Games Star Trek MMO

[PLightstar]

Space bits are the most fun, a few of us stayed in a team last night and it added an extra challenge to the easy early missions. I like the fact that you can play it as causal or as hardcore as you want and you get rewarded either way. The grinding/farming puts me off MMO's, I really wanted to get into EVE as my mates were playing it, but the mining put me off big time.

 

[Ch3tan]

lethul, I can just about get the game running on my laptop, (to play at work ;p). So you have no excuses.

 

[Ch3tan]

Lethul : I'm playing on my laptop at work now, and the engine scales fine. Works a charm on the shoddy intel Hd graphics chip in my laptop so your old Pc should have no issues.

 

[MYstIC G]

Damn it. Dave has a week off to level, now you're playing at work!

Bastards

 

[Dreamor]

Oooh, playing games at work... oh wait, no... I must not. Although STO could be a good report to write

 

[Ch3tan]

Retail key activation was painless, go to d2d, get key, enter key on sto site. Done.

 

[Tilda]

I'm enjoying ground based pvp more than space pvp atm tbh

 

[Corran]

I'm enjoying ground based pvp more than space pvp atm tbh

space PvE, ground PvP are probably the way i prefer it.

 

[Ch3tan]

Sigh.

Server issues, but not affecting everyone. A lot of retail and pre-order HS keys have been denied access, apparently they are looking into it.

IF you get the message "you are not allowed to log onto this server at this time", then all you can do is wait for them to fix the problem.

edit:// also quite a few people moaning about being "forced" to subscribe for an additional month or more when redeeming their retail key. This is not the case, it prompts you to subscribe, and has a submit button. The way it is laid out makes it look like you have no choice but to subscribe to activate your key. This is not the case, once you have got to this screen your sub is active, simply close the window, or navigate elsewhere. Very very shoddy from cryptic though, lots of people will pay when they shouldn't have to.

 

[Ch3tan]

^^ correction to the above, seems it just CC registration that people were moaning about, which of course you have to do if you don't have a sub already.

 

[Talyn]

Still nothing from Amazon, although I'm not expecting the email until the box is dispatched, so I'm guessing sometime Monday - hopefully by then the bonus items kerfuffle should be sorted!

 

[Ctuchik]

I'm enjoying ground based pvp more than space pvp atm tbh

i found ground pvp to be utterly shitty. to easy to exploit terrain bugs (thats been there since klingons released in CB) to be fun.


tho cryptic still needs to sort out their queuing system for the pvp games.

getting sick of starting games with 10 vs 2 or 2 vs 10 now.

a "prep" timer that lasted a minute or so would be nice.

or force ppl to join once the popup comes insted of pressing "snooze" and pve some more.

 

[Ctuchik]

LOL!

Star Trek Online

SOMEONE GET THE CAMERA!!

 

[Lethul]

Lethul : I'm playing on my laptop at work now, and the engine scales fine. Works a charm on the shoddy intel Hd graphics chip in my laptop so your old Pc should have no issues.

Oh really? I only tried the "can i run it" homepage and I failed the test for minimum reqs. Bought this comp at 2003. But maybe I should give it a try then

 

[Ch3tan]

Tell us your specs, and we will let you know!

 

[Old Nicodemus]

Am enjoying wandering around exploring and finding out how things work. Not tried the ground PvP yet and have only breifly looked at the ship to ship PvP. I think there is potential here if they actually listen and iron out the problems/add the content. So far my inital impression has been very positive as I was adamant I'd not get involved in anything new until Jumpgate was out after the total dissapointment of Warhammer.

 

[MYstIC G]

It runs on my shitty work computer. It looks god awful and "fogs" everything but it runs.

 

[Lethul]

Intel Pentium 4, 2800 MHz (14 x 200)

MSI 865PE Neo2-S (MS-6728) (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio)

2048 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)

Radeon X1650 Series (256 MB)

 

[Ch3tan]

It's only your CPU that would possibly cause an issue, the rest of your system is more than fine.

 

[Lethul]

It's only your CPU that would possibly cause an issue, the rest of your system is more than fine.

The canyourinit ( Can You Run It ) site failed my GPU as well

 

[Talyn]

Well, just got the 'item dispatched' email from Amazon, but no mail with the borg key. I'm assuming the retail key is in the box, or on the manual or something?

 

[MYstIC G]

The canyourinit ( Can You Run It ) site failed my GPU as well

Fails my work one as well. Don't worry about it.

 

[Ch3tan]

The canyourinit ( Can You Run It ) site failed my GPU as well

Sod that site, it goes by the recommended specs and says that my laptop can't run the game.

I have a radeon 1950 and that runs the game at 1920*1200 with everything set to high, so you will have no problems with your card.

 

[Ctuchik]

Sod that site, it goes by the recommended specs and says that my laptop can't run the game.

it use both minimum and recomended.

need a better CPU to pass all recomended here

this baffles me tho....

Video Card
Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon HD 3850+
You Have: GeForce 9400 GT
PASS
Features: Recommended attributes of your Video Card
Required........................................................You Have
Video RAM 256 MB..........................................3.2 GB
Hardware T&L Yes...........................................Yes
Pixel Shader version 3.0....................................4.0
Vertex Shader version 3.0..................................4.0



how the hell can it think i have 3.2 gig Vram on a 9400GT???

 

[Corran]

Well, just got the 'item dispatched' email from Amazon, but no mail with the borg key. I'm assuming the retail key is in the box, or on the manual or something?

i got my dispatch email as well.. the retail key will be on sticker above disc or on the manual. Didnt expect them to email it tbh and wouldnt trust them too either

 

[MYstIC G]

Right, anyone know what the score with pre-order stuff is. Can I use my NX registry on every character or does it disappear after one use?

 

[Dreamor]

Thought it was account based not character based, Mystic G

 

[Talyn]

i got my dispatch email as well.. the retail key will be on sticker above disc or on the manual. Didnt expect them to email it tbh and wouldnt trust them too either

Got my pre-order key this morning (6:42) via email, typed into the site and it's taken it. Haven't logged in yet to make sure it's the correct item (borg bo), i'll look tonight after work.

Just the retail key from the box to go now then!!

 

[MYstIC G]

Thought it was account based not character based, Mystic G

Same as what I thought Dreamor. I'm just not sure how it works. Curious if it will come back if I delete a character and restart or if I get it once. The official forums are a nightmare at the moment with people just bitching as usual with a MMORPG launch.

 

[Ch3tan]

I haven't been able to access any of my bonus items with my head start character. Unless I'm doing it wrong?

Lethul; have you got it yet? ;p