Ok well here go. A major patch to the Star Trek Online beta today (my comments in red). This is a huge patch so if you are playing the game you may want to just see the link below:
http://www.startrekonline.com/node/910
Level Cap Removed! (Hey lets see how fast people cap out and complain about end game. This is a GOOD thing)
Leonard Nimoy has provided an audio journal overview as you enter each new Sector Block (Ok well whatever. Throw money at it thats all good and stuff but lets make sure we use that money to fix the game also)
Improved loading screens (meh, kinda cool the loading screen had this weird issue with the background image not fitting the whole screen which was odd)
Updated Klingon starting equipment. Ground and Space. (whole slew of Klingon fixes also)
Bug Fixes for nearly every mission in the game.
Added 2 NPCs talking about sulu being admiral quinn's office (wha??)
Improved ground combat balance. Easier at earlier levels, and more balanced at higher levels. (now you are doing this?)
Players can now Save/Load costumes.
Dragging and dropping items has improved (sigh..this should be one of the first items ANY MMO gets right)
Update message for when the shard is full.
Ground Combat Holds - Increased player innate resistance to holds, which effectively reduces the durations of holds against players. Once holds expire, they apply additional hold resistance buffs. When players have this buff stacked on them, the resistance will become complete immunity. This does not affect NPCs.
Buffs now display how long they last, and how many times they have been stacked.
The list goes on and on but the point is....THANK YOU. This patch was needed.
http://www.startrekonline.com/node/910
Level Cap Removed! (Hey lets see how fast people cap out and complain about end game. This is a GOOD thing)
Leonard Nimoy has provided an audio journal overview as you enter each new Sector Block (Ok well whatever. Throw money at it thats all good and stuff but lets make sure we use that money to fix the game also)
Improved loading screens (meh, kinda cool the loading screen had this weird issue with the background image not fitting the whole screen which was odd)
Updated Klingon starting equipment. Ground and Space. (whole slew of Klingon fixes also)
Bug Fixes for nearly every mission in the game.
Added 2 NPCs talking about sulu being admiral quinn's office (wha??)
Improved ground combat balance. Easier at earlier levels, and more balanced at higher levels. (now you are doing this?)
Players can now Save/Load costumes.
Dragging and dropping items has improved (sigh..this should be one of the first items ANY MMO gets right)
Update message for when the shard is full.
Ground Combat Holds - Increased player innate resistance to holds, which effectively reduces the durations of holds against players. Once holds expire, they apply additional hold resistance buffs. When players have this buff stacked on them, the resistance will become complete immunity. This does not affect NPCs.
Buffs now display how long they last, and how many times they have been stacked.
The list goes on and on but the point is....THANK YOU. This patch was needed.
This build was probably already almost finished a long time ago. And it is really much much better than the first open beta build.
ReplyDeleteSo I wonder why they did not start the Open Beta with it, given that they are really big into marketing, they should know that Betas are no longer taken as "tests" but as "previews" of a game nowadays.
I would like this as F2P game with item shop; I really like the space combat, hate the ground combat and think there is not much RPG to the MMO and doubt this will ever change. Trekkies who wanted a Bioware-type story driven world or WoW in space are disappointed anyways.
But I would really like Starfleet Command III in space - but if I have to pay for a month if I want to play the game for a while um... people might simply move on.
But well, they seem to believe in a few months subscription or lifetimers AND double-dipping their players with the item shop. I guess they will sell "respecs" in the store - people are already asking for them.
I already cancelled my preorder, but then ordered again - so you will see me around at least for the first month. My name is not hard to guess. :)