Star Trek Online
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Soldato
Hmm I dont see any of that type of stuff. And Im in closed Beta. And it still says applied for that. lol
Either he has a naff hard drive, or those are some serious load times.
Edit. That amount of loading wait would do my nut in. Someone please say their comp runs faster than that
Soldato
the live stream guy sees maybe 30 second load screens on some occasions, nothing too bad
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Its not even remotely unusual for a Beta page to be taken down and rejigged, literally a day or two before a new phase of the Beta is due to start. Things change, its likely planned and on purpose. IE take it down, remove all obsolete links, remove advice people will mistake as fixes for the open beta that won't work, lots of possible things to be done.
If it starts smoothly, on time and has little downtime in the first couple days I'd be amazed. So far I've been in one closed and open beta that was smooth as anything, polished, almost completely finished, massive and truly awesome, Lotro. The late stages of closed(last 2-3 weeks) were like playing a final finished product, the open was smooth as anything with loads of people on and very few issues. Likewise I can't remember any major issues on launch, massive downtimes, restarts, wiping characters due to a massive glitch giving some people a huge advantage or something.
Since then the few i've been in have been a disaster, I think the Lotro beta spoiled me
If it starts smoothly, on time and has little downtime in the first couple days I'd be amazed. So far I've been in one closed and open beta that was smooth as anything, polished, almost completely finished, massive and truly awesome, Lotro. The late stages of closed(last 2-3 weeks) were like playing a final finished product, the open was smooth as anything with loads of people on and very few issues. Likewise I can't remember any major issues on launch, massive downtimes, restarts, wiping characters due to a massive glitch giving some people a huge advantage or something.
Since then the few i've been in have been a disaster, I think the Lotro beta spoiled me
Soldato
Either he has a naff hard drive, or those are some serious load times.
Edit. That amount of loading wait would do my nut in. Someone please say their comp runs faster than that
From what I heard earlier his machine is a E(something) Core 2 Duo and an 8800GTX graphics card... he didn't mention broadband speed or any other specs though.
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You can download the client now
http://www.startrekonline.com/download
Looks like something has screwed up badly! Many people with open beta keys are currently downloading/patching the client, myself included, but by the sounds of it the Dev is saying we shouldn't.
Weird, because that is the version the closed beta people have. Surely it would just mean that we need to patch...of course so many people patching will cause a huge problem!
I suspect the first day of open beta will get screwed up, but keep in mind it is quite a long beta and that your character gets wiped at the end anyway!
Either he has a naff hard drive, or those are some serious load times.
Edit. That amount of loading wait would do my nut in. Someone please say their comp runs faster than that
No more than 4 seconds per load screen with my SSD
. But he probably just has a rubbish computer/fragmented drive.
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Beta isn't available until tomorrow. Did it say on the page you bought it whether they are still offering open beta codes. They should be.
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http://www.startrekonline.com/download is just taking me back to the front page...
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They have disabled the link for now. It isn't supposed to be active yet.
Soldato
Is the downloader utility a peer to peer jobby or directly from the servers?
I remember reading about the open beta starting 11/01 (at least I remember it saying this date) on the steam page, thats the only reason I pre-ordered the game to be honest but I've not received any beta codes, but i'd hope steam would just automatically associate the key with the beta client.
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Nope, open beta starts officially tomorrow (not sure what time, but probably 6pm GMT).
Depends where you get it from. I ordered from D2D and you can download most of the game from them. For patching Cryptic have recently introduced P2P patching in addition to their patching server.
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Downloading it @ 500k at the moment through the official download client which I grabbed from here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ey1pmv
Apparantly the official downloader is using this torrent, but for some reason seems to be faster than using the direct torrent:
http://installers.crypticstudios.com/torrents/Star Trek ST.0.20100108a.0.torrent
Apparantly this client is a few gig away from the OB client and if you patch now, it'll screw the whole thing up and have to re-DL from scratch, so if you grab it, wait for the OB patch to be released.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ey1pmv
Apparantly the official downloader is using this torrent, but for some reason seems to be faster than using the direct torrent:
http://installers.crypticstudios.com/torrents/Star Trek ST.0.20100108a.0.torrent
Apparantly this client is a few gig away from the OB client and if you patch now, it'll screw the whole thing up and have to re-DL from scratch, so if you grab it, wait for the OB patch to be released.
Hopefully steam will at allow us to download the client before release as I won't be home until late tomorrow, I really want to give this a try.
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To be honest I probably won't play the open beta much. Will try out the next patch changes, but will mostly try and wait for the headstart and release. I also gave in last night and ordered the edition from the rainforest. I want the borg bridge officer
Soldato
If its not seven of nine then its not worth it