Video: Star Trek Online Space Battle
Well, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'm banking on the fact that this footage of actual Star Trek Online space battles is worth well over a mint. That's right, the folks over at Cryptic Studios finally decided to release some battle footage from their upcoming MMO, Star Trek Online, which they picked up last year from their fallen brethren, Perpetual Entertainment. I have to admit, with both this MMO and the Old Republic MMO looming on the horizon, I'm one happy Sci-Fi camper.
In the video, the designers reveal that there are basically three different types of starships that you can pilot in the game, each better suited for a different role: tank, damage dealer, or support; however, there are many ways on top of the basic structure of the ship that you can further customize each ship, such as weapons, deflector dish, impulse engines, consoles, and even your bridge officers. Apparently your bridge officers act like your abilities and powers during combat, and all the other aspects let you tweak and configure your ship to behave in a variety of ways.
After looking at the combat in action, I have to say that this definitely blows the pants off anything we've seen before in online space combat (though as far as MMOs go, we really only have EVE Online to look at). Hopefully the upgrade and leveling system used in the game will add further to the combat system that they are displaying boldly here. Eager fans of the game can hopefully start beaming themselves into the Star Trek Online universe next Groundhog's Day, Feb 2nd, 2010.
PixelPoet
Posted to Hot Stuff on 18 November 2009
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I liked the part where the borg cube blows up in mid sentence before they could say "futile".
Excuse me, Sir, but I think battles in EVE look a lot better than this.