STO Will get Console Launch, ‘Fleet Command’ Will get Nog, And ‘Infection’ Will get Obscure – TrekFilm.com

There’s quite a bit happening on the planet of Star Trek video games, with new data on an upcoming VR alongside a number of updates inside ongoing Trek video games which are all vying in your consideration (and pockets). Here’s what’s new for early November in Star Trek Online, Star Trek: Infection, Star Trek Timelines, and Star Trek: Fleet Command.

Star Trek Online Unleashed let unfastened on Xbox, PlayStation

While the thirty-fourth season of Star Trek Online, titled Unleashed, has been accessible on PC for greater than a month, it lastly drops on each Xbox and PlayStation right now, November 11. Unleashed sees a cavalcade of Trek stars return to reprise their roles, together with Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh, and Mary Chieffo as L’Rell.

“Hugh, the acclaimed Cooperative Borg Leader and Director of the Reclamation Project, urgently calls upon you from Deep Space 9,” developer DECA and writer Arc Games stated of Unleashed‘s new story-based content material. “He needs your assistance in a daring extraction mission after Thaseen-Fei’s location is revealed through new confirmed intelligence. Team up with Borg expert Seven of Nine and other allies to dismantle the Aetherian threat and uncover the secrets behind their subterfuge.”

In addition, Unleashed additionally includes a new Task Force Operation (TFO) known as “Shattered Peace”, set at Alliance Headquarters at Khitomer.

“Respond to a distress call from Seven of Nine and take down multiple enemy incursions in orbit of Khitomer,” reads an outline of the brand new TFO. “Seven of Nine provides guidance from the ground through a set of orbital challenges, including rifts, waves of enemies, allies turned hostile, and more.”

Star Trek Online is at the moment accessible on Windows PC, Xbox One, and PS4. Those with current-generation consoles can even play on Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, and PS5 by way of backwards compatibility.

Star Trek: Infection AMA units the VR sport’s tone, however dodges launch date questions

A latest Star Trek: Infection AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) has shed extra gentle on the upcoming digital actuality sport’s tone and setting, however has dodged a report suggesting we’ll be capable of play it from December 11. The Reddit AMA occurred final week and was attended by Denys and Tom, two designers at developer Played With Fire. While the AMA solely garnered twenty-three complete feedback, the pair did supply some intriguing tidbits all through.

Played With Fire reiterated that the upcoming VR is “mostly narrative horror,” is “in the spirit of a DS9/TNG episode,” and that “a significant part of the gameplay is stealth, so players must make smart and logical decisions to avoid direct confrontation with danger.” This aligns with gameplay we’ve already seen — and that TrekFilm has analysed in nice element right here.

Speaking of logic, Tom added that Played With Fire selected a Vulcan, Ferak, as the sport’s protagonist as they “sometimes do have a breaking point,” and that “something is challenging [Ferak’s] logic” whereas he investigates a catastrophe on the Defiant-class U.S.S. Lumen.

For these hoping for a non-VR launch, Played With Fire pressured that “at the moment, we’re not working on a non-VR version,” so that you’ll solely be capable of play on Windows PC VR by way of Steam, or utilizing a Meta Quest 3 headset.

While an automated translation of an investor report from publisher Broken Mirror Games’ parent company, Bloober Team, means that the title will both launch on December 11 — or maybe be detailed that day as a part of the bigger Game Awards occasion (assume The Oscars, however for video video games… and with way more trailer reveals) — the AMA shied away from any questions on Star Trek: Infection‘s launch. So too have its developer and writer when requested straight by TrekFilm. Watch this house!

Star Trek Timelines will get creepy in Strange New Worlds-themed occasion

Over at Star Trek Timelines, a Strange New Worlds-themed mega event is underway for the enduring cell sport, and it affords up the prospect to safe a five-star Vezda straight from the present’s season 3 finale. The occasion, known as “New Life, New Adventures”, is chock-full of SNW characters, together with Young Roger Korby (five-star), Beholder Batel (five-star), Amelia Moon La’an (five-star), Beto Ortegas (four-star), Ensign Gamble (four-star), Vulcan Uhura (four-star), and Bytha (four-star). The odd one out, considerably randomly, is Ensign Sonya Gomez (five-star) from The Next Generation… and earlier than she makes captain on Lower Decks.

Part of the bigger mega occasion, a specialist occasion known as “Of All The Bridges in All The Galaxy” kicks off right now and can assist you to safe all the brand new crew detailed above.

Is it your time to harness the facility of the Vezda?

Finally, a brand new faction occasion known as “Bugged” kicks off later within the week on November 13, centered on occasion crew Archivist Booker (five-star), Flustered Scotty (four-star), and Chief Engineer Hemmer (four-star). If you and your group handle to come back out of the occasion on high, you might be taking a look at rewards together with Rojan (five-star), and Chief Engineer Hemmer (four-star).

Timelines developer Tilting Point additionally took to the sport’s Discord server just lately, addressing stability points inside the sport. “Thanks so much for all the feedback you’ve shared about the recent stability issues — our community team has passed it along to the devs, who’ve already identified the problem and are working on fixing it,” wrote Tilting Point. “We’ll keep you updated on any news. We really appreciate your patience and support while we smooth things out. You’re helping us make the experience better for everyone!”

Star Trek Timelines is a card-based, crew-driven, technique role-playing sport, additionally free-to-play on Windows PC, iOS, and Android.

Star Trek Fleet Command provides Nog in Deep Space 9: Retribution

Finally, an enormous Star Trek Fleet Command replace has added Nog alongside two months’ price of latest content material as a part of Deep Space 9: Retribution. The occasion went stay final week and runs all through November and December.

Here’s Scopely setting up all the lore behind what’s happening within the new replace:

War drums thunder from Bajor to the Badlands. Long in the past within the Delta Quadrant, the Borg assimilated the Kis’yhn—till one defiant thoughts sparked an rebellion that splintered the Collective. Branded a virus by the Queen, the exiled Kis’yhn rebuilt round Transogen, a risky ingredient that supercharges Borg-derived tech and permits telepathic domination. Twisted by energy, they grew to become the Node, dominated by the Hierarch, who now seeks retribution. As Transogen ignites a chilly warfare among the many nice powers, Captain Sisko and Deep Space Nine are pulled right into a storm that pits Borg towards Node—and everybody else in between. Commanders, the entrance line simply moved to the doorstep.

What this actually interprets to is a brand new characteristic (Solo Outposts), a brand new constructing (the Outpost Command Center), a brand new refinery, new Chaos Tech, and a brand new Battle Pass. It additionally means gamers will get weekly new fundamental and facet missions, and the prospect to acquire each Nog and the villainous Kis’yhn Hierarch.

“The Hierarch is a true plug-and-play PvP captain who outperforms prior generalists like Carol Freeman, while Nog takes the crown as the premier base-cracking captain—yes, surpassing his father,” Scopely stated of the brand new characters. “Used together, they pressure early rounds, blanket opponents with states, and suffocate enemy crits so your volleys land clean.”

Star Trek Fleet Command is a crew- and ship-driven, technique role-playing sport with a bigger deal with participant versus participant (PvP) gameplay, additionally free-to-play on Windows PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.

Steve Wright is a longtime Trek fan, an skilled Australian-based video games journalist, and the editor-in-chief of Stevivor.com, the nation’s main impartial video video games web site.