So you may have been wondering where my blog about Nuclear Dawn was last week, and I'm sorry you'll have to wait for that. The last couple of weeks I've poured most of my spare time into one game, except the day my power supply finally failed on my gaming rig.
It's done me well these last 5 years and we've seen many, many hours of gaming and other entertainment but I knew the day would come, when my 600w StelthxStream gave up the ghost.
So I've downgraded a little to a 500w, which still has plenty of power and the 80+ rating should mean it's a bit more environmentally friendly choice. It seems a really well biult peice of kit and I should really give the guys at ebuyer a shout out getting it out to me in about under 24 hours.
Games!
Right on to the games, well game.
Star Trek Online
You may remember this game coming out and reading or watching the mediocre reviews on how it really didn't have enough content, that the ground missions where poor and that it was just to easy. Anyone who knows me well, knows I'm not really an MMO person, I just have something against paying monthly subscriptions. Well this game just went free to play last week and while some of the original flaws are still kinda there, they've really expanded on the game now so it's now probably one of the best free to play titles available and hey it's free.
The game now has 2 races (Federation and Klingon's) and 6 quite long campaigns, along side fleets (guilds/clans), crafting, mini-games, global events and raid like fleet actions, this means there's always something to do. The ground missions are not the games best feature, as some of them can be rather boring and the combat while it isn't terrible, it's also not amazing but. The space combat and missions are really fun, especially the huge fleet battles which can have you and up to 24 other players fighting hundreds of a.i. ships.
The game is still quite easy and you'll quickly hit the level 50 cap following the campaigns, but they have added in harder fleet action quests that give out rare loot, so when you hit the cap the game doesn't just stop and it there's always PVP which with the large amount of in game customisation for gear, skills and ship set ups really comes into it's own.
Oh did I say it's also free and while there's a in game store to buy boosters, pets and to customize the look of character or ship all the in game content can be got for free even the store items by playing the game and trading one of the in game currency's (Dilithium) with other players for the real money in game currency (Crytic-points) through the in game exchange. So yeah go play it.
(screenshots to come)
Music!
Blue Stahli- The Pure and the Tainted [Extended Version]
Malufenix - Age of Aggression (Skyrim Cover)
Tommy Robin - Samurai Rock-Off
Asking Alexandria-A Lesson Never Learned (Celldweller remix)
If you haven't watched DBZA, I recomend you go watch it!