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Star Trek Online Season 3 to launch today.

Arkenor — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:40:02 +0000

There were concerns that it might be delayed, but the Star Trek Online servers will be coming down today (December 9th, 2010) from 10 am GMT to Midday GMT for the much anticipated Season 3.

This is a major update, with a lot of features that players have been waiting for. I’ve included the patch notes under this brief post, but I’m particularly looking forward to the newly expanded crafting. From the sounds of it, the Federation will actually be [...]

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Everquest 2 – Baneful Battlegrounds, and February 25th Patch Notes

Arkenor — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:47:43 +0000

It all went a bit pear shaped up at EQ2′s end-game today.

Battlegrounds went live. I’m quite excited about this addition to the game, as I discussed here. Unfortunately, as it turns out, anyone who went into a Battleground with over 200 AA points had their points set back down to 200 when they left the zone.

For folks who don’t play EQ2, Alternate Advancement points are something you gain through a separate system to levelling, that you can spend [...]

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Ongoing Star Trek Online thoughts, and ST.0.20100202a.3 patch notes.

Arkenor — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:22:07 +0000

I’ve just started getting past the point I got to in the Open Beta. Since last I wrote, STO has become a great deal more stable, and less buggy. Just in time, I might add!

The new Character Selection Screen for STO.

This time around, instead of going for a Science Vessel, which are the most heavily shielded, and of middling manoeuvrability, I have gone for an Escort. Escorts are much quicker on their toes, and have most of [...]

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Star Trek Online ST.0.20100202a.2 patch notes, 4th February 2010

Arkenor — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:09:30 +0000

A good bug-squashing attempt, most notable for the research changes. Until now, I don’t think anyone ever managed to get past the first researcher.

Also, the code left over from Champions Online that was allowing people to choose colours for their weapons has been removed. No more being blown up by fuscia coloured disrupter beam wielding Klingons for me!

General

* Upon viewing map, if the system list was the last active map and you’re in a [...]

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Star Trek Online Open Beta 20100123a.1 Patch Notes, January 23rd

Arkenor — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:03:42 +0000

Another substantial patch came in overnight. Mostly minor bugfixes this time, but in high quantity.

Oh, just noticed the tribble change. They can no longer be used in combat. A lot of people had been using them to make themselves almost indestructible in ground combat (petting one raises your health), so that is certainly going to make a big difference. Horrid little things anyway!

Patch Notes A cutscene now plays after creating a Federation Character Updated contextual mouse cursor designs [...]

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Star Trek Online Open Beta 20100119a.12 Patch Notes, January 22nd

Arkenor — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:51:19 +0000

It looks like there were two patches last night. The larger of the two addresses player concerns (which I share) that the game has become too easy since the giant patch of the 20th of January. Though if it has left the tier 1 combat as easy as it was, it is going to be a bit of a shock for players when they hit tier 2.

Recent changes added when we unlocked the level cap introduced imbalance to [...]

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Star Trek Online Open Beta 20100119a.10 Patch Notes, January 21st

Arkenor — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:59:31 +0000

Another night, another patch! Most importantly, it sounds like the lack of exploration anomalies that was making the clusters so tedious has been dealt with. Also, I’m not certain, but perhaps those “exploration rewards” mentioned below are the long missing Badges of Exploration. I’ll check that out tomorrow!

Star Trek Online Open Beta 20100119a.10 Patch Notes

* We’ve removed the code that unequips items when you drag a power off of your power bar. Note that the only way [...]

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Star Trek Online Open Beta 20100119a.7 Patch Notes, January 20th

Arkenor — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:21:25 +0000

Huzzah! The new patch is here for Star Trek Online, and it is decidedly chunky! There’s so much good stuff in here that tomorrow I’ll be dedicating my STO Open Beta liveblog to seeking out the changes ingame. First I need a little nap, as I stayed up for the patch note release!

Headline Updates!

* Level Cap Removed! * Cardassian and Romulan Sectors are now open for Federation Players. * All bridge officer candidates offer a free basic [...]

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Star Trek Online Open Beta 20100108b.23 Patch Notes

Arkenor — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:39:32 +0000

Mostly more stability fixes.

General

* Many changes were made to improve game performance, especially time to transfer between areas. * Address issues where level ups, rewards, skill purchase, and item transactions would lag for several seconds. * Fixed an issue where some clients would freeze on the loading screen. * Fixed an issue where some powers you dragged to your power bar were not saving their location when logging back in. * Fixed an issue were some powers [...]

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Star Trek Online 2010108b.16 Patch Notes

Arkenor — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:24:28 +0000

We’ve had another downtime and patch tonight in the Star Trek Online Open Beta:

Star Trek Online 2010108b.16 Patch Notes

General

* Fixed an issue where the client would freeze at the loading screen. * Fixed for several of the performance issues that were causing powers to not draw as well as FX not playing. * Made several server side adjustments to ease an issue where transactions were being delayed. This would have many different impacts such as spawning [...]

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Star Trek Online 2010108b.10 Patch Notes

Arkenor — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:52:19 +0000

Looks like Cryptic are taking the “test” part of the STO Open Beta Test seriously. A Good Thing. They’ll be keeping us in the starter areas until we’ve given them a good working over.

I’ll be live-blogging the Open Beta launch later today.

Patch Notes Known Issues for Jan 11 2010 – ST.0.2010108b.10

Open Beta will start with characters restricted to playing Federation and Klingon sectors only. You will not be able to access Romulan, Cardassian, or Borg space until [...]

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Everquest 2 GU54 goes live today.

Arkenor — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:22:01 +0000

All this, and Frostfell starts tomorrow too. Wheeeee. I’ve already dug out my bag of Frostfell hats and cloaks.

Maltheas is looking forward to popping over to Freeport to point and laugh at the Overlord’s ex-flying fortress. He only ever visited it once, in an ill-fated attempt to assassinate The Overlord (the original Freeport to Qeynos betrayal quest). It is a fine thing that such a symbol of Lucan’s oppressive dominion over Freeport has been laid low.

The most relevant [...]

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