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 The game is basically a bit sluggish when it comes to control. But you can compensate with lower resolutions, especially on slower systems. It doesn't look so great, but it's certainly more pleasant than dropped inputs and slow reactions. The 1.3 patch gives the game 16:9 and 16:10 resolutions in addition to the original 4:3 resolutions, if supported by the hardware. On current systems, however, one can enjoy the full range.
 ==== Graphics settings ====
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-There's basically not much to explain. Most of it is like in other games:
+{{  :en:games:armada_1_graphics_settings.png?nolink&  }}There's basically not much to explain. Most of it is like in other games:
   * **Display Mode**: Resolution and color depth. This heavily influences whether the graphics are smoothly rendered. Setting this to high makes the game stutter rather easily, compared to outer titles from that era.
   * **Display Driver**: If you have multiple graphics cards or drivers installed, you can choose one here, but usually there's no choice anyways.
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   * **Cinematic Window**: Should the current events be displayed as a video sequence in the lower right corner of the game interface or not? If not, the window content is simply overlayed with an icon. Reduces the load on the computer if the game stutters.
   * **Graphics Detail**: It should be clear what this is for. The higher, the better it looks, but the more system resources the game requires.
 ==== Increase zoom ====
 One small annoyance can be remedied if one is not completely satisfied with the standard overview. Armada starts by default zoomed in quite far, which in my opinion doesn't help the overview of the events at all. In principle, you can now adjust this zoom by holding down both mouse buttons at the same time. (It's a bit bumpy, but once you got the hang of it, it works. First the right button, then the left one, in between make sure that you don't move the mouse.) But you can also adjust this setting in the ''RTS_CFG.h'' file. There you can find this line:
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 See also [[Star Trek Armada 1 Units]] on details of the available ships, stations and weapons.
 === Borg Collective ===
-The Borg have a rather strong offensive capability in form of their assimilation mechanics. The special weapons are not to powerful aside from this. Borg crews are the games most effective boarding parties. The faction suffers from the crew drain the assimilation mechanics puts on the economy (holding beam kind of beams boarding parties of 50 crew/sek. onto the ship, draining both vessels crew amount until either energy of crew runs out or the target ship/station is claimed successfully). On the other side they have a strong regeneration capability for all their units ans structures.
+The Borg have a rather strong offensive capability in form of their assimilation mechanics. The special weapons are not to powerful aside from this. Borg crews are the games most effective boarding parties. The faction suffers from the crew drain the assimilation mechanics puts on the economy (holding beam kind of beams boarding parties of 50 crew/sek. onto the ship, draining both vessels crew amount until either energy of crew runs out or the target ship/station is claimed successfully). On the other side they have a strong regeneration capability for all their units ans structures. Their drawback is the fact, that many units take a lot more resources to build, incl. the amount of time required to build them. So they kind of come a bit later, but once they come, they pack quite a punch.
 == Tier One Units ==
   * Detector: Scout vessel, large scanning radius, weak pulse cannon, tachyon detection (uncloak).
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 The game makes it a bit difficult to create screen shots. The ''Print'' key works only, once you are in windowed mode. By default, the game is in full screen mode. To switch to windowed mode (or back to full screen mode), press ''ALT'' + ''Enter''. This however, only works when in a match or single player mission. Once you are in windowed mode, you can safely end the match and get to the menu. As long as you are in windowed mode, you can use the ''Print'' key and insert the taken screen shot into your favorite graphics editor.
 ===== Web links =====
+  * [[https://discord.gg/cMEAPCv|Star Trek Armada Discord]]
   * [[http://www.treknews.de/treknews/newspro-treknews/static/99211817649831.php|Review and also some links to Armada]]
   * [[http://www.pcgames.de/Star-Trek-Armada-PC-16107/Downloads/Star-Trek-Armada-v11-d-5955/|Armada - Patch 1.1 (official)]]