Original Concept for the Duty officer user interface
Season Five: Call to Arms was released on December 1, 2011, paving the way for Star Trek Online to go free-to-play. Season 5 introduces the long awaited duty officer system as well as a skill revamp and overhaul Special Task Force missions.
Combat[]
- Space skills revamp
- Ground skills revamp (January 5, 2012)
- Space/ground skill split (January 5, 2012)
New starships[]
- The Federation Exeter, Gladius, and Sao Paulo class ships
- 9 new Klingon ships including the Orion, Nausicaan, and Gorn faction ships.
- A playable Jem'Hadar Attack Ship
Item Sets[]
- Omega Force (space and ground)
- M.A.C.O. (Federation: space and ground)
- Honor Guard (Klingon: space and ground)
- Reman Prototype Space Set (April 19, 2012)
Sector Space[]
- Transwarp added for episodes
UI & Systems Updates[]
The new Mission Journal
- Dilithium economy and exchange
- Events Calendar (hourly and monthly)
- Storyline episode progression
- Mission Journal upgrade
- Social map facelift (improved lighting and sounds on Earth Space Dock, Starbase 39-Sierra, Deep Space K-7, Deep Space 9)
- Facelift of Federation tutorial (separate starting points for each career path etc.)
Graphics update[]
- DirectX 10, 11, 11.1 Graphics Support (January 5, 2012)
New missions[]
- An event system was added:
- Borg Invasion of Defera
- Mirror Universe Incursion
- Starfleet Academy Event / Klingon Academy Event
- Tour the Universe
- Crystalline Entity
- and with bonuses for crafting, lore, collecting data samples and Asteroid Mining.
- Vault Shuttle Event (April 19, 2012)
- 2 Year Anniversary Event (February 2-6, 2013)
- “Party Crashers”
- “The Odyssey Class” (Federation) or “The Bortas Class” (Klingon Empire)
- Featured Episode Series: "The 2800":
- “Second Wave” (February 11, 2012)
- “Of Bajor” (February 18)
- “Operation Gamma” (February 25)
- “Facility 4028” (March 3)
- “Boldly They Rode” (March 11)
- New Klingon story mission: “Alpha” (April 5, 2012)
- First Contact Day (April 5-9, 2012)
- Introduction of recurring Friday 13th event: “Hearts and Minds” (April 12-14, 2012)
Locations[]
- Klingon Academy, Qo'noS
- Q's Winter Wonderland (December 8, 2011 - January 9, 2012)
- Hathon on Bajor (February 18, 2012)
- Ayala System (March 3, 2012)
- Vlugta Asteroid Field (March 11, 2012)
- Orith System (April 5, 2012)
- Utopia Planitia Shipyards (April 5-9, 2012)
Free-to-Play Test[]
The Free-to-Play build was first released on Tribble 29 September 2011. Cryptic held an extended testing period Tribble Test Weekend from 29 September 2011 until 30 November 2011. Players who participated could receive various cumulative rewards, released on 8 December 2011:
| Faction | Reward | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
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Random duty officers | Playing on Tribble[1] |
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Radan Tribble (bound item, account-wide unlock) | Getting a new Federation character up to level 6, or for gaining one level on any transferred Federation or Klingon character.[2] |
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8 Hour Skill Bonus (one-time claim for any character) | Getting a non-transferred Federation character up to level 11.[2] |
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80,000  (one-time claim for any character) |
Getting a non-transferred Federation character up to level 31.[2] |
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Exclusive title "Dimensional Hero" (account-wide unlock) and starship slot | Getting a non-transferred Federation character up to level 51.[2] |
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80,000 (one-time claim for any character) |
Getting a non-transferred Klingon character up to level 31.[2] |
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Exclusive title "Dimensional_Warrior" [sic] (account-wide unlock) and starship slot | Getting a non-transferred Klingon character up to level 51.[2] |
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Varel, unique blue quality duty officer (bound, account-wide unlock). | Getting a character to Tier 1 commendation (2,500 CXP in same category). [2] |
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Tactical Exocomp (Fed) / Goshi the Augmented (KDF), unique purple quality duty officers (bound, account-wide unlock). | Getting a character to Tier 2 commendation (15,000 CXP in same category).[2] |
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Automated Personnel Unit, unique purple quality duty officer with a unique ability not available elsewhere in-game (bound, account-wide unlock) | Getting a character to Tier 3 commendation (50,000 CXP in same category).[2] |
See Also[]
References[]
- Season 5 Dev blog entries at the Official website.