Judging from the video, it looks like I was right in that the developers have chosen to pit the Federation back against the Klingon Empire to give players a rivalry. The big ship battles looked great and it looks like we’ll have a large variety of ships to choose from. It’s also hard to miss the Borg in that clip, obviously they’ll be an NPC race – the Borg ships are just to powerful for players to control, talk about balance issues.
With the advance in timeline of a couple of generations beyond TNG, I was half expecting to see some new ship classes or re-designs of current classes to show advances in technology. I thought I caught a glimpse of a Galaxy class vessel in there, that should be an antique in this time frame but I’m glad to have it. The ship based battles looked interesting but the clip was to short to get a good feel for how that was going to play out. It could be good or it could bomb, we’ll have to wait and see. It almost looked like a static just point and shoot system. I didn’t see much in the way of anyone moving around or ducking for cover – kind of reminded me of the old SWG combat system. Just spam shots until someone wins.
I’m really happy with the graphics in the game though. Some of the worlds looked pretty intriguing and should be fun to do some exploring. The starbases looked massive, as they should. The only thing that I wasn’t so sure about is it seems that the Federation ships have a trail of energy coming from the nacells. What’s that all about? I know when they go to warp they leave a trail of light a bit but this was when they were just cruising around on impulse power. Not a major big deal, just caught my eye that’s all.
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