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Anyone know if they made it worth playing yet?
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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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and ground combat is absolutely horrible....dont forget that part.
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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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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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ah
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Soul Toast Online?
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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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I played an hour of it. It's awful. Both space and ground combat are laughable.
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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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Oh, and how much does it cost in real money to "buy" a new ship?
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B_Shinkicker posted:
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.
Still the same. There was a small but passionate movement afoot on the forums to have true 3D combat implemented and the devs flat-out said it wouldn't happen. They considered unlocking the Z axis a little further but I don't think they even managed that.
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Space combat is the same as before, haven't tried ground. You don't have to spend money for regular ship upgrades, you do that through dailies or other quests or something for dialithium which gets traded in for them. You can of course spend real money to upgrade ships. Theres a "premium" ship that costs $25 
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