Get more Star Trek feel, with some simple(?) visual tweaks.

yreodred · September 2019

Just a couple of ideas to make the Game feel a bit more like Star Trek, instead of Starship troopers.

- Instead of making enemy ships explode, can we please have a toggle to just disable them? (at least in solo missions)
Similar like in the early AoY missions where you disable infected Starfleet ships.
It feels really tireing to annihilate that many NPC crews in a STAR TREK game, whereas we could just diable their ships without killing all of them.
Isn't this what Star Trek was once about in the first place?

- Add a slider to change the amount of Visual FX in Space AND ground, or make them at least less visible. To say amount of Visual FX, especially in Battlezones was excessive would be an understatement. There's so much going on, even in Ground Missions, (like Arena of Sompek for ex.) you cometimes can't see anything at all. That's not fun at all.

- Add a toggle to reduce the visual Ship Energy weapons to one single beam (one fore/aft). This would reduce the visual clutter and enhance the feel like in the shows. This could maybe be done via visual slot at the Ship Status swindow, where you can put other visuals for the ships shields for example.

All things considered, the game feels and looks much more Star Trek in early stage of the game, especially after the tutorial until Captain imo.
After that, the visuals slowly gets more and more to a point where the visual overload becomes so excessive, its overwhelming and tiring to be honest.

Again, less is more.

borg0vermind · December 2019

Are you trying to adapt the game to be played on an MS-DOS box ?
Even so, the reduction of FX is not justified.

mrlostsoul · February 2020

I like the explosions the way they are. But I wounder if it's possible if you add more options, could you customize the game for that specific player alone. If a player chooses the option to have less extreme explosions, would it affect other players' visuals?

widde84 · June 2021

I was actually a bit bothered by the excessive use of space weapons. Why fire all at once? That's what was nice about Star Trek Legacy and Bridge Commander, you only fired one weapon at a time, as in the show. So it would be both accurate to the show *and* scientifically make sense to fire one at a time. Could be done without having to change the core system much and keep the number of weapons on the ships, by having a single random weapon fire at a time, or select which one would fire. I don't know how the engine works, so I have no idea how difficult that would be to implement.
Also beam weapons feels a bit weak/funky with that '3-burst' fire. A long beam would make more sense...?

eazzie · June 2021

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rattler2 · June 2021

Yup... this is Necromancy.
*casts Holy Photon Torpedo*

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Get more Star Trek feel, with some simple(?) visual tweaks.

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