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Star Trek Online: Set Phasers to Fun - Part 08

Frigth Babby gets up-close and personal with some Klingons

Jan. 22 2010

Cast: Jeff, Ryan, Brad

Posted by: Drew

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Star Trek Online

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You know, Space North named after Nolan North. After he discovers the precise location of the magnetic center of the universe in the future.

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Ooooo.

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Lol Banana Pancake!.... *Note to self* Don't eat while watching Giant Bomb videos! You guys rock!

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Who knew the Na'vi were in the Star Trek universe?

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Wow I'm so surprised that Jeff noticed me stalking Brad in my USS Oscar Mike. Made my fucking day. xD

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Oh man i wanna find out what happened to the space banana pan-cake

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I would be a better man if we had synthehol... sorry, I meant bitter.

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@Branthog said:
" LEEEEEROOOOOOOY BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! "
hahahahahahahahaha *high five*
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Ah, one of the very few steps Jeff had to overcome to purchase that lifetime subscription.

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A human with a beard and a white and black uniform, it's as if Jeff is describing my character.

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SLOW DOWN BRAD

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OMGZ, jeff gerstmann joins the SPTF videos.  sweet

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man you guys have missed a bunch of loot drops and anomalies that were right next to you.
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The reason Brad sucked in space combat  was because he has his power set to full engines and only 25 to weapons lol.

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best line: torpedo's ain't doin dick

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@guts450 said:
"Oh man i wanna find out what happened to the space banana pan-cake "

I'm willing to bet the tribble ate it. 
 
Also, about the exploit/expose thing. 
If you expose and enemy, it will have that weird targetting thing on it, use an exploit attack on one of these enemies and it'll do a lot of damage, usually instant killing them, and it'll do the disintegrating animation.
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Think this game will do well? The Star Wars MMO won't be out before spring 2011, so I don't know how much space mmo competition STO will face.

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Can someone PM a key, I would love to try the Beta. I really like how the ship battles look. 
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When you are fighting the really easy enemies (ie Orion Corvettes) put on attack mode, makes the combat go much faster.

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Did Jeff say that DS9 sucks? I guess even he can be wrong about some things.

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Why is it so fun to watch you guys play bad games? 

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why is there two part eights this one and the one that says 'i love a lime flavored space' even when you click on that one you get this one 

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Watching these videos made me want to see the new Star Trek.

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Joining the chorus of SLOW DOWN BRAD. Half or 1/4 speed is good for turning. Full speed for getting distance to set up attack runs.
 
I mean, they wouldn't give you variable speed if it didn't matter, right.

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 I wish there was a hot key to start autofiring.  
 
There is a hotkey, Brad, its called spacebar.
 

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"Set phazers to smoke these motherfuckers." 
 
Heh, which part of the Federation code is that command under? The Duder one?

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@dagas: He also doesn't like Terminator 2 all that much. 
 
But Bajorans still really annoy me.
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@SoothsayerGB said:
" Why is it so fun to watch you guys play bad games?  "
This game is bad?
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@dagas said:
" Did Jeff say that DS9 sucks? I guess even he can be wrong about some things. "
DS9 did suck.
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Hopefully Brad will get to lvl 6 before the beta ends so we can see some Klingon Gagh!

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@dagas: DS9 was boring and kinda dumb.
Nothing really ever happened and I find it hard to believe that an advanced race would be gullible enough to believe that the shapeshifters were their gods.

I mean they got to where they were technologically through science and yet a shapeshifter shows up claiming she's their god and they don't ask for any evidence to back it up.
Just seems really stupid to me.
Apart from this, it took ages for anything to happen in that series.
 
Oh well... To each his own.
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Right now I'm at Lt. Commander grade 8, and I am trying to reach the Commander rank before the trial period ends.

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Seems like they nerfed Emergency Power to Shields.

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Jeff: Oh dip! 
 
Dip indeed....
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"Deep space gentlemen"
"We're going into the neutral zone!"
 
The future!

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you can put torpedo's on autofire btw,

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Eh, can Ryan just replace Brad at the controls?
Brad doesn't even attempt to learn from his mistakes.

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@Crocio said:
" Eh, can Ryan just replace Brad at the controls? Brad doesn't even attempt to learn from his mistakes. "
I don't know if you saw, but Ryan was no maestro at the helm either. Not that any of them really need to be; Brad's deaths in particular are legendary. :P
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Someone at GiantBomb needs to get to Lt. Cmdr. as it doesn't look like the crew of the Duder will get there before the beta ends.  I do like in the beta the new look to a lot of the UI & all about the delta section that's in this QL as it's totally random on what happens which is nice. Found out that too if there's one ship best thing is to just dent it a lot with attack mode, that and whatever power your tactical ppl have in the ship, use it all the time.
   
BTW you definitely need to save the Kahn beta message at the first for any other mmo betas that get the quick look treatment.     
 
Also for anyone at GiantBomb piloting the USS Duder or another ship, I noticed that there was a 3rd character space open & went to make someone while the other person kept crashing on that server, so they've filled in the intro of the Federation side with plenty of getting Nimoyed in a good way.

Late edit--Okay just paid for the 4th ship (all tier1 & 2) to try out & just tore through the nausacan fleets with the latest (USS Dagon & a science ship too), also the reverse tractor beam is so freaking nice when you have to push ships out of the way instead of having them explode on top of you. Also hell of fun when you're fighting a bunch of people as you push the near exploding ship into a bunch of other enemy ships. As for how the science ship rocks, you can target things like shields or weapons to really cripple the hell out of their ship & if you have 2 science officers with the tachyon beam you will be just chewing through ships like they're made of paper. Now I know when I get the Star Trek MMO after dealing with the hectic class I'm in it will be a definitely tough choice on which ship to go with as they are all pretty good though liking the extra room you get with the cruisers. Probably won't get to the beta again before it closes out but will put up a few more screenshots & just sad that all the crazy holodeck stuff I read about being in the STO mmo, was either not there or not found but I'm glad that there's less space cop missions now (either just after hitting lt. cmdr in beta or them just expanding on it).
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Is Cryptic going to erase the beta players' character profile and game progress when the open beta trial ends?

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Does anyone think they will make it to pvp before the beta ends?

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@Crocio said:
"Eh, can Ryan just replace Brad at the controls? Brad doesn't even attempt to learn from his mistakes. "

I was kind of thinking that. As much as I like Brad... eh... 
 
Also: Brad was like, "We've cracked the code of Ster Trek Online space combat!". Hey, and guess what it was? EXACTLY what basically every single person has been saying in all caps on every video. Slow down, go attack, fire lasers and stuff till the shield is gone then fire torpedos, done, move on.
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Question: why does anyone care if Brad doesn't seem to learn from his so-called mistakes? It's a new game, he hasn't been at it long and its not the most simple interface to keep track of, so let us cut the guy some slack.  
 
Anyway, haven't Quick Looks and the like always been about watching Brad fail his way through stuff? Personally, I think I learn alot more this way than if I was watching some dude from Cryptic play it.   
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@Shimmy said:
" Question: why does anyone care if Brad doesn't seem to learn from his so-called mistakes? It's a new game, he hasn't been at it long and its not the most simple interface to keep track of, so let us cut the guy some slack. "
Not getting something like the crafting system is one thing. The basic movement functions are another. This is like going through the first world of NSMBW not knowing there's a run button.
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IIRC, you can just hit space bar once when you have someone targeted to start firing when auto fire is enabled. No need to double click. 

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Please stop with the pathetic, whining community bitching. It's fun watching them banter and find their way through the game, can't people just shut the fuck up.

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These vids are kool and funny, keep it up guys :)

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SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
 
Star Trek Online, Here Is 300 Bucks :) 
 
I am actually really tempted to get it, I just wish I had the money.

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I need me an invite to Space Neon Lobsters! Xeper@pingunet, hit me up.

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hahaha if you pay $300 its cheaper to not to play it o_O