AlexTaldren

Everyone knows that the red uniforms are for command officers and the yellow are for security. But, the Elite Force games, which are Star Trek FPS games built on the Quake engines, mix up the uniforms a bit to make it look less ridiculous -- adding armor and changing up the colors and design a bit.

I haven't downloaded First Strike yet. I moved to a new city for a job about two weeks ago and got my high-speed Internet hooked up last night.

I'm excited to play it though.

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Admerylous

Yes, I can now; I just felt like a zombie and wanted to edit my original, "going to give it a try now" message.

It feels unstable. There are glitches and bugs. It doesn't run smoothly.
Perhaps some of this was the server it was played on, I had the feeling most of it was the coding. This game could be improved quickly with patching as Eroak hinted.

I don't see it as having lasting power, though. A bit of a novelty.

RedForman

Yeesh, for the developer's sake I hope not, considering it has been in development for over two years!

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GlobalWarmin

I think FS is pretty incredible. I've only played a couple rounds, but so far it exceeds my expectations. The combat feels great, the kits selections and weapons are perfect, the game modes are fun, and the maps seem really well done. There was a issue with lag that started on the server I was playing when the player count got up to 60, but before that I felt everything was smooth.

Admerylous

It probably doesn't help that I had just finished playing Team Fortress 2 at maxed out graphic settings and the game still continues to run smoother than anything I'm used to.

I'm going to give it another try shortly. Maybe a better server will help.

Tempus

Too early to start saying it won't be successful. It's clearly an early release. The question is whether or not the foundation is there for it to be a fun and entertaining mod. If the foundation is there, we'll find a way to make it work.

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Aerosecurity

I say FS is rather successful despite the obvious bugs. For the most part, the game is stable (with the occasional bouts of lag and CTDs), and the modeling is fantastic.

Like it was stated earlier, there are some collision issues (ships having collision 1 m away from the hull, dead bodies flailing in mid air, etc). But other than that, it seems not too much of a problem (just needs some minor tweaking of the collision models).

Space combat is nothing special. It takes some getting used to as well (think gunships with no gravity). It actually quite reminds me of Battlefront 2 in terms of ship controls and feel. Piloting the big cruisers is also rather interesting.

I haven't had a chance to try all the weapons yet, but there are a lot of them, and really just gotta play around with them some more to see how balanced they are.

Well, i'm gonna go back into the fray and check it out some more.

CORRECTION: The game is not very stable atm. I CTD every 5 minutes or so. i think it affects all players though, not just you.

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Gator762FMJ

It's OK. Personally I didn't find it as fun as BF2 or 2142, but it might just be because I'm not familiar with it and there was no teamwork on the server I was on.

One thing I didn't like was I couldn't see jack. I kept getting shot outta somewhere, who knows where. The map was really dark and I was wondering what kind of awesome weapons the Rebels were getting enabling them to see. :/

Razcsak

Hmm. Every time I try and join a server it tells me I've failed a pb handshake, then boots me. I'm looking through their forums for help, but until then, any ideas?

Got it working easily enough.

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Aerosecurity

I think you need to update PB... don't know how though.

As for me, my only problem is crashing to desktop every 5 minutes or so. As for the gameplay, i rather like it. It's much like a cross between 2142 and POE2 for me. I haven't experienced much teamwork either, but this is because i've only played on pub servers. (tried connecting to the 3rd's server, but kept on crashing to desktop upon finishing the map load).

Overall, it's a great mod, just needs to work out the bugs.

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sc1ence

The 3rds server is now functional.

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Tempus

A test TG server is up. There are no scripts or anything running on it currently.

70.84.146.202

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FROM THE TACTICAL GAMER PRIMER.
3) Support game play in a near-simulation environment. Where the focus of play would not be solely on doing what it takes to win, but doing so utilizing real-world combat strategy and tactics rather than leveraging exploits provided to players by the design of the game engine.

Razcsak

Its a fun mod, though it seems a bit clunky at times. Still, I enjoyed trying to figure out what my kit did.

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IronRhino73

old school it was the other way around.. kirk wore the yellow and the security(disposables) wore the red.. everybody knows that.. damn gen trekkers. ;P

on topic. i've played it and enjoyed it alot.. imo the pistol is overkill even without the scope.. i can't remember when i've achieved so many kills with a pistol..

Gillespie

Hence the "red-shirt" jokes about the original Star Trek.