Star Trek Online has been going on for a lot longer than you might think, and during that time it has made stories and references to virtually every single Star Trek TV show or movie out there, and it’s gotten a lot of lore and story because of it. And now, they’re set to bring in the latest show, Star Trek Discovery to the mix with the “Age Of Discovery” update. But they won’t just be doing that in the update, they’re going to be streamlining the whole experience.
This comes via a blog post, which revealed how Age of Discovery was going to change things:
The first thing we’ve done is rework the flow of the mission journal. Instead of making every mission part of the story, we’ve decided to focus the story on the principal narrative arcs of the struggles of the various Galactic powers in the four quadrants. Some of our older “side” missions are no longer in the journal proper – you can still find these missions in the galaxy at large, but they’re not part of the directed journal experience. We’ve taken out the “Wasteland,” “Spectres,” “Breen Invasion,” and “2800/Lost Dominon” mission groups in this fashion, so you can still play them, you just won’t be sent directly to them as part of the leveling process.
Secondly, we’ve updated the Klingon War for Federation characters. Since this is the earliest content that most Federation characters encounter, we wanted to focus on missions that told a tight story of the Federation in 2409, and on how that story’s entangled with shapeshifter infiltration of governments, an infiltration that in turn sparked the entire conflict involving the Gorn, the Klingons, and the Federation. We’ve done some light polish work on several of the Klingon War episodes, including “Stranded in Space,” “Diplomatic Orders,” “Researcher Rescue,” “Secret Orders,” and “Doomsday Device.” All of these episode have received some updates, whether in the form of new visual FX, new characters, streamlining of difficult spots, or even just squashing little bugs.
Be sure to read the full blog to find out all that’s coming with the Age of Discovery update to Star Trek Online.
