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Where can I get the Mac open beta client?
tilarta
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My PC has had a long series of flaws relating to windows and as a result, I've just had enough of it's problems and decided to go to my Mac laptop full time.
I checked to see if there is a Mac client for this game and according to an archived post from the old website, there is one in open beta.
But each time I try to visit this page, the Arc script disables the page and force redirects me to the new site.
And because the links on that page are disabled, I can't click on them to download the client or visit the forum.
Does anyone know how I can get the download without getting this arc nonsense interfering?
I know I say this a lot, but the more I encounter Arc, the less I want to see it! :mad:
I checked to see if there is a Mac client for this game and according to an archived post from the old website, there is one in open beta.
But each time I try to visit this page, the Arc script disables the page and force redirects me to the new site.
And because the links on that page are disabled, I can't click on them to download the client or visit the forum.
Does anyone know how I can get the download without getting this arc nonsense interfering?
I know I say this a lot, but the more I encounter Arc, the less I want to see it! :mad:
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I know some people who won't install anything from the land of Redmond where MS lies, out of principle, which means they are very nearly impossible to tempt to a Windows game and just recently tried STO because of its Mac client.
I could have sworn somebody posted it in the CO forums at one point, but said post / thread may have been archived by now.
I searched the forums for the topic and couldn't find it.
I hope this isn't a sign that work on the Mac client has been abandoned.
I use the Steam Wallet to buy C-Points in STO and would prefer to do the same in CO.
PWE's payment system just isn't reliable, so I don't use it.
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Basically you need to either sorta 'emulate' Windows (I hear it works well enough, don't know the programs offhand though), or since all Macs for like the last 5 years are basically Intel PCs, buy Windows and dual boot.
Those are your only options. I highly, highly doubt that CO (or NW for that matter) will have full Mac support ever.
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And in one particular area (a graphical glitch in the code currently unfixed), it actually works better then the pc version.
BootCamp allows you to run a partition with Windows in it on a Mac, but I found that unreliable, so I stopped using it.
Using the disabled javascript function, I finally managed to view that page for real.
Turns out it wasn't actually a CO mac client at all! :eek:
It was a link to the STO mac client.
Why are they posting that on the CO site?
Oh well, guess I keep waiting for CO to catch up with STO.
This seems to happen a lot, STO makes several steps forward and CO stays exactly where they are.
If this keeps up, CO is going to be so out of touch, it'll be outdated very soon.
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Not really. All they did to "port" STO was to certify that the existing Windows binaries ran under TransGaming Cider, a DirectX-tuned commercial Wine port. There's no native OS X code involved on Cryptic's part. They might have tweaked one or two things to ensure STO's version of Cryptic Engine was optimized for Cider, but most of the actual work is installation support, not development.
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As far as I know, Cryptic does nothing to maintain their STO client and it works just fine.
I assume any problems were ironed out during it's beta testing and shortly after the live deployment.
However, there is a consequence of no Mac client, since I'm not using PC anymore, they're losing income because I'm not buying any c-store points anymore.
Granted, I'm just one person, so it's not that great of a loss, but still, it's money they're not getting anymore.
And now that I think about it, I used to be able to buy c-points in STO and spend them in CO, because both games shared the c-points as an account wide purchase.
Which I used to do if I couldn't get the points purchased in CO.
But apparently that is no longer applicable, since my STO account and CO account have different amounts of c-points.
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Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
Mac also has WINE. Try that.
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you just need bootcamp. yes it would be nice to have an OSX version
but they don't.
Duel booting gives the best of both worlds. I fully expect there to be an uproar,"but why do I need windows blah blah blah" Basicly this is the only solution worth doing ATM. Parallels runs two OSs at once and with the demands that CO already puts on a computer, that just isn't smart.
So my suggestion is find a cheap copy of windows 7 and install bootcamp on your mac
ive tried out wine on both freehand MX and CO on OSX and it was extremely buggy, CO and it's memory leaks are just to extensive for it.
STO has a Mac client? When did this happen and why did no one tell me? I can save some hard drive space on my poor overtaxed Windows partition now.
Wait, before I uninstall STO in Windows, is the Mac client available through Steam?
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I am currently playing the Mac version of STO through Steam.
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