This page is reserved for the listing of upcoming content in Star Trek Online.
Note: Delta Rising was launched October 14 but is considered to span the entire period until Season 10, scheduled to be released in early 2015. Between season launches there are small updates, C-Store releases, and minor events.
5th Anniversary (Feb 2nd, 2015)
Bridge Officer Training
(Note - with this update, the STO Team has also been considering updating the Skill System in the future, and if this happens the method for unlocking Training Manual recipes will likely change)
From a high level standpoint, the updated Bridge Officer Training system is focused on allowing players to invest in their bridge officers by training them in any of their Class and Specialization abilities, which can then be easily swapped in and out on the fly.
Using the overhauled bridge officer skill screen, players will be able to see all of the known abilities and untrained abilities a bridge officer has.
- Training Manuals
- Bridge Officer Training is the ability to train bridge officers in Specializations. Instead each ability will have a Training Manual item for each available rank of the ability.
- Crafting School – Officer Training
- Players will be able to craft "Training Manuals" specific to the Captain Class (i.e. Tactical, Engineering, Science) - This school requires no experience to craft manuals.
- Bridge Officer Specializations
- This will allow Bridge Officer to be trained in specific Specializations, such as; Intelligence Specialization and Command Specialization(Upcoming).
- Stations & Ability Selection
- This will allow players to quickly and easily customize their bridge officer abilities with in the ship station window.
Season 10 (2015)
Undetermined Release
General
- Getting more voice acting in the game (for existing and new missions); DStahl & Al Rivera specifically mentioned the following Star Trek actors: [2][3]
- Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker)
- George Takei (Hikaru Sulu)
- Brent Spiner (Data)
- John de Lancie (Q)
- Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway; likely too expensive [4])
- Expansion of Duty Officer system [2]
- DOff system to be implemented into the STO Gateway
- Likely including re-release of the Tuffli Class Freighter
- Duty officer assignment cooldowns listed (possibly Season 9) [5]
- Possible: Duty officer commendation Tier V categories added (requirement is above the 150,000 CXP cap) [6][7]
- Revamp of Bridge Officer training system [1]
- Revamp of remaining un-revamped episodes [1]
- New playable faction [3], e.g., Cardassian playable species [11]
- Return to Cardassian story would most likely be to launch a Cardassian faction with a story that players could experience for themselves [12]
- Fundamental revamp of “State of Q”, possibly copy-pasting Avery Brooks' voice for Benjamin Sisko from DS9: "Emissary" and, ideally, featuring John de Lancie as Q. To be re-introduced as stand-alone mission at some future point of time [1]
- More mini-games
Revamp of PvP system
(To happen gradually after launch of Season 8 [17][8][18], main focus will be on space gameplay at first [19], has been given priority over Foundry improvements [4])
- STO will be first game to implement a new PvP engine developed by Cryptic [8]
- Either replacing current PvP maps or revamping the existing ones [27]
- Possible: Starbase PvP Challenges [14]
Foundry improvements
(Many major improvements to be ported over from Cryptic's game Neverwinter [34][2])
- The Foundry will be made "more visible" to anyone "flying around" in space
- Original plan: "First half of 2014 [35]:"
- New assets [34][2][35]
- "My Favorites" tab for Foundry missions [5]
- Older plan: Foundry faction in Reputation System [21][35]
- Remastering (cutscenes etc.) and incorporating the best Foundry missions into the hard code of the game as part of the official story line; possibly replacing some of the less popular Cryptic missions [29]
Ships
- Last remaining canon Federation ships will come, including new designs that may not have a unique console [12]
- Refit Negh'Var [35]
- Revamped playable versions of Typhoon & Jupiter class dreadnoughts is a possibility [11][38][39][9][31][38][40]
Older ideas
The following updates have been mentioned by the developers and not retracted since then, yet over 12 months have gone by since they were last mentioned.
- Long-term goal of Reputation System: KDF/FED/ROM-specific reputation factions that function as voting system in which the players decide which project to fund, thereby influencing the general direction of their whole faction (e.g., which fleet ships are going to be released next etc.) [19]
- More new sectors in Alpha Quadrant [31][41], probably as "Founders of the Federation" expansion [10]
- Sector between the Sol System and Cardassia including Betazed and Trill/Trillius Prime along with other key Fed homeworlds [25][31][42][10]
- Xindi may show up in a future sector [9]
- Adding Dilithium as a reward for all Cryptic-made story missions in game [43]
- Update of Accolade system [44], including more challenges and rewards [37][9]
- Improved UI of Exchange [34][8][45][36]
- Animated Andorian antennae [44][46][33]
- Department Heads, and Off-Duty revamps are on hold as of October 2012[47]
- First Officer system is not on schedule as of December 2012, but may be revisited with increase to Full Admiral[11]
- Bridge officers who are put in as First Officer, Chief Engineer, Chief Medical Officer, etc. gain some new abilities/perks [49][41][50][51][52][53]
- Department Heads and First Officer will leverage Expertise and can be individually augmented by Duty Officers of their respective departments [54]
- First Officers will grant additional lower-level Captain powers depending on their respective specialization [55][56]
- First Officers will occupy a special, additional bridge station. This may be closer to increasing the skill cap to Admiral.[47]
- Revamp of DS9 Under Siege fleet action (after Season 8) [25]
- Merge all sectors into one map [46][28][31]
- Minor restructuring and general layout improvement of sector space [8]
- Ability to warp to a friend and/or improving travel between sectors[30]
- Tier 5 Merian class escort: 12[57]
- New Orleans, Freedom, and Niagara classes [32]
- Customize fleet starbase and ship exteriors/interiors in Foundry [46][30][58]
- More Klingon hairstyle options (C-Store) [59] [September 9, 2011]
- Sol/Qo'noS system daily mission rewards including "Red Squad" (and elite Klingon academy) cadet costumes [July 3, 2011] [41]
- C-Store with tangible merchandise [July 3, 2011] [41]
- Melee combat improvements [July 3, 2011][41][60]: Open melee-only PvP arenas on Vulcan, Andoria, Qo'noS, Rura Penthe [30][61], Vulcan Lirpas, Andorian Ushaan-tor knives, and Klingon bat'leths from special weaponsmiths [June 17, 2011] [26]
- 2409 ships like Excalibur, originally designed by Perpetual Entertainment [June 10, 2011] [62]
- Better control of limits on provision usage by fleet rank [63]
- Account shared currencies [9]
- Single player or co-op versions of ground STFs [8]
- Possibly more uniform options for Breen and Reman bridge officers [33]
- Gorn bridge officers on Federation side as reward for some diplomatic missions. [33]
- Adding day-night cycles (first seen on Bajor) to further ground locations [33]
- Different species' combadges (not on schedule as of July 2012) [14][31][64]
- TOS Communicators or transporter effects via C-Store or episode rewards [14]
- "Children of Khan" feature episode series (not on schedule) [48][65]
- More daily missions near neighborhood of Sol System and Qo'noS [30][27]
- More aliens, like Tamarians, from TV shows and movies [9][41]
- Ability to gain Commendation XP via gameplay types other than the DOff-system. [40]
- A form of encyclopedia for all information presented thus far [June 7, 2011] [38]
- Some less popular episodes might be replaced by Cryptic-remastered Foundry missions [29]
- Bridge Officer Requisition "Exchange" showing skills learned [9][66]
- Ship crew uniforms for officers onboard your vessel [9][48]
- Range of new and different alien ships from patrols and cluster missions [June 7, 2011] [38]
- 100 Day Veteran Reward for KDF [June 7, 2011] [38]
- Expanded Ensign bridge officer powersets and exclusive abilities [December 2, 2010] [42]
- Story content featuring Gorn [February 16, 2011] [67]
- Remaining preorder items made available to C-Store [February 8, 2011] [68]
- Not likely to appear: [Red Matter Capacitor] [April 15, 2011] [69]
- Ship interior functionality[30][70]:
- Possibility of allowing players to customize geometry and texture of weapons [April 8, 2011] [71]
- "Leaving Shipdock" cutscene sequences when getting new ships [May 6, 2011][48]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Priority One Episoe 169 (14 April 2014) - Interview with Al Rivera
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Priority One Episode 131 - Interview with Daniel Stahl (10 June 2013)
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ask Cryptic (11 January 2013)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (31 October 2011)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (1 November 2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (10 August 2012)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 Dan Stahl - Question & Answer Chat Transcript (14 June 2012). Alternative link
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- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Digibytes - A Q&A with Star Trek Online's Executive Producer, Dan Stahl (25 February 2013)
- ↑ ONRPG interview with DStahl (9 August 2013)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (6 July 2012)
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- ↑ Podcast UGC – Episode 102: The Return of Captain Geko
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Subspace Radio interview of Dan Stahl (13 March 2012)
- ↑ Dan "Gozer Griffis" - Forum posting (1 June 2012)
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Raptr Q&A Session with Dan Stahl (6 September 2012)
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (17 June 2011)
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (1 March 2012)
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 STOked episode 113 (March 5 2012)
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 Tribbles in Ecstasy Dan Stahl Interview (March 26 2012)
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4 30.5 30.6 30.7 Dan Stahl - Engineering Report (19 August 2011)
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 31.5 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (6 June 2012)
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (4 April 2011)
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 33.5 Priority One Episode 66 - Interview with Al Rivera, Part I (3 February 2012)
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (7 September 2012)
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 Primetime UGC - Episode 29 (28 January, 2014)
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Priority One Episode 69 - Interview with Dan Stahl (24 February 2012)
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (5 April 2012)
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 38.4 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (7 June 2011)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - State of the Game (15 June 2012)
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 STOked Episode 110 - 13 February 2012
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.4 41.5 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (3 July 2011)
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (2 December 2010)
- ↑ Dan Stahl Forum Post (15 February 2013)
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 Priority One Episode 97 - Interview with Dan Stahl (23 September 2012)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - State of the Game (27 July 2012)
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (11 August 2011)
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- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (13 January 2012)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (1 March 2012)
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- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (13 January 2012)
- ↑ Heretic - Forum posting (4 March 2012)
- ↑ Al Rivera - Forum posting (4 February 2012)
- ↑ StarbaseUGC interview with Al Rivera (1 May 2012)
- ↑ Dan Stahl - Ask Cryptic (9 September 2011)
- ↑ Al Rivera - Tweet (4 August 2012)
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