If you’re looking forward to the Star Trek MMO, you’re a huge nerd. But that’s okay and you’ve probably come to terms with it. One aspect that might have worried those looking forward to the upcoming Star Trek game is the issue of space combat. A lot of MMOs handle combat as adventures in clicking. It seems that Star Trek Online will handle space combat more along the lines of a dedicated space combat sim:
Players will definitely be given full control. A large portion of starship combat in Star Trek Online is tactical – maneuvering your ship into position so you protect your vital systems as you attack your opponent’s weakest side. You need to be “in control” of your ship in order for that to work well and be fun.
So it sounds like they are putting some pretty decent thought into space combat and it also sounds like […]
Original post by Paul and software by Elliott Back
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