… at a whopping 240kb/s! I’m downloading Star Trek Online’s open beta client right now and it’s going to take about six more hours. I snagged a key during the Massively.com giveaway instead of pre-ordering the game. Graev and I will both be playing tonight if this download finishes. We plan to play from a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘STO’
Klingons = Monster Play? petaQ!
December 18th, 2009
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I was reading this Klingon Info Cryptic released for Star Trek Online and I am very disappointed. “It exists as an additional advancement path for players, and offers different gameplay options to players more interested in player-vs.-player combat.” Why isn’t it just another faction? Why does it have to be a gimmicky “additional advancement path” [...]
Slow going
December 14th, 2009
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Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few days. It’s finals week and I’m hard at work keeping GPA where I want it. It’s also been slow going for gaming. I’ve seen a few new screenshots of Star Trek Online (looks great), heard about Valve’s ‘crafting’ for TF2, watched from a distance as [...]
STO is essentially PotBS
November 19th, 2009
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Anyone else agree? Watch the Part 1 and Part 2 videos (Part 2 embedded below) and, if you played Pirates of the Burning Sea, you’ll see quite plainly how STO is going to be almost exactly like it. The naval combat in PotBS looks exactly like this space ship combat with ships circling each other [...]
