STO Guide

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Price: $29.99

I started playing Star Trek Online confident that my years of dedication to the famous TV series, Star Trek Online and my average MMORPG play-time would let me sail smoothly through the game. I was wrong. STO isn’t just a walk in the park. With different ship types available and the fact that I have to manage a crew not just one character required that I learn several things about that facet of online gaming.

After some time in open beta, I realize that I wasn’t going to get anywhere far at my learning pace and decided to endorse help. Obviously, ‘Google’ came to mind first. After browsing around a bit, I came across an Unofficial Star Trek Online guide at killerguides.com. This isn’t the first time I bought a gaming e-book and from a regular e-book scavenger, I can say the guide is very well structured, although it was the very first version of the guide I got.

The guide has proved very helpful in speeding up my learning process and I was able to enjoy the game much faster. A very useful buy and recommendable for anyone planning on getting into Star Trek Online. The fact that the guide is available with free updates made it more attractive as well.

The latest update on Star Trek Online PvP:

PvP action with be revolved around Klingons mainly because their career progression basically relies upon PvP battles. It is a “viable advancement path” for Klingon and Federation players as Cryptic Studios mentioned in their latest article. Players will be able to engage in opposing factions or battle it out amongst the same faction, solo pvp or even team pvp. Moreover some PvP maps will have recognizable PvE missions to battle through.

Hearing that STO Klingons will be a brute forced PvP oriented faction, may actually disappoint the many Klingon’s fan base out there. Sure PvP could be really troublesome, especially when you got players desperate to go a killing spree and decides to shoot anything that moves. That could surely ruin your day if you get caught up in one of those no mercy battles. On the other hand, without PvP, MMORPG will be nothing more than grinding, farming, grinding, and farming. Where is the fun in that? This is purely my opinion, but there is much players can do but give feedback, hoping for a better improvement after the beta stages. Cryptic Studios has a history with adding tons of new features during the launch of the game, so I am pretty sure Klingon’s will win themselves a more well-rounded PvP and PvE gameplay.

Be sure to check out the upcoming STO guide on the latest updates for Star Trek Online PvP.

Cryptic Studios has always been known for their customization since their previous games like Champions Online and of course Star Trek Online is no exception. Both your avatar and your starship is customizable from head to toe. An emphasis towards customizing avatars seems to be the most obvious similarities. Cryptic Studios puts emphasis in customization so that even though you have the same class ship, but you can still distinguish yourself from the other players. The concept is to retain the Star Trek look, while adding a touch of your own style. Just to name a few of the parts you can customize: the hull, nacelles, the saucer and the pylons. Of course colors and decals is part of the modifying frenzy.

Cosmetic decorations aside, you can upgrade weaponry, armory, warp engines, deflectors and all sorts of ability boosting upgrades that falls into the game tactics and gameplay. Different starships will vary from ship to ship by how they are customized, due to variable upgrade slots where you can add attribute boosting items. To make things harder, bridge officers that you assign to duty stations can give unique skills or a boost to systems. Progressing through the game will allow you to gain access to new ships and upgrades, so check regularly at STO Guide to see what is the next best new upgrade and customization techniques to optimize your fleet.