name x.
Is that intended or is this a great coincidence?
PICARD and RIKER: [snickering] Lasers. Quick, Number One, lower our shields.
BEAMS, FIRE AT WILL!
Kevduit and friends: "If a MMO don't have a fishing mini game it is actually not a MMO"
Guild Wars 2 Devs: "Shit! They are right! Quick add fishing on the feature list of the next expansion!"
Really a game like GW2 didn't have fishing how did people even find it playable.
The Christmas event includes a fishing game. Klingon style.
It was an honor to be the off brand Spock of our Star Trek adventure
I heard "Fire at Tom!" and I was like "Tom Paris?!"
As someone who's actually played quite a bit of this, the tutorial is MUCH LONGER on the original Starfleet due to its story, literally every other faction has a much shorter one.
According to Steam, I've played 730.1 hours of this game, mostly with my brother. Starts off really boring, picks up in the middle then just turns into an absolute grind if you want any of the known ships, unless you want to pay....then Zen costs an arm and a leg. If you play it for each factions campaign it's not bad, just keep your credit card far away from it.
I got kucky and picked it up round the time they were giving away a T6 ship for free, now it's more bearable
On just my main character, I've spent 272 days, 9 hours and 10 seconds in game... I'm not going to check my other 55 characters on this account, nor the 18 characters on other accounts!
That couldn't be farther from my experience. In under a hundred hours I had the Enterprise E. Didn't ever have to do grinding, the story missions were enough to get to level 50-sonething.
@@Sky_Guy - I think they were referring to the Tier 5 or 6 ships that aren’t free. The ship you’re talking about was probably the free T4 version that you get for hitting level 40. The stats are worse than the T5 or T6 (even with level boosting) and they don’t come with any special abilities or consoles. Even though, technically, you could get anything from the Zen store for free by trading your dilithium for Zen Coins, it’d take forever. I actually did that for my first Z-Store ship, it took me over half a year of grinding almost every day. If you really want a T6/endgame ship for free, just wait around for the Summer, Winter, and/or Anniversary Events. They’re not too bad. Most of them aren’t iconic or hero ships, though.
@@CJ-442 I responded specifically to "then just turns into an absolute grind if you want any of the known ships," because there's no way you will ever have to spend real money on the game to collect most of the famous ones, which aren't Tier 5u or 6.
Most important part is you guys sounded like you had fun. Hit me up if you ever get or are interested in the end game for STO.
space barbie you mean right
This is wendy's sir!
I’ve been playing for years and have amassed almost 70 ships, beaten every mission, played as every faction and maxed out every character. Now my ships pretty much one shot everything. Wether it’s TFO’s or at times, PvP. That being said it’s still fun to hop on and play when they add new story expansions. Or add new ships to work towards. And of course just playing with a group of friends and wiping everything out in one weapon volley. Considering it’s 12 years old and still has a decent fan base across the platforms I’d say it’s still impressive
Wow
Yikes
Reason it has a fanbase is because its literally the only good start trek game in existence.
@@seemslegit6203 agreed. A close second would be either bridge commander or Star Trek Legacy
If you see the USS Tugz-A-Lot, thats me. Tiny section 31 escort built around the chains of fire console from the felkiri ship. Its a combat tow truck. Nab 4-5 ships with chains of fire, then just zigzag as you tow them, causing fire dot, collision damage, drop mines and other rear-facing attacks just for good measure. And on the defense tfo... i forget its name, with the 3 stations.... you can instantly clear 1 station at the start. Chains of fire on the battleship, then just hit full impulse ability (the one that gives a huge, short speed boost) and tow it as far away as you can. It will just stay there, out of range and no more battleships will spawn.
*terrible commercial jingle*
If yer ship's been shot by a borgy bot
Call 1-800-Tuggz-A-Lot!
😋
(Xbox version, but im sure the same strategies work on pc)
I actually really love the space combat of this game! I wish another game would come along and make something similar but without the mmo grind and extraneous bits.
Have you played bridge commander
Mechanically, because sto is a clone of champions on it's fundamentals, space combat is permanent superhero flight with static models.
Try no man's sky, it's different I know but I liked the space combat when there was combat n was fun exploring space n building 🤷
St Bridge crew is awesome, but they seriously need more content for it.
It's like watching a classic episode of The Next Generation back in the 90s. Exactly how I remember it right down to the world of tanks plug.
Ngl this game had issues but ive put 100s of hours into it and its easily the best star trek game ever made with not a single close comparison. Which is the strangest thing because this universe is so ripe for high quality game experiences
Elite Forces isn't the worst game I've ever played, lol. You're right though, it's odd that there aren't many good Star Trek games given the material they have to work with.
Im looking forward to the new game Resurgence set in TNG made by the Telltale team.
Best Star Trek game ever, lmao what a joke. This game is a travesty to any fans of the shows.
@@canman87 You literaly got the holodeck and all the cosmic god like entity and time travel nonsense that literally anything is possible.
STO was the first MMO i put triple digit hours into... not necessarily proud of it, but i loved the ship combat, the stories grabbed my nerdy teenage ass, user designed missions allowed for random flashes of action or genuinely fascinating stories that had more love put into them than the canon story, i was in an RP guild that had like a promotion ceremony with a cameraman and everything... it was weird but fun
Instead of clicking your weapons, if you right click each one once, there will be a green glow around each weapons box, and then press space bar while you are targeting an enemy, all of your weapons will continue to fire at once raining hell down onto the enemies until they are dead lol. A tip I picked up over the years. It allows you to focus more on flying and your bridge crew abilities rather than your weapons firing haha.
Kev: We just beat the hardest mission in the game.
VAADWUAR, ICONIANS, and BREEN: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
You did complete the most recent mission, though, so congratulations.
You can see everything in story order by going to the Episodes tab on the tablet looking icon thingy.
Hurq: lol
Laughs in new romulus being level 50 reccomended among level 20 missions
Actually....it does have a fishing minigame in the Christmas event. But it's Klingon fishing so you punch a hole in the ice with an armored gauntlet and then pull the fish out with your hand.
10:19 Look at that team!
HAHAHAHA
-HUGE MASSIVE TALL WEIRD ALIEN
-BUFFED GALDALF.
-VOLDEMORT
-A HOBBIT
-A NORMAL HUMAN PERSON. with a normal human name.
"It'd be nice to have more then one laser."
Me: *laughs in my Tier 6 ships equipped with inbetween 7 to 8 different weapons mounted fore and aft*
Seriously though, I've had a blast with this game. Especially since while there is stuff you can spend money on, I've never felt obligated to actually spend money on the game. As long as you're willing to grind out dilithium to exchange it for the money bought store based currency. Plus, my dad had me hooked on GOOD Star Trek when I was a little kid, so playing this game and flying some of the most iconic ships of Star Trek is pretty sweet.
Considering I'm a massive trek nerd, I've played this game for a long ass time and honestly it's enjoyable for me.
Though you did get something wrong in the intro, you said why play the actual trek game where you play the notable characters...
In this game all the original actors voice their characters bar James Doohan who passed away so his son Chris does his voice perfectly.
Early on, it's fun and if you know there universe... Its great.
Mid game its really good story wise due to good arcs and characters returning.
Endgame it's a blast that's fun, but leans into the mictotransaction hellscaps and any memorable ship you'd like is behind a pay wall or event.
I have I think 20ish ships of various sizes from the small defiant class escort to the universe class dreadnought cruiser aka THE MIGHTY PANCAKE OF DOOM.
I get your point of view as you may not be a massive trek fan, but honestly if you have the time and want to have a laugh, boot it up with some mates and play for a bit.
It might grow on you.
Played about 200h in it, when the player made missions were still a thing and it was quite enjoyable. It has a niche audience that mostly log in to do a story chapter when it comes out then dont log again. It's grindy by design, but the grind has little point to do so other than buying the premium currency for ingame cash. The combat system is unnecessarily complex for something that you only click the skill on the screen (there were set items with multiple procs depending on each other) and the pvp was literally unplayable because of the server couldnt keep up with calculations. Had a good time though, main story quests are fully voiced by the actors from the series and the plot and overall feeling of universe is better than Star Trek Discovery on Netflix.
yeah agree fully
A few of the main plot actors here and there. They couldn't afford most of them.
Yeah I've played this game a lot and it does have that classic star trek feel to it, but its not perfect of course and the story quests are the main highlight, also its quite f2p friendly for old mmo standards
@@blisterfingers8169 a few? half the TNG cast is in the game, the entire DS9 main cast minus the 2 siskos are in the game, most of voyagers cast including janeway are in the game now as well as the main cast members from discovery playing key parts in a lot of the newest missions. honestly it seems like a like a lot of the new and returning trek cast are contractually required to do voice work for the game if they want to come back to trek.
@@exilestudios9546 Thats what I was thinking, I found it pretty crazy just how many of the original actors they managed to bring into this. Blister must not have played enough of the game...
“You’re the tank right?”
“Nah I’m an engineer”
Me: That’s technically the tank class 😂🤣
sadly... they never really got roles down in STO its more "how do you like to play"... one of my buddies was always an eng using a tac ship... and my tac often had an eng ship... loaded for bear but still... he sucked at dealing with slower turn rates and it was not an issue for me at all really.. i can use any ship type given a few min to set it up and get the skill bars setup...
thats actually part of what made sto so fun from the time we started just prior to it going f2p, was how you could choose a combo that suited your play style, and sometimes thats the ship everybody avoids... shit we got free ships back in the day that i swear were "discovery" class or some crap, and people kept saying you couldnt use them for elite runs..so my whole group outfit outs and did runs that night... often split in 2 so we could dominate the scores and have people who gave us crap for our ship choice get salty that if outfit correctly.. it was more then capable... the one really annoying part with new ships is getting the BO's setup and the bloody skills... so man things to place on skill bars... so damn many... thats one place newer mmos tend to do a bit better, hell if it would just auto equip skills for new ship loadouts and let you tweak the layout that would help alot.. but yeah.. the "tank" was often squishier then the redshirt from my exp ;)
STO's feature that allows you to explore your ship is so much fun for me because I am a lore nerd and love Klingon and Romulan ships. Federation ships are cool too!
This game DOES have fishing. Just only at christmas. You punch the ice of a frozen lake in the hopes that a 10 ft long gummi fish will deepthroat you. Not one word of that is false.
2:17 - I like how you don't use Picard from Star Trek but instead Professor X from X-Men.
The story is actually pretty great especially if you watched the series and theres actors returning from the series love that.
i remember there was an awesome and HILARIOUS bug when this came out, where players could appear as their spaceship while on an away mission, so you'd be running around on foot and suddenly a federation vessel about 3 feet long would zoom past you
I remember seeing the reverse where I was just outside ESD and there was just this giant Vulcan floating space in idle animation.
@@user-kj2fj8qr9l that bug is back it happened to me yesterday 🤣🤣
lmfao where i can see this please@@user-kj2fj8qr9l
i just love that you are litterally so tall you hit the doorways
I absolutely love this game but its definitely an acquired taste, I'd say actually liking Star Trek is a pre-requisite
STO can be fun, but it absolutely sucks that I’ll look up a bug and find forums from 10 years ago saying “it’s been years and it still hasn’t been fixed?” Like sir, I’m so sorry to inform you that they, in fact, still have not fixed it lmao
I imagine Picard's face after watching these guys take down the Borg that easily.
I played an earlier version of this game that had a different tutorial. My captain was a bald, blue alien with poison blood.
"arnt you the tank?"
"no im just the engineer!"
(facepalm) (^-^)
Word of advice: You can set the weapons to autofire by right-clicking on them so you don't have to constantly button mash.
Look, no one can pass judgement on this game until they have been made aware that if you have two tribbles and food in your inventory, they multiply until they’ve either filled up your inventory or eaten all of your food.
And now that you know that, *now* you’re allowed to say that the game is a mess
I started playing in 2012 and have played on and off for the past 10 years. I have a lot of cool old event gear which makes the tutorials actually pretty easy and fast for new toons. I'm still kicking myself for missing certain events and free ships when I was more inactive, but I enjoy it enough that I've put in a decent amount of money into the game for some quality of life upgrades and some old event stuff I missed and really wanted. I've definitely gotten my money's worth, and I have 5 max level characters at the moment with plans for another one or two next time the delta recruitment runs around.
I've been playing this game on and off for years with 2 max characters and I still don't understand how it works lol but as a Star Trek fan the mechanics are not what I'm there for
Haha im more or less the same, playing for years, have several characters, only use the equipment with the biggest number without knowing exactly what it does, and just spam every skill hoping to kill the bad guys
Is the Foundry still a thing? That was a neat kit with some very talented writers and designers on there.
@@joegrimes9232 I loved the foundry but sadly it seems that its no longer available
Been playing for like 5 years I have no fucking clue either. I just love star trek.🤣
@@josepablobonillajimenez6297 exactly if the number is high I use it no clue if its good or not. 😂
When I started STO, it was still during the Borg incursion, when DS9 was the hub for trading in STF tokens for ship gear.
Then, they added the grind, but they didn't add any new gear or events. Just gated everything with a giant unnecessary progression wall: the very same gear you were getting the day before from STF drops (which was fun), now you have to grind and there are no drops. STFs barely had a purpose in space. On foot, there was zero purpose.
Most messed up thing was I actually was only on F2P and was purchasing ships as a way to reward the devs for the time I invested. My wife had the worker bee healer one and I had a Sao Paulo-class named USS Brooklyn.
I chatted with one of the devs aboard a space station, told him if they released a carrier, I'd buy it that day. They did, so I did! One for me and my wife. That's how fun the game was.
Then some ****** with no concept of how MMOs are played decided to fuck the entire system up. DS9 gone as a hub. STFs pointless. What used to be fun was converted into grind.
STO died that day.
yeah the game not only isnt dead more people are actively playing it now thanks ot a combination of the return of star trek tv shows as well as the mass exodus of wow players seeking new mmos to spend their time and money in
The game is nowhere near being "dead", its not even hard to play, and their still releasing new missions and content all the time.
as janky as it is, I do actually enjoy this game and play it semi-often.
Mirror Universe shenanigans would give anyone an existential crisis.
Holy shit. Right as I get back into STO you release a video about it? It must be a sign. I'M BLOWING MY ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS IN THE ZEN SHOP!!!
Also, Kev spamming his shield zones trying desperately to save his ship while saying comforting nothings to her as she dies is both hilarious and painfully relatable XD
that 1 star review is not wrong. you want the highest dps, yes prepare to spend real money
I can't measure how much a buff Darth Gandalf with a gun cracked me
When Kev in 5 minutes makes a better alien than decades of star trek tv developers/creators 😆🤣
2:43
Aliens get an extra perk too… Bastards…
I have played that game off and on since the Beta.
I have a lifetime sub and pop in there every few months; realize I have no idea what I was doing when I left and start a new toon. The game could really really stand to do something about its season/episode systems.
One of my favorite online games one of the few free to play games because zen/dilithium exchange means you can grind even for the premium items/ ships
yea it dose have a fishing mini game. It Klingon fishing so after you catch the fish you got too punch it!
I wanted to pop back and say this. On May 10, Star Trek Online is revamping it's Federation Tutorial mission. Just wanted to inform.😅
I'm a manager at my office
and i died laughing at the character lmaooo, disrupted everyone
Still better than modern ST (except Lower Decks and New Worlds). The Iconian War was *cool*
♪Star Trekkin' across the universe
, Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse ♪
Ah yes, Darth Gandalf. It's exactly how I remember reading R.L. Stein's The Silmarillion.
Lol
I like how Kev's character is so big and his ship is so small
I'm glad you are playing one of my all favorite mmos!
Everybody should start this game with a veteran friend (not like a long time/lifetime subscriber, but a person with 150h+ experience) who helps you through the beginning stage confusion, because this gameplay caused me physical pain and not because of the jokes and memes.
Not putting beams on autofire, wasting BOFF skills, not broadsiding (mind you, at this level it pretty much doesn't matter), firing by mouse clicking on targets, using more torps than beams....
I remember when I used to be this way. Well not quite as bad, but close xD
I own a physical copy of ST:O, solely because it came with a Comm Badge.
This is the only mmo I have ever played to max level before. That was back in 2012ish so I think the level cap was around 50 then. I liked the universe and story. I felt like I was a dude just rising through the ranks of star fleet.
STO had a fishing mini game. Tho it was during an event, at least the last winter event.
This was a great video, sounds like you had fun :P
Klingon Ice Fishing, with a spiked gauntlet no less. It's part of Q's Winter Wonderland, which they all _just_ barely missed. By a couple weeks. Oh well, next year. Or in July, if they decide to do a sort of Winter In July thing again. It's Q, he can do whatever the heck he wants.
@@BNuts They didn't miss it - if you watch, you can see Q hanging out on ESD. They just didn't go there!
if this game had double the newbies and fresh players, or more high tier players willing to chill tf out without needing to show off how they can one hit everything within 10km---- i'd say it's a solid 8/10. you'll almost always have an elite player in easy tfo lobbies, zooming around killing everything before you can even fly up to it lmao. other than the obsessive and insecure ass mega players who feel the need to flex on everyone none stop, the game and community is awesome. love chillin at ESD jus lookin at the ships rolling thru. for the age of the game, she holds up pretty damn well. its a free to play so the zenn part of the game makes sense, gotta keep the servers running and the devs employed. plus free updates and content constantly.
I've been playing this game consistently since 2015, and the space combat is still fantastic. The ground combat on the other hand...
"Are you guys ready for some Star Trek Online?"
"No."
The Mario galaxy soundtrack just makes this one so special.
I have played a good few MMOs in my time but nothing was like star wars galaxies some of my best mmo memory is from that game. You could be anything from rebel, sith , jedi, musician, bounty hunter or empire ect. Great mmo well beyond its time i wish I'd heard of it sooner!
Believe me, the game gets easier after about nearly 2000 hours
This games fun dad got me into awhile back and is still a blast. It's just fun to shoot a ship sometimes and blow something up while remembering shows as a kid.
Well at least you got a Miranda class starship that was NOT hijacked by Khan! 🤣🤣
Not hijacked by Khan **yet**
If you guys ever want to give this another go, let me know and I can give you the tour with my dumb torpedo-only build
I tried to play this, but I got soft locked cause I got stuck on like an asteroid or something idk it was a long time ago.
It's a good thing you dont have lasers kev, those would do literally no damage.
I'm playing Star trek Online right now and I can't find the plasma injectrors.
“You are the tank though right?”
“No, I’m the engineer’
Me: You do know the Engineer is a tank?
Which is funny because tactical does everything while engineers and science characters struggle to keep up.
God damn, it's been two years-
The craziest thing about the tutorial is that despite being super long, it still doesn't quite tell you everything you need to know. A lot of what you need to know for the later game is pretty much relegated to outside sources like RUclips or Reddit.
STO recently had the choice of launchers. As in you had to choose to bind the game to Steam or Arc Launcher. Many used the Arc Launcher already, because you did not need to enter your password everytime. That might fuck up the Steam statistics.
the vast majority of players use the arc launcher. the game just reported a record number of players last year and more importantly to their share holders record profits. the return of star trek shows combined with massive amounts of players fleeing wow and looking for new MMOs are the only reason this game is still alive
I've put a couple thousand hours into this game and it's still fun. If I'm not making a shuttlecraft that can blow up a dreadnought, I'm doing 17k damage with my fists in ground combat because punching borg into orbit is a great pastime. Then again, flooding space with torpedoes is pretty amazing too. :D
0:10 Zhu Zhu pets
I've actually spent a lot of time playing that game... 😅
Funny, I just got off my computer after playing STO (Star Trek online) and I see this video pop up. How about that?
I used to love STO. I probably still do, and I can see myself replaying the old/lower level content where utility and support builds are actually meaningful. Endgame was basically just maxing out your dps and HP when I last played, which made it incredibly boring and pointless. Pop your wormhole thing to group it all up, pop your aoes and spam away. I can hope (but not expect) that they changed things and buff/debuff heavy builds are actually viable again. But I'm not keeping those hopes very high.
Oh and the custom mission maker thing was removed because they lost the code for it or something? How do you misplace data (the information, not the android)?
they say the lost the code but in reality they removed it because players were using the system to skip the intentional grind that the games owners wanted in the game.
Debuff/Nanny builds have always been a thing. You complain about DPSing, but to make a record you need a debuff tank and supports. I'm not sure where you think those builds went.
You'll be happy to know there is fishing in the game during Q's Winter Wonderland event. It is Klingon ice fishing where you punch the ice (with a Klingon fishing item) and catch a fish!!
As an STO player for the last 7 years, STO is all about the Grind. The Grind for better equipment. You guys must be playing at the lowest level.
I think I've put in a total of 1100 hours on Steam until I lost interest after the Sphere builders arc. It was fun though while it lasted.
:( you can press space to autolock on to ships and fire all weapons, have your best beams on the side and torpedos in the middle front and turrets in the back ALSO KLINGONS ARE THE SUPERIOR RACE, FOR THE GLORY OF THE KLINGON EMPIRE
I used to play a lot of STO back in the day, then I just ended up doing daily away team missions that I could do offline. Then they nerfed those and I uninstalled, never played again.
Nice video Kev. Mi tip for next I Forced my Friends to play is Blackwake now for 0,39E til 3 February.
I spent way too much money on this game.
Experimenting with ship and equipment sets was so fun, but PWE milk the hell out of the players with the most scummy business system.
This game is the reason I got into star trek. I knew absolutely nothing about it when I started.
You fell into the Trap!
Between Kirks time and Picards Time, Yellow and Redshirts switched places.
Unless you are the replacement black man who just in time replaced the regular black man
Just found your channel and really enjoying the "Forced my friends to play" videos. Have to recommend Unreal Tournament 3, it was the apex of old school arena shooters after everyone stopped playing arena shooters. So many players, maps, and mods and that not including anything you find molded.
Game is made for doing wild stuff if you have a bunch of friends to play, and game has bots to fill any empty player slots for whatever game type you play.
"Lost Vegas" nice 😆
Love the video, this made my day!
Bro the fucking music from gusty galaxy in the background makes me want to play Mario galaxy again wtf. Gave me actual flashbacks
You're taller then the shuttle craft. 🤣
I've noticed that a ton of people who do "We tried STO" videos seem to have no idea that you can hit B on the keyboard to turn on Shooter Mode. Not a biggy, but it does completely change ground combat from a typical tab combat rpg to an action combat RPG lol
As a Star Trek fan these jokes upset my nerd dummy brain but yet very much have me dying of laughing
Looking forward to see "i forced my friends to play the sponsor game"
I freakin hate adverts but at least you make yours worth watching :)
great video as always
best wishes
I love this game also I think there is actually much more players than on steam this is probably my second most favourite MMORPG.
Hear me out this is a really good game if you play it strictly for the story and nothing else.
I binge played this game for like 2 weeks straight for some reason, and then completely forgot about it
wait never mind, different Star Trek Online apparently
Star trek online is a verry good game in my opinion^^ the combat is kind of satisfying :D
Yes
I know it's not perfect, but I really enjoy star trek online.. been playing for years.. the space combat is the best gameplay part