Coming to a Console near you!

Hey Fleet!

For those of you who follow the news feeds on Arc you might notice yesterday they announced STO shall be comming to 2 different console platforms! This could be a good thing to those who had stopped playing for different reasons such as myself. ;)

Console Edition

Something else that will be a great feature to the game is... New graphics!! So pretty! Take a look for yourself.

Graphics Update

I hope I can bring Scott Tetrius and the crew of the USS Cloudnyne back from the dead on this new venture!

Right now this is only going to be independent servers...which STO just does not have the population for at this time. They must be banking on more clients joining up.

The possible UI?

I really hope a version of the new UI comes to the PC version as I really dislike the current and thought it needed to be re-built from the ground up when they changed it last time but instead we just got a re-skin.

Either way I'll probably try it on my PS4 to see if using a controller improves the way the game play.

It'll be interesting to see what version of the game launches on consoles and if it's behind the PC version.

Starting from scratch doesn't bother me too much as communication on a console is harder anyway (no keyboard) so it'll just be like playing a single-player version of STO for me.

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As long as I have the option to not use the annoying power wheel, I'm fine. If that's the only option though, I am not sure I'll be sticking with STO after this "improvement".

The existing UI has always had issues but with 40+ commands a power wheel is still not going to be enough to make it work properly.

Even if I had one of the latest consoles, I wouldn't play STO on a console. More than likely, an agreement has been made for an account migration period with Microsoft and SEA. For a limited time, you can transfer your PC account to the console servers; it's a normal occurrence as I'm sure many of you know from experience.

From experience, games that exist on multiple platforms with segregated servers don't do as well. Given the hardware and networking limitations of the XBO and the PS4, I can't see this being a successful move, I don't think there is enough demand on both consoles for STO to be available; even if the game itself were free.

I'm a little saddened to know Cryptic has thrown considerable resources and hours into developing these ports, I sincerely hope I'm wrong about these things, though.

It would be interesting to have more of a first-person view for ground combat, and a somewhat locked third-person view for space combat. That's something that I think has always been missing from STO.

1st person space view hmmm..... view screen on! (yes, I do know how you said it AJ)

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I really hope a version of the new UI comes to the PC version as I really dislike the current and thought it needed to be re-built from the ground up when they changed it last time but instead we just got a re-skin.

From what I recall when it happened, they did change most of the under-the-hood code for the UI to add flexibility, and that expansion is what's causing the current UI to suck heavily. The re-skin was incidental.