I am just coming back after a year break, and was wondering if someone could give me a brief summary of what has happened in the past year hitting mostly the major points. I stopped playing just after the new skills system came into place...
STO is now available for XBox One and PS4. However, the main story missions only goes through Season 11.5. So it is missing the Agents of Yesterday "expansion" released back in July 2016. A lot of T5 and T6 ships are not yet available, and some of the Reputation Systems are not in the game yet.
Starships from JJ Trek (Star Trek reboot) have been made available in the game as random drops from the Kelvin Timeline Lock Boxes. They are referred to as the Kelvin Timeline starships; named after the ship that Kirk's father served on before his death. The Federation Intel Dreadnought (Vengeance class) can be purchased from the Lobi Store.
Cryptic introduced the "Infinity" Lock box which basically combines prizes from all retired lock boxes into one. This makes desirable items much easier to obtain. For example, the Plasmonic Leech generally sold for over 70m EC on the Exchange. The introduction of this lock box caused prices to crash to around 5m EC.
The Constitution heavy cruiser from the original series has been made available as a random drop from an expired R&D Pack Promo. It has been introduced into the game as the T6 Temporal Light Cruiser. Estimated value is probably around 1.5 billion EC so it only be obtained via private trades since the Exchange has a 750m EC cap.
The KDF and Romulan factions have finally been given their own T6 science vessels. The last science vessel specific to those two factions were the T5 Dyson Science Destroyers released in February 2014.
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http://sto.gamepedia.com/Admiralty_System
The Captain Skills have been revamped.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Skill
The graphics engine has been updated. Specifically referred to as Lighting 2.0.
STO is now available for XBox One and PS4. However, the main story missions only goes through Season 11.5. So it is missing the Agents of Yesterday "expansion" released back in July 2016. A lot of T5 and T6 ships are not yet available, and some of the Reputation Systems are not in the game yet.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/xbox/star-trek-online/news/detail/10142482-star-trek-online-available-on-xbox-one-and-playstation®4!
The afore mentioned Agents of Yesterday has been released.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Agents_Of_Yesterday
Starships from JJ Trek (Star Trek reboot) have been made available in the game as random drops from the Kelvin Timeline Lock Boxes. They are referred to as the Kelvin Timeline starships; named after the ship that Kirk's father served on before his death. The Federation Intel Dreadnought (Vengeance class) can be purchased from the Lobi Store.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10057893-kelvin-timeline-lockbox-and-lobi-ships
Cryptic introduced the "Infinity" Lock box which basically combines prizes from all retired lock boxes into one. This makes desirable items much easier to obtain. For example, the Plasmonic Leech generally sold for over 70m EC on the Exchange. The introduction of this lock box caused prices to crash to around 5m EC.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10046693-star-trek-online:-infinity-lock-box
The Constitution heavy cruiser from the original series has been made available as a random drop from an expired R&D Pack Promo. It has been introduced into the game as the T6 Temporal Light Cruiser. Estimated value is probably around 1.5 billion EC so it only be obtained via private trades since the Exchange has a 750m EC cap.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10131073-r&d-pack-promotion
A new fleet holding has finally been introduced into the game; known as the K-13 Fleet Holding.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10259103-k-13-fleet-holding-special-unlocks
The KDF and Romulan factions have finally been given their own T6 science vessels. The last science vessel specific to those two factions were the T5 Dyson Science Destroyers released in February 2014.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10259103-k-13-fleet-holding-special-unlocks