Caltrops - Star Trek Online - Re: Ha ha, that tutorial mission...

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by Unbitter 02/08/2012, 11:13am PST

The tutorial is awful. Didn't enjoy it at all. The Klingon tutorial is mostly "go see these people and get lost in Qu'nos" and that's about it. A bit better, certainly more atmospheric. Sadly it looks like a great many of the Klingon story missions are all just copies of the Federation story missions but with Klingons giving you the orders instead.

And those pop ups? Yeah, they never let up. Log in and you'll get a pop up to do the next story mission. In the middle of a fight and you'll get a pop up for the next stage of the fight or a rank advancement. Pop up here, pop up there, pop up every fucking where. And if you're in a ship you come to a DEAD STOP while the pop up is there, but the enemies just keep right on coming, gee thanks.

There really isn't much item collection in the game unless you're doing the "end game" Borg stuff, and that's just items to buy better gear to get more items to get better gear, etc, etc. Those Borg, incidentally, WILL adapt to your weapons, so you have to have a "remodulator" to undo it. Oddly, they don't adapt to grenades or melee weapons at all.

There are a few storyline missions that are nice (the end of the Romulan chapter is the high point), but the rest aren't really that great. Kill this, collect that, go here and activate that, transport that guy somewhere. There really isn't a grind as just doing the open fleet actions and random Borg encounters will get you to max level in less than 2 weeks, but not much really to do after that. If you want to grind anything, get dilithium, buy cryptic points in their dilithium exchange, use those to buy costumes parts that are usually over priced even compared to Champions Online where they make all their money on costume parts.

It's not BAD, mind you, it's just not great. It could be so much more if they actually worked on it a bit, and I think by going F2P, they may be forced to.