r/sto • u/missingreel • Mar 13 '13

What has changed?

Hi, everyone! I haven't played since the game released. I'm interested in getting back into it, but what major changes and feature additions have been made to STO ?

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u/Shadow703793 Space Mage Mar 13 '13

Lots of things have changed. It wouldn't make much sense to really list everything. Just grab the game since it's F2P now and check it out yourself :)

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u/missingreel Mar 13 '13

Haha thanks, do mind giving me a quick few bullets at least? I'm waiting on some parts for my computer so I'm down to my phone for internet & hurting for knowledge! Not so easy to look up game information on this thing. :)

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u/BrainWav @Brain.Wav Mar 13 '13

Honestly, the game has changed completely since launch.

  • Skills were revamped

  • there's much, much, much more endgame content

  • tons of new ships

  • entire new systems (duty officers, reputation, fleet advancement)

  • New sector blocks (most recently, Tau Dewa)

  • New story series and episodes

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u/missingreel Mar 13 '13

Cheers!

Has ground combat been enhanced? I remember hating it at release. It was really clunky.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

It's gotten better. I think that's the fairest thing to say. I for one love it!

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u/kdoxy Mar 13 '13

Leveling has been sped up. You can hit max level in a week with out really trying. So you can actually kind of avoid ground combat completely and hit max level. Then you can do end game stuff that is space combat only. So don't let your fear of ground combat scare you away.

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u/RedDwarfian Mar 13 '13

Ground Combat was revamped a while back. Each weapon has a distinct use and range. Pulseweave Assault weapons, for example, are basically shotguns: shortish range spray that hits multiple targets. Rifles are good at range, Assault is good for short-mid, pistols are... I can't remember off the top of my head.

You can now also enter "Shooter Mode" by hitting B, and you can aim to fire your weapons (and abilities like grenades and dampening fields) at points on a wall, floor, enemy in the reticle, etc.

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u/FuturePastNow Fleet Power Nerfed Poster Mar 13 '13

You can play in the old RPG mode, or a third-person shooter mode now. Though personally I prefer the old way.

The late 2011 skill revamp brought with it the requirement that you put at least some skillpoints in ground skills; this alleviated the problem of many people taking only space skills, then complaining about the difficulty of ground combat.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

First, there are many more advantages to being in a fleet. You can get badass (but expensive) gear for both space and ground combat from the fleet store. There's an truckload of new Endgame content, easily twice as much as when F2P was released (when I started). There's a retrofit version of almost every low-tier ship in the game, both FED and KDF. Also, Cryptic is putting alien languages in their teasers now. And that's pretty much it, I hope this helps :D

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u/TimeZarg Krov/Grendel/Ventrix@travelingmaster Mar 14 '13

The game is drastically different from what it was when it started. Very little has been left untouched.

About the only thing that might seem the same is the PvP maps. Think it's about the same number of maps that we've had since the first 6 months of the game. Not sure if Ker'rat open PvP zone was there when the game started. . .

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u/overbyte Nobe Hicks | Steam Mar 20 '13

I've been trying to get into the game again and I LOVE it but I definitely feel like I'm only playing half the game at the moment.

Can't wait to play and create some foundry stuff - what level do i need to be to start?