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In one of the most detail-rich videos to date, Eric Krasnauskas explains much about the gameplay, camera options, ship movement, tactics, game types, and more.
During the excellent narrtion by Mr. Krasnauskas, we get to witness most of the Kahn-Kirk battle scenario, and the DS9-Romulan-Klingon-Borg battle.
Things to look for:
1:10 - How to read targetting reticles is explained.
1:25 - Some of the excellent lighting and shadow effects are shown when the Enterprise banks to attack Kahn.
2:10 - There is a nice cinematic flyby of DS9 showing the highly detailed model of the station.
3:49 - The top-down strategical map is finally shown. A definate must-see.
3:49 - The Borg make their appearance at. Watch the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans battle the "baddest ship in the game"
This video is a definate must see, and is even better when viewed in high-resolution via the free media player VLC Media Player.
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Eric Krasnauskas: Star Trek: Legacy is essentially a massive space combat game. You'll go from Star Trek Enterprise with Captain Archer and the NX-01, you move on to the original series with Captain Kirk, and you'll finally finish up with Next Generation with Captain Picard and all the other characters in there as well.
The game is about to start right now, this is the Wrath of Kahn scene. Kahn basically caught me with my pants down and has done a bunch of damage to me. He's got full shields and full weapons and I'm hurt, I've got no shields, I'm going to have to find a way to fight back.
So, I'm just going to start it up right now, I'm going to start flying and I'm going to focus my camera on him. I have a full 360 degree range of movement, I can move up, I can move down, the Z axis is mine to play with. At the same time I can move my camera 360 degrees as well, but for the purposes of the battle right now I'm just going to keep it locked on Kahn.
I can fire phasers and I can fire photons, just like anything else. A lot of this game is actually jockeying for position to make the shots that you want to make. So you can see I've got my radicals up right now, the outer one means that I can fire phasers, and the inner one with the arrows means that I can fire photons. Most of your weapons are front-loaded or rear-loaded, you have a cone of fire there.
You can see I have the radicals now, if I were to come sort of perpendicular to Kahn right now you would see the radicals go away. He basically has a tactical advantage over me because he can fire, and I can't. A lot of this game is jockeying for the position you need to fire and really get off the best shots. There's a lot of little mechanics, too. Phasers do more damage up close than they do from far away, and they also do more damage the length of the shot that you give them.
Humphrey Cheung: In this scenario you're obviously just fighting Khan.
Eric Krasnauskas: Yes.
Humphrey Cheung: Are there others where you fight multiple ships?
Eric Krasnauskas: Yes, so let me go ahead and take Kahn out right now and then we'll move on to the next section where we take on multiple ships at once. I'll have multiple ships, and the enemy will have multiple ships as well.
Humphrey Cheung: Now, when the game comes out, is there a quick play mode where you can set up battles?
Eric Krasnauskas: Yes, there will be a skirmish mode where you just go in and start wailing on the bad guys if you want to do that. That was our TOS one on one ship combat intro, but Star Trek: Legacy is really more about multi-ship versus multi-ship combat.
We're doing a little sequence right now where DS9 is under attack, the Romulans are attacking and the Klingons are basically trying to help out, but they're getting their butts kicked and it's going to be up to me to make the difference.
Hopefully, some of your listeners will recognize these ships that we have right here. We basically have all the major ships from all the major series right there. There is your Enterprise, Sovereign class, your Galaxy, your Intrepid class from Star Trek Voyager coming over the top and breaking frame right now.
Using the D-pad, it's mapped to those other ships, I can just switch to the Galaxy, I can switch to the Intrepid, back and forth. Likewise, I can select everybody and give them a collective order and they'll all go and attack that guy.
You can see they're all going off to execute that order. If you're not satisfied with that, and sometimes you won't be able to do what you want from this level, you can move up to the strategic view. You can move around, you can zoom in and out, and you can really get the high-level view of what's going on and what you need to do.
You can see my guys sort of laboring down here, attacking a few other guys. Here's DS9 up there under attack, and the Klingons aren't doing so well. I'm going to task my Galaxy to warp up here really fast and you can see it takes the order and then it like zooms up there really quickly. At the same time I can tell my Defiant to attack this ship right over here.
Humphrey Cheung: Can you ram a ship?
Eric Krasnauskas: We have plans for very limited ramming, perhaps only for Klingon ships. It's not implemented right now but it's something we're looking at.
Humphrey Cheung: OK. We've got Romulan, we've got Federation, and we've got Klingons; what about other races?
Eric Krasnauskas: There's one more race which will actually be on the scene in about 30 seconds, and that's the Borg; we have a total of four playable races. Right now in the scene comes the final race, the Borg, and all sides now are going to be needed to combine up and take him out collectively. I'm going to tell everybody to go fly and take him out.
This is more or less the biggest, baddest ship in the entire game: This is the Borg Tactical Cube which you wont see in any of the... It's not canon, per se, it's Mad Doc created but Paramount approved, and there are a number of ships in the game that are like that. This ship is withstanding hits from over 15 ships right now and taking a couple of them out -- you can see the debris from a Klingon ship right there as it got destroyed.
The Borg ships are very tough, very powerful, they can fire multiple directions at once. They won't all be as powerful as the Cube, but this is the most cinematic ship they have, obviously. Most of the ships will be more reasonably sized, and they're all those geometric shapes, spheres and obelisks and pyramids and so on and so forth.
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