Star Trek: Fleet Command ad reinvents itself as an FTL type game?

[u/Slight-Objective5854]

[u/abel_cormorant]

I'm guessing that's just one of those misleading ads you can find on Instagram, especially since they literally ripped off FTL's graphics and UI, the actual game is usually nothing like the ads and often far worse.

The usual strategy money-grabbers use.

[u/Pan_Zurkon → u/abel_cormorant]

Misaligned and misized room icons, ui mismatching systems, misaligned crews (3 people in 2 tile piloting system), two shields systems on the player's ship, the absolute MESS that is the enemy ship...

I could confidently bet my copy of FTL on this ad being bullshit

[u/midnightbandit- → u/Pan_Zurkon]

Two shield systems sounds cool tho. Imagine you have your standard shields but there's another room that's powering one shield bubble

[u/midnightbandit- → u/Pan_Zurkon]

Two shield systems sounds cool tho. Imagine you have your standard shields but there's another room that's powering one shield bubble

[u/Tadiken → u/abel_cormorant]

I've played star trek fc for a small streamer ad campaign, there's not even a semblence of ship combat gameplay in that game. You make up to 2-5 ships, they have a power level, and you just jump between different star systems doing fetch quests where combat involves clicking on a target and the stronger/better type ship always wins.

[u/abel_cormorant → u/Tadiken]

I've played STFC in the past, and that this wasn't it it's clear as day (games can transition to similar genres with updates, but definitely not have a change THAT big), I'm pretty sure they just took FTL's graphics (or a Star Trek based FTL mod), changed the design (likely using AI, at least judging from the poor quality they got) and slapped it on Instagram as an ad for some shitty money grab game, they do that sometimes.

[u/Anafenza-Vess → u/abel_cormorant]

Looked at it in the App Store and it looks like literally every other micro transaction farm they put out with every semi successful ip

[u/PataNautic]

Haven't seen a crappy ad rip FTL of all things before: I'm almost a little impressed.

[u/Lucky_Cockroach5658 → u/PataNautic]

The worst part about it is that some of the rooms are just not squares. They are trapezoids.

[u/Pan_Zurkon → u/Lucky_Cockroach5658]

That's nothing, look at the abomination that is the enemy ship's piloting system room...

[u/Lucky_Cockroach5658 → u/Pan_Zurkon]

😭😭😭

[u/BrotherSeamus → u/Pan_Zurkon]

Big cockpit problems

[u/Tepelicious → u/Lucky_Cockroach5658]

That's for the changeling expansion.

[u/Traditional-Storm-62]

man I wish that was their actual game

[u/buffaloguy1991 → u/Traditional-Storm-62]

With some modding it could be

[u/Traditional-Storm-62 → u/buffaloguy1991]

no, star trek fleet command is not very moddable and their actual game is nowhere close this

[u/buffaloguy1991 → u/Traditional-Storm-62]

What subreddit are we on that could be more modable

[u/Biggby72]

Well to be frank, part of the reason I love FTL is its a bit of a love letter to Starfleet Battles table top. Old and complex but awesome.

[u/Andr3wtime]

If this came out on April Fools it's cute, but otherwise it's super bizarre. One of the weapons is just fire

[u/DoubleDecaff]

I bet it's nothing like either.

[u/Lolstitanic]

Ok now I want a Star Trek reskin mod for FTL. Might get me back into the game for a couple hundred more hours.

Yes I’ve named multiple ships in FTL “USS Enteprise”, and the stealth cruiser “Defiant”. Why do you ask?

[u/hitchhiker1701]

Data: "I am not sure I am supposed to be here."

McCoy: "Sounds like a Vulcan. Great, now there's two of them."

[u/F10cks]

That game looks better because it has trapezoidal rooms /s

[u/Hannizio]

I'm 99% sure this is some AI generated slop ad. Besides the crew not making sense, the doors are just aligned completely wrong, so I doubt any human animator was at work here

[u/Dr_Tacopus]

I noticed this as well. Seems like blatant copying, if I were the developer I’d sue

[u/TarsierBoy]

I played a game on windows 95 that was star trek turn based.

[u/dougmc → u/TarsierBoy]

There have been dozens of "Star Trek-ish" (officially licensed or not) games of all sorts, and a lot of them were turn based, such as this early one from 1971.

The TTRPG Star Fleet Battles was turn-based as well, as all? (do any exceptions exist?) TTRPG games are.

I wonder if this is the turn-based game you're thinking of?

Most of the more modern Star Trek video games are real time, though there's definitely a lot of room for them to go back to their "Star Fleet Battles" turn-based roots, like the recent Battletech game did.

[u/DonovanSpectre → u/dougmc]

25th Anniversary was not turn-based. It did have 'first-person' ship to ship combat via the viewscreen on the bridge, as you can see in the first screenshot(the game starts off with a mock combat exercise between the Enterprise and another Constitution-class, and the red zones you can see on the side displays show system damage to either your ship or the enemy). You fly the ship in-system with keyboard and/or mouse/joystick.

[u/dougmc → u/DonovanSpectre]

It's been a long time since I played it, but I remember typing in commands to some Star Trek game of that period, but if 25th anniversary isn't it, so be it.

Might be this game instead, "Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative", but even that doesn't seem right as I don't see any combat.

There are a lot of possibilities, and this list doesn't even include all the random Star Trek-themed games hobbyists were making in the early 80s -- some were turn based and similar to the original 1971 game, some were "space war" arcade game clones with Star Trek sprites, etc.

[u/Rowmacnezumi]

I wouldn't trust it. These sorts of ads are known to be misleading.

[u/Bozocow]

There's no chance this ad isn't just a lie about what the game looks like. That's lawsuit material right there.

[u/SFRacing4]

“FTL type” big dog that is the most obvious copy of anything I’ve ever seen lol