Perhaps most notably, Season 2 saw the beginning of the first Featured Episode series, “ Cold War”, also known as the Deferi or Breen arc. Season 2 is also the first time we saw the Waveform mini game. We also saw the addition of Tier 5 Retrofits for several “hero ships” – the T5 Galaxy, T5 Defiant and T5 Intrepid. For that new content, we saw new missions including the original Undine (Species 8472) arc, a Diplomacy arc, and 8 new Klingon missions including the Fek’Ihri arc.
It was also the first time we saw Mark 11 and 12 gear. Season 2 launched on July 27, 2010, and it gave us the first level cap increase to level 50. Season 1 is interesting to look back upon to see how much we have redefined what a Season is for Star Trek Online. Rigelians are humanoid, while Rigellians look like turtle people). Common Ground saw new PvP updates, off-duty uniforms, some new ships for Klingons, skill respecs, and a few new playable species such as Tellarites, Pakleds, and Rigelians ( Star Trek Lore note: Rigelians are not Rigellians. Looking back on this, Common Ground was really a polish Season, and an opportunity to release things that we could not get into the launch of the game. This is something we keep finding ourselves doing here at Cryptic – City of Heroes had “Issues” and Neverwinter has “Modules”. We adopted the moniker of “Seasons” for content updates to reflect the seasons of a television series. Star Trek Online’s first update, Season 1: Common Ground, was released on of March 24, 2010. Their presence in the game was brief, but we were super excited and proud to have them. The launch of Star Trek Online included our first Star Trek alumni actors - Zachary Quinto, Chase Masterson, and the legendary Leonard Nimoy. It was revolutionary, it honored the IP, and it was (and continues to be) arguably the best part of Star Trek Online. The game launched with 19 playable ships for the Federation (6 of which were for the endgame), and about a dozen playable ships for the Klingons. You could play a Federation character from level 1, but gameplay for the Klingon Faction started around level 20 - and you had to unlock access to Klingons by first leveling up a Federation Captain. It had a level cap of 40, and “1½” playable Factions.
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Star Trek Online launched on PC on February 2, 2010. We were already making an ambitious game with both ground and space combat, and we were under an aggressive schedule, so adding a console version of the game at that stage was just not tenable. That is why so many things in the game originally came in fours (4 power levels, 4 Bridge Officers, 4 forward and aft weapon slots, 4 device slots, etc.) – so they could map easily to a game controller. So let’s take a moment and look at over 6 years of Star Trek Online development and see how much is in store for what is sure to be a monumental console launch.ĭuring the development of Star Trek Online, Cryptic was working with Microsoft, so there was actually an original plan to put Star Trek Online on Xbox 360. With over 6 years of content and improvements, the console launch will be so different from the original PC launch of Star Trek Online. Now it’s the 50 th anniversary of the first episode of Star Trek, and to celebrate, Star Trek Online is headed to console. Yet, for all that it is, Star Trek Online had a humble beginning. It’s been over 6 years since Star Trek Online first launched, and a lot has happened in those 6 years! We have seen 11 seasons, 3 expansions, 15 Star Trek alumni guest actors, 29 playable species, about 400 playable ships, and a countless rogues gallery of baddies, creatures, and enemies.
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