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The Winter Event announcement is up - No News Article yet:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11306923-q's-winter-wonderland-2019!
Also, quite significant in my opinion - any of the Winter Event activities will now give you progress. So people that are still challenged by the ice skating have alternative options now! And everyone has a chance to change up things and still advance the event.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11306923-q's-winter-wonderland-2019!
A new vanity shield. Breen costumes! That sounds pretty cool. (We already knew about the ship from Tribble.)BorticusCryptic wrote:The seasonal favorite from years past is returning once more to Star Trek Online! Q proudly invites personnel of all ranks, allegiances, species, cosmological variances, and molecular stabilities (or lack thereof) to ring in the holiday season, and visit his Winter Wonderland for fun, frivolity, and prizes!
Participate in your choice of Winter Wonderland Activities to work your way toward obtaining the fabulous new Fek’ihri Fe’rang Dreadnought Carrier [T6]! Complete details of this ship’s capabilities will be obtained in a separate Dev Blog.
This year’s festivities will be integrated into our recently released Event Interface, as part of your Mission Journal. Now that this seasonal event has migrated to its new home, it has also undergone a significant update: Beginning this year, Daily Progress toward earning your new starship can be obtained by participating in any of the following activities:
- Fastest Game on Ice
- Klingon Ice Fishing
- Tides of Ice
- The Fast and the Flurrious
- Cones of Conduct
- The Kramp’Ihri
The first completion of any of the above activities will fulfill your Daily Requirement for your entire account, allowing you to pick and choose how you earn your way to a new starship. Play whichever activity you enjoy most, or change it up each day for greater variety!
The Event System will also offer instant and immediate access to visit the Winter Wonderland from most non-combat maps in the game, simply by pressing the “Transwarp” button on the Event interface. You don’t even have to talk to Q to get there – he’s allowed us to bring the Wonderland to YOU.
Each of the above activities, as well as others you can participate in during the Winter Event, will still reward you with the various Holiday Ornaments which can be used in different denominations to purchase yourself a variety of rewards from years past, as well as a number of new additions that will arrive with the re-launch of the Event this year!
Black Nanopulse Weaponry
These plasma-edged melee weapons will enjoy two new variants, mirroring the unique dark material previously only found on the Kramp’Ihri’s weaponry. Get your hands on a Black Nanopulse Bat’leth or Black Nanopulse Lirpa and revel in the feeling of wielding raw plasma in the palm of your hands.
Cold-Themed Bridge Officer Training Manuals
The inventive denizens of Q’s pocket dimension have created three ranks each of brand new Engineering, Science, and Tactical Bridge Officer Abilities. Each of these starship abilities utilizes the latest in absolute-zero temperature generation, and endothermic particle physics, to create deleterious effects based on Cold Damage.
Engineering: “Let It Go”
Apply focused endothermic deterioration at the enemy’s hull, causing absolute-zero temperatures that crystallize and fracture some delicate components. The enemy suffers Cold Damage over time, and is afflicted with a Damage Resistance Rating debuff that grows in potency over the debuff’s duration.
Science: “It Is Very Cold in Space”
Create an area of absolute-zero temperatures, interfering with mobility and causing deleterious freezing damage to enemies within. Within this massive 6km-diameter hazard, all foes suffer periodic Cold Damage and are Slowed.
Tactical: “Best Served Cold”
Cause a sympathetic reaction within the foe’s vessel, which interacts with incoming energy damage. Each time they are damaged, they will take an additional amount of Cold Damage to their Hull. Damage below a certain threshold does not trigger this effect, and the amount of Cold Damage has a maximum amount that may be applied.
Winter Wonderland Weaponry
Ingenious new methods of defending the Gingerbread Colony, and defeating beasts such as the menacing Snowverlord, are being made available for you to obtain now!
“Improvise”
These hand-thrown impaling devices are improvised from extra snowman decorations found around the Winter Wonderland. Surprisingly sharp, for vegetables!
“Vine”
When a snowman comes along, you must whip it! This candy-licious variant of the traditional Ferengi energy whip will put those snow monsters in their place!
Cold-Weather Sweaters
As made popular in previous years, we present an entire new line of THREE additional stylish and not-at-all-eye-shattering styles to choose from.
Fek’Ihri Vanity Shield
Flaunt your visual acumen by bathing your starship in the trademark wood-and-steel appearance of the two most recent Winter Event Starships. This visual option may be applied to any Starship, by equipping this item in your Visual Slot.
LIMITED TIME ONLY - Breen Costume Collection
The Breen visitors to Q’s Winter Wonderland have finally decided to allow outsiders to obtain their fashionable Adaptation Suits for use as uniforms. This outfit collection includes multiple variants of a huge assortment of costume options, all of which are usable mix-and-match style with many existing uniforms, and can be used by all factions. Now you, too, can look the part of the coolest kids in the Quadrant!
The costume collection will be available for purchase in both the Winter Event Store and the Lobi Crystal Store starting with the launch of the Winter Event. And remember, if you find yourself in need of just a few more Holiday Ornaments in order to purchase this item, the Lobi Crystal Consortium is also happy to provide the option to purchase Holiday Ornament Bundles for just 5 Lobi Crystals apiece.
This premium chilling ensemble will only be available for a limited time! When Q’s Winter Wonderland retires later this year, this costume will be removed from the Winter Event Store, but will remain in the Lobi Crystal Store indefinitely. So if you wish to purchase it using Holiday Ornaments, act now!
Q’s Winter Wonderland will be available from December 3rd, 2019 to January 2nd, 2020. This event will run simultaneously across all platforms (PC and Console). Join us to celebrate this festive season, and ring in the new year!
Jeremy “BorticusCryptic” Randall
Lead Systems Designer
Star Trek Online
Also, quite significant in my opinion - any of the Winter Event activities will now give you progress. So people that are still challenged by the ice skating have alternative options now! And everyone has a chance to change up things and still advance the event.
Star Trek Online Advancement: You start with lowbie gear, you end with Lobi gear.
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What I like about it is that they're offering alternative ways to get the ship, but those alternatives have no negative effect on those that like things the way they always have been.
For me, I like the Fastest Game On Ice.. I find it to be quick and easy and basically just a very casual way to earn my free ship. For someone like me, I can just keep doing things the way I have always done them.. no problem. For others that hate Fastest Game On Ice.. they have alternatives.
Rolling it into the event system is also great, now I don't have to worry about which of my characters is going to do the daily, I can just do it on whoever I wish. Couple all that with the fact that the event ship looks really nice and this all just looks great.
That Engineering Manual 'Let it Go' also looks rather promising.. I am looking forward to trying that out. Might be a nice little boon for Engineers.
I'll be doing it on PC as usual but also Xbox for the first time this year (playing on the couch with my 55" OLED is fun) and was not looking forward to trying to race using the controller instead of mouse + KB.
Also thanks to the devs for keeping it at 1 event per day, and even reducing the number of days from 25 to 20.
I always go for the ship. Working for a ship is the best way I get T6 ships since I can't afford to buy them all that often.
Also no festive vanity shields unfortunately, I would've loved a tartan/plaid one.
This vanity shield looks really good, imo, at least on that ship.
I'm not into sweaters but they do look nice & colorful.
Is that Gorn throwing carrots lol?
The training manuals seem interesting & appropriately themed too.
Black nanopulse weaponry for the win, how dare it possibly replace my Tommy Gun lol.
That Fe'rang is reminding me more & more of a Spanish Galleon of days old so let us go sailing.
I doubt it.. but if they can, I am totally making an all Breen Crew.
Mount Kelvin or Vaadwaur weapons and blast pirate music?
Yeah, you can do that, but the big question is.. can your BoFF's wear the costume?
If it is considered a uniform I don't see why not. The only issue will be if it is considered Off Duty.
Yeah, that's kind of what I am afraid of, but I guess time will tell.
If they can, I am making a Jem'Hadar that I will dress as an all breen crew and put them in a breen ship using cold weapons from the holiday event.
That would be awesome.
There's also the CRM 200 from the Breen arc, and the Nukara Rep Cryo Launcher and Autorifle.
Snowball fight has removed again? But... it was the best game in Wonderland.
This will be a sad holiday
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
They did it and I couldn't be happier! Now everyone should have something that they can do to get the ship without going crazy, and that's always good.
I like the new Breen Costumes, and also these new "cold" powers - in fact, they gave me an idea for a rather unusual character, at least for a STO setting, that I might just get around to make!
All in all, job well done. Can't wait to get into some snowy fun
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
They very likely would've mentioned that if it were. We're probably going to have to wait for the new J'Ula Event (sometime 2020) they had planned but had to cancel and run Breach instead due to issues.
Me want.
The wood and steel style vanity shield is exactly what I’ve been hoping for too. Really happy about that.
I do think the Winter Wonderland is a bit tired after so many years, but they made some very practical improvements this time.
Oh yeah, that was my Foundry character. But all of them but Leeta is wearing a winter outfit. 8 different outfits in total.
My character Tsin'xing
I'm also disappointed it's been cut short this year by 2 weeks. Would have preferred the regular 6 week event. Winter Wonderland is my favorite event!