Is anyone enjoying this?

[Ulthar]

I am a huge star trek fan, and a massive paradox fan going back to the earliest days.

My anticipation was high but the reviews are not good.

Is anyone enjoying it and if so how/why?

I am assuming I have to wait for the inevitable patch and/or a mod. Without a workshop here, I am assuming perhaps Nexus?

[Vosoros]

My frustrations come from a lack of understanding of game mechanics. So a lot of trial and error in each new game with select aspects help me beyond a very basic tutorial.

I would love to see an expanded tutorial or just an in-game manual to read up on all the various game aspects...

...but trial and error will have to be my approach for now.

I'm sure once I've learnt enough I'll be able to enjoy a whole lot more.

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I am enjoying the game at the moment. Currently in my game that I was playing before I think the Romulans will get wiped out - as the Klingons just declared war on them after the Romulans won a war against the Cardassians. As I am playing the Federation, I've decided to stay neutral in the Klingon - Romulan war. I want the Cardassians to declare war on me, or I'll just wait until I can declare war on them in 10 years or so.

Yet to see any Borg.

[BedlamBetty]

Originally posted by Pixx:

Originally posted by BedlamBetty:

What, precisely, is your "lowest common denominator" here?

The people praising this garbage. It sends the message that no matter how lazy, incompetent and lackluster something is there will always be a market for it. Why put effort into something if people will happily buy a minimum-viable-product.

You can actually articulate what you mean with specific words instead of being so vague.
What are the sales?
Who are these people heaping this supposed praise? I enjoyed the game and explained why, as well as finding 40 bucks to be worth the price considering the time I spent enjoying the game, since I can do the math that determines my hourly cost of play, which is lower than on the vague "many" other games I have played, but more than on the other vague "many" hours I've spent on others.
To each their own criterion for determining value, I guess.
I do find it odd how much you hate this game and especially anyone who enjoys it.
The game is not a AAA title, nor does it sell at anywhere near the price.
40 bucks is early 2000s pricing for a complete game with a licence and you could do far worse within this particular licence than this game here.

As for sending messages about laziness, you could do better than a niche ip, on the engine of a niche game, in a niche genre.
Pretty sure Star Trek Infinite isn't setting the industry standard for what to expect from a game, but if it did, it follows it's ip: Star Trek, as in the Federation and specifically TNG, far better than most games out there, within the framework of the engine chosen, even if there are some glaring problems once you've already spent enough time enjoying the game for the cost to be worth it, if you are capable of owning a full Stellaris, which bundle necessary to make it basically playable right now is 120 bucks.
There's lazy and there's lazy.
Are game devs lazy? yeah, they all are for the most part, because that's what happens when you aren't subjected to market forces to qualify and quantify your immediate production value, but that doesn't mean they haven't made something that is already entirely enjoyable as a game that you can complete in a moderate timeframe with each faction, feeling lees and less like there is a difference between them that is relevant to the lore, but that does not require much tweaking to bring in line with something that feels like Trek every time and for each of the four factions, 3 of which require some creativity and thought that has yet to go into the foundations already built

[Dead Rizky]

I put about 35 hours in so far, so... yea?

[Deus Irae]

No idea what I am supposed to do to begin with. There is no...mission for me to start enjoying. I like open-world as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure what I'm doing here.

[Zarathustra]

Originally posted by Pookie101:

It's ok and I can see what they were going for but it currently feels like a mod of Stellaris.

They set it in the TNG era but it feels like it's only 50% there. Token but decent "I remember that episode" moments but a research tree that's wonky, not enough ships, things out of order like ships, weird choices like Federation members not being part of it, Systems added but having no population like Risa and Denobula.

Honestly they probably should of only say made the Federation playable and concentrated on making that an amazing experience

Star Trek New Horizons has way more content than this game.

[Rick Sanchez]

Originally posted by Doomed:

Meh. I have been looking forwards to this game for months. I got it to play the Romulans and im 5 games in and have not come close to winning. Basically i just play until the Cardasians attack me. I cant beat them in a single battle. There ships are bigger and better.

Im not impressed with the campaign at all and would much rather have a sandbox game but ill keep plugging along trying to figure out what im doing wrong every game.

same here, dont know how to improve on this.

[Táiyō.]

Best Game this year. I love it

[richko65]

I went back to Star Trek Stellaris. It offers many more options and it is very polished. I will return to this when it has more patches and DLCs available. I feel it was released too early.

[ORION]

Originally posted by richko65:

I went back to Star Trek Stellaris. It offers many more options and it is very polished. I will return to this when it has more patches and DLCs available. I feel it was released too early.

Same here. I feel this game had allot of potential. Hopefully mods, dlc, and patches can fix it

[Doomed]

Originally posted by BedlamBetty:

Originally posted by Doomed:

Meh. I have been looking forwards to this game for months. I got it to play the Romulans and im 5 games in and have not come close to winning. Basically i just play until the Cardasians attack me. I cant beat them in a single battle. There ships are bigger and better.

Im not impressed with the campaign at all and would much rather have a sandbox game but ill keep plugging along trying to figure out what im doing wrong every game.

Why would you pick this game up and play the Romulans as your first, let alone only?
I get the desire, but let's be real. This isn't your imagination let loose, it is highly based off TNG and you get to build the Enterprise, first D, then E, which are both science and military vessels, unique, solo ship fleet, capable of facing almost anything in the galaxy. The missions involved in upgrading D to E involve hiring your senior officers, some unique recruits whose recruitment can put you over cap in their field and the missions are different for each officer.
You also have the liberation of Bajor, saving the Romulans from their super nova (within the Stellaris minimal impact theory framework) and taking over DS9 to the crisis.
I will definitely play through the other powers, but I have a strong feeling that is only because I started Fed and how fleshed out it is compared to others at the moment.
If you are a fan of Trek, the game leads you through TNG within the framework of a 4x game very well, crystalline entity and all.

Because in any video or info i saw on the game it said you could play as 4 races and make your own story. I didnt realize it was a play as the federation only because this is just a story game made for the federation.

I wanted to play Roms because they have always been my favorite race to play since back in the 80s playing SFB. Even in TNG and the movies i prefer the Romulans. I cant stand the klingons or cardasians and the Feds are meh at best and they seemed easy mode in this game so i wasnt interested. I dont play the US in HOI either so thats just my preferences.
Like i said i didnt realize this was a "story" game and not a grand strategy game and that error is on me. I dont hate the game and im still playing for now i just wish i could write my own star trek story like the adverts said and i can not. I can play a short time until the sun blows up and everyone attacks me at the same time over and over and over. The stroy doesnt change and the same pop ups happen in order every game. Just not what i was expecting.

[Doomed]

Originally posted by Rick Sanchez:

Originally posted by Doomed:

Meh. I have been looking forwards to this game for months. I got it to play the Romulans and im 5 games in and have not come close to winning. Basically i just play until the Cardasians attack me. I cant beat them in a single battle. There ships are bigger and better.

Im not impressed with the campaign at all and would much rather have a sandbox game but ill keep plugging along trying to figure out what im doing wrong every game.

same here, dont know how to improve on this.

Me either. Ive tried 5 full play through and its played out exactly the same each time. Not much of a create my own story imo. I even tried playing the roms like they was nice open and loving. only interested in being open and friendly with everyone and it still turned out the same. True it took longer before out of the blue the cardasians attacked and wiped me out because my ships just cant keep up with theirs.

[Soccer]

It got like 4 major bugs. 1 is regarding MAC user.
For a 4X-strategy-game release still relativly few bugs.

Aside from that, i love the game.

[RobOda]

Originally posted by BedlamBetty:

Originally posted by Doomed:

Meh. I have been looking forwards to this game for months. I got it to play the Romulans and im 5 games in and have not come close to winning. Basically i just play until the Cardasians attack me. I cant beat them in a single battle. There ships are bigger and better.

Im not impressed with the campaign at all and would much rather have a sandbox game but ill keep plugging along trying to figure out what im doing wrong every game.

Why would you pick this game up and play the Romulans as your first, let alone only?
I get the desire, but let's be real. This isn't your imagination let loose, it is highly based off TNG and you get to build the Enterprise, first D, then E, which are both science and military vessels, unique, solo ship fleet, capable of facing almost anything in the galaxy. The missions involved in upgrading D to E involve hiring your senior officers, some unique recruits whose recruitment can put you over cap in their field and the missions are different for each officer.
You also have the liberation of Bajor, saving the Romulans from their super nova (within the Stellaris minimal impact theory framework) and taking over DS9 to the crisis.
I will definitely play through the other powers, but I have a strong feeling that is only because I started Fed and how fleshed out it is compared to others at the moment.
If you are a fan of Trek, the game leads you through TNG within the framework of a 4x game very well, crystalline entity and all.

Originally posted by BedlamBetty:

Originally posted by Pixx:

Nobody is trolling. Calling others "kid" and telling them to "straighten their lives" isn't exactly making a good point for your case either. I like my life the way it is thank you, good paying job, living with my partner and we have two cats. Couldn't get better :)

I'm sure you're familiar with the term lowest common denominator. It's a value that affects the whole so that's why I'm voicing my opinion. You may not like it, but it's a fact that it's always the lowest common denominator that screws everything up for everyone all the time. This game is a lazy cashgrab and nothing more.

What, precisely, is your "lowest common denominator" here?

Lowest common denominator = you, going by that first reply. Lmao.

[JCSandstorm]

I think you just need to think long term with this game. The bottom line for me is this just makes a better ST foundation than Stellaris does. Stellaris is a very different game than what was released and I'm sure this will grow and evolve too. And while Paradox only publishes this game, they have an interest in it succeeding.

Hours of game play for the price of a cheap dinner out isn't a risky bet. Between future updates, DLC and mods this could easily become the best ST game ever.