During the 24th and 25th century the assimilation process has evolved quickly, leading to ever more extreme forms of replacing host organs and limbs with prosthesis'. Since the Borg deem aesthetics to be irrelevant, these implants may very well disfigure and mutilate the subject. Roughly half of a victim's organic body is replaced by cybernetic implants and nano-technology during assimilation. Mostly humanoid species have been assimilated, thus almost all Borg Drones have a humanoid appearance. Tactical staff excel at DPS and all-round combat.Borg are a cybernetic life-form.
Science officers are basically healers but also help in taking down enemies with bleed skills. Engineering officers are the crowd control of the group and can also take the most damage, making them suited for tanking with skills such as stun mines and turrets, they also provide support damage for a group. Happy days.Īs an Ensign, there are three core classes you can specialise as engineering, science and tactical. You can exchange, for example, a single auxiliary battery for enough energy credits to get you four banana pancakes. The replicators from the shows are re-purposed as part of the looting system and you can melt down gear into energy credits to be reused in making more equipment. The combat system for ground missions (or indeed, ship interior missions) is the usual MMO fare, involving shortcut bars down the bottom of the screen, shin kicking enemies until they drop and then looting their corpses for knick-knacks and weapons. The captain of the ship sends you around the war-torn vessel assisting in repelling its already somewhat advanced assimilation. An ally ship is in dire straights and you’re selected to be beamed over to assist. War is upon the Federation and your fleet is embroiled in a battle against the Borg that’s not too dissimilar from that of the opening sequence in Star Trek: First Contact. In space, they only hear you scream if you yell the 'K' wordĪs the game opens and the plot begins, you’re cast as an Ensign in the Federation – one of those useless little plebs who invariably show up purely so they can be killed later on in the episode. Knowing all too well the futility of resistance, we opted to play as a reclaimed Borg.
Rather than a myriad of sliders that do very little, you can choose between a number of character presets which vary appearance considerably. The character creation system lets you choose between humans and just about every other obscure humanoid race that you’ve seen walking around on the Enterprise or Deep Space Nine. By this time, if you’re still playing the game then there's a solid chance that you still will be when you’ve utterly destroyed the final remnants of your social life. Featuring everyone’s favourite sci-fi franchise and being a PC-only title, we were all but obliged to send one of the team to boldly go where millions of overweight and socially-challenged nerds had gone before.Īs with all MMOs, there is never really an end so what we’re looking at is the first 25 hours or so of play. Star Trek Online is one of the most eagerly anticipated massively multiplayer online role play games ever to hit the shelves.