The latest installment of Star Trek Online's Ask Cryptic series is live with Executive Producer Dan Stahl answering an impressive 31 fan questions.
Stahl answers questions ranging from advances in ship mechanics to creating missions in the Foundry. Stahl also confirms a few additions coming in Season 4.
Read the full Q&A after the jump!
Cryptic has gotten in the holiday spirit by offering a Winter Break sale in both Star Trek Online and Champions Online. All items in each game's C-Store are 20% off the listed price until Jan. 3 at 10 a.m. PST, so now's the perfect time to pick up a costume set or ship.
Actually, there's one bit of fine print we should mention to all the Star Trek Online players out there. The new Guramba Siege Destroyer and Motion Picture costume pack are excluded from the Winter Break sale. If you want to purchase either of these new additions, you're going to have to pay full price. Everything else is 20% off, so browse through the C-Store for each game and see if there's anything you'd like to add to your collection.
Cryptic has announced that the Guramba Siege Destroyer will be available for purchase in the C-Store tomorrow, Dec. 23. If you'd like to see this ship in action, head over to the official Star Trek Online videos page.
The Guramba Siege Destroyer has seven weapons slots and holds five bridge officers. You can read all the details after the jump.
Star Trek Online's Season Three: Genesis update is now live. Players can experience all the new content that Genesis has to offer.
The update includes The Foundry Beta, Episode replay, new Special Task Force Loot, revamped Sector Space, and more. For a full list of everything that comes along with Season Three, check out the Engineering Reports forum.
If you've been wanting to try out Star Trek Online or would like to buy it for someone as a present, now's your chance to grab it for 50% off. For the second installment of its ongoing Publisher's Week promotion, Direct2Drive is offering sales on Atari games all week. The current Star Trek Online deal is good for today only, so act fast if you want to purchase the MMO for only $9.95!
If you're curious about the rest of the Atari deals this week, you can check out what other games will be going on sale after the jump.
In the newest installment of "Ask Cryptic," Executive Producer Dan Stahl answers 30 questions from Star Trek Online fans. Thirty! As you can imagine, the Q&A covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from broad questions to very specific issues. Here's Stahl's response regarding the future of the game:
"The next step forward is continuing to make the game more 'Star Trek.' This includes more story, more locations and factions from the universe, and generally more elements that allow the game to feel like the shows. There are a ton of features on our backlog to get to, but in general, the motto is 'More Like Trek.' "
Stahl also says that Cryptic wants to introduce a "Crew" system as an important gameplay element on your ship in Season 4. He hints that some major PvP features may hit the Holodeck between Seasons 5 and 6 and mentions that Cryptic is actively looking for software and UI programmers to help update Start Trek's user interface. Check out the entire Ask Cryptic segment for many more answers from Stahl.
Everyone loves a good sale, and the guys and girls over at Cryptic have decided to give their players an extra treat for Turkey day weekend with a 20% off sale on most C-Store items in Star Trek Online and Champions Online! Not included within the sale, however, is the Enterprise Bundle (and its component parts), and the Tier 5 Klingon retrofit ships.
For Champions Online, it appears as though the sky's the limit, so if you've always wanted to pick up a nice costume set or maybe some neat starship designs... this weekend will definitely be your chance to do so!
To coincide with the launch of Star Trek Online Season Three: Genesis, STO is calling all fans to participate in the Design the Next Enterprise contest. Players can create their own ships and the best design will be converted into a ship in STO.
That's not all the winner will recieve. Check out all of the awesome prizes:
Grand Prize: Custom, STO-painted Alienware M11x laptop; STO Collector's Edition; STO Lifetime Membership; inclusion of design in STO; and a 3-D model of the winning design.
Second Prize: Alienware laptop (no custom paint job), STO Collector's Edition and an STO Lifetime Membership.
Third Prize: STO Collector's Edition, STO Lifetime Membership and an Intel Core i7-875k processor.
Fourth Prize: STO Collector's Edition and an STO Lifetime Membership.
Twenty-one Honorable Mentions: Standard-edition copy of STO and a Star Trek Online poster.
A special tool to sumbit your designs will be posted on December 9, the same day Season Three: Genesis launches.
Cryptic has released details on all the new features coming in the Star Trek Online Season Three: Genesis content update. Genesis is set to release on December 9.
Players will be able to create their own missions once The Foundry hits beta. Players will be able to construct their own episodes and share them with friends. Even if you're not interested in making your own, you can still play through player created missions as well as the episodes you know and love. Players will also see Episode Replay available, which allows you to hop into the Holodeck and replay your favorite episodes over and over.
More features include new special task force loot, revamped sector space, gorn customization, new loading screens, new items in the C-Store, and more! Head on over to the official Star Trek Online site for a complete list of everything that's to come with Genesis in December.
STO's Executive Producer, Dan Stahl, has another massive slew of questions to answer in this month's "Ask Cryptic," where he confirms two big things: Champions Online going F2P will have no effect on Star Trek Online and that the Star Trek Online team is planning to implement the Romulans as a new playable race, but as they have learned from the undeveloped Klingons, Cryptic wants this new race to be a "big endeavour," like giving the Romulans their own ships and storyline content. In other words, a fully developed new race.
