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STO: Season 5 Launched, Dan Stahl Rejoins Cryptic!
The update, entitled Call to Arms adds a range of new missions for both the Federation and Klingon sides as well as a range of new features such as the much anticipated Duty Officer system. Here is a summary of all of the new features:
The Duty Officer System Since the birth of the Federation and Klingon Defense Force, there have been countless unsung heroes that work in a vessels lower decks. No matter which department they are in, these officers have pledged their lives to their ship and fellow crewmates. For the first time ever, as their Captain, you will actively manage their activities as you delegate their assignments aboard and away from your ship.
The Borg Advancement For the past several months, Starfleet and the KDF have been confronting the Borg armada as they make their advance on the Alpha Quadrant. Recently, a Borg fleet was able to break through the Defari blockades in the Orellius Sector Block, land a probe on Defera ...
Star Trek Armada: 1.3 Patch Project from FleetOps
The team behind the hit Armada 2 Modification Fleet Ops, recently launched a patch project for the original Star Trek Armada game designed to solve some of the problems that this aged game experiences on newer systems.
Back in September, FleetOps leader, DocaCola, posted the following:
Armada 1 has problems running on newer systems. I was unable to run it at all so i begun debugging and fixed some of these problems. Besides bug fixing the patch has two new features for Armada 1. The first is widescreen (all resolutions) support.
The second feature allows to activate the map editor mode in a ‘live’ game (similar to Armada 2). This can be useful for debugging purposes (modding) and of course people who ever wanted to command a fleet of Enterprise Ds in their skirmish games.
The bugs fixed include:
- Game would not start on some systems with more than 2GB of memory
- Game could crash on systems with a very long PATH environment variable
You can download the Arm...
Elevator Magic
A hillbilly family took a vacation to New York City. One day, the father took his son into a large building. They were amazed by everything they saw, especially the elevator at one end of the lobby. The boy asked, "What's this, Paw?"
The father responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life. I don't know what it is!"
While the boy and his father were watching in wide-eyed astonishment, an old lady in a wheelchair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights above the walls light up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction. The walls opened again, and a voluptuous twenty-four-year old woman stepped out.
The father turned to his son and said, "Go get your maw!"
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Girls night out
Two women friends had gone out for a Girls Night Out, and had been decidedly over-enthusiastic on the cocktails. Incredibly drunk and walking home they suddenly realized they both needed to pee. They were very near a graveyard and one of them suggested they do their business behind a headstone or something. The first woman had nothing to wipe with so she took off her panties, used them and threw them away. Her friend however was wearing an expensive underwear set and didn't want to ruin hers, but was lucky enough to salvage a large ribbon from a wreath that was on a grave and proceeded to wipe herself with it. After finishing, they made their way home.
The next day the first woman's husband phones the other husband and said, "These damn girls nights out have got to stop. My wife came home last night without her panties." "That's nothing," said the other. "Mine came back with a sympathy card stuck between the cheeks of her butt that said, 'From all of us at the Fire Station, Well never forget you!'
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Generous lawyer
A local United Way office realized that the organization had never received a donation from the town's most successful lawyer. The person in charge of contributions called him to persuade him to contribute.
"Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at least $500,000, you give not a penny to charity. Wouldn't you like to give back to the community in some way?"
The lawyer mulled this over for a moment and replied, "First, did your research also show that my mother is dying after a long illness, and has medical bills that are several times her annual income?"
Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbled, "Um ... no."
The lawyer interrupts, "or that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair?"
The stricken United Way rep began to stammer out an apology, but was interrupted again.
"or that my sister's husband died in a traffic accident," the lawyer's voice rising in indignation, "leaving her penniless with three children?!"
The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, said simply, "I had no idea..."
On a roll...
Breaking: BigPoint Games interested in Star Trek: Infinite Space
Over the last couple of weeks, Hailing Frequency has been reporting on the future of Star Trek: Infinite Space, which has recently been stalled following the layoff of over 100 employees at GameForge and an internal company re-structure.
GameForge previously indicated that Infinite Space would only have a future if a co-publisher could be found to help bring the game to completion (relativly speaking) and today, one possible contender has been revealed.
Earlier today, german gaming website OGLabs reported that BigPoint Games, most famously known for games such as Battlestar Galactica Online (BGO) are in discussions with GameForge to come on-board as a co-publisher!
According to the report, GameForge has not yet responded to the offer from BigPoint, but if the deal is succesful, it will see Infinite Space launched sometime in 2012. The...
Excalibur Update: Transparency
The latest update from the “Star Trek: Excalibur” project has been posted and shows off several examples of how transparency effects are being used in the game:
Some Transparency: One big advantage for Excalibur’s ship framework is how well it supports transparent parts of a ship. This album describes some of the interesting uses we have found for transparency over recent months, and shows just how far it can be pushed.
Enterprise: M.A.C.O for CryEngine3 - Media Release #01
As previously reported, the Enterprise Temporal Cold War modifiation for Half Life 2, which shut-down development in 2010, recently found new life as Enterprise: MACO, which is currently in development for the cutting edge CryEngine3 game engine!
Its a couple of weeks later now, the official MACO website has launched and with it, the very first Media Release for the game!
In the media release, the project leader, Trip Tucker, had the following to say about the storyline for MACO:
Set one year after the events of Season 4, the modification aims to portray the events leading to the Earth-Romulan War in a linear, story-oriented fashion. The story arc itself would be told from the perspective of an operative of ...
Star Trek Late Night
The game is set in the Star Trek LUG ICON system with many house rules.
If you have suggestions or comments send me a message at the site.
Excalibur shows off the Norkova Class
In the most recent weekly media update from the development team behind Star Trek: Excalibur, we can see the familiar Norkova Class in all of its Excalibur-ian glory!
The team had this to say:
Norkova Class: This week we have some shots of our Norkova Class transport which is seen throughout TNG, DS9 & Voyager and is seemingly used by many species for transporting cargo. The ship was modelled some time ago by Tvrtko (Newman) and was textured by Jonny (JB06)
Here are some pictures:
Dominion Wars can now run on Newer Systems!
Those of you who remember the Star Trek Gaming hey-day of the late 90's and earlier 00's probably remember the much anticipated game, Star Trek: Dominion Wars from Pan Interactive and Gizmo.
Those of you who got the game also probably remember that it was riddled with issues that pretty much crippled it from running on anything but a very specific hardware and software setup. If you had Windows XP or above, you pretty much gave up on your dreams of playing this game and now, a decade later, if you told your friends you were trying to get this game working, they would point and laugh at you ironically.
The good news, nay, the FANTASTIC news, is that these days are over. Thanks to a fantastic community effort, it is now possible to get Dominion Wars working on almost any setup. Today, I succesfully got the game running both on my Windows 7 x64 laptop (GeForce 540M 2gb Graphics, Quad Core, 6gb...
Infinite Space - Cancellation Update
In an article posted on Gamasutra, it has been revealed that while Infinite Space has NOT been cancelled, they are considering shutting down development of Star Trek: Infinite Space if they cannot find a co-publisher.
This means that there is still a small chance that the game may survive and one day be released. With CBS heavily backing the game, it is possible that they may assist in locating a co-publisher for the game. One possible contender for a partnership could be Zynga, where former exeutive producer of Star Trek Online, Dan Stahl, recently became a staff member. Zynga is a large and well-loved developer and publisher of online and social games in the United States. This is just speculation of course.
All things considered however, its logical to conclude that CBS would not want to see this project die, so there is some hope to be had, however small it may be.
Infinite Space - Cancellation Looks Imminent
At least two of our contact within GameForge who were directly on the Infinite Space development team have been laid off this information was gleaned from their public Facebook pages which now solemly say Worked at Gameforge in the past tense.
Some of you may be aware that I am/was a part of the moderation team over at the Infinite Space official forum and I can reveal that internally, there is no more information than there is externally.
However, given that it now seems likely that swatches of the Infinite Sapce team have been laid off, as well as the fact that GameForge specifically used the word discontinued when referring to the game in their press release, it would seem all but certain that
Star Trek Infinite Space is (probably) Cancelled.
Infinite Space's Future Looking Shakey!
QuoteAs they focus on their core portfolio, Gameforge and subsidiary Frogster will create more efficient structures and discontinue products that have failed to meet growth expectations. This relates to Hellbreed and Mythos. Gameforge is evaluating the discontinuation of the Star Trek Infinite Space project and is also currently exploring co-publishing options.
However, on the official game site at http://www.startrek-is.com a news item posted today claims that while the beta test of the game has been postponed, a future release for the game may still be on the tables. In addition, Keen Games, the development company that is actually working on the game...
Star Trek Online Free to Play
A couple of months ago, Atari sold Cryptic Studios to Perfect World and one of the first major announcements to come out of the aquisition was the news that Star Trek Online would be going free-to-play by the end of 2011.
If you hadn’t previously heard about this, you can find out all the details on the STO F2P page at http://startrekonline.com/f2p and be sure to checkout the Star Trek Online Homepage for almost daily Free to Play news updates!
Team members. Who's doing what. Newbie interested.
Intrerested in this project but am finding the forums aren't telling me much by their titles.
Where's this mod now? Does it need help?
LLaP
Domin8or
Mod News: Continuum for Homeworld 2
We have news of a fairly new Star Trek mod for Homeworld 2, which has an alpha version available for download as of August 2011 – here is the official synopsis of the mod:
Homeworld 2 meets Star Trek: Armada 2. Set in the 2380′s you will find three superbly balanced factions to face off one another, the Alpha Quadrant superpowers! The versitile United Federation of Planets, the formidible Klingon Defence Force and the enigmatic Romulan Star Empire.
Visit their ModDB page and download the alpha version of the mod at http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-trek-continuum
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Mod News: Enterprise TCW mod finds new life as M.A.C.O!
Early last year, the long anticipated modification for Half Life 2, Enterprise Temporal Cold war was cancelled after the resignation of the mods leader, leaving behind a hole in the hearts of its fans and a bucket load of high quality assets that would never be used.
We are happy to say that as of September 2011, the modification has been resurrected, renamed and has some new life, with the announcement of “Star Trek Enterprise – M.A.C.O”.
Star Trek: Enterprise – M.A.C.O. is the re-launch of the cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise Temporal Cold War (E:TCW) single-player Half-Life 2 modification, now based on CryTeks CryEngine 3 technology. By learning from the mistakes we made during the development of E:TCW, and utilizing the majority of the modelling and texturing assets created for its predecessor, we are confident that production will move forward at a far greater speed than during our last attempt.
Storywise, STE:M aspires to showcase the character-based storytelling for...
