Honstly, wait for Klingon academy

[Leyline]

KA was a pound for pound massive upgrade to SFA.

As decent as SFA was for the time it came out, it was completely outclassed by KA.

So if you are unsure about this game, wait for KA.

[Lagkill]

Everyone thinks they want to see a couple of heavyweights slug it out, but really the skill all comes into play in the lower leagues. Pound for pound is a meaningless expression based entirely on opinion and speculation.

[Leyline]

Originally posted by Lagkill:

Everyone thinks they want to see a couple of heavyweights slug it out, but really the skill all comes into play in the lower leagues. Pound for pound is a meaningless expression based entirely on opinion and speculation.

What.

I played both games back when they were out in the stoen age.

KA is simply better. It has refined mechanicvs, much better graphics and the production value of the storyvideos was better.

Its got cristopher plummer and david warner reprise their roles. In full costume.

The story also ties into STar Tre k6 and explaisn why praxis got overmined in the firstp lace.


KA was a celebration of Star trek.

Buy that.

[Count]

Ka won't be coming any time soon. There were major errors in it's deployment of DirectX causing it to constantly crash in a non-Win98 environment. It took 8 years for modders to write enough code to get the game to work on XP, and even then it still doesn't work properly graphically or on Vista/7/8.

These re-releases are "quick buck and emu", SFA, 25th and Judgement all worked properly in the XP environment (25 and JR with a bit of emu), so they were easy to release.

[KOOLLAYDTAC]

I was going to say unless they put a patch out to make it work on new operating systems I don't expect to see KA hit Steam anytime soon sadly.

[Avalanche]

Nah, i prefer SFA over KA to be honest...it just felt wrong to me.

[President Magikarp]

Originally posted by Count:

Ka won't be coming any time soon. There were major errors in it's deployment of DirectX causing it to constantly crash in a non-Win98 environment. It took 8 years for modders to write enough code to get the game to work on XP, and even then it still doesn't work properly graphically or on Vista/7/8.

Actually, it does.[www.klingonacademy.com]

These fixes have been around since 2011, and I've used them to play the game on 64-bit Windows 7 just fine. A Steam release of Klingon Academy is totally viable.

[Denacity]

Damn it Magikarp, you beat me to it ;)

[AdmiralSpringer]

Man, I can remember the day I've spotted SFA on a store shelf ! For a die-hard Star Trek fan, it was a dream come true ! But, no doubts KA was a huge improvement over SFA technology. Can't barely wait to grab my KA copy whenever Steam decides to publish it !!!!

[Illestderp]

We need KA for Steam so bad..

[Earl of Dudley]

i never played KA had the demo but my pc at the time was too slow it too play, loved SFA

[DyNaMiX]

Didn't realise that having "Academy" in the names made them mutually exclusive...

[Newman]

I really wish game developers would think about making an updated version of this game. There was always so much potential for expansion. I always wished when playing this game that you could pick a system, warp to it and interact with something or another instead of having to follow the story line so rigidly. I would think how fun it would be if you could cross into the neutral zone at any time and invoke a no win situation or even beat it with luck.

A newer version of this game without the long video story lines and with more freedom and random mission play would be a popular game. Wouldn't take much to add multiplayer to it either.

[Navrin]

That is where Bridge Crew comes in - unfortunately VR only and even there very limited. They don't seem to want to open it up to the modding community which is where games like these would thrive.

[Nightwng2k]

Klingon Academy is actually a really cool game. I discovered it about 6 years ago and couldn't actually play it completely, as I was running Windows XP and the operating system & video card back then caused a number of problems since the game came out in 2000, the Pentium II era. With that being said, I never beat the game, but today.......11/25/2018, I'm running Windows 7 and I've now reached mission 17 (of 25) with very minimal problems. To play it, you'll need ddraw.dll, and KA102us launcher, all of which you can get at www.klingonacademy.com, so I'm happy to say that it is possible to play the game on modern day systems and that I am able to do so without steam. It's a shame that an add on pack never came out for this game like Chekov's Lost missions did for Starfleet Acacdemy.

[Dakota Mike]

Yeah, there is an all-in-one patch at klingonacademy.com that allows a base-game install to work basically flawlessly on Windows 10 machines. Some dedicated fans have made it very painless to play KA now. And now we can max all the settings and even play in 1080p if we want with the updated launcher. Its awesome! All you need is a copy of the game. Luckily I still had my old cds!