STO Season One Facts And Video of What's Next

by on Mar 15, 2010

As discussed in the latest <a href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/sto/state_of_the_game_03-12-10">State of the Game</a>, <a href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/sto">Star Trek Online</a>continues to

As discussed in the latest href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/sto/state_of_the_game_03-12-10">State
of the Game, href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/sto">Star Trek
Onlinecontinues to roll out
information for their upcoming
content: Season One: Common Ground.



Cryptic has dedicated a page outlining the key ingredients of
Season One, but we're going to share it here too:


" style="font-style: italic;">Our
latest content update, Season One: Common Ground, is releasing shortly.
Here’s just a bit of the updates we have headed
players’
way.

style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">PVP
Updates style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;"> 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.

style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">Customization style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;"> 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.

style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">Ships style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;"> 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.

style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">Missions style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;"> 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

style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">Skills style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;"> 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.

style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">In The
C-Store style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;"> 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.

style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;">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 href="http://forums.startrekonline.com/forumdisplay.php?f=158">the
Engineering Reports forum.
Interested in checking things out early?
Visit the Tribble test server forums for early href="http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=136484">release
notes."

But wait, there's more.

One note of interest is that the email we recieved also included an
update for Lifetime Subscribers:


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"Lifetime
Subscriber Perks

We’ve put together a
special thank you package for our
Lifetime subscribers:

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Classified
Access Codes – A free
C-store item.

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The
Captain’s Table –
A
special social area exclusive to Lifetime subscribers, available to
both
Federation and Klingon captains.

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Special
In-Game Title –
“Career Officers” are those who’ve joined
Starfleet
or the
KDF for the long haul."

And now with feeling.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video worth?
Well it's worth a look, that is for certain (insert hick jokes here).
Cryptic not only outlines the Season One highlights, but shares information about upcoming content as well. Showing that they aren't sitting back resting on their laurels, Cryptic brings us a video of what may be coming up next, queue the ominous music, fade to black...



[video]http://video.tentonhammer.com/STO/sto_video_expanding-universe.flv[/video]


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