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A couple of minutes ago, there was a leak of new content on STO's Twitter account (@trekonlinegame). As the Tweet has since been deleted, it's not entirely clear whether this expansion is actually still coming next Tuesday or at a later time - or if they're just postponing the announcement.
Either way, thanks to Twitter's increased maximum character count, we now know some things about this expansion already. And yes, that includes the arrival of many new characters in STO.
A summary:
- Biggest expansion for STO ever, bigger than New Romulus and Delta Rising combined
- Opens up the Andromeda galaxy, containing four new quadrants
- Map is as big as what we have now and contains just as many patrols and systems
- Also has new, revamped exploration clusters. Milky Way clusters to be added later
- 47 new ships, including new, 'exciting' mechanics
- Secondary warp cores and broadside weapon slots given as examples
- Three new featured episode arcs upon launch.
- One of them deals with the 'Kelvins' (though this is probably a spelling error and should be 'Kelvans')
The first tweet attached to it confirmed:
- New characters, new playable 'species' and new mechanisms coming
- These include: Han Solo, the Robinsons and the Robot
- Beltalowda mini-faction
- New lifetime perk: play as an Protomolecule
- Voice-overs by Jared Harris, Mark Hamill and Maxwell Jenkins amongst others
- Picard, Sisko, Hikaru Sulu and Archer will be added, voiced by their original performers
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There were more tweets announcing even more new things to look forward to, while also explaining that this is what they have been working on in secret - work that was then boosted by a big fundraiser provided for by Gearbox after the merger - but unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to capture the essence of these other tweets beyond this explanation.
Either way, thanks to Twitter's increased maximum character count, we now know some things about this expansion already. And yes, that includes the arrival of many new characters in STO.
A summary:
- Biggest expansion for STO ever, bigger than New Romulus and Delta Rising combined
- Opens up the Andromeda galaxy, containing four new quadrants
- Map is as big as what we have now and contains just as many patrols and systems
- Also has new, revamped exploration clusters. Milky Way clusters to be added later
- 47 new ships, including new, 'exciting' mechanics
- Secondary warp cores and broadside weapon slots given as examples
- Three new featured episode arcs upon launch.
- One of them deals with the 'Kelvins' (though this is probably a spelling error and should be 'Kelvans')
The first tweet attached to it confirmed:
- New characters, new playable 'species' and new mechanisms coming
- These include: Han Solo, the Robinsons and the Robot
- Beltalowda mini-faction
- New lifetime perk: play as an Protomolecule
- Voice-overs by Jared Harris, Mark Hamill and Maxwell Jenkins amongst others
- Picard, Sisko, Hikaru Sulu and Archer will be added, voiced by their original performers
_____
There were more tweets announcing even more new things to look forward to, while also explaining that this is what they have been working on in secret - work that was then boosted by a big fundraiser provided for by Gearbox after the merger - but unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to capture the essence of these other tweets beyond this explanation.
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Ya do realise what day it is don't you!?
It would have to have ten weapon slots and twenty consoles.
The trait could be "Wary of Traps," which gives perfect perception and detects all cloaked ships within the map.
A Star Wars-themed bundle would make a great April Fool's joke.
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I mean, we do. But it's very little. 🤷♀️
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Which could imply that there are Iconian Gateways in Andromeda.
As long as it's Lexa Doig not Kevin Sorbo, he's gone coo-coo for cocoa puffs.
But seriously, I'm still waiting for the playable Horta captains that Trendy promised us years ago, "No Kill I !"
Thanks for the laugh. At myself of course. Ya got me. Completely. Well played, Sir/Madam! Well played, indeed.
+1 Lexa Doig holo-boff
Then we find out if the Kelvans were right about there being some sort of galactic disaster there, or if it was more localized and they put as much forethought into that as they did into attempting to return aboard the Enterprise. Be a hell of a note if you went through a gateway and emerged into an ongoing galactic-scale hypernova event. Kind of like fast-traveling in Fallout 76 and arriving at your destination at the same moment a nuke strikes. (Which has happened to me twice now, because the arrival point in that game isn't really terribly precise and travel times can vary by several seconds.)
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