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Special-Fred  1 star
Title: Sultan of Spank
Posts: 245
Registered: 2003-7-30 16:12:04
Anyone know if they made it worth playing yet?

 

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Testerion  3 stars
Posts: 549
Registered: 2001-12-28 03:07:47
Special-Fred posted:

Anyone know if they made it worth playing yet?



It's like SWTOR but with proper space combat, nonhuman races and no ability delay.

Only true minus is that they tend to release ridiculously OP ships on their cash shop, wait till everyone's bought it and then announce "We do listen to our players, therefore the ship you all complained for months about and yet bought, will be nerfed!" and then nerf the ship to oblivion, wait few weeks and then launch even more ridiculously OP ship than the one before.

 

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Rikarus  2 stars
Title: Ultimate Badass
Posts: 267
Registered: 2002-2-24 12:24:32
and ground combat is absolutely horrible....dont forget that part.

 

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ZigmundZag  4 stars
Title: Grammar Nazi
Posts: 1,211
Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
I updated it and played it for a few minutes last week. Of course they changed the entire tech tree, so you have to respec before you really do anything, and since nobody plays STO anymore I couldn't find a lot of information on what techs are important now. It is way better than it was at launch. I know they revamped ground combat, too, but I didn't get a chance to see if it's any better than it used to be.

 

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Testerion  3 stars
Posts: 549
Registered: 2001-12-28 03:07:47
Rikarus posted:

and ground combat is absolutely horrible....dont forget that part.



its much better now than it was at launch, they revamped it for the better

 

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Rikarus  2 stars
Title: Ultimate Badass
Posts: 267
Registered: 2002-2-24 12:24:32
ah

 

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vn_nnanji  4 stars
Title: Outpost Music Expert
Posts: 1,964
Registered: 2001-6-30 17:22:56
Soul Toast Online?

 

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Special-Fred  1 star
Title: Sultan of Spank
Posts: 245
Registered: 2003-7-30 16:12:04
Looks like theres some kinda system where you can trade cryptic points in for some new dialithium currency they use for a lot of stuff now. So i was able to trade in the 500 they gave me for free to get the last ship upgrade.

 

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cobane  2 stars
Posts: 473
Registered: 2001-9-6 18:42:56
I played an hour of it. It's awful. Both space and ground combat are laughable.

 

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B_Shinkicker  3 stars
Posts: 519
Registered: 2002-2-24 01:12:47
Did they ever make space combat fully 3D or is it still on an elevated plain? That was the worst, not being able to do loops or barrel rolls.

 

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