[PC] Victory is Life, our Fourth Expansion, Coming June 2018!

ambassadorkael

VictoryisLife - the Fourth Expansion to Star Trek Online, is coming to PC in June of 2018! Play as the brand new Jem'Hadar faction, climb to level 65, and experience a brand new story featuring ten actors from StarTrek: DeepSpaceNine! We're announcing the first four actors today: Rene Auberjonois, Nana Visitor, Armin Shimerman and JG Hertzler!

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10838844

talebvalu

Ok nice, but i hope there will be no T7 ships ...

centurian821

My bat'leth is ready!

storules

Jem Hadar NEW faction or semi faction. No Gamma recruits? No Cardassian or Perhaps too early?

All it says increase level cap to 65, introduce a new queue, new progression systems, and add a Sector Battlezone, a new gameplay feature that takes players into a war between the stars to save the Gamma Quadrant?

I guess some content better than none but would be nice to get more details on what else is set to start as well?​​

duaths1

so a new jem'hadar faction is here
then we'll probably have to join one of the sides (FED/KDF)

i really do hope we will be able to create also toons of other factions and get the "recrtuitment" benefits.. ?

greatly looking forward.

saedeith

Hmm. Level 65. I wonder how the Jem' Hadar is going to work. Sounds good guys.

darthpostal

talebvalu wrote: »

Ok nice, but i hope there will be no T7 ships ...

This.

Please, please PLEASE no T7 ships.

captainhunter1

Yay!

Level 65! I can finally be President of the Federation!!!

(uh, that's sarcasm for those who may not see it. )

amarlex

please please please add in playable cardassians, or at least their actual neck/nose/hair options that we see on NPCs!!!

salvation4

reyan01 wrote: »

talebvalu wrote: »

Ok nice, but i hope there will be no T7 ships ...

Level cap confirmed - increase to 65.

T7 ships NOT confirmed and I hope to dear god that this doesn't happen!

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO T7's (Laughs in head and says "Ïf that happens, ship priced at 5000-6000 zen?!)
Hoping for more content and the level cap is interesting..But skeptical about the new spec tree..
And from the poster is the sexy bajoran commander Nana Vistor in on this too?????????????????????????????????????????????????

salvation4

captainhunter1 wrote: »

Yay!

Level 65! I can finally be President of the Federation!!!

(uh, that's sarcasm for those who may not see it. )

Same thoughts ran in my head then lvl 70 next time and thought "Ruler of the Beta Quadrant..

lnblade

reyan01 wrote: »

talebvalu wrote: »

Ok nice, but i hope there will be no T7 ships ...

Level cap confirmed - increase to 65.

T7 ships NOT confirmed and I hope to dear god that this doesn't happen!

T7? Don't be silly! T6.5 on the other hand...


In all seriousness, I'm also hoping this doesn't mean T7. I don't think I could tolerate another round ship of re-releases and accelerated power creep. I'm kinda surprised at the level increase, I thought they were going to stick with specializations for all future character progress. Hopefully 65 adds something substantive, rather than being an excuse to make everyone upgrade everything from Mk XIV to Mk XVI

iconians

I hope there will be T7 ships just so the people who bought their T6 ships despite the T5-U fiasco can get their comeuppance.​​

gaevsman

I think there is no need for T7 ships, probably don't need them, perhaps the new progression system will allow us to give more power to our ships..

salvation4

lnblade wrote: »

reyan01 wrote: »

talebvalu wrote: »

Ok nice, but i hope there will be no T7 ships ...

Level cap confirmed - increase to 65.

T7 ships NOT confirmed and I hope to dear god that this doesn't happen!

T7? Don't be silly! T6.5 on the other hand...


In all seriousness, I'm also hoping this doesn't mean T7. I don't think I could tolerate another round ship of re-releases and accelerated power creep. I'm kinda surprised at the level increase, I thought they were going to stick with specializations for all future character progress. Hopefully 65 adds something substantive, rather than being an excuse to make everyone upgrade everything from Mk XIV to Mk XVI

For the ships I was hoping that some of the T6's/5'sgot a refresh..Most are over 2 years old..

gaevsman

There is something wrong with the lighting in the pictures of the blog... perhaps SSAO is disabled??

galatt

So looking forward to this.
Dare we hope that one of those dark figures in the picture is our one true saviour, Garak?

ambassadorkael

Tier 7 ships are not a planned feature for Victory is Life.

eltech

iconians wrote: »

I hope there will be T7 ships just so the people who bought their T6 ships despite the T5-U fiasco can get their comeuppance.​​

That seems rather... petty

theraven2378

ambassadorkael#6946 wrote: »

Tier 7 ships are not a planned feature for Victory is Life.

Thank you for clarification on that, I look forward to busting Quark every so often

burstorion

The joys of forethought... xp boosts and endeavor crates (been saving them) readied, my doff 'care package' is ready and now I just need to decide the energy weapon flavor to grow for my new gammard

As to the gammards, we can guess with certainty they'll have exclusive ships like our pointy eared, green blooded expansion (who are now in faction limbo, lol) a while back and to shift units they are bound to be hilariously op to move people from their op rom ships with no cost battlecloak and the 5-gimmick-console in one singularity core

I'm thinking a gamma tactical secondary deflector (for tac ships), that charges up powers like an apbeta aura, a shield ignoring strike, ketracel team (the Jemmies are hopped up on the 'K, reducing cds due to the combat pharamaceuticals), a polaron weapon infusion (basically pre nerf leech) and an all damage booster

Lets face it, Gammard ships will have to be op as sin to get ship sales with some attractive gimmick to draw in the wallets, err, players

thay8472

galatt wrote: »

So looking forward to this.
Dare we hope that one of those dark figures in the picture is our one true saviour, Garak?

hell yeah

tigeraries

T7 T7 T7... need to rebuy all my ships! lol Ok really... I wouldnt mind buying new ships if they have dedicated console slots for their set consoles. All other aspects can stay the same, course I wouldnt mind if it was increased further.

evilmark444

Only six new episodes ... and people doubted me when I predicted it would be even fewer than AoY ...

iconians

ambassadorkael#6946 wrote: »

Tier 7 ships are not a planned feature for Victory is Life.

Thanks for the clarification.​​

iconians

Alexander Siddig will reprise his role as Julian Bashir and Andrew Robinson will reprise his role as Elim Garak as per this link.

You should really get your marketing guys on the same page.​​

tilarta

ambassadorkael#6946 wrote: »

VictoryisLife - the Fourth Expansion to Star Trek Online, is coming to PC in June of 2018! Play as the brand new Jem'Hadar faction.

Yes Yes Yes YES!
I've been waiting to play as Jem'Hadar ever since the game launched and my patience paid off!

Some questions about how this content update will work:

1. Can the Jem'Hadar choose to align with Starfleet faction so that my JH playable Captain can join my fleet?
2. Will there be Vorta Bridge Officers?
3. Given that the Dominion ships are already ingame as purchasable items (lobi store/phoenix token/exchange), will this prevent Jem'Hadar captains from acquiring Dominion vessels through the C-Store or via level progression?
4. Will there be a kar'tarkin melee weapon?

I think Cardassians will be a later faction, as they're not part of the Dominion anymore, but an independent power nominally aligned with Starfleet.
The True Way is the only Dominion/Cardassian joint faction and I find it unlikely/improbable we'll ever be allowed to play as a hostile enemy faction.

I hope they don't go for T7, but find a way to make T6/T5U ships viable at the level cap increase content.
Since one of my characters exclusively uses a restricted ship, they won't be able to switch to a T7 if that should be implemented.
And another of my characters uses a Nicor Bioship, so they won't be able to change either.

tigeraries

6 new episodes... all 6 tied to the leveling/intro for the new faction I take it. Maybe 1 to tie em together with the other faction?

trygvar13

Jem'Hadar faction? I'm intrigued. I would have thought a Dominion faction with Vortas, Jem'Hadar and Hunters. The Hunters that were originally supposed to be the Dominion's police force but that we saw only once. But I guess it would be difficult to have the Dominion side with either the KDF or the Feds. A split faction of Jem'Hadar who don't follow the Founders? I just hope that there is more than one race and not just Jem'Hadar... although I would probably not play anything else... except maybe one of those Hunters. Will there be Gamma recruits? I hope the price will not be too steep because I can't see the Jem'Hadar having too many different types of ships.

awlaforge

The big problem I see is there is no way to introduce Dominion ships with the faction as they have already all been monetized.

iconians

awlaforge wrote: »

The big problem I see is there is no way to introduce Dominion ships with the faction as they have already all been monetized.

The Atlas, D9, Thrai, Walker, and Crossfield all say Hi.

You don't think Cryptic would let a little thing like that get in the way of a Dominion expansion, do you?​​