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c0mpc0mp Member Posts: 71 Arc User
Whilst playing around on ESD with a few of my Fleet mates, I thought it would be a great idea to have a group photo for our Discord. but no one can figure out how to implement a free camera mode to take a screenshot on the Xbox version of the game. After some research I found the Playstation version has the same issue. Why are the Dev's adding mediocre ships in blatant gambling devices when there are blatantly missing features like this in the base game? I just wondered if anyone else has requested this, or as I have missed this feature that should be standard in a game in the year 2021.
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  • fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5 Member Posts: 5,051 Arc User
    Consoles are very limited in their options because they're horribly designed devices. Limited amount of keys, no keyboards for entering commands. In STO's case, limited options to quickly select multiple powers.

    It's not just Cryptic's fault that STO doesn't play as well on those compared to the PC. They probably had to make some hard choices which features to add and which they'd better ignore.

    It's why I switched back from PS4 to PC - after my previous computer broke down, I tried out the PS4 version of the game and returned to PC as soon as I was able to.



    This may not be the answer you are looking for, but the best way to improve player experience - in my opinion - is to just download the PC version of the game and play that. STO was designed first for PC and it shows.

    The only benefit of consoles is that you can't activate as much stuff as easily as on the PC. So you have more time to really enjoy flying your ship and spend less time staring at your ability tray. But even that can easily be done on the PC by just slotting fewer abilities.
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,502 Arc User
    Consoles are very limited in their options because they're horribly designed devices. Limited amount of keys, no keyboards for entering commands. In STO's case, limited options to quickly select multiple powers.

    It's not just Cryptic's fault that STO doesn't play as well on those compared to the PC. They probably had to make some hard choices which features to add and which they'd better ignore.

    It's why I switched back from PS4 to PC - after my previous computer broke down, I tried out the PS4 version of the game and returned to PC as soon as I was able to.



    This may not be the answer you are looking for, but the best way to improve player experience - in my opinion - is to just download the PC version of the game and play that. STO was designed first for PC and it shows.

    The only benefit of consoles is that you can't activate as much stuff as easily as on the PC. So you have more time to really enjoy flying your ship and spend less time staring at your ability tray. But even that can easily be done on the PC by just slotting fewer abilities.

    Xbox does in fact can use keyboards, and STO has some limited functionality on keyboard, but not the full width of use PC has. STO actually runs extremely well on both consoles, but the game's main issue is it's still not utilising the consoles full power. It's still poorly optimised for 64bit machines, which run the game 'brute-force' compared to 32bit machines. Once Cryptic unleash and fully upgrade the engine to 64bit, the game will run better on all formats.

    Consoles' conditional-use autofires are actually great to use and they do make game-play lazy compared to PC, but you enjoy the graphics more as you're not looking at keys!
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • c0mpc0mp Member Posts: 71 Arc User
    Consoles are very limited in their options because they're horribly designed devices. Limited amount of keys, no keyboards for entering commands. In STO's case, limited options to quickly select multiple powers.

    It's not just Cryptic's fault that STO doesn't play as well on those compared to the PC. They probably had to make some hard choices which features to add and which they'd better ignore.

    It's why I switched back from PS4 to PC - after my previous computer broke down, I tried out the PS4 version of the game and returned to PC as soon as I was able to.



    This may not be the answer you are looking for, but the best way to improve player experience - in my opinion - is to just download the PC version of the game and play that. STO was designed first for PC and it shows.

    The only benefit of consoles is that you can't activate as much stuff as easily as on the PC. So you have more time to really enjoy flying your ship and spend less time staring at your ability tray. But even that can easily be done on the PC by just slotting fewer abilities.

    Whilst I would love to do this, I have spent well over £1000 on C-Store items as well as the lifetime sub on Xbox. As there is currently no way to transfer items from consoles to PC I refuse to give up everything I have bought and grinded for. As for consoles being horribly designed, not many PC's can match the Xbox Series X in terms of raw power, I would assume the same goes for the PS5. Whilst the game is 10 years old on PC it is not even 5 years old on consoles. I would think that the game should be able to run easily on current hardware with little to no limitations. I posted here as every time I create a ticket, the support rep advises me to post here to get feedback. I was looking for feedback from other console players, not from PC master race fanatics who despise console gamers.

    Whilst I respect your choice of platform I do not condone your negative attitude towards your fellow gamers. After all we are all Trekkers and gamers, we should be joined as one voice instead of berating each others choices for gaming platforms.
  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    The game has to run on PS4 and xbone which is why it gets stripped back.

    That doesn't however excuse the bad design choices and general clunkiness of how the game was ported. MASSIVE targetting reticle, the need to pan away from the thing you want to interact with for the prompt to appear, sticky aiming that will happily glue to every single pet and friendly mine rather than the hostile that was in the middle of the reticle. Red alert not being based off actual combat and causing abilities to autofire that then prolong the alert. Maps like pahvo ground with clutter that needs to be jumped over to avoid being stuck in but the jump button is also the instant port back to the centre.

    And of course basic QOL additions like the closer for melee weapons still not standard even though PC got it added very rapidly prior to the console release. Or the scanning mini games that use a thumbstick rather than the obvious choice of buttons DDR style.
  • fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5 Member Posts: 5,051 Arc User
    c0mp wrote: »
    Consoles are very limited in their options because they're horribly designed devices. Limited amount of keys, no keyboards for entering commands. In STO's case, limited options to quickly select multiple powers.

    It's not just Cryptic's fault that STO doesn't play as well on those compared to the PC. They probably had to make some hard choices which features to add and which they'd better ignore.

    It's why I switched back from PS4 to PC - after my previous computer broke down, I tried out the PS4 version of the game and returned to PC as soon as I was able to.



    This may not be the answer you are looking for, but the best way to improve player experience - in my opinion - is to just download the PC version of the game and play that. STO was designed first for PC and it shows.

    The only benefit of consoles is that you can't activate as much stuff as easily as on the PC. So you have more time to really enjoy flying your ship and spend less time staring at your ability tray. But even that can easily be done on the PC by just slotting fewer abilities.

    Whilst I would love to do this, I have spent well over £1000 on C-Store items as well as the lifetime sub on Xbox. As there is currently no way to transfer items from consoles to PC I refuse to give up everything I have bought and grinded for. As for consoles being horribly designed, not many PC's can match the Xbox Series X in terms of raw power, I would assume the same goes for the PS5. Whilst the game is 10 years old on PC it is not even 5 years old on consoles. I would think that the game should be able to run easily on current hardware with little to no limitations. I posted here as every time I create a ticket, the support rep advises me to post here to get feedback. I was looking for feedback from other console players, not from PC master race fanatics who despise console gamers.

    Whilst I respect your choice of platform I do not condone your negative attitude towards your fellow gamers. After all we are all Trekkers and gamers, we should be joined as one voice instead of berating each others choices for gaming platforms.

    I wasn't being negative to you. I was being negative about how limited consoles are.
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