GI Article on STO, transcribed (UPDATED W/ PICS + MORE INFO!)

Star Trek Online, A New Era (from GI, Oct. 2008)

The task Cryptic Studios has undertaken is no easy feat. Star Trek is one of the most familiar and recognized pop culture franchises in the world. Its enthusiasts were holding conventions and quoting scripts years before most other fan communities even sprouted. Needless o say, this group has high expectations about how the object of their affection should be treated. In a second group that only sometimes intersects with the first, sit the MMO players. They devote thousands of hours to their hobby, and any new title attempting to grab their attention. Amid the myriad options must meet a high quality bar. Finally, sitting apart from the first two groups are the skeptics. Rightfully suspicious of a franchise that has floundered for ears, they point to recent movies, TV series, and a disappointing array of video games that have all failed to reignite excitement for the long-lived sci-fi series. To succeed in crafting Star Trek Online, Cryptic must address them all, and somehow emerge with a cohesive and exciting game.

“It’s not about making a MMO that’s Star Trek. It’s about bringing Star Trek to a massively multiplayer arena,” explains Craig Zinkievich, executive on Star Trek Online. He’s eager to talk about this dream project for his team. His enthusiasm is apparent from the moment we sit down at their studio. “We’re all passionate about the IP [Intellectual property],” says Zinkievich. “We love the IP. Some of us own weapons from the IP. We don’t want to focus on making an MMO so much as bringing the Star Trek universe to life.”

The team at Cryptic has long sought the chance to tackle the expansive Trek fiction, and the opportunity finally arose when the rights passed from Perpetual Entertainment to Cryptic early this year. Without pause, the Cryptic team dove into content creation. Throughout its existence, a large part of the developer's energy has gone into crafting an engine that can handle any game they throw at it. By allowing designers, artists, and programmers to work inside the game world, the engine can implement new ideas almost instantaneously. Consequently, only weeks after acquiring the license a devoted squad of developers had a prototype version of Star Trek Online up and running. For anyone familiar with next-gen development timetables, this sounds preposterous. The implausible scenario becomes a reality once you see just how far the game has come in these short months. During our visit, a huge number of art assets were already in place. Space combat was up and working. Whole planets and the ability to run through them were on display. The remarkably extensive race and character creator already produces endless varieties.

This accommodating tech gives Cryptic enough confidence to proclaim the game will release before the end of next year on PCs and consoles. Like Champions Online, which Cryptic will release this coming spring, Star Trek Online is built from the ground up as a game that functions as a unified experience across any platform. While approvals from the major console manufacturers are still pending, it is telling that the team demos the game with both keyboard and mouse or an Xbox game controller - the same controller players will be using to tackle Champions when it releases on that console next year. "Both Microsoft and Sony want MMOs on their platforms, but they have to figure out how they can enter that space", Zinkievich tells us.

Since it acquired the rights, Cryptic has been busy implementing design ideas and crafting the future of the Star Trek mythos. While the upcoming J.J. Abrams movie will take viewers back to the genesis of Kirk and Spock's time on the Enterprise, Cryptic has been given full reign to drive into the unmapped time period of the much later 25th century. "The universe is a little bit different than when everybody left off with Nemesis", explains Zinkievich. "Things have changed. It’s more hostile. A lot of the old threats and challenges that the different civilizations have faced have come back to the forefront". STO is set 29 years after the end of Star Trek Nemesis, the last of the Next Generation films. In 2409, the Khitomer Accords have broken down, shattering the peace that once kept the Federation and the Klingon Empire as allies. (transcribed by Knights Templar Fleet and Jay) An ancient threat has subtly emerged, looming over the civilizations of the Alpha Quadrant, but each culture seems to only know bits and pieces of the puzzle that could reveal the danger.

The Klingon's have absorbed the reptilian Gorn into the Empire, and enacted an alliance with the green-skinned Orion’s, even while the bellicose Nausicaans are increasingly attracted to the Klingon's aggressive tendencies. Across the Neutral Zone, the Federation continues to expand. Longtime allies like the Vulcan’s and Andorian's continue to explore the stars beside humanity, while both Bajor and the Ferengi have joined the Federation and Starfleet. The Romulan's continue to pick up the pieces from their recent civil war, and the Cardassian and Dominion forces remain an unknown factor in the upcoming struggle. As the game begins, outright war between Klingon’s and the Federation seems inevitable, and each faction is jockeying for resources and allies, even as skirmishes begin to break out.

Players will fly their starships into this dangerous backdrop when they log into Star Trek Online for the first time. You'll begin by selecting one faction or the other. This choice will determine who you'll be fighting against if you partake in player versus-player combat, what races you can choose from, and what ship designs you can play with. After choosing a race or creating your own (see page 53), you'll proceed to build your first ship (see page 55). Every player in game will fly their own vessel into battle, maintain a crew, and explore strange new worlds even while playing the game solo. Your primary avatar in the game world is the captain of your ship, though he or she may not hold that esteemed rank as the game begins. Your first ship may be as small as a runabout, but the rank progression will unlock ever more grand ship classes to command.

Each ship has a bridge crew. These unique individuals act like pets in other MMOs. Each one is player-controlled, but AI driven. Whether science officer or security chief, each character has his or her own unique stats, race, and areas of specialty. A tactical officer may know all about modulating shield harmonics to ward off Borg weapons. Your doctor may be especially experienced at field medicine, and thus a great choice for your away party. This crew will grow alongside you, or can be transferred away as you encounter new officers that better fit your command style. They can be injured in battle and taken to sickbay, but as a rule they won’t die as you wander the galaxy together.

Below the bridge officers sit the rest of your general crew. Unnamed but still essential, they offer passive bonuses to your ship as you play. (transcribed by Knights Templar Fleet and Jay) For instance, a good repair team is a necessity if you’re planning extensive trips into the dangerous Neutral Zone. These characters can die, and once severely depleted, your ship will be in a sorry state. You'll need to return to a starbase or find a friendly planet and hope more recruits are willing to join you.

Setting out into the galaxy, players will find an expansive game "world" quite unlike other MMOs. Everything scales to the task at hand. At the top level, a galactic map reveals huge sectors of space to explore. Take your ship into an individual sector, and you'll see a tactical display of systems, the concentration of other ships in the area, and your own ship's place in the mix. "Sector space is like astronavigation", Zinkievich says. "We want sector space to be a place where players cross into each other". The sector display reveals the topography of space, allows repairs and chatting, and serves as a conduit between major points of interest. In sector space you'll navigate to your destination, making choices about whether to pass through an unknown nebula or go around, or how close is too close to that black hole along your path.

The real fun begins when you arrive at your chosen system. At this scale, you now see your ship in three dimensional space. In a given system, each planet might have its own bubble of space to investigate, willed with moons, starbases, planetary rings, and of course enemy ships.

Space combat is a focused tactical affair, more akin to pirate sea battles than high-speed dogfights. In one encounter we were shown, the player flew a large Starfleet ship into battle against two smaller Klingon Birds of Prey. Quick button presses readjusted power between weapons and shields. The tactical officer cued up a photon torpedo spread to hammer an opposing ship, a skill that must recharge after each use. Numerous complex skills also function on the same recharge functionality. Meanwhile, more basic attack and defense features are built around resource management rather than timers. As the Klingon vessel drifted away, badly damaged, its companion ship tried to sneak around to level an attack from behind. Shifting power away from weapons and engines, our demo player boosted the rear shields in time to prevent catastrophic damage during the barrage. Rolling the ship around to starboard, the Starfleet ship's weapons were brought back up to full and a long blast of phaser fire drained the second Klingon's shields, leaving her incapacitated.

It won’t be unusual after a battle to beam down to a nearby planet or across to the other ship to continue a mission. Here players will encounter the final level of scale - one that feels more familiar to MMO players - a traditional third-person view. "When you go on an away mission, you’re going to bring four of your bridge crew", Zinkievich relays. "The bridge crew is there to fill in when our friends aren’t around". Any number of tasks might be required in this part of the game, from exploring a ruined structure on a planet's surface to retrieving some important vaccine only found in the planet's plant life. Like in space a lot of the excitement will come from the inevitable conflicts that arise. Avatar combat is an entirely different battle system from the tactical ship battles in space. Focused on fast-paced action, phasers and disrupters are fired using an aiming reticule, and visceral melee combat arises when Klingon’s bring bladed bat'leths to bear. "The avatar combat is meant to be a complement to starship combat", Zinkievich says. "We want it to be fast paced. We want it to be a lot more visceral".

Fans will be quick to point out that combat is only one part of the Star Trek universe. To address this point, Cryptic is implementing a number of game mechanics to deepen the game play beyond mere battle dynamics. Diplomacy with other races is a core component of that plan, typified by the need to recruit new races into your respective alliance. Crafting, trade, and mining might be on a more grand scale than in many MMOs, but it’s there for players to partake in the galactic economy.

Another central tenant of the Star Trek experience is exploration. "We have to make sure that the universe feels vast, along with all the storylines and plots - that there is a place where you can go out into deep space and explore and go where no man has gone before", Zinkievich tells us. While thousands of players may be wandering through the Star Trek Online galaxy, every player can explore strange new worlds untouched by other captains and crews. Existing worlds (like Vulcan) and popular locations (like DS9) are heavily designed and customized by Cryptic, but the thousands of unexplored systems are procedurally generated by the Cryptic Engine, allowing the game space to endlessly expand in every direction. By creating a multitude of art assets for planetary features, the game engine can create new worlds on the fly, populating them both with creatures and unusual terrains. We were show a planetary surface covered with huge spires of violet crystal rising to impossible heights and widening into high, mushroom like platforms. With a few button presses by an artist, the yellow tinged sky turned into a reddish blue hue and the landscape morphed until it was unrecognizable from its previous incarnation. Between the use of tools like this and Cryptic's ability to make structured instanced areas for individual players, the illusion of pioneering deep space exploration emerges.

The real fun begins when you arrive at your chosen system. At this scale, you now see your ship in three dimensional space. In a given system, each planet might have its own bubble of space to investigate, willed with moons, starbases, planetary rings, and of course enemy ships.

Space combat is a focused tactical affair, more akin to pirate sea battles than high-speed dogfights. In one encounter we were shown, the player flew a large Starfleet ship into battle against two smaller Klingon Birds of Prey. Quick button presses readjusted power between weapons and shields. The tactical officer cued up a photon torpedo spread to hammer an opposing ship, a skill that must recharge after each use. Numerous complex skills also function on the same recharge functionality. Meanwhile, more basic attack and defense features are built around resource management rather than timers. As the Klingon vessel drifted away, badly damaged, its companion ship tried to sneak around to level an attack from behind. Shifting power away from weapons and engines, our demo player boosted the rear shields in time to prevent catastrophic damage during the barrage. Rolling the ship around to starboard, the Starfleet ship's weapons were brought back up to full and a long blast of phaser fire drained the second Klingon's shields, leaving her incapacitated.

It won’t be unusual after a battle to beam down to a nearby planet or across to the other ship to continue a mission. Here players will encounter the final level of scale - one that feels more familiar to MMO players - a traditional third-person view. "When you go on an away mission, you’re going to bring four of your bridge crew", Zinkievich relays. "The bridge crew is there to fill in when our friends aren’t around". Any number of tasks might be required in this part of the game, from exploring a ruined structure on a planet's surface to retrieving some important vaccine only found in the planet's plant life. (transcribed by Knights Templar Fleet and Jay) Like in space a lot of the excitement will come from the inevitable conflicts that arise. Avatar combat is an entirely different battle system from the tactical ship battles in space. Focused on fast-paced action, phasers and disrupters are fired using an aiming reticule, and visceral melee combat arises when Klingon’s bring bladed bat'leths to bear. "The avatar combat is meant to be a complement to starship combat", Zinkievich says. "We want it to be fast paced. We want it to be a lot more visceral".

Fans will be quick to point out that combat is only one part of the Star Trek universe. To address this point, Cryptic is implementing a number of game mechanics to deepen the game play beyond mere battle dynamics. Diplomacy with other races is a core component of that plan, typified by the need to recruit new races into your respective alliance. Crafting, trade, and mining might be on a more grand scale than in many MMOs, but it’s there for players to partake in the galactic economy.

Another central tenant of the Star Trek experience is exploration. "We have to make sure that the universe feels vast, along with all the storylines and plots - that there is a place where you can go out into deep space and explore and go where no man has gone before", Zinkievich tells us. While thousands of players may be wandering through the Star Trek Online galaxy, every player can explore strange new worlds untouched by other captains and crews. Existing worlds (like Vulcan) and popular locations (like DS9) are heavily designed and customized by Cryptic, but the thousands of unexplored systems are procedurally generated by the Cryptic Engine, allowing the game space to endlessly expand in every direction. By creating a multitude of art assets for planetary features, the game engine can create new worlds on the fly, populating them both with creatures and unusual terrains. We were show a planetary surface covered with huge spires of violet crystal rising to impossible heights and widening into high, mushroom like platforms. With a few button presses by an artist, the yellow tinged sky turned into a reddish blue hue and the landscape morphed until it was unrecognizable from its previous incarnation. Between the use of tools like this and Cryptic's ability to make structured instanced areas for individual players, the illusion of pioneering deep space exploration emerges.

Even if the combat and exploration turn out to be good the game will be in serious trouble if it doesn’t deliver meaningful and structured game play. Fetch quests to bring back 10 Ferengi ears to a quest giver just doesn’t work. The solution lies in the roots of the Star Trek franchise - the TV episode framework. Zinkievich elaborates: "We found there is a structure to all the episodes in how the story unfolds. If you apply this pattern, it fits to ----- percent of the shows. It’s almost a subconscious -----. So we're taking that and trying to apply it to the content". Star Trek Online's core mission and story progression will appear as linked episodes - each with their own plot and unique events.

Cryptic demonstrated one episode that gives a glimpse into how this mechanic works. Starfleet contacts you with a request to delivers a Vulcan ambassador to his race's religious monastery on P'jem. Once there, a small fleet of Klingon ships attacks, warning that P'jem has been infiltrated by Species 8472, the dangerous race first seen in Star Trek Voyager. Fearing the threat this race represents, the Klingon’s intend to capture the planet, an action you must now prevent. The space battle eventually goes planet side you have to deliver the ambassador to his destination as Klingon forces continue their attack in closer quarters. After this hard fought victory, Starfleet contacts you to relay that they've found the actual body of the Vulcan ambassador. Realizing the man you accompanied is an imposter, you track him down and he reveals his identity as a disguised member of Species 8472, then flees to a Klingon ship. (transcribed by Knights Templar Fleet and Jay) You give pursuit, and finally destroy the ship, but as the episode ends a number of curious threads remain unsolved as to how this alien race managed to reach Starfleet and what their intentions are. Episodes like this will play out over the course of around an hour, and the team's goal is to have each one deliver a satisfying mix of action, exploration, diplomacy, and a variety of locales, just like an episode of one of the TV shows.

Apart from the dozens of episodes that provide context and plot, Cryptic is also focusing on the wider multiplayer experience. Players can form fleets that emulate the familiar idea of guilds. "The fleets are able to build starbases, which are like social hubs", Zinkievich explains. "There are stores for your fleet. They’re also a place where the economy can flourish. Fleets will be able to build the top end ships. It’s going to be so resource intensive that only fleets will be able to put those ships together". While traveling as a group, whether with members of your fleet or in an impromptu task force, the episodes unfold just as they would if you were by yourself. While playing with a group of four other players, your away team will be made up of each commanding officer, with support from bridge crew that remains in orbit. Play with fewer players, and some captains can bring their best officers to fill out the five person team.

The more focused group content will emerge from dynamic events that occur in different space sectors. For instance, three Borg cubes arriving through a transwarp conduit represent a threat no captain would tackle alone. These incursions into friendly space will appear on your sector map. "If you want, you can fly over there and jump in with a while lot of people to these zone-wide events and take them down with your fleet". Other similar dangers include the planet eating Doomsday Machine from the classic original series episode of the same name, or even the return of V'ger from the first Star Trek movie.

Beyond group encounters exist the unending factional war between the Federation and the Klingon’s. This conflict will play out both indirectly and during PvP combat. Players who don’t want to get involved in the war can help their faction by completing missions for the unaligned worlds. "You don’t have to actually go and get owned by somebody else in order to enjoy the faction game play", Zinkievich says. Convince a civilization that you can help them, and they'll often side with your faction, delivering technologies, additional resources, special abilities, or recruitable members of the species for your crew. More militant players should head toward the Neutral Zone, a gateway to the heated multiplayer war zone where the war between these two massive powers will play out. "We want to do direct PvP on ships and on ground as well. The results of those battles will determine who owns that system that week, and what resources you win for your faction", Zinkievich relays. Systems will change hands as the war continues, each offering certain strategic advantages that the other faction will desperately try to recover. Battles can be massive affairs, with the sound of phaser fire, the flash of detonating torpedoes, and the sight of massive starships being ripped apart and blossoming into explosions.

The upcoming prequel movie is meant to reinvigorate Star Trek viewers, and Star Trek Online is clearly meant to do the same for the gaming world. No other Trek game projects are in the works right now, and Star Trek Online represents the most extensive and massive game the Star Trek universe has ever seen. It isn’t surprising that Cryptic is hearing demands and expectations from any number of different quarters. In response, they have done the only thing that makes sense. "We make games that we want to play", Zinkievich proclaims now at the end of our day with Cryptic. "There's not a big huge meeting where we determine who our audience is with a Venn diagram. We're making the game that we are going to find fun. That’s really our philosophy across the board at Cryptic Studios."

Supplemental: New Life and New Civilizations
Whether you join the Klingon Empire or put on the Star Fleet insignia, uniforms don’t offer many customization options. While you can adjust some features of your dress, Cryptic has concentrated their character creator on body and face adjustments. You start building your main character by selecting an existing race. If you plan on joining Star Fleet, we’ve been assured that Humans, Vulcans, Bajorans, Andorians, Ferengi, and Tellarites are all featured. Meanwhile, the Klingon Empire has expanded to include the Gorn, Orions, and Nausicaans. Each race features unique stat boosts based on that species’ strengths, and you can dramatically alter the body shape and facial structure of your character within the reasonable boundaries established by their species.

New Star Trek episodes rarely passed without the appearance of some new alien species. Because of that, players are allowed to forego the more common races and create their own. Take one of the blue-skinned Andorians, remove his antennae, give him reptile eyes and a Bajoran nose. Add Klingon head ridges and then use a slider to extend the height of his forehead, and suddenly you’ve crafted an entirely new species. After naming them and distributing their stats, you can jump into the game. Whether you want to craft your own new alien species or emulate one that hasn’t yet been put into the game, like the Romulans or Cardassians, the tools are at your disposal. “The idea is to make a game where, if you want to, you can always make and play that one crazy race from some random episode,” Zinkievich says.

Supplemental: Shipbuilding 101
For some fans, the option to create your own ship design may be worth the price of admission to Star Trek Online. Each faction has various ship classes and you’re still bound in general structure and ship size by your rank, in other words, don’t expect to start the game in a Galaxy class flagship, like the Enterprise-D of the Next Generation era. Instead you must work your way up from lesser ships to larger and more powerful ones.
On the Starfleet side, escort ships like the Akira, Defiant, and Prometheus class are fast, maneuverable, and optimized for combat. Science ships like Voyager have increased scanning capabilities and support characteristics for fights. (transcribed by Knights Templar Fleet and Jay) Exploration vessels like the Sovereign class Enterprise-E are large and powerful, but sometimes less maneuverable.

Side with the Klingon Empire, and you might pursue raider style ships like the Bird of Prey. These are optimized for fast and early strikes, moving in and out of cloak at will. Massive cruisers can lay down heavy fire to control a battle with sheer might. Finally, carriers are a new class of Kling ships designed to deliver multiple fighters into the fray. In MMO terms, consider them a mix of a tank/pet class.

Each class of ship across both factions has a huge array of customizable options to make the ship your own. Trade out your saucer section for one of an entirely different design. Choose a different set of nacelles. Adjust the interior of your ship to appear closer to your favorite Trek era. Change the colored markings of your ship to match your fleet. Name your ship, and have its title emblazoned across the hull. Every part of your vessel can by adjusted or replaced. Even with our brief glimpse, there seemed to be endless combinations. Whether individual parts will affect performance remains undecided, but there’s no question that designing a ship will be as full featured as any fan could possible imagine.

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This is what I've been waiting for for a while now!! Huge thx for this Jay

This is a great read. Wil be back here frequently for additional study. tanks for putting it up.

bodog/jim

WOW

Thanks, jay, for taking the time out to translate this for us. What seems like old news to many appears to be the most informative source I have seen so far. Shy of doing a Hubble Deep Field Scan of Google, this info was nearly impossible to find in my preliminary searches without having to register with dozens of Game-(insert noun here) websites.

Mahalo

no pilikia.

:p

Freejack wrote:WOW

Thanks, jay, for taking the time out to translate this for us. What seems like old news to many appears to be the most informative source I have seen so far. Shy of doing a Hubble Deep Field Scan of Google, this info was nearly impossible to find in my preliminary searches without having to register with dozens of Game-(insert noun here) websites.

Mahalo

ya know, reading through what i pasted here, i'm missing some stuff!

be sure to check it out this thread later tonight, i'll post what i missed, which was some of the intro, and two supplemental add-ons on the race creator and ship building.

sorry, was sleepy prolly when i copied and pasted.

alrighty, the GI article has no more missing parts, i filled in the holes, and there are now very horrid quality pictures (my scanner is broken or something, so just used my POS celly) but its better than nothing.

enjoy your second read! (or first)

Thank you for this Jay, your eyes must be all crossed now There is a lot of information, I may change my mind again before the game's release for some of my characters.

I might actually go with the race I created in my book called the Xili (pronounced Zee-Lee). Wow the fact that there will be vast customization is such a bonus many MMO's limit that functionality in-game seems Cryptic has been paying attention.

This new post has me really wanting this game something fierce, can't wait for the release now. 2010 seems so much farther away now, let's pray end of 2009 is still the deadline.

no worries, the community here deserves all the STO it can handle. as for your custom race, you should definitely do it.

Cyberdurc22 wrote:
I might actually go with the race I created in my book called the Xili (pronounced Zee-Lee). Wow the fact that there will be vast customization is such a bonus many MMO's limit that functionality in-game seems Cryptic has been paying attention.

jayrelo wrote:no worries, the community here deserves all the STO it can handle. as for your custom race, you should definitely do it.

Cyberdurc22 wrote:
I might actually go with the race I created in my book called the Xili (pronounced Zee-Lee). Wow the fact that there will be vast customization is such a bonus many MMO's limit that functionality in-game seems Cryptic has been paying attention.

You're right, I'm going to change my Chief Medical Officer from Mas'Mar (Vulcan, Male) to Mai'Yoon (Xili, female). Could I get you to make that swap for me Jay...I'd appreciate that.

done.

Cyberdurc22 wrote:
You're right, I'm going to change my Chief Medical Officer from Mas'Mar (Vulcan, Male) to Mai'Yoon (Xili, female). Could I get you to make that swap for me Jay...I'd appreciate that.

Nice update! I wouldn't worry too much about the pics, most of them are from the screen shots or trailer anyway. At least we got to see them, that's the main thing!

The only mag pic that really caught my eye was on the Shipbuilding page, the page with arrows connecting 3 pics of different ships. Is that supposed to represent some of the variable parts that we will be able to change when creating our ships? Is it going from A to B to C, or am I misreading the emphasis of the arrows?

That's what I thought too, going from a standard ship to a customized one like we've seen in the trailer and screenshots.

Cyberdurc22 wrote:Thank you for this Jay, your eyes must be all crossed now There is a lot of information, I may change my mind again before the game's release for some of my characters.

I might actually go with the race I created in my book called the Xili (pronounced Zee-Lee). Wow the fact that there will be vast customization is such a bonus many MMO's limit that functionality in-game seems Cryptic has been paying attention.

This new post has me really wanting this game something fierce, can't wait for the release now. 2010 seems so much farther away now, let's pray end of 2009 is still the deadline.

I'll second everything Durc just(back in Dec) said!

haha, thanks. i'm either really dedicated, or really in love with you people.

i know i'm not dedicated anywhere else, so maybe just the love... :p

this is great!!! thanks Jay!!!! I saw the "OSLO" or Norway class ship. I like that one. and hiya everyone. I am back. fully recovered from my injury and surgery. Even returned to regular shift at the fire department. you will see more of me again!!!!

Bawobac wrote:this is great!!! thanks Jay!!!! I saw the "OSLO" or Norway class ship. I like that one. and hiya everyone. I am back. fully recovered from my injury and surgery. Even returned to regular shift at the fire department. you will see more of me again!!!!

Great to hear you have recovered and you are back. It's good to have you back Bawobac.

How have you been, as you can see...we are a Fleet now...lol

Welcome back Knight.

Thanks, it was a long road to recovery. takes a long time to put a shoulder back together. I may not be as strong as I was 10 years ago but strong enough.
Now, when is the game coming out?

LOL