Star Trek @startrek.website Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 5 mo. ago

Star Trek Online Will Now Let You Throw Asteroids at Other Ships, Picard-Style

gizmodo.com Star Trek Online Will Now Let You Throw Asteroids at Other Ships, Picard-Style

When in doubt, the latest Riker maneuver will get you out of a tight pinch.

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Does anyone play this? The space battles look great.
- I sunk some time in the game during the pandemic.
  
  Pro:
  
  you can play the quests and experience the lore just fine, for free
  
  lots of fan service in the game, for example plenty of series actors doing voices.
  
  Con:
  
  The game is on life support, and extremely dated. Most systems and mechanics have been gutted and streamlined so much, all you can do is get a feeling for how fun the game must have been in its prime
  
  everything end level is extremely monetized, virtually all good ships and equipment require real money. Not to mention for a decent build you will need to buy multiple ships to obtain their abilities.
  
  constant fomo: at virtually any point in time some fomo event is up trying to entice you to log in daily or spend spend spend. And all those monthly events feed into an even bigger fomo event that goes on all year. Also fomo deals on the real money shop that bring the absurd prices into almost reasonable ranges. A daily dilitihium refining cap (the only actually useful currency not 100% tied to real money)
  
  and if that’s not enough, gambling on everything else. All events come with loot boxes, requiring real money keys. Item upgrades, stat reforging, everything is randomized. And requires real money or your very limited dilitihium.
  
  Ultimately it’s fun to play through all the storylines and explore the world a bit, but unless you are willing to spend big you can’t get the good stuff. Also there is no end game except racing the dps meter against other whales.
  
  I agree that it's dated (the 14-year anniversary event started today), but I wouldn't say it's on life support - the content release schedule is pretty much the same as it ever was.
  
  The monetised fomo events are why I pretty much stopped logging in. If a game offers me to pay to not play it, I'm just gonna not play it and keep my money.
- Sure - one of our community members even put together a guide for new players.
  
  I think most people would agree that the space combat is the games biggest strength.
  
  Is rubberbanding still a significant issue? I used to play but took a break after the Iconian season. Then I tried going back around the time the new Terran season came out, and combat was very frustrating for to lag.
- I tried, but I can't even pick up the phaser in the introductory level. Not sure if I'm just an idiot who can't figure out the controls or if it's some glitch since I'm running it under Wine in Linux.
  
  Huh...yeah, if a basic "press 'F'" doesn't work, something ain't right.
- Pvp is completely dead, which I think was the game's greatest longevity strength. Mechanically it's quite dated but the writing is very fan service
Can you throw asteroids at other ships at warp, Holdo-style?
You could do this in Star Trek Starfleet Academy, but with other ships.

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