Release Notes - November 12, 2010

System

New Klingon Ships!

• The new Klingon ships will be available in game and in the C-store:
• Varanus Fleet Support Vessel
  • Gorn-designed Science Vessel with integrated subsystem targeting.
  • 3 fore, 3 aft weapon slots.
  • Lt. Tactical, Ens. Engineering, Lt. Engineering, Lt. Cmd. Science, and Cmd. Science officer seats.
  • 2 Tactical, 2 Engineering, and 4 Science console slots.
  • Crew: 750
  • Special ability: This ship can launch up to 5 Repair Platforms that will deploy drones to assist itself or allied ships.
    • Each repair platform can only spawn 2 repair drones. So a full complement of repair platforms can provide healing drones for every member of the team.
    • If your drones get destroyed you can fly back to the platform and get more.
• Orion-designed Cruiser.
  • 4 fore, 4 aft weapon slots.
  • Lt. Tactical, Lt. Cmd. Engineering, Cmd. Engineering, Ens. Science, and Lt. Science officer seats.
  • 2 Tactical, 4 Engineering, and 2 Science console slots.
  • Crew: 1200 (from 800)
  • Special ability: The player is able to deploy a wing of Orion Interceptor Fighters through a click ability. These fighters drop mines, disable subsystems, and capture crew from enemy ships.
    • Known Issue: The Icon for this special ability is currently a plain white icon. It will be fixed soon.
• B’rel Bird-of-Prey Retrofit
  • Klingon Fighter.
  • 4 fore, 2 aft weapon slots.
  • 2 Lt. Universal, 1 Lt. Cmd. Universal, 1 Cmd. Universal officer seats.
  • 3 Tactical, 3 Engineering, 2 Science console slots.
  • Crew: 30
  • Special ability: Enhanced Battle Cloak. This ship can use mines and torpedoes while remaining cloaked, as well as most Bridge Officer and Captain abilities.

General

• Cardassian and Dominion fleets have added the Cardassian Hideki Frigate and the Dominion Heavy Escort to their roster.
• Federation and Mirror Universe Federation fleets have added the Peregrine Fighter to their roster.
• Information for the new Klingon ships has been added to the database in Qo’noS.
• Lieutenant Marrien now has eyes.
• Added improvements to game stability.
• Audio has been updated for "Fire at Will" and "Beam Overload" when using Original Series-era ship phasers.

Skills and Abilities

• The Bridge Officer ability, Photonic Officer, now has Klingon or Starfleet-specific audio when used.
• Fire at Will, Mines, Tricobalt Device, and High Yield Plasma Torpedo no longer "misfire."
• Fixed an issue causing Turret ship weapons to drain energy for a little longer than expected, causing players to drain too much power when firing multiple turrets in succession.
• All player Captain skills now display messages to include the names of the ships they modify.
• The Vor’cha retrofit now uses the Battle Cruiser Retrofit skill.
• Updated the Klingon skill tree at the General tier with new and altered captain skills.
  • Brigadier Generals and higher will get a respec token to account for the skill changes.
  • Negh’Var Battle Cruiser Captain has become Heavy Battle Cruiser Captain to support a broader range of ships.
  • Added Battle Cruiser Captain Retrofit.
  • Added Patrol Cruiser Captain.
  • Hegh’ta Bird of Prey Captain has become Heavy Raider Captain to support a broader range of ships.
  • Added Raider Retrofit Captain.
  • Added Destroyer Captain.
  • Qin Raptor Captain has become Heavy Raptor Captain to support a broader range of ships.
  • Vo’Quv Carrier Captain has become Carrier Captain to support both the Vo’Quv and Kar’Fi.
  • Kar’Fi Battle Carrier Captain has become Fleet Support Captain to support a different ship type. The conversion from Kar’Fi to the unrelated Fleet Support was needed to properly handle a skill point respec.

Missions

• Skirmish
  • Certain dead Cardassians can no longer be healed by players.
• Everything Old is New Again
  • Fixed issue preventing mission completion on the first pass.