Let's Play Star Trek: Bridge Commander #1 - Episode 1: Intro + Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Today we begin a new Let's Play Trek adventure with Bridge Commander. Its a game I remember the least of in terms of story but still played a lot of skirmish with when I was a wee lad.
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Damn, the galaxy class model is more detailed than all the character models. The primary hull is rounder than Picard's head.
The tutorial does have an 'Automated phone service' feel. "If you wish to open the tactical interface, press 1"
Another game I bought back in the day and still have the CDs for. I remember reading previews about it in PC Zone magazine, and they actually asked the developers about the tactical console being different. Their "in universe" answer is the LCARS computer system enables bridge consoles to be allocated to any station to the bridge the captain wants them to be. Think Jellico barking his early orders to Riker about aft bridge consoles being dedicated solely to tactical, and ditching all the science stations.
as soon as that note struck at 0:01 the nostalgia hit
god i miss this game, i dont understand how star trek online never took a page from this for the ship battles
A couple bits of advice for the early game: if an objective isn't time-sensitive, you may want to reload at Starbase 12 (especially after the Tevron mission). Power management can also be a bit painful if you fight too long at boosted power, but Starbase 12 recharges energy too (or just sit there at green alert for a bit). Tractor beams drain main batteries directly.
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Also, if you hypothetically encounter Romulans, hit the engines and cloak; they can't exactly maneuver that quickly.
Glad you picked admiral difficulty, ships are a lot more natural in their performance that way (although it makes the early Galaxy missions that much harder). Cardassians especially die too easily otherwise.
I think the clunky intro you mentioned at 12:16 could have been avoided by simply having Patrick Stewart say that he is "sorry for what happened to your previous captain and will be available to help you settle into the new role". It could have explained why he was on the ship giving orders and make introducing you to the new crew (that he may have personally chosen for you, I really don't get why he personally introduces your First Officer) less forced.
I guess that was sort of implied in the cutscene, but they could have done with explaining things more.
Its strange anyway. I mean, YOU are the captain now. You have probably managed the repairs and now that the ship is ready, and you are sitting on the central chair for the first time, Picard waltzes in and takes YOUR ship out of drydock. lol
1:25 What are those things in orbit of the planet?
6:38 There are a number of things about the Sovereign-class. One thing that rubbed me the wrong way was how in the first movie where we see the USS Enterprise-E Captain Picard already refers to her as home while we as the audience have just met her. It's like calling someone your wife on your first date. Another problem is that the ship kept getting refitted throughout the movies, while that makes sense from an in-universe perspective with the Dominion War going on, it makes it so that you don't get a feeling of what the ship is supposed to be capable of. With the Galaxy-class you know that it has got 2 torpedo launchers. We know the limitations and that makes it "real". You never know the limitations of the Sovereign-class because it is not a real ship. It is what the plot, or a specific scene, needs it to be.
24:03 I'd want the 3D model for the deep space stations first. (Which a fan has already made.)
30:35 I personally wanted a place in "A Final Unity" where you could do war game exercises with a Zakdorn consultant. How does that sound to you?
Cool, the shipmodels away ahead of klingon academy. But the battle interface is clunky und nervous...
In canon, The USS Sovereign is rechristened as the USS Enterprise-E
Good cinematic intro - particularily the shots when the Galaxy class is in 'dry dock'... And as others have pointed out, as soon as picard opens his mouth....yikes!
Dont think Ive ever head "Its too much like a sports car" as a downside before... lol. The Sovereign continues and evolves the design language started by the Excelsior-class. Where as the Galaxy continued and evolved the design language of the Constitution-class (before the Neo Constitution took several steps backward).
The perfomance of your game seems far better than mine...
If you're having issues with poor performance (especially if the framerate is extremely low) it MAY be down to your PC's "uptime", which STBC uses to run its simulation. On newer PCs the "uptime" doesn't reset upon shutting down if your PC has "fast boot" enabled. A standard restart should reset it.
Grethon Tolar was not a Bolian though (the one that Garak killed), but that episode was insanely good. :)
Indeed it was but no this was the Season 5 episode Empok Nor where Garak gets infected with a psychoactive agent of some kind.
@@ange1uk Oh yes, Empok Nor ... I forgot about that one already. =D
I 100% played this game, but have 0% memory of it
That is not necessarily a good thing, just means it wasn't memorable :D
a severe etiquette mistake. onboard any ship there could be only one Captain. others are by courtesy appelled as Commodore, or graciously "promoted" and called "rear admiral" if they are old enough (and Picard is a rear admiral for permanent ranks since he lost enterprise d)
Galaxy is ok, I never liked it. My favorite is by far 1701 refit. Lost era enterprise.
@@centurion7398 the Connie refit is indeed a most beautiful design I agree.