Now that Champions Online is out in the wild, publicity activites for Star Trek Online Continue to be on the rise.
We have had a bunch of new information released to us recently about how ships and crews will work in Star Trek Online. You can now read about Ship Overviews, Bridge Officers, Crew, Station Mods, Ship Equipment and Tiers - it literally is a tonne of information and it gives us a real insight into how these aspects of the game are going to work.
Bridge Officers play a key role in how any ship performs. The player can assign his Officers to specific stations on a given ship. These stations can be Science, Tactical or Engineering stations, and ships of different type favor stations of a specific type, as well. Science ships focus their stations on Science, Escort ships on Tactical and Cruisers on Engineering. The more advanced the ship, the larger number of Bridge Officer stations there are (generally).
Check out all of this information at the following links:
http://startrekonline.com/ship_overviewhttp://startrekonline.com/ship_overview/boffshttp://startrekonline.com/ship_overview/crewhttp://startrekonline.com/ship_overview/modshttp://startrekonline.com/ship_overview/equipmenthttp://startrekonline.com/ship_overview/tiersIn addition to all of this, we have been treated to a new trailer which Cryptic Studios have teamed up with IGN to release. At the moment, only a low quality version of the trailer is publically available, with a HD version available to IGN Insiders only, but its a good trailer and well worth a watch.
Check it out on our YouTube account at
http://www.youtube.com/user/HailingFrequencyVenture Beat also have some cool videos up on their website from a recent visit they paid to Cryptic Studios HQ - check them at
http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/16/interviews-with-star-trek-onlines-creators-with-game-play-footage/Finally, Next Tuesday, October 20, at 11:30 a.m. Pacific time (we’re GMT -7 right now), Cryptic are holding a developer’s chat in the official Star Trek Online IRC chat!
This week's topic is player progression. They have talked about this previously in an Ask Cryptic, but they want to use this chat for any follow-up questions you'd like to ask the devs in real time.
If you’d like to join them, point your IRC program of choice toward #STO on coldfront.net, or head to stochat.hailingfrequency.com which is tied directly into their IRC.
