News New Game - Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown

[Tuskin38]

This sounds really cool

Star Trek™: Voyager® - Across the Unknown on Steam

Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?

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Survival strategy game Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC

Publisher Daedalic Entertainment and developer Gamexcite have announced survival strategy game Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam). A release date w…

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[NCC-73515]

The 3D MSMD is great

 

[Yistaan]

So I'm assuming on a speedrun you can just genocide a bunch of aliens like the Equinox did and get to Earth in like 5 minutes? Can you ask the computer why the Enterprise in TOS can do 1,000 light years in 12 hours (check "That Which Survives", not to mention ST5 and TAS where the center of the galaxy is reachable) and suddenly since TNG 1,000 light years takes a year?

 

[Mike Doyle]

This is what this was
Thread 'Another new game in development'
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/another-new-game-in-development.315341/

 

[Yistaan]

I'm going to give the chief engineer job to someone who really deserves it, not a Maquis traitor with anger issues. Maybe even Harry Kim, B'elanna can be the ensign this time around.

Beam Seven of Nine into space and tell Icheb that he'll thank you later.

Kadis-Kot and kal-toh better be playable mini-games or it's officially the worst Trek game ever.

 

[Deks]

Depending on the 'iiberty' given to actual players in how they can change the timeline and the flexibility of what can be done on VOY itself, this might be interesting - but I don't know just how 'wide of a reach' the players will actually have.
If they set up an AI that can procedurally generate new stories depending on the choices the players make (and adjust the main cast responses as a result), that would make for some incredible adjustments on the fly - but if the cast does provide their own voices for this, I imagine they might be against AI usage in such a manner - or they might... who knows.
To create a game that can procedurally generate new stories based on the choices, the dialogues would have to change as well... you can't pre-record indefinite amounts of dialogue as that would be insane in practical terms.

So, if its not procedurally generated, and it relies on original cast voices, its bound to be limited in approach and directions you can take the events.

 

[Harpsichord]

the game features rogue-like elements

Oh my god we're finally getting Star Trek FTL

 

[JohnCrichton1999]

So I take it some people already knew of this game or were working on it. I used to be able to get to know ahead of time when games like this were in production, now I don't. So seeing this announcement is cool but also disturbs me because my insiders didn't say that this was coming out to begin with. NDA's are getting too good I guess.

 

[JohnCrichton1999]

This is what this was
Thread 'Another new game in development'
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/another-new-game-in-development.315341/

You SURE? How come this is the first time I've heard of it?

 

[Tuskin38]

You SURE?

Yes, the developer matches.

How come this is the first time I've heard of it?

because you don't know everything?

So I take it some people already knew of this game or were working on it.

All we knew was there was a Star Trek game in development by this developer, but there had been no news since an announcement in October 2023 other than a job listing mentioning knowledge of the TNG era and Voyager being a plus.

Depending on the 'iiberty' given to actual players in how they can change the timeline and the flexibility of what can be done on VOY itself, this might be interesting - but I don't know just how 'wide of a reach' the players will actually have.
If they set up an AI that can procedurally generate new stories depending on the choices the players make (and adjust the main cast responses as a result), that would make for some incredible adjustments on the fly - but if the cast does provide their own voices for this, I imagine they might be against AI usage in such a manner - or they might... who knows.
To create a game that can procedurally generate new stories based on the choices, the dialogues would have to change as well... you can't pre-record indefinite amounts of dialogue as that would be insane in practical terms.

So, if its not procedurally generated, and it relies on original cast voices, its bound to be limited in approach and directions you can take the events.

I doubt there will be voice acting, that would be mentioned as a feature if it were. Developers/Publishers love bragging about getting actors.

One screen shot shows Cardassian Seska in a starfleet uniform, I guess you can convince her not to betray Voyager or something.

 

[David cgc]

Oh my god we're finally getting Star Trek FTL

It seems like that's the best one-line summary of it.

 

[Yistaan]

Janeway: A direct course to Earth is too long (never mind that Kirk went to the center of the galaxy a century ago, I assume someone blew up a bunch of Omega particles between then and now). I suggest that we go the opposite direction, to the galactic barrier. Presumably someone on this ship with a high ESP rating will gain godlike powers, who will then use that power to get us home. There, problem solved.

(Secret easy-win possibility for game)

 

[Tuskin38]

One of the examples given in the article is taking full advantage of any Borg tech

 

[JohnCrichton1999]

Yes, the developer matches.


because you don't know everything?


All we knew was there was a Star Trek game in development by this developer, but there had been no news since an announcement in October 2023 other than a job listing mentioning knowledge of the TNG era and Voyager being a plus.


I doubt there will be voice acting, that would be mentioned as a feature if it were. Developers/Publishers love bragging about getting actors.

One screen shot shows Cardassian Seska in a starfleet uniform, I guess you can convince her not to betray Voyager or something.

Just saying I know people and I should've known that this was in development. Some reason it was skipped out on me so now I got to have some talkings to to some people.

 

[Quinton]

A Voyager game in 2026. I love this.

 

[Yistaan]

Doctor: Hi cadets, it is I, your favorite instructor and doctor, the Doctor. I have spent the last 800 years perfecting the perfect training holoprogram for Starfleet Academy cadets, that places YOU in the role of the legendary Captain Kathryn Janeway, as she leads Voyager in her legendary mission through the Delta Quadrant. Why, Admiral Janeway herself gave her approval for this program so many centuries ago, the source code for it fortunately survived the Burn, and Admiral Vance has now cleared it for you cadets in this class. Will you side with the Borg or Species 8472, or are you a new James Kirk and don't believe in a no win situation? How many times will you "bend" the Prime Directive or will you go all USS Equinox?

High grades will get you a chance for early field missions on behalf of the Federation alongside Commander Rayner. Cadets who make poor choices in the holoprogram will be forced to pick mushrooms for Commander Stamets.

 

[Tuskin38]

Saw this on reddit

 

[NCC-73515]

Now people can play out all these "what if the show had been completely different?" threads

 

[Starflight]

This genuinely looks like the best thing ever. It's hard to go wrong with FTL as an inspiration.

Reading that you can have the Klingon B'Elanna from "Faces" stay on the crew makes me wonder how many variables there are, because if it covers all seven seasons, there's surely just way too much going on for the game to account for, even if a lot of it is handled by roguelike systems rather than human-written narrative.

Also 90% of players will put Neelix off at the first stop.

 

[!LuvKJ]

Now people can play out all these "what if the show had been completely different?" threads

Tuvix is gonna get my Voyager home by not screwing up and letting the Ferengi break the Barzan wormhole.