Star Trek Online

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 743 Ratings

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  1. Olsi1980
    May 24, 2023
    10
    It's simply epic, and every Star Trek fan's heart swells at how many allusions and innuendos have been processed here, as for the sometimes strict Hater comments that exist, you have no idea what kind of heart and soul is put into this.
  2. levoxyl
    Mar 17, 2023
    5
    The old engine kind of ruins most things in the game. It's slow to download and laggy ,takes too much space, hard to play....
  3. Maitrify
    Jul 16, 2022
    0
    Incredibly archaic game. Graphics from the late 90s, mechanics from MMOs earlier than WoW. No cross-faction gameplay except for end-game content. F2P but everything is micro-transactions similar to SWTOR. It's also pretty obvious which things are new/recently developed versus stuff that was introduced in the first year. Nothing has been updated to the level that the new content is at.Incredibly archaic game. Graphics from the late 90s, mechanics from MMOs earlier than WoW. No cross-faction gameplay except for end-game content. F2P but everything is micro-transactions similar to SWTOR. It's also pretty obvious which things are new/recently developed versus stuff that was introduced in the first year. Nothing has been updated to the level that the new content is at.

    Just . . . horrible.    … Expand
  4. macedonia4ever
    Mar 16, 2022
    10
    GREATEST FREE TO PLAY GAME EVER! This game has a little bit of everything for everyone and is CONSTANTLY updated with better graphics, better game-play, more story-line, and the list just goes on. There is Action, Adventure, RPG, MMO, FPS, Customization of characters and starships, Ground and Space combat, Single Player or Multiplayer, and literally any other game genre you can imagine isGREATEST FREE TO PLAY GAME EVER! This game has a little bit of everything for everyone and is CONSTANTLY updated with better graphics, better game-play, more story-line, and the list just goes on. There is Action, Adventure, RPG, MMO, FPS, Customization of characters and starships, Ground and Space combat, Single Player or Multiplayer, and literally any other game genre you can imagine is packed into this game! You also don't need to be a Star Trek fan to play, although it helps, as the game starts you off with its own story-line in its own time-frame, a must have for every gamer/gaymer!… Expand
  5. amazing666
    Jun 29, 2021
    0
    i wouldn't recommend this game to anyone yeah its really good game if you can get in and stay in, the game has lots of bugs witch support are not interested in fixing, i spent a lot money playing this game and we get a patch we have to download before playing so i download then i get a black screen every time i try to get in game, id being playing star trek online for over a year, thei wouldn't recommend this game to anyone yeah its really good game if you can get in and stay in, the game has lots of bugs witch support are not interested in fixing, i spent a lot money playing this game and we get a patch we have to download before playing so i download then i get a black screen every time i try to get in game, id being playing star trek online for over a year, the support say its my computer that's the problem and they cant fix the problem i have to buy another computer to play, my computer was new when i started playing its a gaming computer 16gb quad core with 2gb graphics card, they wont give me my money back as its there patch that locked me out i didn't change anything on my computer, if i was you i wouldn't play or spend money on this game… Expand
  6. Dirkstorm
    Jun 9, 2021
    0
    I generally dont write game reviews. As a rule I figure people will figure it out themselves in no time but twice now Ive seen things bad enough that I feel people should be warned in advance.

    Ive been gaming since before most people knew what a computer was and Ive only seen worse ONCE in the history of gaming. I literally have code in the very first MMO type game that only military    I generally dont write game reviews. As a rule I figure people will figure it out themselves in no time but twice now Ive seen things bad enough that I feel people should be warned in advance.

    Ive been gaming since before most people knew what a computer was and Ive only seen worse ONCE in the history of gaming. I literally have code in the very first MMO type game that only military and DARPA researchers had access to.

    Iv'e watched this game for a few years on and off while playing others that are far more stable and less greedy/grindy. Its not getting better, its getting worse, a lot worse. Let me explain and be very specific.

    The game looks pretty good at first. Seems fun at first.

    Then the big picture kicks in and it really starts to suck.

    MASSIVE amounts of crashing completely, often in the middle of something you spent hours on.

    Huge SLOW load times and data hog. Constantly updating the same stuff again and again.

    Worst of all is their credit card transactions are not reliable and the zen points you pay for just randomly disappear and all you get back from customer service is LIP SERVICE.

    Even when they document that a bug did occur and they have other victims they dont replace what you lose. As far as I am concerned they are nothing but a big organized rip off that should be shut down for credit card fraud. This game has turned into a total rip off the way Evony was before it was deservedly shut down.

    These people should be sued. Ever since they got the STD (space disease known as Discovery) its been a total cash grab of pay to win credit card commandos, you get lousy ships unless you pay AT LEAST 30 dollars per ship and they have to spend at least 100 dollars more to get the gear to configure it.

    ITS NOTHING BUT SCAM AFTER SCAM AFTER SCAM. All while pushing the preaching virtue signalling hype from that brainwashed idiot Abrahms.

    Even if you can avoid paying money, suffer through the lag and slow loads and bugs, you still have to avoid huge parts of the game that are nothing but JJ-verse trash with bad voice acting often by original crappy cast and all the constant pushing of their thinly veiled political agenda along with the stupidest looking ships in the history of all of star trek.

    STO SUCKS. Disco Sucks. STO = STD = A predatory blight on the gaming community.    … Expand
  7. russelj31
    Mar 4, 2021
    8
    Reccomend to all Trek fans out there. Basic gameplay is good. Work your way up to the top of your division. Would recommend you have a second character slot if you wanna play free.
    DOWNSIDE: Horrible ground battles
    Better than console ports
  8. WCM320
    Feb 6, 2021
    8
    This is yet another game where if I see someone give it a 10 or a 0 I just assume they're stupid or arguing in bad faith. The 6.2 that its currently at I feel is fair if not a bit harsh.

    If you want a star trek game online, this is it, and most likely there is not going to be a better attempt in quite some time. The combat (Both ship and ground) Is good, I have friends who don't even    This is yet another game where if I see someone give it a 10 or a 0 I just assume they're stupid or arguing in bad faith. The 6.2 that its currently at I feel is fair if not a bit harsh.

    If you want a star trek game online, this is it, and most likely there is not going to be a better attempt in quite some time. The combat (Both ship and ground) Is good, I have friends who don't even like/know anything about star trek who has played who like the combat well enough, it's not great but its not bad.

    The real issue with the game is just that **** not very star trek overall...    … Expand
  9. ZenJudgement
    Dec 10, 2020
    7
    I have spent almost three thousand hours in this game. It is a faithful adaptation of the Star Trek universe enriched by voice acting from many of the original actors. The story missions are some of my favorite moments of the game. The developers should be commended for what they have accomplished with limited resources and an aged game engine. The end game content, like many on-lineI have spent almost three thousand hours in this game. It is a faithful adaptation of the Star Trek universe enriched by voice acting from many of the original actors. The story missions are some of my favorite moments of the game. The developers should be commended for what they have accomplished with limited resources and an aged game engine. The end game content, like many on-line games, is where this game starts to have issues. I last loaded this game up late last year. At that time most of the end game content involved Task Force Operation missions with difficulty levels that went from insulting to impossible unless you were using a min/maxed build and researched the mission in detail before queuing for it. The public queues often had long wait times with high rates of mission failure. The game is free to play but aggressively monetized. The game is pretty, the ships are especially well rendered, but the underlying game mechanics show their age. There are layers of different system mechanics and multiple currencies that do not always integrate well. For maximum enjoyment, I recommend a detailed reading of the game’s online Wiki and learning how to create custom keybind scripts. Doing this made it far more enjoyable for me. Overall I recommend this game for any gamer Star Trek fans or casual MMO players. The story missions are fully enjoyable without spending money. I personally hope to see this setting rebooted sometime in the future with a modern game engine.… Expand
  10. StarDustDrake
    Mar 4, 2020
    1
    While I initially liked the game because of the overall gameplay mechanics in space battles and I have nothing to say against ground base combat mechanics, mainly because I really don't care, I uninstalled the game only 60 hours in. Out of that 60 hours, only 2-3 hours went to progression in campaign, the rest of those hours went to restarting missions because of bugs, doing same thingWhile I initially liked the game because of the overall gameplay mechanics in space battles and I have nothing to say against ground base combat mechanics, mainly because I really don't care, I uninstalled the game only 60 hours in. Out of that 60 hours, only 2-3 hours went to progression in campaign, the rest of those hours went to restarting missions because of bugs, doing same thing over and over again to get a chance to advance only to find out that during the delta quadrant voth campaign you get stuck on ridicelously hard mission. and thats hard on normal, not elite. without a tier 6 ship you might as well not attempt that mission. it's insane.

    Oh and guess what? t6 ships are fleet only, but all the fleets are big guys so you can't actually contribute to them, or zen only, which again you have to farm months just for 1 ship. that alone won't quarantee your passage through the mission, as youtube guiodes all show that it takes enourmous amount of time just to be able to actually get some progress on the mission.

    At this point it's only factors ledft are PvE, PVP arenas and patrols. oh...and guess what: you start a patrol, they add some random guy with you . you can't kick him. and if you leave you will be kicked from map. so you end up contesting for exp and loot. hell no.

    thats the point i uninstalled the game. was stuck, tired of bugs(skipped half ther missions because they got stuck at some point or you couldn't even start them), and quite frankly when you take out the story, the game is so linear it's not even worth a try.    … Expand
  11. TLRoff
    Jan 31, 2020
    0
    This is not a good game. It is a cash grab aimed at star trek fans. It's has bits and pieces that are amazing, It even has some fantastic story, but the level of greed and outright dishonesty is a blight on the IP. Space combat is all about gear and to get great gear all you have do a bit of grinding and give them money. I could have been a fantastic MMO but for cryptic studio's it wasThis is not a good game. It is a cash grab aimed at star trek fans. It's has bits and pieces that are amazing, It even has some fantastic story, but the level of greed and outright dishonesty is a blight on the IP. Space combat is all about gear and to get great gear all you have do a bit of grinding and give them money. I could have been a fantastic MMO but for cryptic studio's it was never about making a fantastic MMO. It was about making fantastic amounts of money, and still is. I have a life time membership to this game and I deeply regret aver spending the money on it. It stopped being "fun" years ago. I also strongly suspect that one the US Government finally gets anti loot box laws passed this game will likely shut down, along with it's owning studio as they will no longer be able to sustain them selves via micro transactions around buying zen to buy keys to open loot boxes.

    Space combat is all about gear and face rolling the keyboard. There is no real skill involved at all.
    Once there was some skill involved but power creep and feature creep put paid to that long long ago. It's sad really. I could have been so much more. If "Star Trek" were not part of the title, this game would have failed years ago. It's really beyond bad.    … Expand
  12. Ricewynd
    Mar 10, 2019
    1
    Star Trek online is a sad, abused relic of a dying age. A creation followed with much interest during its initial announcement back in 2005 had the unfortunate curse of being born during the great MMO craze in which every online game was "like World of Warcraft but......" followed by some gimmick a marketing company had sworn was the real reason behind WoWs success.
    Star Trek Online was    Star Trek online is a sad, abused relic of a dying age. A creation followed with much interest during its initial announcement back in 2005 had the unfortunate curse of being born during the great MMO craze in which every online game was "like World of Warcraft but......" followed by some gimmick a marketing company had sworn was the real reason behind WoWs success.
    Star Trek Online was therefore born devoid of any true originality as much of the new and experimental concepts behind it were dropped in favour of the same bland safe option being pumped out by every other MMO at the time.
    Nine years of development and now within a market to which WoW is no longer King, would expect to see some of these older concepts realized as many other MMOs experiment with gameplay and features in an attempt to keep themselves relevant. Star Trek Online has proven to be unique is doing the exact opposite.
    Nine years of development have not been kind to Star Trek Online and the game now represents a Frankenstein's monster of star trek-ish concepts lumped together into a game so riddled with bugs it makes Fallout 76 seem a well-polished game by comparison.
    The game is unapologetically top heavy, with end game users expected to shell out up to $120 for high tier ships and ship packs, some of which are only obtainable through a loot box system, in order to stand a fair chance vs the end game enemies or compete in PvP and PvE tournaments and events.
    That said, the premium end game content is accessible to anyone and though users who opt to keep their free ship may suffer a nail-biting frustrating experience each time they are forced into combat, it does showcase an array of masterfully created maps, photorealistic characters and well-written dialogue that is only let down by the voice actors themselves (more on that later).
    This is in stark contrast to the games early and mid content in which first-time users can immerse themselves into an experience so laden with bugs, graphical glitches and popping artefacts one could be forgiven for believing they were playing a pre-alpha build.
    The graphics of the early content is more reminiscent of the PS2 era, missions and quests are frequently bugged and often have to be replayed multiple times in order to complete, several cutscenes are either missing or distorted beyond all recognition, NPCs frequently switch between bad lip sync and static mouths depending on camera angles opting instead to simply bob their heads to the words as if they were rocking out to a particularly heavy metal anthem.
    The remainder of the game represents a rollercoaster of ham-fisted bugged experiences overlayed by consistent connection issues with at least two disconnections per hour considered the average.

    Various characters from the Star Trek franchise are shoe-horned in without context, in several cases replacing previously existing NPCs to which the players bridge crew will still often refer to, the dialogue never having been changed due to, what I can only presume is, laziness on part of the developers. Such issues are often frequent and NPCs throughout the game will frequently refer to events that have not happened, characters that do not exist or referring to the player character as the wrong faction, species and gender.
    The addition of characters from the television series, as voiced by their original actors, is designed as a nostalgia fest for fans, but comes over more as a rather cringy attempt worthy of a fan film, with the only real difference being that fan films typically have higher production values than Star Trek Online.
    Players are forced into missions which revolve entirely around these characters, the most significant example being the Dominion player opening quest line which features a who's who of characters both main and re-occurring from the Television Series Deep Space Nine, most of these characters feature little relevance to the plot other than to deliver exposition to the player and many are clearly phoning in their performances.
    That said special credit must be made to LaVar Burton who's ham-fisted performance where he delivers each line of dialogue in such a monotone way you could be forgiven for believing him to genuinely be on the other end of a phone reading off a card. His special mission encompasses exactly 5 minutes of gameplay and during its debut STO ran an add campaign showcasing a series of podcasts LaVar Burton was in, in which he proclaimed his character 'Geordi La Forge' was gay and it was only because of "the oppression by white men" could the audience not see this.

    The rest of the game is Star Trek by name only, it is sad to see the game in such a sorry state as it has become clear the developers are only interested in pursuing the creation of end-game content and over-powered 'premium' pay-to-win packs for the small percentage of players who will buy them.
    Recommend you avoid.    … Expand
  13. SunlightCrusade
    Mar 4, 2019
    8
    This review was posted on Steam 5 Feb, 2018 at 1:07pm by me. I am plagiarizing myself because I am too lazy to write another one, and that review would most likely end up like this :)

    I've been playing this game for 5 years in a row, and I will play until it's death. Why? Because the game is gamer friendly. Why made this statement even if there are lootboxes and sometimes pay 2 win    This review was posted on Steam 5 Feb, 2018 at 1:07pm by me. I am plagiarizing myself because I am too lazy to write another one, and that review would most likely end up like this :)

    I've been playing this game for 5 years in a row, and I will play until it's death. Why? Because the game is gamer friendly. Why made this statement even if there are lootboxes and sometimes pay 2 win aspect? First thing first, you can get THREE free Tier6 ship per year, those ships have useful perks, also you can build a good set without any spending because you have options to grind them(and slaps this Endevour system in your face every day after reaching level 60. This system gives you a lot of in-game credits per day if you have time for dailies, and if you play well, you can loot trash items in battlezones, and sell them or simply salvage them for item stat reroll salvages.). The game have a TON of features like Admiralty, Duty officers, reputation(endgame) system(don't forget the game have nearly the same amount of active missions like The Nxxt Ganeration had [also doing missions gives you items that helps you progress]). Good perks are locked behind crates, BUT plenty of ZEN store ships have literally the same ability and also a lot cheaper than getting a lock box ship with literally no chance at all.
    -- Suggestion: If you have 30 euros for it, buy Arbiter T6 battlecruiser for a start, it gives you 50percent less weapon energy consumption for 30secs if you activate emergency weapon 1-2-3 ability, with it you can maximize DPS easily, BUT! without it you can play well. There is a trick: Achieve delta reputation Tier4, slap "Enchanced Rending Shots" on ground and ship reputation slots. Voila, you do critical hits more frequent! And if you get a [CritD]x2 blue build(because thats a lot cheaper than a purple build for first build), you will combine frequent crits with bigger hit damages.--
    Honestly, if the whole game is free, why would you bother if the game has microtransactions, it is OPTIONAL, it's like a cheat code to skip some content in-game in singleplayer games, but it has a price because it is a service in MMOs. Be smart, don't spend thousands of dollars for lockboxes, there are always methods to maximize your DPS and have a lot of fun wthout spending a cent.

    Cheers, and have fun!
    - Sunlight the Pony    … Expand
  14. RealHelghast
    Nov 23, 2018
    5
    I thought this was going to be the Star Trek of all Star Trek games. Being able to explore the Galaxy, find danger lurking within space from enemy players, and great ground combat. It is not that at all. First, the game is not finished. You can play as the Federation or the Klingons. You can also play as the Romulans, but they are a half faction and you have to ally with either the Feds orI thought this was going to be the Star Trek of all Star Trek games. Being able to explore the Galaxy, find danger lurking within space from enemy players, and great ground combat. It is not that at all. First, the game is not finished. You can play as the Federation or the Klingons. You can also play as the Romulans, but they are a half faction and you have to ally with either the Feds or KDF at the end of the Romulan story arc. There is no Cardassian faction, but you can make on in the character creator. There are no Cardassian ships except from old lockboxes. There is PVP, but it's very unbalanced. If you're F2P, you'll be largely outclassed by players foolish enough to spend hundreds of dollars on the ships they pump out. They re-use the same ships in different tiers. For example, tier 1-6. A tier 3 ship will be vastly outclassed by a tier 6 ship. If you're grinding away in a tier 3 ship to get a tier 6 ship, you may as well forget PVP because you'll just get owned. In other MMOs, they have battlegrounds or warzones with appropriate level and gear to practice and play in making PVP balanced more or less. Not happening in STO. In fact, PVP is virtually non-existent at this point. The greedy devs were more interested in creating a huge cash grab to bleed the wallets dry of people who are foolish enough to buy from them. However, there are some nice things about the game. If you like Star Trek you'll probably enjoy it. They made the crafting system better, so you can craft yourself some starting gear. It's no where near as good as end game gear, but it'll get you through the Task Force Ops. The music is OK. Weapon sounds and phaser animations need work. For example, the photon torpedo sounds like a TOS Photon, and the phaser beams are too wide. They don't behave or look anything like phasers from the show.… Expand
  15. Camalus
    Sep 28, 2018
    1
    Would be a much more fun game if there wasn't a network of botters using the game as a place to make money by selling in game credits on the black market, not only do they lower prices on the exchange by offering prices well below cost, they have multiple accounts, old accounts are sold for cheap and people can pretend to be your friend while trying to mine you for info, and whatever theyWould be a much more fun game if there wasn't a network of botters using the game as a place to make money by selling in game credits on the black market, not only do they lower prices on the exchange by offering prices well below cost, they have multiple accounts, old accounts are sold for cheap and people can pretend to be your friend while trying to mine you for info, and whatever they can beg from you. I had one of these people shadow me for 8 months and Its really very disgusting what people are capable of while hiding behind the internet.. Its a free to play business model so there is no entrance barrier which allows for ultimately infinite accounts for any given player. Heres how this works, they bot the dilithium the in game currency that can be traded for zen, the paid currency, they then use the zen to buy lockbox keys and sell them on the exchange for EC (electronic credits) the in game currency that cant be traded for paid currency. They then bundle the EC on sites like ebay or sites they set up themselves and sell it for pennies on the dollar basically. They not only sell EC they sell the starships, keys, whatever else they can get their hands on. The game is more of a farm for thieves so beware there are a bunch that like to hang out in Earth Space Dock and you will never know which fleet leaders are botters just looking for your free dilithium contributions. Best advice I can give is stay away from this game at all costs there is no way to know who's who in a game that has no entrance barriers and old accounts are used to fake tenure (as new accounts have a number added after them, old accounts do not have a number). Steer clear its a trap. the game is fun but you are best to avoid it entirely.… Expand
  16. tigirius
    Aug 25, 2018
    0
    Before I begin, let me tell all the folks here that I am a founder (supported the game pre-beta did testing galore), and I was also one of the original lifetime members. In my time playing this game they gave false hope by making changes to the game that supported new skills and new ships which was fine until I found out that all of these were behind a pay wall.
    Cons:
    No exploration.    Before I begin, let me tell all the folks here that I am a founder (supported the game pre-beta did testing galore), and I was also one of the original lifetime members. In my time playing this game they gave false hope by making changes to the game that supported new skills and new ships which was fine until I found out that all of these were behind a pay wall.
    Cons:
    No exploration.
    RNG boxes for ships.
    Bugs that have existed in the game since beta have never been fixed.
    Excuses fill the forums as to why these things were never considered.
    Game content is basically on automatic mode which means it's not really high quality.
    Several time sinks taking months to complete such as advancement in reputations crafting etc.
    The last straw, was the forced inclusion of the failed show called STD (aka Discovery).

    Instead of supporting their player base those in charge have been slowly milking them for all they are worth. Every DLC that comes out includes boxes for which you have to buy RNG keys. You don't get enough of the box currency to do anything meaningful like building up a proper set of skip specific items such as console weapon combos. Those in charge are interested only in your money and nothing else.

    If you talk about the precious (aka ST Discovery) you will be attacked by the forum mods. They will call you a bigot and ban you for speaking your mind. That's equivalent to AT&T deciding that they will cancel your service because you said a naughty word. I wouldn't waste your time.    … Expand
  17. Myselfandyou
    Jul 1, 2018
    1
    This game started pretty nicely, with many promises of an actual decent star trek videogame. Unfortunately that feeling only lasted for about 1-2 years until the game become f2p. The game as in 2018 is a complete mess, filled with bugs, broken content, terrible broken animations, broken mechanics and abilities, lag, rubberbanding, etc, etc, you name it... and its a total embarrasement forThis game started pretty nicely, with many promises of an actual decent star trek videogame. Unfortunately that feeling only lasted for about 1-2 years until the game become f2p. The game as in 2018 is a complete mess, filled with bugs, broken content, terrible broken animations, broken mechanics and abilities, lag, rubberbanding, etc, etc, you name it... and its a total embarrasement for the star trek franchise. I never played a game so broken in 20 years. Its a shame that CBS will never care about the franchise to avoid cheap and crappy companies like pwe/cryptic (who avoid completely quality control and bug fixing, and they keep releasing broken content as a regular rule), as long as they care only about $$$. The worst part is, the community of this game. Filled with rich kids and fanboys that keep giving pwe/cryptic money without even expecting a minimum quality control on the product. Ridiculous. I will never recommend this game to anyone, unless it is my worst enemy. lol. The only positive aspect of STO is that it has a great free to play model, but everything else.. oh my, run from it like a plague, seriously.… Expand
  18. oShadowWarrioro
    May 20, 2018
    6
    So, let me start off by saying this: This is a Generalized review, meaning I do not speak about one SPECIFIC rrelease of STO (I.e PS4, PC, XBONE). Now that thats out of the way, let us commence.
    The Gameplay: The gameplay is fair, in all aspects. It is rather intuitive when you get used to it, but can be difficult to pick up by some people. Rating 7/10
    Graphics: The Graphics aren't quite    So, let me start off by saying this: This is a Generalized review, meaning I do not speak about one SPECIFIC rrelease of STO (I.e PS4, PC, XBONE). Now that thats out of the way, let us commence.
    The Gameplay: The gameplay is fair, in all aspects. It is rather intuitive when you get used to it, but can be difficult to pick up by some people. Rating 7/10
    Graphics: The Graphics aren't quite good, but not terrible either, I would prefer them over others. I rate Graphics at a 6/10
    Pogression: 60 Levels (65 when V.I.L gets released), With 6 Tiers of ships, 1 of which requires ZEN (Premium Currency) to obtain, and a Sub-Tier, (T5-U). I will run through each Tier as follows.
    T1 Level 0-10, Starter Ships.
    Very weak ships that do serve their purpose for lower levels, however lose efficiency after Level 10, where more effective ships are obtainable.
    T2: 10-20, Low-Midlevel Ships
    An upgrade over T1, they have more weapons, consoles, BOFF seats etc. However they like T1, lose efficiency after level 20.
    T3: 20-30, Mid-level These ships are definite upgrades over T2, and if done right can even hold their own vs high level areas, but are still lacking in comparison to higher tier.
    T4: 30-40, Mid-Upper Level These ships are average, being more effective then T3 obviously,

    T5 & T5-U: Upper Level, These i will give a more in depth description of, they are the ships you'll see high levels use the most (Aside from T6), having the better stats, and arguably the most ships, however you are often limited in your ship choices unless you pay zen, or contribute a bunch of resources to a Fleet with a Military Shipyard T5, (For all options) There are also Fleet Variants with higher health then average, but now onto the T5-U, Most ships have this as an option, but it requires a (Surprise surprise) Upgrade Token, which you pay about $5 for, or buy them on the Exchange for a stupidly high price. Once you do this, you can level the ship up for traits, and it has increased stats Now onto T6
    T6: Level 50+ These are the most powerul in the game, earned in lockboxes, or bought for $30+, There was a event for the birthday of the game however that did give a free T6 Starship.
    Progression rating: 4/10 due to the amount of microtransaction.
    Thats all I can be bothered with typing, thank you for reading.    … Expand
  19. TVMA_Doc
    May 8, 2018
    0
    Buggy game, but latest patch brought bugs to an entirely new galaxy. Patcher has glitched, wasting 620 GB of data and costing me $200 in overages with Comcast. PWI refuses to guarantee a fix, give any sort of reparation (even in game items) or apologize in the least. Widespread according to support forum.

    Use at your own risk. It could cause you MASSIVE data overage fees!
  20. PimN
    Feb 28, 2018
    7
    I only really started playing this game in 2018, and so far I've been enjoying it. It's a great game for Star Trek fans. This is a free to play MMO, with multiple quadrants to explore which are full of missions to play. I've only played by myself, have not bought any microtransactions, and I'm still in early game. I've also only played as one faction so far, Starfleet.

    Pros: -    I only really started playing this game in 2018, and so far I've been enjoying it. It's a great game for Star Trek fans. This is a free to play MMO, with multiple quadrants to explore which are full of missions to play. I've only played by myself, have not bought any microtransactions, and I'm still in early game. I've also only played as one faction so far, Starfleet.

    Pros:

    - Visuals: For a 2010 game it looks very nice (it probably got visual updates over the years)
    - Gameplay: The gameplay is very solid, combat in space feels fair and balanced. Attacking ships or objects is very satisfying. The ships really have some weight to them and the controls feel accurate.
    - Presentation: The Star Trek universe is very well repesented in this game. From the visual art-style to characters, the world makes sense.

    Cons:

    - Animation: The animations are very basic, often there's only one animation for an event (like falling, shooting, etc.)
    - Ground Combat: The ground combat has been glitchy in my experience, with enemies not approaching/attacking, guns refusing to fire, companions glitching around, and LOTS of clipping. While it ruins the immersion in the ground combat scenarios, the overall experience with these sections was still satisfactory for me.

    Informational:

    - Repetitive missions: The missions are all very similar and can feel repetitive. I don't feel like this is neccesarily a con though, because a Starfleet officer has a repetitive job. Scan this, defeat this ship, activate these things, etc. There's only just enough variation for me. The background story of missions, and locations and different types of enemies can make enough of a difference to make missions feel unique, even though to the core there's only a few different kind of missions.
    -Freemium style economy: There are multiple currencies in the game, some of which can be bought with real money. I expected this naturally, since it is a F2P MMO. Never have I felt that the 'Zen currency' has been pushed in my face, nor do I feel like some paywalls are obstructing my enjoyment of the game. Some ships are locked behind this premium currency. However, missions often reward you with 'Dilithium', which is one of the in-game currencies. This currency can be traded for Zen. Therefore, there is really no content that can only be aquired through microtransactions.

    It's worth checking it out.    … Expand
  21. Shawndroid
    Feb 26, 2018
    4
    The game is fine. I'm not a fan of MMO games in general, and missions seemed to be go to this location, press the action button, repeat. I also don't like that you can't pause the game when life interrupts.
  22. gracjanski
    Feb 4, 2018
    9
    I read a lot good stuff about STO in contrary to the "professional tests" and I am a trekkie, so I decided to try it out as a confederation officer.
    The idea to write the solo game in episodes is genius. No more hundred of open quests but one story for about 30-60 minutes, like an episode of the series. In an episode you explore the universe, fight against other ships or fight on the    I read a lot good stuff about STO in contrary to the "professional tests" and I am a trekkie, so I decided to try it out as a confederation officer.
    The idea to write the solo game in episodes is genius. No more hundred of open quests but one story for about 30-60 minutes, like an episode of the series. In an episode you explore the universe, fight against other ships or fight on the ground. In addition there are some classic quests also. The density of the story in an episode is perfect. There are many hints to all series and I advise you to check some internet fan sites to read about some backgrounds of the Star Trek world to understand more or to remember some content.

    The gameplay is really good, i was surprised. The abilities, skills and item system is complex. Fighting is very motivating, because there are many elements to understand and it gives you a lot to think. Even after many hours of playing you will find many improvements in your build. I was expecting a game for the masses, but it is not. But unfortuntately the difficulty is too low and leveling is too fast.
    Music is good.
    The game is f2p, but there is nothing necessary to buy in the shop. I wanted to buy something, but suddenly the game was deinstalled...look below:

    The bad sides of the game are because of the miserable launch: Especially as a confederation officer you will have some boring missions in the beginning: The worlds are very boring, the missions very linear. The 2nd season is already better. As a clingone you dont have such boring mussions and overall the clingone part is much better in my view.
    You need to load too much, because the worlds are too small, especially the universe should be bigger.
    You can play this game alone, but for a MMORPG it is a problem I think. A pity, that Atari didnt look at Guild Wars, that has a great solo part, but it connects players better to play together. In STO there are some contents for groups, but I didnt do them.
    In the later seasons you get really great episodes, but they are the same for clingones, confederation and romulans. This was a problem, because I wanted to continue with my clingone, but my confederation was further.
    The next problem was the technique. In the new 8ths season, where I ve been there were new bugs for the whole game and it destroyed my motivation for the game, because other games are waiting to be played.

    ---->>>
    I was surprised very positively. This game is great, especially if you play as a clingone. If you are a trekkie this game is a 10/10    … Expand
  23. jamess1
    Aug 4, 2017
    1
    Long time star trek fan...watched the original series as it came out,and really loved DS 9 20 something years later.

    This "mmo" is an insult to star trek.Its easily one of the worst MMO's in the last 20 years.Its actually worse then matrix online was.Its actually worse then Pirates of the Burning sea....I think even star wars galaxies AFTER the NGE was better than star trek online....    Long time star trek fan...watched the original series as it came out,and really loved DS 9 20 something years later.

    This "mmo" is an insult to star trek.Its easily one of the worst MMO's in the last 20 years.Its actually worse then matrix online was.Its actually worse then Pirates of the Burning sea....I think even star wars galaxies AFTER the NGE was better than star trek online....

    ...free to play (install)...hell, they should have to pay people to play it.    … Expand
  24. justiceleague
    Apr 3, 2017
    10
    I have read many reviews that say this mmo falls short. These are completely false; do not be misguided. As a gamer who has played WoW and League, I was led to believe that this game was horrible since the space battles are auto-targeting and the skill cap is super low. Being a trekkie, I played anyways. I quickly learned that this game is absolutely fantastic. Yes, space battles are autoI have read many reviews that say this mmo falls short. These are completely false; do not be misguided. As a gamer who has played WoW and League, I was led to believe that this game was horrible since the space battles are auto-targeting and the skill cap is super low. Being a trekkie, I played anyways. I quickly learned that this game is absolutely fantastic. Yes, space battles are auto targeting. However, there are so many aspects to the combat, including the fact that you are fighting in a 3d space, not 2d like WoW, you need to position your ship to attack the weakened side of a ship, whilst protecting your weak shields, and all the weapons have a specific firing arc, meaning you need to bring your guns to bear.

    Regarding the skill cap, it took me two years of competitive playing to get to level 60, not because the game forces you to farm, but because of the immense amount of in-game content. And, once I finally reached level 60, I thought I was done. Little did I know that in PvE and PvP level 60 players are pooled together. So, I went from dominating in PvP to getting my ass whooped when I went from level 59 to level 60. I have been playing the game now for SEVEN years, and I still am ways away from reaching end game level, nevermind being competitive.

    The biggest thing, however, is versatility. If you think you've made a 'build' in a game, you don't know what a build is until you've played STO. First, you need to fill out your traits, of which there are about 40 to choose from. Then, you move on to your skills tree (yes, it's a completely separate thing from traits). Ok, done right? Now you do that again a minimum of EIGHT times since you customize skills and traits for each bridge officer. Then, you pick up to 70 duty officers, each having their own set of skills. After that, you pick out of the 80+ ships in the game, each having an entirely different style, with differing health, speed, turning radius, shield modifier, warp core type, and size. You then hand pick each of the minimum eight weapons you put on that ship. Each weapon can be either a beam, dual beam, cannon, dual cannon, heavy cannon, dual heavy cannon, turret, or omnidirectional beam. Each of those weapon types comes in over 20 different energy types. All of this, of course, doesn't count torpedoes, mines, and missiles. Each weapon can be from the mark I to XIV, will be built for DmG, Pen, Crit D, Crit Chance, Acc, Rad (radiation), and each of these can be paired, and stacked up to 4 times. This means you have literally 7x20x4x14x6!= 5 644 800 specific weapons to choose from, not counting stacking. Yeah.

    THEN, you hand-pick for your ship out of 200+ shields, out of 300+ warp engines, out of 700+ deflector arrays, 500+ impulse engines, and, out of over 1000 consoles that boost and buff your ship in different ways.

    All of this is for ONE faction, of which there are three to choose from. I won't even get into reputation, modifying weapons, researching new weapons, upgrading ships, retrofits, refits, enhancements, or fleet variants.

    Finally, perhaps the most important thing is that this game has character, and it's ridiculously fun. Devs are always releasing new missions; problems are patched and fixed very quickly. All the equipment, characters, star systems, and races are straight from the tv shows, with some new and exciting additions. Honestly, I think STO's story should be the next tv series; it would bring Star Trek back. As for the game, join, or don't. There's already a lot of great players, but if you do join, you will surely not be disappointed. (Btw this is my honest review I'm not endorsed by STO it's just honestly that good)    … Expand
  25. flotsam
    Jan 23, 2017
    9
    I rather like Star Trek Online (STO). It’s one of my favorite games—and I literally had no interest in the game initially. It started on a gaming weekend when my friend and I were trying to find co-op games to play.

    Co-op STO has decent co-op mission play where you can play STFs, and most episodes, and missions with co-op. Ever-expanding Storyline Content The Good: The    I rather like Star Trek Online (STO). It’s one of my favorite games—and I literally had no interest in the game initially. It started on a gaming weekend when my friend and I were trying to find co-op games to play.

    Co-op

    STO has decent co-op mission play where you can play STFs, and most episodes, and missions with co-op.

    Ever-expanding Storyline Content

    The Good: The storyline in STO is constantly expanding. I really enjoy the new content as it makes the game come alive for me. The voice actors from the Star Trek screen actors is a real plus. Of course the content is also player driven as well with the Foundry. The storyline is often quite good and really immerses you in the game for hours and hours. You really feel like you are progressing and accomplishing something.

    The Bad: Once you reach the end game there's next to nothing to do except grind for your Epic level gear. Elite STFs would be nice but not enough people play the game making the wait times extra long. Cryptic rolls out new content WAY too slowly and it's been getting even slower. In 2013 they had a ton of new content roll out back to back with the Delta Quadrant and the Iconian story line. Now, from 2015-2016 it feels like your in a never ending traffic jam. I really like this game but I'm losing interest now that I have four characters who have played through the mostly identical content.

    Short game/long game/mini-game

    The Good: I like how STO mixes up what you can do given the time you have. For example, if you don’t have time to do an episode, you can join the space queue (Special Task Force/STF)and fight the enemy together for a 5-25 minute fight. Only five minutes to play? try—crafting, mining, admiralty, doff missions, buying and selling on the exchange and more.

    The Bad: Star Trek Online is very, very grind heavy. This means you can totally finish the content and, perhaps, not even be half-way through with grinding for your Epic gear.

    DPS

    The Good: I like to measure DPS with DPS parser and see how I’ve progressed by increasing my DPS with new spaceship items and configurations. DPS keeps you playing with greater interest in the game. DPS is complex and exciting. It's kept me playing the game a lot longer than I normally would have.

    The Bad: STO should really incorporate DPS into their game model because there are so many awful players that think they're really doing damage but are actually doing next to nothing. DPS is mainly AOE based damage. If you go after just one target to bring it down, your DPS will go way down as well--this is unfortunate.

    Fleets

    The Good: Like guilds in many other games, STO has fleets where you can interact and grow with other players. Fleets are a must for quality gear.

    The Bad: One of my fleets is so popular and seasoned it's quite difficult to get new fleet credits for my new characters.

    Personally tired of “magical MMOs”

    The Good: I’ve become very tired of all the MMOs with some kind of magical theme. In this aspect STO is truly refreshing—and even clean (my kids can even walk in while I'm playing the game and I don't have worry about what they'll see or hear).

    The Bad: I'd imagine that mostly guys play this game and yet, they're creating Barbie dolls to play with as their next character roll...really?

    Time Played Results in Direct Value

    The Good: If you play with a goal in mind of what you’re trying to achieve (crafting, fleet consoles, character progression, upgrades, etc) you will achieve value every time you play the game. In my book, that’s a nice feeling.

    The Bad: Drops for any seasoned character are close to worthless and there is way too much grinding for the content presented in the game. The admiralty system, doff missions become boring and repetitive -- I don't even read the text any more on those missions--it's just a click fest.

    I definitely like STO more than I don't like it!

    Forgot to mention -- spending money is not necessary. I feel that I spend money on things I actually want in the game. Cryptic has created even more ways to be very successful without spending any money at all. For example, I now have four characters that produce dilithium with the admiralty system. I can and do convert that dilithium into zen--real in game currency to buy real things--that you would have had to spend money for.

    It's not only possible but very do-able to play for free. Regardless of your bent F2P or spend, the game does take time to progress--money just makes that progression quicker. However spending money can make you sloppy too--as it's no substitute for good planning.

    In Conclusion

    To me, Star Trek's success heavily depends on rolling out new content to keep your immersion high. Not enough people play the elite STFs--even fleets don't seem to. Getting Epic gear is way to grindy and keeps going long after the content is completed and repeated. Still, it's a great game    … Expand
  26. Molvanian
    Dec 24, 2016
    0
    It's hard to find a game more deserving of a 5/10. It's fun, but it's marred with so many hundreds of flaws. Broken animations, lazy design, boring missions, tedious missions, bugs that haven't been fixed in EIGHT YEARS of being reported.

    It's obvious the owners do NOT care. It just pumps out new content, including new, pointless things to spend real money on, and leaves the old stuff    It's hard to find a game more deserving of a 5/10. It's fun, but it's marred with so many hundreds of flaws. Broken animations, lazy design, boring missions, tedious missions, bugs that haven't been fixed in EIGHT YEARS of being reported.

    It's obvious the owners do NOT care. It just pumps out new content, including new, pointless things to spend real money on, and leaves the old stuff an unsupported slog.

    That being said the game DOES have it's charm. There ARE good sections, areas with good pacing, the space combat IS fun. But there's so many bad things that COULD be fixed, could be fixed in a couple months... that just... aren't... that I can't give this game a higher grade. I honestly think the 6.2 it has at the time of writing is too high.    … Expand
  27. Lightangel
    Nov 10, 2016
    0
    BEWARE! Do not try the PC Version on Windows XP! After 6 Years (!!!) this is STILL THAT buggy, that it destroys your Windows Installation!!! (Corrputs install/uninstall Programs Manager). Problem is solvable, but NOT funny!

    Should be detected as Malware/Crapware by Anti-Virus Software!
  28. wakefield2
    Feb 23, 2016
    2
    Do you like star trek? do you like exploring the galaxy in your starship? discovering new species? settling diplomatic disputes? well than this is not the game for you!

    First a recount of my latest encounter with this games support: After playing this game for years and having beyond hundreds of hours into it, a glitch in the game deleted one of my ships and with it all of my gear,    Do you like star trek? do you like exploring the galaxy in your starship? discovering new species? settling diplomatic disputes? well than this is not the game for you!

    First a recount of my latest encounter with this games support:

    After playing this game for years and having beyond hundreds of hours into it, a glitch in the game deleted one of my ships and with it all of my gear, after contacting support and going back and forth for several days they ultimately told me there was nothing they were willing to do to help me... nothing at all.

    The bottom line is this is a dying MMO with nearly no effort put into it, there is NOTHING to do in the end game, which will only take you about a weekend to reach max level. The whole game should just be put out of its misery and cryptic should learn how to re-evaluate how the currently treat the long term players and supports of this game, especially that still pay money to play a free to play game... They are an inept company that doesn't care about its customers
    If they didn't have the star trek IP they would have gone out of business when Atari dumped them and part of me wishes they had...

    The game play is weak, pretty much all you have to do is spam the space bar until you win, the writing and acting in the game are some of the worst i have ever seen, almost every "new" mission involves either time travel, and let me sum up ALL of the games story lines in one phrase - "The iconians did it" - This hardly mentioned in the show race is apparently responsible for every single event that has ever happened in the galaxy and has become Cryptic's all purpose excuse for poor writing and zero imagination every story line just leads back to an : it was the iconians moment...
    There is nothing that makes Star Trek so wonderful and enjoyable in this game, no interactions with crew members, no dramatic writing, no exciting moments, no diplomatic responses to anything... simply power up shields - hit the space bar and pew pew to victory...

    I think my time with STO has come to an end, I recommend if you are a current player you get out before what happened to me happens to you and if your considering playing it please don't, or at the very least don't give them a single penny of your hard earned money it isn't worth it and Cryptic/Perfect world simply doesn't care about any of their players and sadly I don't think they ever will.    … Expand
  29. Vertigo_7
    Nov 8, 2015
    2
    The only positives this game has going for it are the ship models. The negatives start with the developer itself, Cryptic, known here after as Craptic. Craptic is just a horrible developer company with really bad customer service. They have 0 QA, their marketing deliberately misleads players in effort to get them to spend real money for their underwhelming video game items, and theirThe only positives this game has going for it are the ship models. The negatives start with the developer itself, Cryptic, known here after as Craptic. Craptic is just a horrible developer company with really bad customer service. They have 0 QA, their marketing deliberately misleads players in effort to get them to spend real money for their underwhelming video game items, and their customer service teams are basically paid to tell the customers "sorry, can't help you" when they run into a problem with STO.

    The game itself is fraught with bugs, some of which have been around since the game launched. Not that I'm expecting perfection, but at least some effort towards remediation would be deserved.

    Graphically, the game is unimpressive. STO has decent ship models but that's as far as it goes. The effects and animations are pretty lousy, like something I would expect from a 1990's video game. Game play is on par with the animations, unlike other MMO's, there's no strategy or tactics really to using abilities. You can just use ingame macro abilities to cycle every active ability you have as soon as its available and you've got a game where all you're doing is pressing a single key repeatedly.

    Bottom line is, for me, that Craptic isn't worthy of getting my hard earned cash. The only reason that STO has a player base at all is because its Star Trek, and not even close to canon Star Trek at that. Really do wish someone else would come along and make a real Star Trek game. It'd be better than this crap...    … Expand
  30. dmathismathis
    Oct 2, 2015
    1
    WARNING! this game (Star trek Online) has massive amounts of bugs in it. The game is constantly crashing computers/pc's, logging off players, missing items, support staff or lack-there-of not being of any help. EVERY week, there are issues w/ the game. At least once a week. The game becomes too repetitive due to the fact that its memory fails, so you will have to repeat the sameWARNING! this game (Star trek Online) has massive amounts of bugs in it. The game is constantly crashing computers/pc's, logging off players, missing items, support staff or lack-there-of not being of any help. EVERY week, there are issues w/ the game. At least once a week. The game becomes too repetitive due to the fact that its memory fails, so you will have to repeat the same missions, over and over again in order to advanced. Do not spend your money......I doubt these issues are going to get fixed anytime soon. Furthermore, do not play on a laptop. A fellow gamer made the mistake of playing Star Trek online on his Laptop and burned out his video card. Due to certain episodes being un-neccessarily long. Unfortunately, Arc/perfect world is running this franchise. Unless you absolutely need your Star trek fix, don't bother w/this game. Im beginning to regret ever starting it. Star trek online is more trouble than its worth… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 34
  3. Negative: 3 out of 34
  1. GameWatcher
    80
    This is as fine a[n] homage to one of Sci-fi's great franchises a[s] you can get in an MMO format.
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  2. Eurogamer
    60
    Despite all of these complaints, those hordes of starship captains are quite happy. They may not have many different things to do, and the missions and UI may be rather buggy, but there does seem to be enough content to sustain them - at least until the endgame - and even at its worst that content is knockabout fun with more instant appeal, and more suitability for casual, short-session, low-commitment play than most MMOs.
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  3. Vandal
    85
    It is one of the worthier options among the titles which try to compete with WoW, and the one that has convinced us the most to date.
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