I just played Star Trek: Bridge Commander for the first time and I expect this has been said before but it would be sooo cool if space combat was like that in STO. I expect to get flamed because people who wish in vain for combat like that seem to get told to just go and play BC then. However it would be cool to have an the MMO universe and the stuff you fine in STO to be part of that

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Yes, it has been said MANY times before. And it has also been said that it is very unlikely to ever happen. Space Combat in STO is just fine for me though. I prefer the situatational awareness that is in STO space combat.
If you want Bridge Commander like combat, just imagine that your monitor is the view screen and that ship you see is just a "representation" of what your ship is doing.
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I think this guy just wanted to talk about his game experience on another game and suggest to the devs that they might do more to make space combat like the other game that he feels is superior. I don't see anything wrong with that.
That's what I meant although I'm happy with the game how it is it's just bridge commander did a much better job of making me feel like a starfleet captain than STO does at the moment. I just hope the devs can take on board the lessons from other games to make this one even better
STO's combat is centered around an entire ship and her crew, rather than the first-person perspective of the captain.
STO conveys information to the player in ship combat in a way that represents the myriad sets of data that an entire bridge crew would receive in order to make a decision.
Is it as immersive as Bridge Commander? No.
Is it more simulation oriented? I think so. Bridge Commander doesn't really convey as much information due to the forced perspective. In Bridge Commmander, you're operating with more blindspots and deficiencies that wouldn't exist on a ship in the future. STO present the spatial relationships between ships and firing arcs much better than Bridge Commander did.
Its the same as TIE Fighter, or Starfleet/Klingon Academy, or Wing Commander, or any other Space Flight Sim where you turn in a circle trying to line up a shot. (As in, holding an arrow key or joystick in one direction and watching the space blur by. Its Dogfighting. And it really didn't fit with Star Trek ships.
The cool part of BCs "ship engine" was the BO "overlay" where you could basically give auto-pilot commands to have the tedium of turning in circles slightly reduced. It basically hid the "dogfighting" aspects behind a UI. which worked "okay" but when you got up against hard enemies (or in PVP maps) you had to dogfight yourself, forgoing the BO commands)
I too would love for there to be more "BO interaction" instead of them being buttons on a UI... but its just not possible right now.
And the actual space ship combat in STO is BETTER than Bridge Commander, so I can accept that.
And you said it yourself, you CAN go play BC if you need a "fix" of bridge combat.
Outside of the iconic starships, STO's Space Combat is nothing like Star Trek and I'm growing more and more disappointed it coming about spam and gimicks.
Actually, space combat are fun but not very good too.
I played 6 years on SWG and JTL with POB / Multiplayers and housing ships.
Actually, u'r the captain of a ship with 600 pll on board, and in the same time, it's YOU, you do the job alone on your BIG ship. Actually, we can delete BO and continue to play with the same skills...
We are Alone on our BIG ship. :eek:
So...what you're saying Azurian is the devs need to nerf Bridge Commander...right?? :rolleyes:
Just like you...... and now me :eek:
unlike him, you dont need to be reported for it
I disagree completely. If you were able to watch a space battle in STO as a third party (between players, and not NPC controlled) and then compare it to a BC fight, STO would look MUCH more like a battle from the Trek series than BC would.
BC would look like a dogfight from starwars between fighters, or battlestar galactica, with the huge ships hurtling at full speed doing loops and twists and dogfighting. 99% of a BC fight was trying to get the enemy within a stupidly small firing arc.
Whereas STO, the two ships are on a mostly level plane, worrying about firing arcs and shield facings still, but in a tactical sense and not white-knuckled flight-sim combat.
BC was fun until a fight started. STO gets GOOD when the fight starts
I lolzzzz really hard after reading this. Azurian, if your so sick of it.... please stop playing! Easy. Just mod BC to death to get it where you want. I played BC for years this way.
Cryptic should slice off the starship combat game and sell it as a separate game... it'll likely make a few bucks for them.
I think it's a grand overstatement to say that it is "nothing" like Star Trek. If anything, it's proven to be very, very much like Star Trek from ship movement to orientation. It only lacks a few features like full vertical movement as seen in Wrath of Khan.
Personally, the space combat in this game is one of the biggest reasons I come back to it again and again. It's a lot of fun. Hitting the hull full on with torpedos after knocking down the facing, and subsequently watching the hull rating drop like a rock, is immensely satisfying.
I speak from a purely PvE standpoint, but I think at least these points mostly still stand even in PvP.
If I wasn't stupid enough to invest $500 in this game, I'd be happy to leave.
PvE stopped being Star Trek when we hit Lt Commander due to all those abilties.
And forget about PvP, that is not even a DS9 fight, its a complete disaster. Especially how people zip around like they were at warp, yet even in DS9 manuverability wasn't that stupid.
Please, try a couple of PvP matches. I'm pretty sure your opinion will be quite different.
I've tried PvP matches, had to level a Klingon that way all the way to Captain before I laid off. I even duked it out with my brother and double teamed Feds trying to capture points.
I went back to make sure I read your initial statement proper, and I did. You made no differentiation between PvP and PvE. You made a large generalized statement when you should have made a more pronounced one that addressed your concerns more specifically.
Did you see the intro where Picard and your first officer walked onto the bridge? Yeah.
Huh?
I called out the OP for being a troll- this is an old topic, people get pretty roudy, very quickly about it.
Some people need to learn their interwebs terminology.
F.
i know my internet terminology
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