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State of the Game: 03/12/10

Star Trek Online - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 01:28
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STF: The Cure Overview

Star Trek Online - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 00:49

Our latest Special Task Force, “The Cure,” will challenge you and your friends in brand new ways.

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Season One: Common Ground Fact Sheet

Star Trek Online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 23:32
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Our latest content update, Season One: Common Ground, is releasing shortly. Here’s just a bit of the updates we have headed players’ way.

PVP Updates
  • Wargames – Federation players can now participate in PvP against one another to better prepare for the dangers of the battlefield.
  • New PvP Map – Explore “Shanty Town,” a brand new Ground Assault map available for both Klingon and Federation players.
Customization
  • Off-Duty Uniforms – Experience DS9 in style! Starfleet officers will have the option to change into off-duty outfits to enjoy more casual attire.
  • New Stances and Hairstyles – Further customize your Captain by changing his or her hairstyle, or adopting two brand new stances: Stern and Relaxed.
  • The Captain's Log - A web-based application to check in on you and your friends' Captains and ships.
Ships
  • A New Klingon Battle Cruiser – The K’Tanco Battle Cruiser has been made available to Klingon Lieutenant Commanders.
  • Klingon Ship Customization - Use the ship tailor to customize your Bird of Prey, Carrier or Raptor.
Missions
  • New Fleet Actions Everywhere!
    • The Big Dig – Available in Romulan space.
    • DS9 Under Siege - The True Way has attacked and boarded DS9. Repel the invasion to save the day.
    • Klingons Can Play, Too – Klingon Captains may now access the Crystalline Entity, Big Dig and Breaking the Planet Fleet Actions
Skills
  • Respec Is Here – Unhappy with your Captain’s skill point allocation? Use the respec tool to change things up. (Available both in-game and as a C-store item.)
  • New Skill: Starship Attack Vectors – Improve your ship’s accuracy and critical hit chance.
  • New Skill: Combat Maneuvers – Improve your ship’s evasion and turn rate.
  • New Skill: Starship Battle Strategy – Improve your ship’s critical hit severity and damage resistance.
In The C-Store
  • New Bridge Variants - All new ways to update your Bridges’ look, available for a low price in the C-Store for both Federation and Klingon ships.
  • Federation Ship Variants – New takes on your old favorites, available for a low price in the C-Store.
  • Respec - Unhappy with your Captain’s skill point allocation? Use the respec tool to change things up.
  • Character Slot - Purchase an additional character slot if you'd like to have more than three characters on your account.
  • Rename - Changed your mind about the cool name you chose? Get it legally changed! Recognized across the Alpha Quadrant.
  • New Federation Playable Species - Become a Tellarite, Pakled or Rigelian.

This is only a bit of the changes, fixes and updates coming to Star Trek Online in March. Season One: Common Ground will be available in mid-March. For a full list of what will be available in Season One, please visit the Engineering Reports forum. Interested in checking things out early? Visit the Tribble test server forums for early release notes.

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Cryptic No. 4 Seed In March Mayhem

Star Trek Online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 00:15

The folks at The Escapist are holding their annual March Mayhem Developer's Showdown tournament, and Cryptic has been chosen as one of the top developers in the industry!

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Tribble's Grand Opening

Star Trek Online - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 03:05
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GM Destra's Blog - March 10, 2010

Star Trek Online - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 01:29
Getting Things Fixed!

Our experience working with the STO development team has been awesome. They've been extremely responsive to resolving issues reported by players. This actually has a bit of a funny history.

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Two New STO Interviews With Craig

Star Trek Online - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 02:06

We have two new interviews with Craig Zinkievich for you today:

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Ask Cryptic: Klingons Round 3

Star Trek Online - Sat, 03/06/2010 - 03:50

Welcome to the 21st installment of Ask Cryptic, where we put the questions you ask to our development team. In this issue we are focusing our discussion on Klingons. Read more to learn about Star Trek Online!

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Release Calendar Available

Star Trek Online - Sat, 03/06/2010 - 01:05

We've just put together a tentative release calendar for you to check out. Please note, the date spans indicate release windows for the content listed, as development in a live environment makes it difficult to list exact dates.



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Engineering Reports

Star Trek Online - Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:46
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Meet the Trident

Star Trek Online - Thu, 03/04/2010 - 19:12
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STF: Infected Available Now

Star Trek Online - Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:41

Our first Special Task Force mission is now ready for you and your friends to enjoy.

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State of the Game 2/25/10

Star Trek Online - Fri, 02/26/2010 - 00:15

Welcome, you noble purveyors of Federation policy and fierce warlords of the Empire! Welcome one and all!

Wait now... Let's just take a moment to de-cloak, disarm and drop our shields, shall we? This State of the Game is of interest to you all.

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Take Our Subscriber Survey

Star Trek Online - Wed, 02/24/2010 - 02:30
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Ask Cryptic: Skills

Star Trek Online - Sat, 02/20/2010 - 01:31

Welcome to the 20th installment of Ask Cryptic, where we put the questions you ask to our development team. In this issue we are focusing our discussion on Skills. Read more to learn about Star Trek Online!

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Star Trek World Record Achieved

Star Trek Online - Thu, 02/18/2010 - 02:22

This past Sunday, we invited fans out to London to make a run at the Guinness World Record for the largest-even gathering of Star Trek fans dressed in character. You did it! Thanks to everyone who made it out.

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STO Around The Web

Star Trek Online - Tue, 02/16/2010 - 21:27

More Star Trek Online interviews and articles are coming in every day. Check out all this new reading material.

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Gaming Bits, GamePro Talk STO

Star Trek Online - Thu, 02/11/2010 - 20:15

The folks at Gaming Bits interviewed Craig earlier this week, and Kyle Horner at GamePro put together a comprehensive STO launch report. Check them out.

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