You’d think porting over trademark ships and recreating races would be enough to give Star Trek Online the flavor it needs to be authentic to fans, but developers plan to ramp up the content and atmosphere even more in Season 4 for a more immersive experience.
“The next step forward is continuing to make the game more “Star Trek.” This includes more story, more locations and factions from the universe, and generally more elements that allow the game to feel like the shows. There are a ton of features on our backlog to get to, but in general, the motto is ‘More Like Trek,’” said Cryptic Studios in its December Ask Cryptic newsletter.
With the impending arrival of Season 3 features like the Foundry content generation system and Episode replay system, Cryptic acknowledged that the framework needed to expand the game world is there.
Aside from additional content from TV episodes and lore, Season 4 and beyond should also bring gameplay improvements. “For Season 4, we want to introduce “Crew” as an important gameplay element of your ship. We would like to see departments within your ship have leaders, such as “Chief Engineer,” as well as a staff of individuals who when assigned to “Engineering” provide a specific bonus.”
Fans though would have to wait a lot more before they can get the full experience of seeing crew members roaming around the ship interior. Ground combat is also expected to get a major overhaul after two Seasons of only minor fixes.
“In Season 4 we will be releasing a major update to ground combat, which will help PvP, so that is something on the books to start with. For additional PvP support, we are looking into ways to incorporate PvP into upcoming story updates. There is also a chance we may release an additional PvP map in Season 4, but my estimate is that it will be sometime between Season 5-6 where we will start to see some major PvP features hit Holodeck.”
Season 5 could even activate Sol System maps, which Cryptic Studios confirmd as being in the pipeline, and which fans have long been clamoring for since the game launched.
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