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WOAH! Okay, this is a new- incredible looking- Dominion War game in HD. Wow, if the game matches these cut scenes, it'll be incredible. Check this crazy shit out!
Yeah...I'm in for this one!
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Obviously it takes place in an alternate reality where the Federation only operates Galaxy and Nebula Class ships. And the Defiant.
The ships look great. Wonder if they'll be any surface stuff. Ground assaults. The Argo.
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It will have an uphill battle if it wants to be comparable to STO. I just reactivated my membership to that one.
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Judging by a quick look at the game I would say that is nothing like STO; its completely browser based and free. Which would explain why there's only the three Starfleet ships, KBoPs and Galors. I'll certainly check it out.
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Made me break out my old Armada 2 game and kick some Cardie ass.
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Anybody ever play Birth of the Federation?
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They've shown two of the in-game models, that of the Galaxy and the Klingon Bird of Prey. This shows that the creators are making at least some attempt at capturing the actual look of these ships, unlike some other Trek games which recreate half-assed versions of these ships. But I do hope there is a larger selection of ships. I mean the Klingons did have Vor'chas.
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quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: Judging by a quick look at the game I would say that is nothing like STO; its completely browser based and free. Which would explain why there's only the three Starfleet ships, KBoPs and Galors. I'll certainly check it out.
the big fleet scene had a couple of Akira and Nebulas -and fighters!...they did nothing much in those action shots though.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Anybody ever play Birth of the Federation?
Birth of the Federation was awesome, and quite possibly the first game I played over a network.
Actually, thinking about it, it might also be the last good Star Trek game I played. I've avoided STO because I spend quite enough time playing online games, I don't need to add an MMORPG to that list thankyou.
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The best Trek ship combat game was and will always be a well-modded Klingon Academy. The original game's slow phasers and whatnot could be fixed with a click or two, ships and sounds added just as easily, and best of all the ship specs were in easily-editable text files so you could balance the ships to your heart's content.
By the end of the process you had a well-balanced multi-generation Trek combat free-for-all in which you could knock off nacelles or disable and take enemy ships. True, it lacked the infinite damage-modeling of later games, instead relying on some preconfigured damage, but it was still awesome.
There was nothing better than taking a few minutes to hop into the Defiant (which mine, I'll grant, may have been a little too powerful) and send it against a ton of weaker opponents like TMP-era Mirandas, destroying some, disabling the rest, and doing evil things with the disabled ones like tractoring them into one another, black holes, asteroid belts, or what-have-you.
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I see Amazon has some copies of KA from a 3rd party retailer. But I don't know if such an old game works with XP. I try the demo.
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The game would no longer work properly after the release of a certain version of Nvidia driver, one which became increasingly ancient. And, according to what I read at one point, nobody could figure out how to get it to work under Vista.
Also, I made the mistake at one point of installing the Next Generation Academy mod, which was supposed to be a massive modpack full of awesome, with assorted new models, new sound effects, and well-balanced ships. However, it completely boned up my install and was generally much crappier than what I was already playing with. And something ... I forget now what ... happened with the backup I'd made.
I currently still have like four different "14 Degrees East" directories with KA in them, but I couldn't get them to run in an XP VirtualBox attempt, and I think most were stupid NGA-screwed-up copies anyway.
In any event, though, I was able to use some of the low-poly models as templates for my Starship Volumetrics page. It was while doing so last year that I learned of the vast wasteland that has replaced the once-thriving KA community.
Though now that I searched for what you were talking about, Fabrux, I see all is not dead. Last time I looked during the days I was researching stuff the forums at KlingonAcademy.com could not even be found, and there were no new posts in ages. Looks like there's been a resurgence of late.
Hmm.
Thanks! I think . . . you might've just reintroduced me to a new old time vampire.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Anybody ever play Birth of the Federation?
*raises hand* I did.
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Obviously it takes place in an alternate reality where the Federation only operates Galaxy and Nebula Class ships. And the Defiant.
I saw Akiras and Mirandas in there too...
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