@@benaarsify I had heard there’s an issue with ownership of this IP… not sure if CBS actually can own it, and no one can release any ST products without CBS go ahead, if I am not mistaken… so they seem to be a bit at a crossroads…
There’s some balancing issues with it, but I love BC’s real 3d environment, starship hard points, and firing arcs. Each ship really is it’s own vs STO version of combat.
@@LTGamingRUclips Hi there LT. I am an older gamer, played this to death back in the day and recently bought the GOG version. Have not modded it, crashes like hell still so i hope the mod will sort a lot of that. I just wanted to ask you if you could mention to the developer if it is possible to implement 3 things. 1. at least 8gb of ram usage 2. ability to rotate ship axis so you can fly her upside down. AKA nemesis, full rotation axis, would look cool as hell and help with shield management. 3. This one is probably entirely impossible but removal of the ball physics that ships seem to pivot on. Best wishes and thanks for your vid. p.s. Do you think anyone will ever make a sequel to this?? it is deserving of one and long overdue to my mind.
I know a couple of people who built the ship models for this mod. It's really cool to see their work in action, and your recording makes the game look really smooth. Nice playthrough!
@@LTGamingRUclips I worked on most of the characters in the game (They were super low poly...only 1000 tris each), a few of the ships including the Bird of Prey and Marauder, and a good chunk of the menus and UI. It was a pretty small team, so we got to wear multiple hats.
@@LTGamingRUclips Yes, I've worked on a bunch of games from PC to consoles to VR. Aside from Star Trek, Skylanders and Sonic for DS were really fun projects.
as I recall you can aim your phasers as specific subsystems if you click "h" and then select the subsystem (like shield generator) from the ship list. (why you want to click on the ship)
I love that the Refit phasers use the pulses from TWOK. I ESPECIALLY love that the aft phasers are actually modeled. Many games nerf Federation ships by not modeling their secondary hull weapons. Did they also model the four ventral phasers?
I wish there was an adventure game instead of fleet battles. I know shooter games dominate the game market, but I would rather have story substance over only shooting battles.
I think if you had a game where you could solve missions peacefully as well as with force that would capture Star Trek. But I guess back when this came out there were limitations!
I had BC on an old laptop which got stolen. My 6 year old son at the time loved playing it. Especially the Stargate Atlantis mod. We used to play with the USS Odyssey against Ori. I taught my son how to code basic stuff, and we "installed" 3x ZPM modules. One each for engines, shields and weapons. It was great fun toasting fleets of Ori mothers motherships. I'll have to give this update a try
I use "Bridge Commander Remastered" mod together with "STBC Remaster Essentials Modpack" which was uploaded more recently. The latter fixes a lot of the issues the Bridge Commander Remastered mod...Not everything is fixed, but mostly. I only wish that the interfact icons, and fonts were a lot bigger when playing in 1080P and above. Currently i play on 1366 x 768 resolution since that makes the icons and interfaces big enough to see in detail.
I think someone who did the numbers for the added ships either really underestimated the Intrepid and Galaxy, or really overestimated the Constitution refit
Nah, numbers really matter along with having an actual person involved vs a basic AI. If you are in the stronger ship but outnumbered you would want to maneuver to avoid as much fire as possible and pick off each enemy ship one at a time. Allowing them to share the damage while combining their firepower is a losing strategy. Tactically the lesser ships have an advantage if they are willing to sacrifice one or more of their number.
@@DrewLSsix Depends on the impulse speed. Realistically, a non-AI would run from this encounter. Even with superior impulse speed (remember, a smaller ship could have a weaker engine and move faster due to lower mass), they'd be setting themselves up for punishing their shield generators, and that would also limit their firing, but turning to use "all arcs" to prevent being outgunned, would more or less have you do what the AI is doing here. This manifests alot in the shows: unless they have enough shields to take down all ships before their shields are depleted, they will try to find a way out of the fight, unless they're with a fleet, cannot escape, or are 1-on-1. This is something people don't appreciate, especially when designing these games. Capital ships have a bunch of crew on them, and every hit without shields is likely to result in at least one crew member dying and some really hard to repair damage (outside of spacedock, you'll be patching at best). Instead, you're going to prefer standoff tactics or not fighting at all.
Man, this makes me wish the old Galaxy Charts mod was more fleshed out. The last update they made over a decade ago added in a full-on war simulation for the galaxy where you could have a fleet and conquer systems, it was great fun when it worked (unfortunately rarely due to BC's engine constraints).
@Rena Hirose See, if the AI we currently have available could actually work out problems a little better rather than just predict what comes next with scary accuracy, I would feed it the GC code and ask it to clean it up just to see what happens. I think AI could do wonders for fixing mods and compatibility if it can be trained in that direction. Either that or just have it code Bridge Commander 2 already.
BC is still the only 'ST simulator' which gives you a full 3d environment for your ships and that's why people come back to it. The restraints off the engine is a sad thing, and like with Birth Of The Federation ( which I still play often, modded ofc ), there isn't a new version on the horizon. BoTF 2 had been in volunteer development for a long time before I even stopped following the progress. It's also one of my biggest letdowns of STO. It's NOT 'Star Trek' is I'm supposed to be in space but I'm forcefully restrained in my maneuvering. That and the fact that it's designed with the intent to bleed your wallet dry and not for people who love the franchise. A multiplayer stand alone galaxy chats with dynamic campaign would bleed STO's playerbase in days... most people like to fly ships, and flying ships is more immersive in a real 3d environment.
@@MarvinWestmaas Ideal BC2 for me would have the core tactical gameplay of the original with the ability to walk around your ship Elite Force-style, which is used as a secondary system with first-person/planet-related scenarios. These scenarios would be a mix of handmade and procedurally generated "episodes" and eventually you would replace most of the procedural episodes with player-created ones, as the game would ship with a built-in and robust mission creator like in STO. My favorite part of STO was actually the user-created missions because the writing and story potential (especially with multi-part ones) ironically had some of the most 'Star Trek' writing I've ever seen, moreso than the new shows for sure. So basically it would be a combination of the space and ship gameplay from BC, the first-person aspects of Elite Force, and the user-generated content of STO. You could develop the game as a series of "Quadrants" with Alpha and Federation-centric gameplay being the base and three expansions adding content for the Borg, Dominion, and Klingon/Romulans after the initial release. Make it easy to mod and not multiplayer-only and you've got a game that will satisfy every Star Trek fan on the planet.
What I would love to do is RAM the ship and just loose alittle damage and front phasers or to use the phasers on low settings to shear off the enemies nacelles.
small little trick i allawys do , launch a probe at the start., and then when u get low intercept it. so u can repair. this method takes ages but it works.
4 things. 1. Nice video. Would like to see more diverse matchups in the future like a D7 and 2 birds of prey versus an Excelsior and 2 Reliants. 2. You should really target shield generators right off the bat. If you get lucky, you can destroy that subsystem with one torpedo salvo in an opening volley. 3. When rotating through phaser arcs, especially with long torpedo reload times, you should use your arcs and slowly rotate, not quickly, so you can utilize all stored phaser power. 4. Reducing sensor power to 25% is always a good idea when you want to maximize weapon and shield power.
Thanks for the feedback. We approach STBC in a little bit of a different manner to a lot of the other channels. A bit more of a macro approach but always open to suggestions 🚀🚀 I think this has become one of the biggest videos in the space for awhile so more to come 🚀
THANK YOU for posting a direct link to the Star Trek: Bridge Commander mod! Still have my CD-ROM/DVD-ROM(?) and I repurchased it on GoG a while ago so I don't have to go crazy getting it to run with WIndows 10. Great Star Trek computer game.
We need more ST games like this. Also a legal way to buy ST Legacy would be nice as well. Only ST game in development is a story based game in the vein of Telltale games :l
@Beano Rod I've asked for a copy of that game for review but nothing yet. We play Legacy and Klingon Academy but no way to buy them these days limits the upside!
I was like, "I don't think you want to be in front of that Sovereign!" and then the salvo of Quantums went up your ship's tailpipe haha Seeing the weapon effects, I wish Star Trek Online improved it to be closer to canon. We don't have Photon Torpedoes with the TMP / TWOK era effects. The devs implemented the TWOK-era phasers but sound effects are absolutely wrong. Shame that fans doing mods as a side gig get this stuff right while professionals being paid to work on a Star Trek game get it wrong.
Totally agree imagine how they could produce an amazing game now. Taking nothing away from the Modders but a big studio could make an amazing new version of this. 🚀🚀
Just grabbed a new copy of this on gog. I wish this mod supported more resolutions though as my monitor doesn't do 1080. I also could have sworn bridge commander had voice command but that doesn't seem to work now.
Really nice looking but I still have a little more atmopherical feeling by playing Klingon Academy. Especially in damage detail and station funktion/allocation. But both storys are still compelling. Well done lad. . . Nifty Greetings from Germany 🖖😎
omg thank you for including a method of legally downloading the game. I used to have so much fun back in the day playing this, even multiplayer.. I don't even remember what fleet i was in but our rival was a fleet called the devil dogs.. they were worthy opponents :p
I loved modding this game, had a huge mix of ships from B5, Battlestar Galactica, other Star Trek models, all sorts. Used to love going in with a huge Minbari fleet against the Borg 😂
Thankyou for the video's. I would love to see an interstellar mod added where you can travel to other star systems in quick battle. Which has one of the original mods. I would love to see that added to the remastered version. Also a mod to replace the old crew with some better models. I have the seatbelt mod that lets you get out of the chair and walk around. I would love to see that one added as well. Ultimately I would love to see some new missions added. However after trying my hand at scripting for the game, I know how difficult that would be. I hope the mod continues to develop. It's been great to see the game updated. Not bad for a game from 2002. Thanks again.
You are most welcome. I will be featuring KM and TOS mod again soon also. Finding and playing this game was one of the best things I ever got to do! Your support is appreciated 🚀
The ship models look great, but I noticed there was no hull damage shown (like tearing chunks of the hull apart and seeing the interior decks). That was Bridge Commander's party trick, so if that's removed because of the mod then no thanks.
I used to play this with the Kobayashi Maru ultimate mod, which looks a lot like this. I think I recognise these ship models as ported from Starfleet Command and really allowed to shine in BC's more updated graphics engine. Can you tell if this mod works with Bridge Commander as running from Good Old Games (GOG)?
It having the NX has me interested... by far my favourite Enterprise, its so cool looking unique compared to most Fedy ships... save my 2nd favourite the Akira.
I liked Bridge Commander, but never liked flying the ship manually. Preferred just giving orders from the Captain’s chair and letting the helmsman and tactical officer do the flying and shooting.
Man this game is over a decade old and its still fun. I would say tho klingon academy has better controls using th full keyboard and having transporters. However I do like some of the menus for a real next generation feel also in reminded me of Bridge crew which was but way hard to control a ship solo which is ok but this felt more real in a way for how a ship could be controlled if you where l Iike a command emh on the holodeck but I would say ka made you feel like you had full bridge commands at the finger tips of a keyboard and if you wanted to do the Picard maneuver for real it would likely be better on ka also there should be a mod for that! On both!
In the age of Remasters/Remakes, and with the resurgence of interest in Trek, you would think that SOMEONE would jump at the chance to remake a game like Bridge Commander. Aside from Star Trek Online and Bridge Crew, there really has not been a mainline Star Trek game in decades
Can we add additional ships from Halo and actual ship descriptions that give lore and stats on the new ships and where they lack. Also maybe fix bugs on the older ships.
You can use manual fire, which I find much more effective than the tactical officer. Which means, you are not wrong to use your mouse. 🙃 Fantastic mod.
Manual Fire really is most of the fun i have with this game. Just letting the crew auto-pilot while i use the phasers like a knife to cut necks and nacelles off the ships. Though this mod doesnt seem to have that visible cutting damage like vanilla which is sad.
Okay I just tried it and I love the new ship models and textures, but got instantly erased by the two earlu warbirds. That's the issue with some fan mods, the balance seems wonky.
And the thing with the intrepid Class. She has good weapons and shields, but her hull and mass are a little weak. The Excelsior and Ambassador is still better. Although the Ambassador would have larger hit points (Hardpoint Radius) to where they take a lot of damage from any side of the drive section, slow moving with minimal phaser coverage .. The hotel in space during peace time. Where later we find out about the Cardassian Border Wars, the Tzenkethi and the Xindi. But, during the Ambassador, Excelsior, Miranda, Centaur, Springfield, New Orleans and Nebula were involved in the Cardassian, Tzenkethi and Talerian conflicts. And the USS Enterprise 1701-C (Ambassador Class) was destroyed by Romulan forces while defending a Klingon colony at Narendra III in 2344.
I love reading cannon in random youtube comments, makes me feel at home. Thing about Intrepid is that it isn't the same class of ship as an Excelsior or an Ambassador. You shouldn't, and can't, really compare capabilities of the classes directly, Intrepid has a complement of ~140, Excelsior already at 750 and Ambassador at 900 ( somehow this always catches me off, as the Excelsior appears to have the longer frame and visually looks like it should be able to carry more people. But while the hull of an Excelsior looks 'fat', it's got a skinny saucer and the Ambassador is the opposite, short hull but much more girth at the saucer section. Both the Ambassador and Excelsior are fitted with much higher grade shield emitters, simply because they have the size to accommodate them. A normal Intrepid ( there are plenty of 'Janeway versions' available for this game... giving you alll the transphasic torpedoes and ablative armor you want so you can singlehandedly remove a fleet of tactical cubes... hoping the engine won't crash ) is simply not designed for combat it was designed for exploration ( quick and 'smart' ). Still, the game's AI makes it impossible to really rank ships battle performance as it often won't match your expectations based on cannon. ( fight a Breen with an energy weapon and see if you can match the show .. not that this would be 'fun' perhaps but still ).
There's no way a starfleet ship 100 years older than intrepid could beat it in a fair battle... Unless you're talking about this game, where they clearly balance the ships to make them playable (ie the intrepid losing to a 120+ year old enterprise as shown)
@@RayJames-mk3yq Yeah 120 years is a lot. A warship from 120 years ago, or even five, would not be able to go up against a modern warship with all of its advanced smart weapons. A modern warship would be able to fire enough missiles to destroy all five before they were even in visual range.
@@mikelovesbacon It depends on who modded the ship. A ship's power level will vary between modders. The Intrepid I had wrecked anything from the TMP era fairly easily, but struggled against ships it was supposed to struggle with.
Is there any way of having all the ships but reverting combat to the OG version?. It's kinda anticlimatic how fights end in 30 seconds and phasers just deplete instantly vs actually having a slower combat and getting to slowly shred through enemy shields and actually having the time to target systems or weapons and such
So i installed this great game again on my modern rig running windows 11 on an rts 3060, im having an issue htough i can only get it running in windowed mod and quite crashy , i followed all instructions , any idea how to at least get it running in fullscreen ?
@@LTGamingRUclips I have and i also tried editing the config file directly, say that if you wouldn't mind can you upload your config file please to google drive or mediafire or such, that might be helpful in getting it to at least launch , cheers
Cool to see this game still getting some love still, but I feel they need to add more stuff than just ships add more gameplay options like saucer separation like km does but sadly this still crashes frequently I was hoping this would solve this but I imagine it's the engine that causes this. Wish they would update the explosions it looks pretty meh to be honest but better than nothing.
I used to play this with the Kobayashi Maru modpack, this seems to be just a new iteration of that mod? Don't seem to be any changes from when I played it, and that was years ago. Still sweet off course, but this showed up in my feed and I was excited to see a totally new overhaul which this doesn't seem to be at all :(
@@LTGamingRUclips wait, so what did they upgrade? It looks like the same models textures and effects as the latest KM I played ( though maybe it's RUclips compression? ). I might be spoiled, when i saw this pop up in my recommended i hopes to see something akin what Freespace (2) modded looks like compared with the stock game. It's still cool though of course, there is nothing more bridge commander as bridge commander 👌
@@LTGamingRUclips It's been a while since I played.. heck I think last time I had 2 gig off video memory and it felt like I had the best card I could buy ;) It's a real shame the engine is so old and no developer has dared to couch up the license fees needed to use the franchise. I think there would be plenty of potential buyers as long as the game is good. Then again, I'm still playing Birth Of The Federation as one of my most enjoyable games... nostalgia goes a long way I guess :D I'll install BC and give this new mod a go as well, this weekend or earlier. Thanks for reminding me to scratch the itch ;)
Here is a question i`ve asked others before. How can i play this on my system which has AMD Graphics and not Nvidia? here are my system specs Athlon 5 5600X 32 gig ram Sap[hire radeon RX 5500xt Graphics card.windows 10 22H2. So the specs are good and i should be able to play this however it crashes. Any Ideas?
What I have a problem with is this game has the ship rotating independently from space beyond. It looks weird as space is what is moving as the ship stays still.
Star Trek Bridge Commander looks so good but for me it's unplayable because the UI and font size are just way too small. I can't find any kind of fix for it.
It's ok still not as good as my build with multiple mods running I've got mvam galaxy class voyager and various others wonder if I can apply just the graphics from the tgl files to update my version
@@LTGamingRUclips own Bridge Commander on original disc and thru GOG does this mod also address the memory leak issues when dealing with a lot of ships? When I ran Kobayashi Maru I always crashed due to the setup skirmishes when setting up large scale battles.
I just got into BC about 6 months ago, and have the original version with Remastered and KM mods available. I favor KM as they really went all out with the extra missions in that version, but Remastered is prettier, and has a ton of potential for future expansion.
@@LTGamingRUclips so was Klingon Academy. THAT was the the best game to allow you to feel the mass of these ships. My disc 1 burned up years ago, and I haven't quite had the time or know how to figure out how to get it to run on a modern OS. It deserves as much respect as BC. Sadly, the source code went the way of Interplay.
So they haven't improved the engine. That was one of the things about the original that frustrated me. I wanted to create big battles like we saw in DS9 during the Dominion War. But the engine couldn't handle a large number of ships and would crash. I wonder if there is a way to do that.
@@LTGamingRUclips Right But for me (before) I would set the resolution to say "1080" or something, play the game fine, until you close and relaunch, nothing. Or an error and have to repaste the "options" file.
@LT Gaming I was part of the OG BC mod scene. Believe me, the game was unstable, but we made that game our own. I mainly did texture mods and contributed in other ways, such as realising that if you modify the Python script for a ships phaser output into the negatives, you have just created a "repair beam" I think it was later added to a worker bee IIRC. But yeah, there's an MVAM mod. You can use it with the Galaxy Class and the Prometheus. There's possibly more models that can do it, but it's been so long. There's also mods to eject the warp core, abandon ship to shuttle or captiains yacht, Different bridges, an entire Kobayashi Maru game mode too. So many models were made. Even the Voyager model with all the future tech on it, such as the ablative armour and tricobalt devices. I will have to get intouch with some old friends, see if any of all the hard work is stored somewhere. If I get some links, I'll post them in a reply
@@LTGamingRUclips I'm referring to the power management, subsystem targeting, firing arcs and control layout such us using mouse wheel for engine speed. Also the fact that you can choose to be the commandering giving commands as opposed to piloting and firing weapons. Many of these starfield ships look like pre-ST:enterprise ships.
I can't believe how they never released a sequel to it... This with 2023 graphics, mechanics, etc... would be INSANE!
imagine a sequel made in U E 5
@@benaarsify I had heard there’s an issue with ownership of this IP… not sure if CBS actually can own it, and no one can release any ST products without CBS go ahead, if I am not mistaken… so they seem to be a bit at a crossroads…
It would probably be lame. All games are lame nowadays.
They did. It's called Star Trek: Bridge Crew, but it's a VR game.
@@JAnx01Please don't compare the two. Not even close IMHO.
There’s some balancing issues with it, but I love BC’s real 3d environment, starship hard points, and firing arcs. Each ship really is it’s own vs STO version of combat.
Great to see BC alive and well in 2023! Nice job Luke!
Great to revisit this great and plenty more ST on the way!
@@LTGamingRUclips Hi there LT. I am an older gamer, played this to death back in the day and recently bought the GOG version. Have not modded it, crashes like hell still so i hope the mod will sort a lot of that. I just wanted to ask you if you could mention to the developer if it is possible to implement 3 things.
1. at least 8gb of ram usage
2. ability to rotate ship axis so you can fly her upside down. AKA nemesis, full rotation axis, would look cool as hell and help with shield management.
3. This one is probably entirely impossible but removal of the ball physics that ships seem to pivot on.
Best wishes and thanks for your vid.
p.s. Do you think anyone will ever make a sequel to this?? it is deserving of one and long overdue to my mind.
I know a couple of people who built the ship models for this mod. It's really cool to see their work in action, and your recording makes the game look really smooth. Nice playthrough!
Really glad you enjoyed it and their work 🚀
This was the very first video game I worked on straight out of college. To see it have a life 20+ years later is really heartwarming.
Awesome! thanks for commenting and its great that you got to work on it! What did you do with the game? :)
@@LTGamingRUclips I worked on most of the characters in the game (They were super low poly...only 1000 tris each), a few of the ships including the Bird of Prey and Marauder, and a good chunk of the menus and UI. It was a pretty small team, so we got to wear multiple hats.
@@rojakstudios Then modders would luv this im sure! :) Did you work on many other games in your career?
@@LTGamingRUclips Yes, I've worked on a bunch of games from PC to consoles to VR. Aside from Star Trek, Skylanders and Sonic for DS were really fun projects.
as I recall you can aim your phasers as specific subsystems if you click "h" and then select the subsystem (like shield generator) from the ship list. (why you want to click on the ship)
Yeah you can target subsystems 🚀🚀 I often do but kept it simple for these battles!
I love that the Refit phasers use the pulses from TWOK. I ESPECIALLY love that the aft phasers are actually modeled. Many games nerf Federation ships by not modeling their secondary hull weapons. Did they also model the four ventral phasers?
Sub-system targeting is a must to win high challenge encounters. I target impulse engines first to immobilize the target then pick them apart.
Yeah was the way to win for sure. For me more a showcase of the mod than trying to win at all costs 🚀🚀
I wish there was an adventure game instead of fleet battles. I know shooter games dominate the game market, but I would rather have story substance over only shooting battles.
I think if you had a game where you could solve missions peacefully as well as with force that would capture Star Trek. But I guess back when this came out there were limitations!
There's: Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity, which you might enjoy.
@@mattd6931 have a copy!
Well, you are in luck. Star Trek Resurgence comes out next week. It's an adventure game and it looks very very promising
@@dadrian already recorded a video
... on the way this week 🚀
I had BC on an old laptop which got stolen. My 6 year old son at the time loved playing it. Especially the Stargate Atlantis mod.
We used to play with the USS Odyssey against Ori. I taught my son how to code basic stuff, and we "installed" 3x ZPM modules. One each for engines, shields and weapons. It was great fun toasting fleets of Ori mothers motherships.
I'll have to give this update a try
Thanks for sharing that cool story! :)
I use "Bridge Commander Remastered" mod together with "STBC Remaster Essentials Modpack" which was uploaded more recently. The latter fixes a lot of the issues the Bridge Commander Remastered mod...Not everything is fixed, but mostly. I only wish that the interfact icons, and fonts were a lot bigger when playing in 1080P and above. Currently i play on 1366 x 768 resolution since that makes the icons and interfaces big enough to see in detail.
I think someone who did the numbers for the added ships either really underestimated the Intrepid and Galaxy, or really overestimated the Constitution refit
Nah, numbers really matter along with having an actual person involved vs a basic AI.
If you are in the stronger ship but outnumbered you would want to maneuver to avoid as much fire as possible and pick off each enemy ship one at a time.
Allowing them to share the damage while combining their firepower is a losing strategy.
Tactically the lesser ships have an advantage if they are willing to sacrifice one or more of their number.
@@DrewLSsix Depends on the impulse speed. Realistically, a non-AI would run from this encounter. Even with superior impulse speed (remember, a smaller ship could have a weaker engine and move faster due to lower mass), they'd be setting themselves up for punishing their shield generators, and that would also limit their firing, but turning to use "all arcs" to prevent being outgunned, would more or less have you do what the AI is doing here.
This manifests alot in the shows: unless they have enough shields to take down all ships before their shields are depleted, they will try to find a way out of the fight, unless they're with a fleet, cannot escape, or are 1-on-1. This is something people don't appreciate, especially when designing these games. Capital ships have a bunch of crew on them, and every hit without shields is likely to result in at least one crew member dying and some really hard to repair damage (outside of spacedock, you'll be patching at best). Instead, you're going to prefer standoff tactics or not fighting at all.
“If I hadn’t been killed I would have won” 😂 one of the best lines I’ve heard in a while 😂
haha cant deny!
A enthusiastic and informed update from the LTG bridge by fleet commander Luke on this cool mod…nice work boss 🐸❤️🐌❤️🤗
Man, this makes me wish the old Galaxy Charts mod was more fleshed out. The last update they made over a decade ago added in a full-on war simulation for the galaxy where you could have a fleet and conquer systems, it was great fun when it worked (unfortunately rarely due to BC's engine constraints).
@Rena Hirose See, if the AI we currently have available could actually work out problems a little better rather than just predict what comes next with scary accuracy, I would feed it the GC code and ask it to clean it up just to see what happens. I think AI could do wonders for fixing mods and compatibility if it can be trained in that direction. Either that or just have it code Bridge Commander 2 already.
BC is still the only 'ST simulator' which gives you a full 3d environment for your ships and that's why people come back to it. The restraints off the engine is a sad thing, and like with Birth Of The Federation ( which I still play often, modded ofc ), there isn't a new version on the horizon. BoTF 2 had been in volunteer development for a long time before I even stopped following the progress.
It's also one of my biggest letdowns of STO. It's NOT 'Star Trek' is I'm supposed to be in space but I'm forcefully restrained in my maneuvering. That and the fact that it's designed with the intent to bleed your wallet dry and not for people who love the franchise.
A multiplayer stand alone galaxy chats with dynamic campaign would bleed STO's playerbase in days... most people like to fly ships, and flying ships is more immersive in a real 3d environment.
@@MarvinWestmaas Ideal BC2 for me would have the core tactical gameplay of the original with the ability to walk around your ship Elite Force-style, which is used as a secondary system with first-person/planet-related scenarios. These scenarios would be a mix of handmade and procedurally generated "episodes" and eventually you would replace most of the procedural episodes with player-created ones, as the game would ship with a built-in and robust mission creator like in STO. My favorite part of STO was actually the user-created missions because the writing and story potential (especially with multi-part ones) ironically had some of the most 'Star Trek' writing I've ever seen, moreso than the new shows for sure. So basically it would be a combination of the space and ship gameplay from BC, the first-person aspects of Elite Force, and the user-generated content of STO. You could develop the game as a series of "Quadrants" with Alpha and Federation-centric gameplay being the base and three expansions adding content for the Borg, Dominion, and Klingon/Romulans after the initial release. Make it easy to mod and not multiplayer-only and you've got a game that will satisfy every Star Trek fan on the planet.
What I would love to do is RAM the ship and just loose alittle damage and front phasers or to use the phasers on low settings to shear off the enemies nacelles.
Well that is a precise requirement 🤣🚀
small little trick i allawys do , launch a probe at the start., and then when u get low intercept it. so u can repair. this method takes ages but it works.
4 things. 1. Nice video. Would like to see more diverse matchups in the future like a D7 and 2 birds of prey versus an Excelsior and 2 Reliants. 2. You should really target shield generators right off the bat. If you get lucky, you can destroy that subsystem with one torpedo salvo in an opening volley. 3. When rotating through phaser arcs, especially with long torpedo reload times, you should use your arcs and slowly rotate, not quickly, so you can utilize all stored phaser power. 4. Reducing sensor power to 25% is always a good idea when you want to maximize weapon and shield power.
Thanks for the feedback. We approach STBC in a little bit of a different manner to a lot of the other channels. A bit more of a macro approach but always open to suggestions 🚀🚀 I think this has become one of the biggest videos in the space for awhile so more to come 🚀
THANK YOU for posting a direct link to the Star Trek: Bridge Commander mod! Still have my CD-ROM/DVD-ROM(?) and I repurchased it on GoG a while ago so I don't have to go crazy getting it to run with WIndows 10. Great Star Trek computer game.
Most welcome! It's an awesome game 🚀
We need more ST games like this. Also a legal way to buy ST Legacy would be nice as well. Only ST game in development is a story based game in the vein of Telltale games :l
@Beano Rod I've asked for a copy of that game for review but nothing yet. We play Legacy and Klingon Academy but no way to buy them these days limits the upside!
@@beanorod-zt2nl ebay has original copies
I was like, "I don't think you want to be in front of that Sovereign!" and then the salvo of Quantums went up your ship's tailpipe haha
Seeing the weapon effects, I wish Star Trek Online improved it to be closer to canon. We don't have Photon Torpedoes with the TMP / TWOK era effects. The devs implemented the TWOK-era phasers but sound effects are absolutely wrong.
Shame that fans doing mods as a side gig get this stuff right while professionals being paid to work on a Star Trek game get it wrong.
Totally agree imagine how they could produce an amazing game now. Taking nothing away from the Modders but a big studio could make an amazing new version of this. 🚀🚀
I was secretly hoping that they was going to use Enterprise A in the last episode of Star Trek Picard...
One of my favorite of all time!
Awesome video. Subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!
You can realy make an RPG in open space with this hillarious game mechanics and in Star Trek setting. A few mils of bucks is needed. Dreams...
I'd love to see more Bridges and uniforms added to this game if possible.
For a long time i was using the Enterprise NX-01 bridge and uniforms..... so much fun.
Where I spend the entire episode wailing on other ships with a Connie xD
Haha as an original series fan this gave me great pleasure 🤣🤣🚀
This game needs a remake. It was hell lots of fun to play.
Back in the day, this game was our Facebook
Does it have Galaxy Charts? In Kobayashi Maru mod, you get to simulate the events after Dominion War which is fun.
Just grabbed a new copy of this on gog. I wish this mod supported more resolutions though as my monitor doesn't do 1080. I also could have sworn bridge commander had voice command but that doesn't seem to work now.
Yes I'm with super wide-screen and having that issue!
Really nice looking but I still have a little more atmopherical feeling by playing Klingon Academy. Especially in damage detail and station funktion/allocation. But both storys are still compelling. Well done lad. . . Nifty Greetings from Germany 🖖😎
Appreciate it! We covered KA also on the channel :)
@@LTGamingRUclips yeah! Thanxalot for your videos! Of course I will check them aswell. 👍😎
omg thank you for including a method of legally downloading the game. I used to have so much fun back in the day playing this, even multiplayer.. I don't even remember what fleet i was in but our rival was a fleet called the devil dogs.. they were worthy opponents :p
Yes you can get it on GOG. The only way to do it these days 🙂🚀
Probably your were in WP (Wolf Pack)
ANyway I can play this online again?
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I might get this on when i get a pc again
The line must be drawn HERE! " Capt J.l. Picard Arp 5th (my Bday wow) 2021
Pretty good concept for a game from 2002. Would love a remake. Paramount are idiots only running MMO type games with this franchise.
I loved modding this game, had a huge mix of ships from B5, Battlestar Galactica, other Star Trek models, all sorts. Used to love going in with a huge Minbari fleet against the Borg 😂
So much that can be done with it and a lot more on the way 🚀🚀
Mimbari..... i prefer the Vorlon Planet Killer vs the Borg Cube.... pretty fair fight
@@miranda7523 Haha, that's just not sporting. Poor Borg🤣
“Where’s that damn torpedo?!”
“She’s ready, Jim! Lock and load!”
“Fire!”
One of my fave scenes in Star Trek!
@@LTGamingRUclips Yeah i kinda thought you were gonna pull the second run off at the last minute - like in VI, lol.
@Adarkane325xi almost haha. I did this scene in another video 🚀
@@LTGamingRUclips This video here randomly showed up in my feed, i’ll take a look at your channel.
Damn, this brings me back.
Enjoy it :)
Had this game back in the day .. REALLY wish I could buy it again. Was such a good game.
Pick it up on GOG, the link is in the description! Enjoy mate!
@@LTGamingRUclips How easy is it to install the mod? Also, does it help the game balance out over a multi-core system?
Thankyou for the video's. I would love to see an interstellar mod added where you can travel to other star systems in quick battle. Which has one of the original mods. I would love to see that added to the remastered version. Also a mod to replace the old crew with some better models. I have the seatbelt mod that lets you get out of the chair and walk around. I would love to see that one added as well. Ultimately I would love to see some new missions added. However after trying my hand at scripting for the game, I know how difficult that would be. I hope the mod continues to develop. It's been great to see the game updated. Not bad for a game from 2002. Thanks again.
You are most welcome. I will be featuring KM and TOS mod again soon also. Finding and playing this game was one of the best things I ever got to do! Your support is appreciated 🚀
Are there no damage textures on the remastered ships? One of my favorite things about BC was seeing the damage I did, or had done.. xD
There is! I had disabled it previously due to some slow down fighting a Borg Cube 🚀
Damn! Too bad I dont make BC videos anymore, this looks great!
RifleMan80
Always time to get back into it 🚀🚀
The ship models look great, but I noticed there was no hull damage shown (like tearing chunks of the hull apart and seeing the interior decks). That was Bridge Commander's party trick, so if that's removed because of the mod then no thanks.
I turned it off for a prior battle due to performance drops 🚀🚀
I used to play this with the Kobayashi Maru ultimate mod, which looks a lot like this. I think I recognise these ship models as ported from Starfleet Command and really allowed to shine in BC's more updated graphics engine.
Can you tell if this mod works with Bridge Commander as running from Good Old Games (GOG)?
Its does!
Wow...it's been a LOOOONG time since I've played this. Used to mod the hell out of it...until I lost my mod.
Haha time to get it back! 🚀
It having the NX has me interested... by far my favourite Enterprise, its so cool looking unique compared to most Fedy ships... save my 2nd favourite the Akira.
Both in it and both awesome :)
I need an in depth video on how to install this mod and show how to get it to work.
Where is the Connie refit firing rear torpedoes from? 😂
Looks great, lol but the refit connie shouldnt have a rear torpedo tube, no place to come out!
Yeah it does and comes as one easy package for people who don't mod a lot. But yes the rear tube has been mentioned to me!
BC is back baaaaby!
I liked Bridge Commander, but never liked flying the ship manually. Preferred just giving orders from the Captain’s chair and letting the helmsman and tactical officer do the flying and shooting.
I kind of agree just many play it outside the ship for RUclips!
Man this game is over a decade old and its still fun. I would say tho klingon academy has better controls using th full keyboard and having transporters. However I do like some of the menus for a real next generation feel also in reminded me of Bridge crew which was but way hard to control a ship solo which is ok but this felt more real in a way for how a ship could be controlled if you where l Iike a command emh on the holodeck but I would say ka made you feel like you had full bridge commands at the finger tips of a keyboard and if you wanted to do the Picard maneuver for real it would likely be better on ka also there should be a mod for that! On both!
In the age of Remasters/Remakes, and with the resurgence of interest in Trek, you would think that SOMEONE would jump at the chance to remake a game like Bridge Commander. Aside from Star Trek Online and Bridge Crew, there really has not been a mainline Star Trek game in decades
Totally agree! Just look at the interest in this video 🚀 anyone got a contact at Paramount? 😀
Can we add additional ships from Halo and actual ship descriptions that give lore and stats on the new ships and where they lack. Also maybe fix bugs on the older ships.
how do you get the screen to centert on your ultra wide screen monitor mine is 40 inches I modded it but running in the yop left corner not centered
Change the screen resolution then launch the game for me.
love this game, I need get this to work
It really is awesome!
You can use manual fire, which I find much more effective than the tactical officer. Which means, you are not wrong to use your mouse. 🙃 Fantastic mod.
I'm using manual fire 🙂 I just sometimes have a habit of playing my mouse over the target 🤣🤣
Manual Fire really is most of the fun i have with this game. Just letting the crew auto-pilot while i use the phasers like a knife to cut necks and nacelles off the ships. Though this mod doesnt seem to have that visible cutting damage like vanilla which is sad.
@@EmperorNiko I may have it disabled for larger battles!
Can you get the remastered mod to work with the galaxy war simulator used in kobayashi maru mod?
I don't think so currently! 🤔
Now we need Klingon a academy remastered
I've played the NGA mod on the channel but this is defo a step up in ship models!
Okay I just tried it and I love the new ship models and textures, but got instantly erased by the two earlu warbirds. That's the issue with some fan mods, the balance seems wonky.
Having found it unbalanced at all. What was the issue?
Does ship-to-ship combat always end in the total destruction of the enemy vessel, or can they be boarded?
No boarding but you can in Klingon Academy 🚀
This looks really good.
Glad you enjoyed it! We have done a lot of Star Trek content 🚀
And the thing with the intrepid Class. She has good weapons and shields, but her hull and mass are a little weak. The Excelsior and Ambassador is still better. Although the Ambassador would have larger hit points (Hardpoint Radius) to where they take a lot of damage from any side of the drive section, slow moving with minimal phaser coverage .. The hotel in space during peace time. Where later we find out about the Cardassian Border Wars, the Tzenkethi and the Xindi. But, during the Ambassador, Excelsior, Miranda, Centaur, Springfield, New Orleans and Nebula were involved in the Cardassian, Tzenkethi and Talerian conflicts. And the USS Enterprise 1701-C (Ambassador Class) was destroyed by Romulan forces while defending a Klingon colony at Narendra III in 2344.
I love reading cannon in random youtube comments, makes me feel at home.
Thing about Intrepid is that it isn't the same class of ship as an Excelsior or an Ambassador. You shouldn't, and can't, really compare capabilities of the classes directly, Intrepid has a complement of ~140, Excelsior already at 750 and Ambassador at 900 ( somehow this always catches me off, as the Excelsior appears to have the longer frame and visually looks like it should be able to carry more people.
But while the hull of an Excelsior looks 'fat', it's got a skinny saucer and the Ambassador is the opposite, short hull but much more girth at the saucer section.
Both the Ambassador and Excelsior are fitted with much higher grade shield emitters, simply because they have the size to accommodate them. A normal Intrepid ( there are plenty of 'Janeway versions' available for this game... giving you alll the transphasic torpedoes and ablative armor you want so you can singlehandedly remove a fleet of tactical cubes... hoping the engine won't crash ) is simply not designed for combat it was designed for exploration ( quick and 'smart' ).
Still, the game's AI makes it impossible to really rank ships battle performance as it often won't match your expectations based on cannon. ( fight a Breen with an energy weapon and see if you can match the show .. not that this would be 'fun' perhaps but still ).
There's no way a starfleet ship 100 years older than intrepid could beat it in a fair battle... Unless you're talking about this game, where they clearly balance the ships to make them playable (ie the intrepid losing to a 120+ year old enterprise as shown)
@@RayJames-mk3yq Yeah 120 years is a lot. A warship from 120 years ago, or even five, would not be able to go up against a modern warship with all of its advanced smart weapons. A modern warship would be able to fire enough missiles to destroy all five before they were even in visual range.
@@mikelovesbacon It depends on who modded the ship. A ship's power level will vary between modders. The Intrepid I had wrecked anything from the TMP era fairly easily, but struggled against ships it was supposed to struggle with.
I didn't think the Connies had rear tubes...
What happened to ST Excalibur?
Is this considered the main mod to have? Or are there others that improve other aspects besides just the graphics?
Generally considered the modern mod to have. Check out the Star Trek: Legacy mod too for Bridge Commander.
Do you know what? Im going to buy STBC and install this new mod and Im having the fun of my life. Thank you very much for this video.
Most Welcome! Glad you enjoyed it and are having fun :)
STBC one of the best PC games ever made top5
Is there any way of having all the ships but reverting combat to the OG version?. It's kinda anticlimatic how fights end in 30 seconds and phasers just deplete instantly vs actually having a slower combat and getting to slowly shred through enemy shields and actually having the time to target systems or weapons and such
Wish it would call out Dorsal/Ventral shields, not top/bottom
This seems to irritate many haha. But tbh never bothered me!
Does the game have a VR mode, e.g. playable over an Occulus/PC Link?
It does not as its over 20 years old but there is a VR Bridge Crew game 🚀
So i installed this great game again on my modern rig running windows 11 on an rts 3060, im having an issue htough i can only get it running in windowed mod and quite crashy , i followed all instructions , any idea how to at least get it running in fullscreen ?
I'm playing this on a Windows 10 machine so not sure. Have your messed about with resolutions?
@@LTGamingRUclips I have and i also tried editing the config file directly, say that if you wouldn't mind can you upload your config file please to google drive or mediafire or such, that might be helpful in getting it to at least launch , cheers
Cool to see this game still getting some love still, but I feel they need to add more stuff than just ships add more gameplay options like saucer separation like km does but sadly this still crashes frequently I was hoping this would solve this but I imagine it's the engine that causes this.
Wish they would update the explosions it looks pretty meh to be honest but better than nothing.
I own the original version of this software. Can you share how us non-tech users upgrade to get these additional features? Thanks!
Follow the Remastered link in the description and have full instructions there :)
Does this mod do anything with the campaign or is it just yhe battles?
Campaign is Remastered!
I used to play the crap out of this game in clan SFX !
Oh amazing...Great experience?
@@LTGamingRUclips made some awesome friends, played for years.. didn't stay in touch unfortunately.
I used to play this with the Kobayashi Maru modpack, this seems to be just a new iteration of that mod? Don't seem to be any changes from when I played it, and that was years ago.
Still sweet off course, but this showed up in my feed and I was excited to see a totally new overhaul which this doesn't seem to be at all :(
I play KM and this looks a lot better! KM is still great though.
@@LTGamingRUclips wait, so what did they upgrade? It looks like the same models textures and effects as the latest KM I played ( though maybe it's RUclips compression? ).
I might be spoiled, when i saw this pop up in my recommended i hopes to see something akin what Freespace (2) modded looks like compared with the stock game.
It's still cool though of course, there is nothing more bridge commander as bridge commander 👌
@@LTGamingRUclips you know what, the only option is seeing for myself 😁
@MarvinWestmaas upgraded textures vs KM 🚀🚀 In my Prometheus video I play some KM at the end so you can see!
@@LTGamingRUclips It's been a while since I played.. heck I think last time I had 2 gig off video memory and it felt like I had the best card I could buy ;)
It's a real shame the engine is so old and no developer has dared to couch up the license fees needed to use the franchise. I think there would be plenty of potential buyers as long as the game is good.
Then again, I'm still playing Birth Of The Federation as one of my most enjoyable games... nostalgia goes a long way I guess :D
I'll install BC and give this new mod a go as well, this weekend or earlier. Thanks for reminding me to scratch the itch ;)
Here is a question i`ve asked others before. How can i play this on my system which has AMD Graphics and not Nvidia? here are my system specs Athlon 5 5600X 32 gig ram Sap[hire radeon RX 5500xt Graphics card.windows 10 22H2. So the specs are good and i should be able to play this however it crashes. Any Ideas?
oh yes this is the one! :)
Nice Reference! ha
How do you get this to play on a new computer and where did you get it?
GOG and links in description!
What I have a problem with is this game has the ship rotating independently from space beyond. It looks weird as space is what is moving as the ship stays still.
Star Trek Bridge Commander looks so good but for me it's unplayable because the UI and font size are just way too small. I can't find any kind of fix for it.
Not sure how to solve unless you lower the resolution?
lower the rez, and force aggressive AA in your GPU's control panel?
It's ok still not as good as my build with multiple mods running I've got mvam galaxy class voyager and various others wonder if I can apply just the graphics from the tgl files to update my version
I would love if someone gave a similar treatment to ST Dominion War.
Or getting the game to work on modern systems or fixing the dozens of unfixed bugs
I have this and might feature it soon!
@@LTGamingRUclips own Bridge Commander on original disc and thru GOG does this mod also address the memory leak issues when dealing with a lot of ships? When I ran Kobayashi Maru I always crashed due to the setup skirmishes when setting up large scale battles.
@@beanorod-zt2nl crashes are still a thing!
I just got into BC about 6 months ago, and have the original version with Remastered and KM mods available. I favor KM as they really went all out with the extra missions in that version, but Remastered is prettier, and has a ton of potential for future expansion.
Yeah for sure it feels like it can go even further. KM is great but very temperamental!
@@LTGamingRUclips so was Klingon Academy. THAT was the the best game to allow you to feel the mass of these ships. My disc 1 burned up years ago, and I haven't quite had the time or know how to figure out how to get it to run on a modern OS. It deserves as much respect as BC. Sadly, the source code went the way of Interplay.
@Jake Werkmeister I know where you can get a copy 🚀🚀 played it on the channel a few times also 😀
i wonder if this can be ported to unreal engine 5
What happened to the damage modeling?
It may have been accidently turned off as was doing a quick battle with a Borg Cube and it slows the game down!
So they haven't improved the engine.
That was one of the things about the original that frustrated me. I wanted to create big battles like we saw in DS9 during the Dominion War. But the engine couldn't handle a large number of ships and would crash. I wonder if there is a way to do that.
Is this a new version of this MOD where it works more that once at a time?
Has always worked fine for me but this is 1.2! Need to follow the install instructions closely though.
@@LTGamingRUclips Right But for me (before) I would set the resolution to say "1080" or something, play the game fine, until you close and relaunch, nothing. Or an error and have to repaste the "options" file.
You need the MVAM mod
The what now....I'm open to explore all BC mods ha! 🚀🚀
@LT Gaming I was part of the OG BC mod scene. Believe me, the game was unstable, but we made that game our own.
I mainly did texture mods and contributed in other ways, such as realising that if you modify the Python script for a ships phaser output into the negatives, you have just created a "repair beam"
I think it was later added to a worker bee IIRC.
But yeah, there's an MVAM mod. You can use it with the Galaxy Class and the Prometheus. There's possibly more models that can do it, but it's been so long.
There's also mods to eject the warp core, abandon ship to shuttle or captiains yacht,
Different bridges, an entire Kobayashi Maru game mode too.
So many models were made. Even the Voyager model with all the future tech on it, such as the ablative armour and tricobalt devices.
I will have to get intouch with some old friends, see if any of all the hard work is stored somewhere. If I get some links, I'll post them in a reply
I wish I could find a copy of this game to buy legally.
All links in the description. Its on GOG!
@@LTGamingRUclips brought!
@@xanosdarkpaw1 yes really happy you get to enjoy it :)
Since when did the Constitution class have aft torpedoes?
If only they had the NX Refit.
The NX is there!
I assume this works with Kobayashi Maru mod?
This needs to be installed separately!
Will definitely check it out then as soon as I can. Thanks for the hard work!
@Beano Rod much appreciated 🚀🚀 new STBC video on the way previewing an update to this mod!
Is it compatible with Kobayashi Maru mod?
Separate mod completely!
@@LTGamingRUclips does this mod have all the old ships like Kobayashi Maru mod did? Borg cubes and miradorn raiders and such?
@@Nathan_H1gg3rz It has many but some are missing. However more ships being added like the Titan etc! Borg Cube is there!
@@LTGamingRUclips nice
Where can this be played?
GOG all in Description!
None of these mods ever have new bridge models :(
How do you get this mod?
Links in the description 🚀
Where do I get this
All in description!
Does this work with latest windows?
Yeah im running it on my new Windows 11 PC now!
How do I get the mods?
@@DJADP should all be linked in the description. Follow the instructions for remastered mod closely. The 4gb patch comes first.
@@LTGamingRUclipsdescription in your video or in the download from gog?
Now that Starfield is out, we can compare this with it
Hahaha probably not 🤣 Though I do see it as an alternative!
@@LTGamingRUclips I'm referring to the power management, subsystem targeting, firing arcs and control layout such us using mouse wheel for engine speed. Also the fact that you can choose to be the commandering giving commands as opposed to piloting and firing weapons. Many of these starfield ships look like pre-ST:enterprise ships.
@@ummerfarooq5383 I see where u are going with it! Bridge Commander does this aspects well 😀
WHERE Can I Get This Game???
GOG and all links in the description!