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Star Trek Online
Feb. 14th, 2010 01:51 pmI'm just about done with my new computer: Finally ported my email (GHOD that took fucking forever), and there are just a few other things to move (my CC2 fantasy world maps, among other stuff), requiring one last login to the old machine before putting it out to pasture.
The Gateway runs like a dream, and I've usinbg programs that were barely functional in the past. The big one has been Star Trek Online.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ecmyers and moonlightalice have reviewed the game on Tor.com and I recommend their take. My reaction, so far, is that the "away team" play is pretty pedestrian, while starship combat seems challenging and fun. It's challenging for me partly because I'm not used to using letter keys (ASDF) for movement, and I can't remap them to the arrow keys (which are used for shield orientation), so I end up with a complicated array of keystroke and mouse combinations (steering with the mouse -- with quick clicks to switch between attack and defense modes -- punching numbers for weapons, arrows for shields, E and Q for speed control ... oy). Some of the battles have been nail-biters, and in one case my ship was destroyed by the explosion of a defeated enemy. (My ship was also destroyed when some idiot self-destructed outside Earth, but that's another issue.)
Anyway, if you want to join me, my toon is Captain Zarmayr (yes, the name of my WoW main) of the USS Amirani, and my game edress is Zarmayr at Fantomah (the latter being my Champions Online username, naturally).
The Gateway runs like a dream, and I've usinbg programs that were barely functional in the past. The big one has been Star Trek Online.
ecmyers and moonlightalice have reviewed the game on Tor.com and I recommend their take. My reaction, so far, is that the "away team" play is pretty pedestrian, while starship combat seems challenging and fun. It's challenging for me partly because I'm not used to using letter keys (ASDF) for movement, and I can't remap them to the arrow keys (which are used for shield orientation), so I end up with a complicated array of keystroke and mouse combinations (steering with the mouse -- with quick clicks to switch between attack and defense modes -- punching numbers for weapons, arrows for shields, E and Q for speed control ... oy). Some of the battles have been nail-biters, and in one case my ship was destroyed by the explosion of a defeated enemy. (My ship was also destroyed when some idiot self-destructed outside Earth, but that's another issue.)Anyway, if you want to join me, my toon is Captain Zarmayr (yes, the name of my WoW main) of the USS Amirani, and my game edress is Zarmayr at Fantomah (the latter being my Champions Online username, naturally).
