Wibtown

Since playing in open beta I’ve been 50/50 on this game but today the balance finally slipped and I’ve decided to give it the boot as there is only so many times you can do the same missions with slight cosmetic changes over and over again. If you’ve ever played a mmorpg before you’ll know that there is an unavoidable amount of repetition with quests but I’ve never played a game where it is so apparent as STO.

The main type of mission you tend to get in mmorpgs is kill x amount of mobs to gain y amount of items and then repeat in a different location with the location and it’s design being the main thing that changes. Doing the same thing over and over again can be acceptable if the location and mobs vary enough to hide the fact that you are doing the same thing but this is where STO falls down badly.

STO’s version of this is to fly around a planet whilst killing or scanning x amount of mobs or items which is ok at first until you then have to do it again and the only thing that has changed is the planets texture and the models for the ships you’re destroying or the items you’re meant to be scanning. It really does feel like you’re doing the same mission over and over again with nothing but cosmetic changes.

Unfortunately ground missions aren’t much better and tend to be of the scan item x and then scan four or five more items of that type or fight your way to a location before fighting your way back out but the combat is lacklustre and the locations are bland and lifeless. It was one of these missions that I played today which finally convinced me to give the game up. Fighting through a Klingon base to then defend a computer console (yet again) whilst data uploads is fun at a first but not when this is the third mission with the same type of objectives that you’ve seen and you’re only LVL 12.

Like I say I’m only LVL 12 but if the repetition is getting to be unbearable this early on in the game I dread to think what it will be like later. Obviously these aren’t the only types of missions that you will be given but they are repeated so often that it feels that way,  in fact I get the impression that the game has been so rushed that in order to get enough missions in there for release they opted for this copy and paste approach.

My biggest gripe with the game though is the fact that it’s almost entirely instanced and to be honest it feels like the multiplayer aspect of a single player game rather than a true mmorpg. On the plus side though the large fleet space battles are a lot of fun and for me they are the best part of the game but not good enough to make me pay the £10 odd a month that they think they can charge for an unfinished game.

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