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Star Trek Online Beta: Set Phasers to Fun - Part 03

The Duder and the rest of the Space Neon Lobsters fleet take on TONS O' ALIENS.

Jan. 15 2010

Cast: Dave, Brad, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

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Star Trek Online

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armaan8014

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Edited By armaan8014

Is this like the new endurance run?

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Wow... that looks more interesting than I thought it would.

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That was some cool stuff, I'm really curious about it now. But I think I'll resist :P

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Guild Wars has a party system like that, with AI allies from the get-go.

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hey so i just got a beta key woot! anyone know which of the downloaders is the fastest the site im downloading from is at 1% after like 40mins.........
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I finally realized why Star Trek has always seemed so cheesy to me... 
It's because everything in Star Trek looks like stage makeup and 60's sci fi designs. Why doesn't Star Wars seem cheesy? Because you can't make someone look like General Ackbar with stage makeup.

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 You can set your ships attacks to auto fire by right clicking on the hotkeys / abilities so you dont have to spam spacebar etc.

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holy shit the end was hilarious! that should have totally been the preview image: 

brad didn't die
amazing

Guys, I am seriously enjoying this.
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Spoiler: Brad dies.

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You broke your little ships...

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I think they need a Death Blossom feature on those ships. The Death Blossom: a weapon of last resort!

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haahaa "Wow, Brad didn't die. Amazing!"

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Hey Brad, your power levels sink very low during a full throttle and need time to recharge before a fight. Youre weak while you recover those levels, dont do any damage and shields don't charge. 
 
Pull out of full throttle early before you engage.
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dude, watching Brad play is almost painful

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is it just me or is his entire away team female?

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Brad should learn how to turn the ship tighter corners by slowing the ship down.
 
Also, use rocks for cover when taking on a battleship is also good.

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Edited By Bigby

I wonder if they know you can steer the ship by holding down both mouse buttons and moving the ship about.  That frees you up to turn the ship about to take damage on healthy shields while weak ones recharge and repairs are made to your ship.  And to fire weaponry as well. 

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that was epic

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"Amazing.  Brad didn't die."  I like it when fans join up with the crew.  Makes it that much more entertaining.

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@MagicBoots said:

" is it just me or is his entire away team female? "

It was that way for me too. It seams like the crew members you get as quest rewards always turn out to be females.
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@Rocospi said:
" I finally realized why Star Trek has always seemed so cheesy to me... It's because everything in Star Trek looks like stage makeup and 60's sci fi designs. Why doesn't Star Wars seem cheesy? Because you can't make someone look like General Ackbar with stage makeup. "
Star Wars is the king of cheesy, Star Trek is just nerdy.
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Lmao, well done Vager, well done.
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I seem to recall a couple of years ago after it was announced that it didn't seem like it would work. Looks like it's being proven wrong. 
 
I was watching this video and thinking: 
 
1) I wonder why they didn't circle around that big ass-teroid Wrath of Khan style during the first fight? 
2) And where was the epic score that seemed to be playing in my head during that fight? 
3) No Attack Pattern Delta to be found?  
4) Loved  the quotes and references thrown about. Loved it!
 
*sigh* Dammit Jim, I kinda want to play this game! 
 
(edit) Oh, and 5) Can you go to DS9, the Gamma, or Delta Quadrants?

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I can't seem to fight through these videos without falling asleep.

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Edited By penguindust

Looks like we've got a new (mini) Endurance Run.  Let's keep these videos coming for the duration of the Beta.  Even though they are an hour long, I'm watching them all the way through to the end.  And I want more! 

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im so excited for part 4!

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Every one of these videos make me want to play the game even more. But I can't.

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love these videos

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@Beforet: Because both of those games they knew they would finish.
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@Roddykat said:
"Oh, and 5) Can you go to DS9, the Gamma, or Delta Quadrants? "


I think those are the two quadrants closed off in the beta but i hope you to go to DS9 at some point aswell. 
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The Duder prevails!  Totally would have been awesome if you 3 could have been manning the ship yelling orders back and forth.  But alas this is not that game.

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Brad, I think you should slow down a lot more in combat. It makes fighting a lot more easier to deal with as you have a better positioning and all. When you want to turn, put on full throttle and make a quick tight turn then turn the throttle down. I learned this myself and it happens to be pretty useful to switch shields that went down to ones that can still protect my hull.

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Wait for me guys!  The U.S.S. Elysium is on its way to help!

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Great series of LONG look :=)
 
Thought this game was going to be bad, but I must say these vids have changed my mind.

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@Vengeful said:
"  You can set your ships attacks to auto fire by right clicking on the hotkeys / abilities so you dont have to spam spacebar etc. "
This
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Does anyone else seem to scream at Brad  while you watch these videos? Watching him play this game is frustrating the hell out of me.

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Dave: "Oh I love that butt!"

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This series totally changed my opinion of this game. I have to say the trailers did no justice for it at all. I suppose that's the problem with trying to promote MMOs, they can't be well understood without spending a decent amount of time with them. Still, looks like they made the right move giving you guys a bunch of beta keys!
 
Can't wait for a high-vision player though. Oh that text.

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Dude, everybody knows that the Star Trek bar would be called The Final Frontier. The Undiscovered Country would be good too if the other one is taken.

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Almost finally done with downloadng the beta...Took forever!

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There is a dissapointing lack of lens flares.
 
This future is not bright enough to be the Star Trek I love.

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@Azteck: same, i cant find keys anywhere; though if only i had the money to preorder.
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Strange.. that Marauder attacking you when protecting that ship.. I got a count down timer where I was just suppose to survive for two minutes before reinforcements came. I'm FASCINATED that Brad didn't pull a Brad on that one... Because that shit was hard.

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@PhatSeeJay said:
" Strange.. that Marauder attacking you when protecting that ship.. I got a count down timer where I was just suppose to survive for two minutes before reinforcements came. I'm FASCINATED that Brad didn't pull a Brad on that one... Because that shit was hard. "
That's an later quest, you have just been on a planet when that happen.
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This is great, keep it going.

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@gike987 said:
" @MagicBoots said:

" is it just me or is his entire away team female? "

It was that way for me too. It seams like the crew members you get as quest rewards always turn out to be females. "
Lycky bastard.. <.< all my crew members turned out to be men. Had draft females specifically to equal things out.
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I'm getting into this now because I'm accepting the fact that MMOs need to have a certain structure no matter what their subject.

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Edited By lockwoodx

 Number 3 is the first video for star trek online I've seen so far. I'm also highly critical of games. ( the reason I like giantbomb, they are too) 
 
Brad really let me down on this one. When his science officer glitched out the entire mission on terrible pathing, he just ignored it and it cost him the mission. Not even the way points he set for his away team would get her un-stuck from the glitch. This is something I would expect giantbomb to point out for the fans and it's pretty sad they did not. The next time I watch a video on giantbomb I'll have to think to myself.... "did they ignore that bug on purpose because they got paid to?"

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next endurance run please! ;)

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Edited By Besetment

Drew loses cool points for not recognizing a Men in Black quote.