Same guy, twice tonight. You hear rumors about ‘people’ like this.  I’m running a list of them. He enters a pug, agrees to a plan, then ignores it. In this case he triggers the spheres on one side of an ISA, then he goes to the other in his under performing Scimitar.  First in KSA, then ISA.  Just my luck to catch him twice. His … Continue reading This is why I wish GM’s in STO were real.

From Reddit Hubibubchen has posted some great shots from the 2 new STF’s  – Brotherhood of the Sword and The Herald Sphere. See the full gallery here. Continue reading Prelude to Season X: Hi-Res shots from Tribble from the 2 new STF’s

Earlier tonight Borticus dropped a few hints about the the new threat – The Heralds. They also use their gateways to open a portal into a sun and shoot you with the hot plasma. Only counter for that is to shoot it, and they often use it after disabling you with their powers, and then even dedicated tanks can’t survive long. So yeah, Science captains … Continue reading Developer Intel: Herald Ship Classes, Abilities, and the must-know debuffs

First posted on Reddit by Atheonyirh. No actual stats on this one, just a short reference to it on Tribble it the image below.  The design does nothing for me, it doesn’t scream “must have”.  But then again, we have no idea what specializations it will have, what character class it favors (engineering likely, science possibly, tactical unlikely), and what ship mastery trait it offers.  … Continue reading Prelude to Season X: T6 Xindi-Primate Ateleth Dreadnought Cruiser

You’ve been warned!  Really, you have been warned! (Sounds like my ex.) The usual sources have again dropped a ton of information regarding upcoming content to Star Trek Online’s yet-to-be-named Season 10.  I’m working on a list of top-ten rejected season names – if you’d like to suggest something, drop me a note in the comments below. As always, please do not link this to … Continue reading Prelude to Season X: LEAKS! T6 Exploration Cruiser & T6 Negh’Var

Long-ass catch-up post.  It’s been a crazy week in STO. While the fans mull over the ‘somewhat’ shocking news of layoffs at Cryptic HQ, Team STO has been hard at work on the march towards Season 10.  Updates to several game mechanics already discussed are now going through testing on Tribble. Specializations are changing The good news is that they appear to be doing away … Continue reading Prelude to Season X: Updated Pilot Specializations, Item changes, a New STF & more…

From MassivelyOP: Massively OP has been contacted by a Cryptic employee — who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed — about the Perfect World/Cryptic layoffs yesterday that one former PWE staffer called a “slaughter.” Our source tells us that 18 people were let go from Cryptic itself, approximately 14% of the studio. Half of those were Neverwinter staff, evening out the Neverwinter and Star … Continue reading MassivelyOP confirms: Cryptic cuts 14% of it’s workforce, STO remains relatively unscathed

We’re starting to get details on the layoffs.   More information coming soon… Continue reading Confirmed Layoffs @ Cryptic – @pweCaptainSmirk, @mmodesigner out in realignment

Earlier today the rumor mill started cranking out that some staff have been let go.  A former PR person with some knowledge about the situation commented earlier via a private tweet: Pouring one out for the Perfect World Entertainment folks getting the hammer drop. You guys are amazing and talented people. — Ben PerLee (@BenPerLee) March 16, 2015 MMORPG.com added fuel to that fire by confirming … Continue reading Layoffs @ Cryptic – it’s speculation, for the moment…sorta

General: Level 50 enemies in all Normal PvE Queues will now reward the equivalent amount of Skill Points of defeating a level 60 version of that enemy. Crystalline Cataclysm: Resolved an issue which was causing players to not receive credit for completing the event. Updated rewards so that the player can choose any type of Mark for the Mark Reward. Resolved an issue where ground … Continue reading Holodeck Release Notes for 03/12/15