The Shocking State of Star Trek Online in 2023 - (STO)

Star Trek Online is a MMORPG which has been around for quite some time. Its a free to Play MMO with a loyal fan base. However, I want to know, is it worth a play in 2023?
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{0:00} Star Trek Online
{1:02} An Intro to Star Trek Online in 2023
{2:42} In the Beginning
{4:24} Star Trek Online Gameplay
{7:50} Star Trek Monetization
(9:36) Final Thoughts
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[@sawmanUK]

** I HAD TO REUPLOAD DUE TO KZbin FLAGGING IT AS INAPPROPRIATE.... GO FIGURE **

[@StoicDivinity]

They're always tryna hold a pimp back from them sweet gains bruh

[@wassupdoc4204]

Cant say anything anymore nowadays🎉

[@devilsmessanger]

what the hell was inappropriate ?

[@sawmanUK]

@@devilsmessanger sounds like lit but starts with C

[@raymondsims537]

it was the michael jackson reference

[@CapnCrunchESO]

I once went to a Star Trek convention dressed as Chewbacca…….. What a Wookiee mistake.

[@sawmanUK]

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[@NobushigeAzai]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@joshuawall7933]

@@sawmanUK You gota give the man props it was catchy atleast lol That being said some of us are still wondering when your gona head over to star wars old republic and do a review on it maybe itl wake these devs at bioware up and put some more attention on the PvP

[@sawmanUK]

@@joshuawall7933 it’s 100% on the list 👍

[@joshuawall7933]

@@sawmanUK I appreciate it Thank you Bioware doesnt seem to wana heed the words of its current player base maybe though if someone does a review on it that might widen their gaze a bit Ironic these devs are alot like the ones from ESO but i will say i do feel ike BW is putting some effort into PvP their just going way to slow with it This games PvP has so much potential in terms of all the modes and the open pvp instances on the planets granted its a long shot but Its 1 of those Diamond in the rough moments its down to whether they decide to start polishing it or let it collect dust

[@darthdragonborn1076]

Sto player here: ups for the game are like so- you can earn a free t6 promo ship every year due to the year long campaign hosted every year. Crafted [pen] weapons are currently one of the top weapons in the game and lockbox stuff can be purchased on the exchange for energy credits. We also get give aways every year so you'll always get somthing. Downside is shields suck hard, theres no real dil sink to buy stuff with(besides phoenix upgrades) and the over hard grinding). If your in for the long haul then its 100% worth it. Especially if you wanna try your hand at space magic

[@ch1mera302]

You can actually use 3rd person shooter controls with WASD and mouse aim. Personally this make ground combat allot more fun.

[@aka-47k]

sadly no headshots, at first as i did it i was aiming for heads but then noticed the dumb phaser goes everywhere else but head, it was so disapointing.

[@mikesurlygentlemanwalton]

I've been on STO for about 9 years now. The game is heavily monetized, but you can still get T6( end game) ships for free. Yes, the "best" ships can be bought, but you can make it through most content with a free ship. It's a good mmo but far from the best.

[@theseek7278]

I found it impossible to get from lol 60 to 65 without upgrading my gear to the highest tier by paying, and buying multiple tier 6 ships so I could have traits good enough to take on the enemies on normal difficulty. Even then I still died a lot and didn't do a lot of damage. To do a "lot" of damage I need to grind out endeavors for two years straight to get a 50 percent bonus to all damage and defense

[@vishnu79]

Why do I still play STO? Well, that's because every Sunday evening around 630-7 pm, I stop being me, and I become General Kragh, commander of the IKS ngo'Ghlth (Old Targ, in English) Klingon warrior, veteran of the Dominion War, scourge of any and all buffet tables and Bloodwine barrels, and occasionally an emissary to our on again-and-off again best-frenemies over in Starfleet. With my trusty compatriots in the Brotherhood of Ra'ji, we sometimes sally forth to do battle with the enemies of the Empire, and other times we meet and tell tales of old battles with some old acquaintances in Starfleet. Really though, we have a small group of about 10-12 people that do in-game roleplay for a few hours about every week. With the ability to interact cross-faction on some of the neutral planets and stations, we even have little events where we have 5-6 people on our Klingon characters have "diplomatic events" with some of our other members' Fed characters. My main character (and only max-level) is Kragh though, so I am always playing as him. Sometimes we all get together and do some Fleet PVE, always "in character" though, and usually tied to in-game events. It's honestly pretty fun.

[@adinimal]

Wonderful intro! 🐶 And it's not only Plobb's mama who thinks he handsome..!

[@Nyce-Gaming]

Still the best intro 👏🏽

[@sawmanUK]

Why thank you good sir 😮

[@Aetrion]

I got a lifetime membership to the game way back in the day, and I still find the spaceship combat to be the most fun spaceship combat in any space based MMORPG currently out there (although the DPS meta destroys a lot of the fun in build making). My issue with it is that all the new star trek shows are so awful that they have completely killed my interest in the game when they were shoehorned into it.

[@Graytail]

Same, STO lifer from back in the days of the beta. I have so little interest in it now, I mean, as soon as you stick your nose outside ESD what do you see? Starships from other factions sliding around Scimitars, Ferengi maurauders, Risan pleasure craft, smoking heavily assimilated (borg equipment set) TOS constitution class ships, JJVerse ships, TIME SHIPS.... At the very least those should never have been allowed, slight SHATTERING of the temporal prime directive huh? Just allowing people to fly around in ships from the future. Some of the more interesting missions got scrubbed out ages ago, anyone remember the mission where you had to sort out a mining dispute by talking to people and actually READING WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY? And you did need to, because you'd be asked questions about how they felt afterwards. Not just run here, shoot this, shoot this, click this, run here, leave mission. My biggest downer was when they overhauled the crafting system. My veteran admirals, master crafters, suddenly had NO crafting ability what so ever, and no compensation. Every new system they'd bring in, my verterans got left further and further behind, because I just didnt want to grind for dozens of hours to get them back to where they already were.

[@michaelmurphy391]

Elite dangerous does space combat so much better

[@alexandrumacedon291]

what is the dps meta ? i always feel like im never doing enough dps lol

[@StylesEste]

@@alexandrumacedon291 exy dmg torp is a thing. Or simply "Maelstrom torpedo", is the current meta. You can google up some videos on it if you really want. Other than that, you're needing tech upgrades, get yourself a very rare (dark purple) item, either dual bank beam / dual heavy cannons, upgrade them to mk15 'xv', keep upgrading until you turn them gold (very rare to ultra rare to legend.) You can buy a phoenix box for 4,500 refined delithium. ; ) Put your ore into that and you can use the rare (downgrade if needed) to get the 2 upgrades, those don't use del. Keep doing that until all your gear is legendary mk15. Takes a long time (10 days is 80,000 refined delithium. Buy zen with del, you'll need some 360,000 del. But building up to 3,000 zen for a t6 ship really helps. I've only done it the free way, both on STO and neverwinter (the other game cryptic runs.)) You can also look into the exchange for them too (prepare to spend millions, lawls.) -- An easy money way right now is playing a few delta chars(event right now) to lv60 for the free boxes and money. Bank it and make a new one. ; )

[@MrGamer18641]

What do you think of SNW ? I personally love it but I’m a new treky

[@CornishRatBeard]

Good review and enjoyed the Zelda theme song at the end there! ❤

[@justsomestuff4172]

Cool video ! STO was my jam when I was a teen, but I just can't get over the monetization anymore.

[@Goonie3353]

Thank's for an interesting video and outside perspective on this game. I'm playing since 2016 on free to play account and somehow I'm still finding a bit fun from it. In case of payable content - since the introduction of Mudd's Store and Aniversary ships bundle's (although the cost is still high) I don't see any reason to spend cash on lockboxes (or to be precise keys to them) since the odds of scoring anything of value could be measured in parts per million not even percents and majority of the content is obtainable at in game exchange in currency that is ralitvely easy to obtain - energy credits. Also there are viable alternatives in form of 3 to 4 event's during the year that also allows to earn decent starship or a year long event that allows you to claim lock box starship by participating in selected events (in theory the best stats vise T6 ships) or 2 ships from Z-store. Other big plus in my opinion is that by using equipment sets from mission rewards or reputation system you can easily do normal and advanced content in pve (sometimes even elite if the build is good and You know how the ingame systems works), but majority of elite content and pvp requires investment of time or money in obtaining decent gear, ships and traits to have some fun. Storywise I really like the newer content from 'New Frontiers' up to 'Klingon Civil War' story arc (currnet somehow irritates me mainly beacuse it's related to Mirror Universe) and few earlier story arcs like 'Solanae Dyson Sphere', 'Delta Quadrant' (it looks a bit obsolete nowdays but it was the nostalgia overload back in 2016) and 'Future Proof'. Some of them really aged poorly mainly from visual point of view and requires polishing but are still decent stories. it's also worth to mention that 'Gamma Quadrant' story arc (currently my favorite) has probably last Star Trek related performance of Aron Eisenberg and René Auberjonois as Nog and Odo. As per minuses and iritating features - since it is quite an old game nowadays there is a lot of various systems that grows around it for last 13 years and still majority of them requires progression (reputation system, endeavours, traits on certain ships, some items from R&D system and etc.); there is also power creep - ammount of equipment and ships that were added since going full F2P model is staggering and curent Event or Zen Store ships can easilly outperform in almost all aspects early T6 ships, even those from lockboxes; finally there is permanent dilithium grind - every upgrade requires it either for obtaing the token or to pay for the costs of applying it, except that also reroling of modifiers consumes dilithium, fleet upgrades and of course dilithium to Zen exchange.

[@Treklosopher]

Excellent video. I'll say though that I think ground play is underrated. Once you get some kit modules it's really fun.

[@sawmanUK]

Maybe I just need to give it more time

[@Robotrik1]

Started playing 4 months after the game launched . It was my first and only MMO, and as such I used my uber noob powers to run around the maps for 6 months in the first year . I haz exploring . I found nuttin ! 2 weeks before something very bad happened, I purchased a lifetime subscription . Until then it was a 15$ a month access to play . 2 weeks later began the year that we fans affectionately refer to as The Year of Hell (a title of a two parter from Voyager) -- where Atari turned off the cash flow, and unknown to us the conversion under the hood to Free to Play began . By then I was a bit tired of running around and so it was End Game (4 whole Dungeons of 2-3 hours each) that along with PVP (which was still playable at the time) made my 2nd year a much better experience than for those who practically ran to End Game 2 seconds after they started playing . The Dungeons (then called STF's -- as in special task force operations) were built by some experienced programmers of the generic 3 Classes style (warrior, healer mage , tank) , and they were quite difficult in places as OP gear was still far away in the game . However this quality programming wasn't appreciated by the majority of the Easy Mode / coffee break Trek fans who were not really obsessive gamers as such . Thus, by the time the game went F2P, these Dungeons were cut up and simplified as short Raids -- recently renamed to TFO's . The F2P launch was either close to or after Cryptic got sold to PWE , and a decent cash infusion followed that gave the game (finally) a decent Klingon faction beginning story , and the game's first Expansion that included playing as Romulans (sort of ... as this takes place after the destruction of the Romulan home world, and after a while you have to choose to ally with either the Klingons or the Federation) . We call these half-Factions "fractions" for this reason -- but this over tge years gave Cryptic the option to add playable Jem'Hadar, TOS and Discovery Federation starter missions as well, adding a diverse starting experience to players, even if after certain points you have to join Team Red or Blue . I share much of what you said about the monetization, so I have not much to add there , with the exception that unlike some games & MMO's -- you can play all of the content of STO (star trek online) for free . You get enough gear and ships as you leave to do the content in both Easy and Advanced mode . Elite difficulty does require some (a lot) of advanced gear, some of which is available to earn & upgrade, some of which is cash shop / Dilithium grind . There is no I Win button, ship or single gear . Advanced and Elite content relies a lot on a harmony of different components & gear . Pvp ... unlike what you stated is a bit of a shit show . But there are players looking to teach others ... sometimes . The additional minus here is that the game has implemented a ... set of rotating missions that grant permanent buffs, and playing daily, finishing this system (that was designed to keep players logging back in) -- well it takes about 2.5-3 years to finish . This means that long time players & PvP players will have a number of stronger buffs , depending on how religiously they logged in daily . This doesn't effect Normal and Advanced Pve much, but it's... it's a problem in PvP . Not gonna lie . All in all STO is a nice place to hang, especially for 30-50+ aged gamers . The most basic hub for the Fed's doesn't quite reflect this (a lot of shit posting in zone chat) , but there are your established Guilds (Fleets) that can make your experience a lot more wholesome . I'm currently in the 44th Fleet . Come by, say hi ! See our website for details .

[@goddessesstartrekonlinefle3061]

Good video, thanks for creating it! I think you under estimate the ground aspect. You can do some fantastic things with imagination and the right powers. Heck thats my whole channel! What makes me keep playing though, isn't the game but the people (and the ones in our fleet are mad fun and honestly what makes the game last).

[@angryrangergaming27]

I agree 100%

[@Atharun18999]

A few things to note. 1. The game does include an fps mode by hitting B on your keyboard (for PC players) 2. Lockbox keys can be bought with in game currency 3. Throughout the year, they do tons of events and giveaways that include ships and other things for all players. 4. You can do everything in game without spending a single penny and there are far fewer restrictions than just about any other mmorpg 5. They partner with groups like Alienware and Steelseries to do free giveaways regularly. 6. Ground combat can actually be tons of fun depending on how you build...i.e. grenades, turrets, etc.

[@e.flames5476]

I'm a lifetime member and tbh STO isn't a bad game, it's worth playing but saying that I just wish they would upgrade the ground graphics like modernize it a bit more because it does got potential to get better like for those of us who do got the lifetime membership it would be a complete waste to to keep adding on to the the game without upgrading the ground graphics or adding more levels to the ship so its not you visiting the bridge only.. the stories are really good, I just feel like we should be able to do more exploring different planet's instead of just doing patrols. My opinion upgrade the ground combat & characters, I'm mean to have a lifetime subscription you can't totally leave the game the way it is, I have been playing for quite sometime and I upgraded my console to a Series X, so like to upgrade the who game would be perfect especially the ground combat.

[@UltrEgoVegeta]

Nice montages of the new story. I'm enjoying it myself. Yea the ground combat sucks, but ship to ship combat is tops

[@BNuts]

I never touch the lootbox keys because there's no guarantee on getting what you want at all. Fortunately the game gives away T6 coupons and such about three times a year, just for participating in events. And yes, this being solid _Trek_ with enjoyable story is why _STO_ has a stable, if comparatively small population. I've been playing for... four years, maybe? I got the Lifetime Subscription at half off. Completely worth it since the dilithium exchange rate for zen is completely crazy: the max is 500, and it's at 500. But still, the game gives you what you need to play through the story, and you can do the TFOs without feeling like you're completely dragging people down. The only zen shop items you really need are the EC cap increases and the account shared bank. Everything else, you can do without, and you get enough character slots to try every faction's story, and then a bit.

[@Dr.Kryptanical]

There is apparently an over the shoulder camera control option from what I saw of other let's play vids it plays like a 3rd person shooter like fortnite which may or may not be a bad thing but it lets you aim manually at least!

[@scar123ful]

Maybe I'm biased due to how young I was when this game first released (begged my parents for lifetime back in the day lol), but boy was it fun in the early days when Cryptic still owned the studio and before the game would fundamentally change into what it has become. Back when there was just the Federation, and the KDF; Memory Alpha was the place to go for crafting and you had better hope you can outrun the Crystalline Entity while going there. Finally completing the three operations and getting your borg set bonus for your ship was the end goal and boy was it an amazing feeling of achievement. Once Dan Stahl left and the game was bought out by Perfect World things changed quickly; some good, some bad. This is when the lootbox and monetization started, and the game turned more into a themepark MMO than anything resembling a game with high difficulty PvE encounters and PvP rankings. But maybe that's just what the game should be! Patiently waiting for a new Star Trek themed MMO with better graphics and a fresh story (fully expecting to be waiting a loooong time). Great video; thanks for the nostalgia hit and showcasing some of the changes that have been made in the last few years.

[@TechLeafRanger]

I've been playing the game for...at least a year now, on my X-Box One. And I have to say...outside of just occasional moments of buying the lower amounts of zen with real money when i had a bit of extra cash, I've done almost no monetary buying while playing it. Honestly, I think people can play the game without paying any money at all. Sure, it speeds up how quickly you can get your hands on things from the Zen store, but in all honesty, the number of free Tier 6 ships I got from doing events, the free Tier 6 ship coupons that keep getting dropped as rewards for an event or a promotional, it make it really easy for me to get some really good ships for my characters, and grind out dilithium for Zen to buy more stuff from the Zen store. All pretty much for free, save for the time and effort I put in. If you're willing to put in the effort, the game can be pretty much free all the way across. Its only the really large bundles in the Zen store that you have no hope of purchasing without real money, and I really only see those as something hardcore Trekkie or gamers will go for. As for actual game, and not just the monetary side of it, it is a lot of fun. I love getting to pilot my starship, add new weapons and consoles and cosmetics, coming up with a new name for each ship to fit the theme I have for that character. The ground combat can be kind of tedious, but I make up for it with characters I enjoy admiring and looking at, so it makes up for the stretches of having to shoot at some annoying group of enemies. That said though, there are some annoyances though. A few missions, at least on the XB1, can be buggy,, to the point of being forced to restart the mission over and over again a few times. Most of them don't have this problem, but still. Overall though, I do greatly enjoy the game. I think it'll be something I'll keep enjoying being able to play, especially if they do release more story missions down the line, since they just recently finished their current arc, the Terran Gambit.

[@MatthewBluefox]

I am a 2010 Headstart Lifetimer, and I would say it is Worf playing still! Worf! Worf! Worf! :)

[@Zoten001]

I'm an original lifetime member. I occasionally come back and dink around in game.

[@mundyness]

Fun review as always.. pls do albion/destiny2?

[@Onimusouka]

I wanted to like the game back in the day. I hear it's tons better. I really wanted to like ground combat. I think it has a first person shooter mode you can toggle which made it bearable, but still. Space combat has just always been way better. Might give it another go again.

[@baizuo3954]

I have never opened a loot box, but they are annoying to delete because they drop everywhere. I can play at the highest level without ever paying real money. On the flip side this tells you how easy the game is. The most difficult content is easy. I bought a Lifetime membership in 2012 for $200, which trivialized the most challenging part of STO, Inventory Space. This game is all about storage.

[@TMulvale]

I been playing for 8 years and love it. BTW You can also get free meta T6 ships and gear in events which run almost constantly as well as yearly campaign , all you have to do is play the events, so if you don't want to spend money and get ultimate ships if you do not want to.

[@SmugTheClown]

you can get every thing in the game for free even lock boxes by grinding for credits and buying keys off the market then open boxes then get lobi then get the antipolan spear which is the best weapon in the game or do rep mission and fleet mods to get free t6 ships or events. the only thing i would reconmend you buy once u decide what you want to main is bank slots for ur act and credit incease cap. The way to dericbe the game is a snow ball is slow grind then it just sky rockets the more stuff u have it wont take 30days to max 1 of 10 things like in eso

[@UltrEgoVegeta]

Yes sto is a fun game

[@kitkami]

If you like the ship stuff it can be fun but you will do everything in a month or two at best. I only ever get on now if there is an event with something i like.

[@LootzMy]

I absolutely agree with IGN when they say it feels like it's two game meshed together. ground combat is very clunky and very buggy, it feels like ground combat was an afterthought, they created this game based around an awesome space combat system, then realised sometimes you would need to be on the ground and fighting and threw something together. As to the value of the lifetime subscription, as someone who bough the game at launch and has a lifetime subscription, i can safely say it was the best purchase I've made over my many years of playing MMO's. While I've not played it solidly for the whole thirteen years, I do play it on and off as a filler game when i get burnt out in other MMO's and that lifetime sub has more than paid for itself multiple times over. A quick tip with regards to it "feeling like it should be FPS", you can actually play it in a kind of FPS mode, if you press the B button on the ground it puts you into a free target mode, and you can scroll into first person. Boom, much better gameplay instantly. With regards to the monetization, i think it's a pretty fair monetization system that they have, it's not hard to farm dilithium if you want to pay for store items with time rather than spend money, the T6 ships aren't that different that there's a best in slot you have to buy, plus you can get a handful of T6 ships in game through missions and events, so overall it doesn't feel heavily monerized to me.

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

I remember how addicted I was to STO a few years ago. I've been thinking about getting back into it.

[@MalcomMalediction]

I really wanna see sawmanuk do some VR Chat

[@iforgot6088]

I just got back into STO after not playing for about 6 years

[@johnmiller6776]

If people quit playing at cryptical eventually loses license and the license to go to somebody else that will make a better game.

[@doyourownresearch2789]

Star trek online use to be far more massive than it is not, they even removed harry and belona daughter from the game and that was my favorite episode to play because well it made me feel as if it was like a passing of the torch moment how it should've been for all of Picard. It had an incredible amount of balance in terms of old and new even martok the butcher needed to be saved from the breen prison camp for him and worf actions during the dominion war. And when you use to play as a Klingon pretty much you played as a dishonored Klingon looking to regain his honor and Alexander future self in TNG he becomes that person and helps a lot along the way they really changed a lot their seasons use to be like the original TV show it use to be like 21 to 25 episodes in each and every single season then they got into contract with bad screw ups and then that when every single thing in the game started to change worf had a wife and again and his brother regained his memories of being house of mogh is they had computer control battle of him fighting I think some alien. It was crazy sick captain nog I think counselor Jake sisqo I do wish before it's too late that captain sisqo will at least come from out of the worm hole at long last or do some kinda special on it and keep it out of bad remakes ever hands

[@varthelm]

Saving grace I think regarding STO's monetization is they are always running events to give away free gear and even ships (this year it was possible to earn 5 total ships without spending a dime). Between that, the reputation system, mission rewards and even some third party giveaways, it is possible to earn all the gear one needs to do very well in the hardest content STO has to offer. If you want to go meta chasing however....that may well cost you quite a bit. The fanboy in me got me buying more than a few ships and such, but I enjoy it. Btw..if you do dive into a lifetime sub or anything really in the cash shop.....be patient and wait for a sale...they come up often enough.

[@vegeta002]

Heavy monetization in a Star Trek game, so ironic. I always hated how canon ships and uniforms are often in r&d packs and lockboxes, which should only be used for "special" ships, never common stuff from the shows.

[@MrGamer18641]

Bro this video review was the best one I’ve seen it was funny and got to the point 😂

[@justinhammer3196]

I would play a STO 2. Hopefully made by a different company. And yes I have lifetime and actually back in the day finished the game except for dailies and pvp. Stuff has been added since then (a lot) but the graphics and general jankiness keeps me away now.

[@overseer5660]

I honestly wish someone did a single-player Star Trek with up-to-date stats like Starpoint Gemini or Star Citizen tier stuff. Well, not really Star Citizen but Starpoint Gemini is a good example/start. And added as much stuff as the online version does. Exploration being its main theme. Well, more or less. I honestly had greater hopes for this game and expected more since I started playing around 2012/2013 but the game unfortunately remained a bit the same. At least Warframe was always with me since 2013/2014.

[@aka-47k]

@@overseer5660 yeah star point gemini warlords is awsum with star trek ships mod, as you can command fleets ect XD

[@cfbmoo1]

STO is good if you want a quick Star Trek fix at the MMO level. Anything else and it's not really worth it. Even the Space Barbie: SPACE is nice and has a lot of options though they stopped making bridges for ships a while ago at a regular clip. Space Barbie: Ground is limited by categories for outfits. There are so man restrictions on how you can mix and match things it's not funny. Also if you play KDF you get the extra restriction of having an aweful color selection to choose from for most outfits.

[@marcosmata8233]

What if #StarTrek had Tom Clancy's games, far cry, call of duty games, Battlefield games, crossfirex, killzone game, planetside 2, pacific rim, Remnant: From the Ashes, earthfall, second extinction, Darwin Project, Hyper Scape, phoenix point, defiance game, resistance (video game series) of their own? Star Trek meets mad max Dungeon & Dragons, kobold press & monster hunter meets Star Trek

[@goodman7097]

I was making good money at the time and bought the lifetime membership. It was a great move, over the years I jump back into the game and see what is new fly around live my Klingon Fantasy and then uninstall and come back in a year or so. There just are not a lot of places to go for good Sci-fi MMO, I do the same with SWTOR I just wish there had been a life time sub with SWTOR

[@morrit33]

I have a LTS... ugh... Started playing in 2012... Back when it was relatively modern and new. Spent so much money on it. I was a victim of their scams. Then my account got hacked, lost EVERYTHING. Now all I have is a monthly 500z stipend. Probably got a few thousand z by now....

[@tomguglielmo9805]

Expecting a "I've quit STO, here why.." video soon

[@SharpshireEddy]

I'm a Lifetime member myself in STO ( Accidentally ), i like STO but i mostly play the new Story when comes out and the free loots in events ( Summer, Free T6 ship yearly event, Winter event, etc. ) My favorite ship is forever gonna be the Intrepid class but close to it the Galaxy, Soverign, Excalibur, etc. so yea STO is still important to me since i'm a Trekkie fan.

[@SaraNeto57]

You should give Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon a try out

[@timhorn3829]

Started playing two years ago, and I am hooked, especially being a track fan

[@bigal3055]

I can't speak for the old hands, but as a new player who only started Star Trek Online a few weeks ago, I'm really enjoying it! Yeah, the ground missions are a bag of shite (though the later, newer missions are bearable and in all credit to the developers, probably about as good as they can be with the tools they have to work with) and the absolute lack of tutorials for anything outside of the basics is a nightmare for a new player too. But, with a bit of time, patience and perseverance, there's a bloody good space combat game in there and the stories themselves certainly feel very Star Trek. I'd describe myself as a casual Trek fan at best, but certainly not someone who's dedicated to the franchise. Love the original Kirk Trek and I'm familiar enough with the TNG era to know who's who and which characters fit into which series. I'm completely lost with the new era Trek though. Thought the films were dumb, shouty, flashy affairs that seemed to throw decades of character development right out of the window (the emotionally disciplined Spock in the new ones for example, what the...?! That version of Spock is the least emotionally balanced character...of ANY character...in the entire bloody films!) and I've yet to make it past the first few episodes of the new collection of series too. I haven't bothered with the animated show at all, have still to give Steange New Wolds a go, gave up on Discovery long before season 2 started and only managed the first few episodes of Picard before bailing on that one too (though, I have been talked into giving season 3 a chance...I'm enjoying it so far). I guess it's as a result of that that I don't recognise some of the ingame characters, ships or settings, but it's not spoiling the playing experience by any means. So, as a casual Trek fan coming into the game so late in its life, yeah, I'd say it's still worth playing.

[@Fresh_Baklava]

For the algorithm. I didn’t see the first version, but I’m assuming the lady part was the “speed bag”? Lmfao!!!! ❤

[@lordbane5627]

Greatest intro ever. You should use it more often.

[@hughejass9461]

I've been a lifetime subscriber for about seven years and still play the game, just not as enthusiastically as before. The developers seemed to have switched their focus from putting out new content to just selling new reskinned versions of old ships (legendary) for real money. If people play for free then the game is still fun and I'd recommend it, but the monetization does get old.

[@spotzhopz]

I feel like I've 👍and watched this before

[@sawmanUK]

Same

[@ColinJordanVanDerMerwe-tr1kv]

Hi wat is jor gamertag ?

[@capnmorgan867]

YAY I get to reupload my joke as well... 🖖 "Live Long and P2W"🖖 Still a nice breakdown.

[@josemilian4167]

space combat is great but regular combat really needs an update.

[@FreeHugzForLife]

I love you! ( I hate you, your character was the goofiest thing I've ever seen ) Keep yourself safe!

[@xX.D3DP00L_Xx]

i rate this video 5 heehee's, and 7 moonwalks out of 11. even uncle Roger would approve

[@raymondsims537]

i play it cuz its the only thing like it available and the story

[@eric2690]

Star Trek itself is so Nostalgic & Iconic. I hear that there is a Tall Tale Narrative Video game coming out for Star trek. I just wish there was a New Star Trek Game designed for Playstation 5 that had all the ships, space combat, & also more like Mass Effect !!! The current Star Trek online is old, clunky, & who wants to pay $30 dollars for a T6 Ship ???

[@dcavanagh3433]

I love this game still playing after years but if brought back star trek legacy with the ultimate universe mod on xbox I'll be playing that instead

[@NobushigeAzai]

The MJ bit is wild lol.

[@sawmanUK]

There was a more wild bit according to youtube....

[@NobushigeAzai]

@@sawmanUK I wish I knew which one it was.

[@sawmanUK]

@@NobushigeAzai I wish I knew where it was too...

[@NobushigeAzai]

@@sawmanUK that's gross that they don't give you that info.

[@sawmanUK]

@@NobushigeAzai I might have it in a week … 🥹

[@rondark9630]

New mortal online 2 video NOW

[@nerdbomber]

So a post on KZbin of eso content creators hanging out with the eso community manager and sawmanUK was oddly not in the picture, I reported it as abuse! #sawmanukismyesocontentcreatornottheothertwats

[@datboiderrty]

These are the voyages of the USS InvalidEntity

[@Xof_D-Dawg_Fox]

I'm very bothered that they haven't upgraded the ground combat yet, I mean cmon.

[@Jaykerh9]

Is it worth playing still? Still? It never was lol

[@lookingglass5463]

I love the game, but I want it to feel/look more like Star Citizen in terms of graphics and sandbox play....I don't want a tiny planetary map to explore... I want the whole damn planet!

[@marsmotion]

be careful you could get starfield

[@majorlybaked369]

Star Trek fleet commander on mobile smacks. Also super pay to win but it’s a lot of fun for a mobile

[@sawmanUK]

Interesting 🤔

[@Eremon1]

As an avid Star Trek fan, this game kept calling to me but I could never get past level 10, because the structure of the game is quite janky in many aspects. That being said, I recently started playing again and I'm finally starting to figure out the basics. I've got a lieutenant commander at level 15 and feel like I finally know what I'm doing. (for the basics) Space battles are the best part of the game for me. Ground combat is still clunky and cringy at times. Star Trek unfortunately doesn't have a lot of games. The ones that have been made aren't great, sadly.

[@CyberRattt]

i luv the game but i just cant, the loot boxes are the worse and pretty much all the end game stuff is in the loot boxes

[@Dimension137]

apart from it takes them months to fix a broken mission they're still bugs in the game what's been there since launch and I bet most players use the auto attack in the space combat a real player would turn that off.

[@erikhawkke4861]

Short answer yes, as it is still a funish game to experience the story and meet the new characters from STO and plenty of ships you can fly to your hearts content. But.. the story telling has suffered *A LOT* and I can not emphasize that enough since the new shows started. Sadly Cryptic chose to dumb down their dialogue and plots to match the intellectual dregs of secret hideout. The characters spout drivel usually reserved for drugged out 90's street teenagers. It's embarrassing sometimes.

[@BarbaraEllison]

It's all the ERP on Risa

[@sawmanUK]

Hold up... there's ERP?

[@rayclawicefire2503]

@@sawmanUK There Always is, If you look you will find it.

[@BarbaraEllison]

@@sawmanUK Tons on Risa, Drozana Station and private ships

[@painfullyaware5221]

We really need an alternative to KZbin, Dealing with a monopoly is sh!t.

[@gndmofall]

plobb is best phallic man

[@sawmanUK]

He’ll get me banned if he keeps looking the way he does !!!

[@acaplette]

Sea People 😂😊

[@jimbob1481]

The Stories are interesting. The groundbattle sucks hard and you notice that from the first second your on Ground, while Space is kinda fun and feels smooth. Once done with the Stories, youve basically seen the Game and there is nothing left except upgrading your Ship and repeat, repeat, repeat. So the Point is to get your Ship stronger, while there is no Endgame where you can shine with that new Equip. The only thing what dragged me into STO is the fact, its Star Trek. But that beeing said, there is nothing new to discover once your done with the Story. So in my humble opinion, STO was not worth playing when it launched and its still utterly pointless to do so in 2023.

[@MalcomMalediction]

Beam me up sawmanuk

[@kombatcamera]

please do a video on the scam video game entropia universe please! no one makes videos exposing that turd

[@sawmanUK]

I’ll be honest I’ve never heard of it 🤷‍♂️ I’ll add it to my list though !

[@kombatcamera]

@@sawmanUK you have to pay real life money for bullets for your guns, its a mecca of potential content and jank

[@AkselGAL]

Played it... to dependen on "loot boxes" and not on players activity. Missions are repetetive... Imho this game blocks for years progress for Star Trek online games.

[@nickylaraiso9328]

Yeah, some of the missions are mostly the same or are similar to other missions. Also, the gameplay could use some modernization. As in change up how combat works both in space and on the ground.

[@EKholde]

First x2

[@sawmanUK]

Yes , yes you was 👍😹

[@seleuf]

5:46 Says the game has full voice acting including some of the original stars from the franchise. 5:51 - 6:08 Plays 17 seconds of uninterrupted gameplay, as if to give an example of this voice acting, but the clip includes zero voice acting. 6:08 Mutes the gameplay clip and talks over the part that is voice acted. ... bravo.

[@sawmanUK]

Was more a funny clip then to show voice acting but fair point 👍

[@zigzag8949]

It's dead. No camera zoom works anymore. Lag is massive. Most missions bug out. Half TFOs glitch. Consoles reset constantly. RIP STO 2024

[@pancrase9048]

STO is too MMORPG for me, I don't care about the storylines and all that crap I just want to captain my own ship and explore all the Quadrants in an open world GTA style. I don't wanna waste my time with keybindings, I'm a game controller guy.

[@vincentletzner8638]

ummm.... the majority of T6 Ships in the Zen shop ARE NOT the best ships, not the best variant of said ships anyway, because most of them have Fleet T6 variants that are better and the things you need in order to buy them can be gotten for free. One of the few reasons to buy them might be the consoles or traits but they are not a necessity. STO is not pay to win, its pay a lot of money for convenience.

[@AntonyHDGaming]

Legit looks like Michael Jackson lolol

[@sawmanUK]

Stream it coward 😹👍

[@baizuo3954]

No, its the Space Barbie. People like to dress up their ships.

[@chrisnoctskie5869]

Bro played Legacy... That's all he has to say...

[@DOAM1234]

lifetime member... more time spent in SC than STO. city of heroes is the only good game cryptic studio's ever made, or ever will make. bottom feeding dev's scrounging through anything they can get their hands on to flip a quick buck.

[@sawmanUK]

I didn't realise at first it was the same game devs as Neverwinter, but once i did, all the usual monetisation was there...

[@Phoenix-ej2sh]

Yeah, so those T6 ships you saw for $30 that you thought were endgame? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAno. Endgame is a premium ship that can only come from a lootbox (odds are around 0.5% for a drop, so figure $200). To get a META setup, you need several such ships for traits, consoles, etc that are unobtainable by any other means, so you're really looking at $500-$1000 for *a* ship fully kitted out. The game has boiled down over the past 13 years such that it is now populated by whales and Trek fans. The monetization is rapacious and absolutely out of control.

[@ANDREALEONE95]

If you compare it to the average monetization of ceratin F2P, it's still decent.

[@johnmiller6776]

STO is not worth it! One of the most boring games I've ever played.

[@BLACKBIODRAGON]

nemisis sucked

[@matthewleach335]

I reinstalled for about 10 minutes and it was complete crap, literally went to the home screen, quit and uninstalled it. Thankfully it didn't cost anything to try this crap.

[@OnlyInhuman90]

Lol absolutely NO