What STO Moments Made You Go "Whoa"?
*NOTE: Potential Spoilers*
Going over the hundred plus hours I've spent in game, I can recall a few specific moments when I took pause and sat back.
Please, share any experiences you've had in STO that you found really enjoyable.
My "Whoa" Moments:
- There's a mission midway for Feds where an asteroid circling a planet forms the space portion's set-piece. This was quite memorable.
- The first time you rank up and discover the increasing complexity of space combat. Suddenly, I was in a science vessel - not just slowly turning to avoid loss but disabling shields and using tractor beams. It's easy to forget the first time a player hit this point but that first rank marked the biggest change in tactics in game for me.
- My first fleet action - no, not Starbase 24. The Gorn Minefield. It's not my favorite but the feeling of hopping into a battle with a dozen or so captains was exhilarating. To learn later Fleet Actions required more teamwork and strategy (i.e. Crystalline Entity) served as a boon.
What experiences did you enjoy thus-far in STO?
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anything that has undine in it
maybe that mission where you fly around in the wormhole
That was a cool mission. Cool and whoa - same thing.
I also enjoyed the moment when Q appeared outside my ship. I hadn't seen the promotional video that feature him - so seeing him float out there was geek moment for me.
yeah same, I wasn't expecting Q at all.
ghost ship - for seeing an obscure alien from the tng
visiting ds9
the first time i saw a cube and heard 'we are the borg'
the first time i fought the scimitar
the first time i got a defiant
Visiting DS 9 the first time. Nice attention to detail both interior and exterior.
Chatting with the prophets. heheh
And the state of Q arc. Played out perfect. "Once more...With feeling!" LOL perfect.
Got sucked into some Fleet Action that went crazy, enemies everywhere. When done I had to double check the time, hours had gone, the food remained. After a heated space battle, a cold dish is your ultimate reward.
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The only ship so far I didn't want to customise at all...
- Everytime I discovered how well the game integrated Trek continuity, including the books. For instance meeting Calhoun or Akaar, or reading the few snippets of informations on loading screens.
- When my character beamed to the Guardian of Forever planet and spoke to it (though I didn't quite like its voice). Subsequently meeting the original Enterprise was fun as well.
- Lots of planet surfaces and some systems still make me go "whoah" and I subsequently spend the first minutes of the mission pounding the "Print Screen" button (even sometimes in PvP).
- My whole first hour playing the game: the loading screen with the TNG theme in the background, the warp effect when leaving a system, my character's uniform, watching my ship fly with the name and number I chose for it, and so on...
This
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Finding the Escort isn't as much fun as my old Nova. Sigh.
My favourite though:
PvP where I inevitably forget that my little Escort isn't that good and getting into trouble.
It was one on one and I was getting a bit spanked - but next thing I know, I'm getting healed and as I spun the camera round I saw my team mates arriving on the scene with guns a-blazing. Very ST with the fleet arring just in time to save the day - or my ar*e as it was in this case!
- I think the gamers are starting to settle into PvP and getting more into a 'team' mode.
My next most memorable STO moment was when I realized the employee I spoke with *after* this gentleman lied to me when he said a supervisor would call me back.
[Edit:] I forgot the "whoa" moment when I was told by one of Cryptic's execs that I just don't "get it", the "whoa" moment when they made a monumental step in the right direction by announcing their advisory council, the "whoa" moment when I realized that the beta test was for stress testing the servers, and that no discussion of the game play was necessary, and the very memorable "whoa" moment I had when I realized how nice people are on the forums.
Getting the Defiant.
Batteling a cube for the 1st time.
Was nice......yes indeed
+1, i didnt swap anything off my Galaxy-class ship...
(i did tweak the windows and color schemes though lol)
When I realized how much a month I was paying for this .....
quickly rectified that.
- The City on the Edge of Never mission arc (though I also didn't like the guardian's voice, hugely overacted)
- Realizing during the first few ground firefights that my BO's were actually behaving in a useful manner; defensive maneuvering, meleeing when an opponent closed, even reviving me.
- Visiting the memorial at Wolf 359
- DS9 for the first time.
Also, finding out who killed Romulus (in the mission Taris) and finding out who the boss was in Khitomer Accords (more a 'WTF?! Noes!' moment than 'Whoa!', but still cool).
All of these except the state of Q one. And that's only because the first time I did it, I was open-teamed-automatically with someone and they just button mashed thruogh all the dialog so I lost the story feel to it. Second time through I was solo and could see how amazing a story arc that is.
But yeah, City on the Edge of Never was a WOAH moment. (And there were multiple woahs in that story arc)
Visiting DS9 and just realizing how cool it was. Same deal for me.
Chatting with the prophets was unexpectedly cool.
Some other stuff would be ...
The Reman base in the Hobus system.
The music. Every now and then I'm in a space battle and the music kicks in with that triumphant bit right as I start to blow up an enemy ship. It's just perfect timing and always makes me go WOAH.
The first time I did the optional rank up mission in the stateroom. The game really makes you feel like you're at a ceremony in your honor. Very nicely done.
The Drake mission. The ending of that ... the twist ... very WOAH for me. Especially after having to make that tough decision between Drake and the Captain.
The sound the plants made on my first planet-side "click 5" mission. They were just like the plants from The Cage. Made me go WOAH because it felt so much like Trek.
And here's one special mention for a WOAH moment in a movie brought on by the game. I finally noticed in the new Abrams film that Scotty has a pet Tribble on that remote station he's on ... because I've heard the tribble sound so much in this game that when it happens in the movie now it just leaps out and makes me go WOAH!
The Borg invasion at end of Beta (with the "assimilation" voice over)
Trapped > wormhole
Standing in front of the Guardian in City on the Edge of Never
My first Fleet Action where there were tons of varied level player ships (Gorn Minefield iirc)
Spying the Doomsday Device near the fractured moon.
The unknown ship that appears during the Taris arc.
Being onboard the Ghost ship
State of Q
Suspect
Romulan mission where you go to that low gravity planet
First time in the Khaless bridge for the klingons.
The wormhole is the only thing that gave me pause. It was completely unexpected when it happened and I wouldn't have even thought they could do something like that. It literally sucked me through some space junk and I'm not sure but I had the impression it was actually pulling in pieces of the set.
- BO's AI that was at least somewhat useful AND didn't TRIBBLE me up by pulling a pack of NPC's (at least, not enough to really care)
- First trip into Starbase 24 with at lease 20 other ppl in there it seemed like.
- Still get it at some of the art for planets and moons in Space.
- After tooling around for my first few weeks in a Cruiser, first time I properly outfit an Escort and took her out
Bad "Whoas":
- The moment i logged in for the first time and took a step forward and saw the crappy stick up the rear animations and design used for player characters and NPCs
- Finding out that yes, that queue'd arena system and special instances dubbed warzones comprised the totality of PvP
- Realizing that the miner mission as an ensign where I talk to 5 people then answer some questions is considered Diplomacy content
My first "Whoa" moment was when my character materialized for the first time in the tutorial ship and I saw how amazing all the graphics were.
It's fun to be the only one in PvP that isn't fighting with a range weapon.
1) the first distress call - when i was on my way to the ss azura..i'll never forget that feeling. I really, REALLY wish there were more of these misions.
2) the first fleet action - for me starbase 24. i came out of that mission wishing for (and dreading) the ability to enter wolf 359.
3) meeting the guardian of forever - it felt like a flashback to the 60's. especially seeing history playing in front of me...
4) later during the guardian of forever episode, meeting b'vat and seriously wanting to kill him at all costs...
5) meeting lt. paris and wanting to invite her to a vacation on risa...;)
1) Finding out that Klingons were unplayable to me.
2) Finding out that "raidisodes" weren't really raids.
3) Finding out that there's nothing worthwhile to really do at endgame.
4) Finding out that we're not really working for Starfleet but rather the Terran Empire.
5) HOWEVER, there were some great mission eps: City on the Edge of Never arc, Suspect, State of Q, and pretty much the entire main storyline missions