Category: Star Trek Online News

On their website today, Arc Games announced the latest content update for Star Trek Online, called Awakening, will star Anthony Rapp andl release on September 10.

In a blog post, Star Trek Online issued patch notes which addressed several content and systems related items in-game.

Star Trek Online console captains can now fly into the game to check out the Rise of Discovery content expansion. Players will find both Captain Lorca and Commander Landry from the CBS series, Star Trek Discovery. Players will venture out with the pair aboard the USS Buran as they “play through two incredibly moving featured episodes to uncover what happened to these characters before they beamed aboard the USS Discovery in the show’s first season”.

Beginning July 2nd, Star Trek Online Captains looking for a bit of summer relaxation can grab some welcome downtime thanks to the arrival of the Risian Lohlunat Festival. The event will last through August 15th and it will launch simultaneously for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Starting today, Star Trek Online PC captains will be taking off for Rise of Discovery along with Jason Isaacs and Rekha Sharma. Today’s new content is the continuation of the crossover with CBS Television’s Star Trek: Discovery. This time, players will head back in time to the USS Buran where they will find Captain Gabriel Lorca and Commander Ellen Landry.

Over the course of the upcoming weekend, Star Trek Online will be featuring a Junior Officer Weekend that will see players earn +50% Commendation XP by completing Duty Officer assignments. In addition, players can claim a free Purple quality duty officer “with a unique active roster power”. This is only available to Captains who have not yet claimed a duty officer in prior events.

When Star Trek Online: Rise of Discovery launches later this year, it will feature both Captain Gabriel Lorca and Commander Ellen Landry, voiced by Jason Isaacs and Rekha Sharma. As players work through Rise of Discovery, they will fight beside the USS Buran and learn the history of each in their time before joining the crew of the Discovery. Rise of Discovery will launch on May 14th.

Starting April 18th and running for three weeks, PC Star Trek Online captains can take part in Operation Riposte, “the first major Federation offensive of the Klingon-Federation War of 2256-57”. During the event, players level 10 and above can earn a TFO Commendation every 20 hours and will allow players to “earn progress toward a free ship by participating each day in the featured TFO Events” that will run from now through the fall.

The Foundry System in Star Trek Online and Neverwinter was a way for players to create and share adventures with their fellow community members since both games debuted. However, as of today, The Foundry has gone dark in both games. Cryptic Studios posted a brief notice and farewell on the STO Facebook page.

A new blog post has arrived on the Star Trek Online site to give players a heads up about some big changes coming to character creation. UI Designer Jo Gianulis writes that, at the start, STO character creation was simple and worked well but that, over time, it became “bloated and overwhelming” due to the addition of new species and factions. The process began to “clean up the UI and cut down on the visual clutter”.