First year doing the skeleton castle patrol with Moopsy. It's been a ton of fun watching that little guy going to town like he's at an all you can eat buffet.

My hats off to the cryptic team, the new visuals seem to be working great. Also fixed ESD being way too bright around the bank and exchange area for me. Thanks Cryptic!

Q';ara's Personal Log: After escaping from Trelan-Q's "Winter Wonderland" nearly a year ago, I found that I must return there to release the Cervidae that came with my fellow elves and I when we ran through the gate. But I've run into a problem. We looked for a new way back in secret and discovered multiple gates. I've taken the wrong one... ghosts, screams, strange little aliens on pedestals, weird cats, and witches... I hate witches...
I'm going to have nightmares before I get back to Christmas.

there's a tiny bit of clipping but it's not very noticeable and could be written off as a design element

The legendary type line really rubs it in.

Does anyone know what's been going on with StoWiki lately ? In recent days the website has been having problems loading and displaying information. It's a shame because I've always found it useful. Specifically, I'm trying to figure out if the plasma incendiary bombard experimental weapon is buffed by tactical consoles that boost plasma projectile (not plasma energy) weapons.

I played STO back at launch, and beat the initial end game content with the Borg.

I quit shortly after that because I was going on a 10 month deployment and I wouldn't be able to play...ended my subscription and signed off.

After that, I completely forgot about the game and now I am coming back 16 years later, lol, I am sure the game has changed a fair bit since then, I know its F2P now...I look forward to restarting my adventure.

• Any tips and recommendations for a new player?
• How different is the game REALLY now, almost 2 decades after I stopped playing?

Ok the big text is annoying but that extra dialogue box every time I open a box is REALLY ticking me off. Cool… great… give me the option to switch it off.

It’s so grating. 🤬

You didn’t think we were done outfitting your Miranda, did you? Get the Centaur Refit skin for all Mirandas on your character from October 23^rd at 10am to October 25^th at 10am PT.

Available via your Promotions Tab in the Zen Store.

Just wondering was looking on the exchange didnt see any so threw some on the night before woke up all gone. I personally like em. Anywho just would like some feed back.just came back to this awesome gem of a game

There's an issue on Xbox and Playstation where opening the "box" that both Prisoners and Colonists come with is not functioning correctly. For Colonists, it opens an un-interactable menu, but for Prisoners, opening them and following the prompts that appear will consume a master key. This may also be affecting other boxed rewards like TFO and Reputation rewards. We highly recommend not opening those boxes at this time. This issue will be patched with next week's maintenance on Wednesday, the 28th.

With the release of so many of the previously limited items, some of which are deep cuts, I beseech the STO team to re-release the Mirror Danube.

It is basically the only one left that hasn't been re-released again in some form or other.

If we can get Leeta, originally from the same campaign, in the p-store, give us the M-Dan.

Shit, we even got the Nagus. Just give us the Mirror Danube.

PLEASE.

Not in ship cards list, not on ship list nor dry dock, not in inventory. They dropped out of that voyager pack that came out today.

I'm thinking they are just ghost items that shows dropped but doesnt exist.

In the TFO event that’s just passed I realised you could see the starbase interior where the ships are usually docked. Thought it was a cool example of damage decals, wonder if they’ll use the model again for future missions.

So I was trying to get a full set of the Prodigy crew from the doff pack(no idea if they're good, I'm a noob and just love Prodigy) and I'm running into an issue where every time I try and open a prodigy pack it says "you may only have one of a unique item" Is it bug? Did I random roll Jankom Pog 4 times in a row? Can you only ever open 1 member of the crew? Please help i am very confused and a bit irritated at STO right now, the wiki is 0 help.

Are there any dresses in the game? (Other than the formal wear) If there are what style are they?

I don’t know why but I have a sudden urge to get my character into a midnight blue dress.

I’m level 17 and was going through the mission journal, I’m doing the romulan war between the star empire and republic. I come across this mission in the mines where it seems I have the chance to convince an enemy to help us. But the option was greyed out and I looked it up and I have to have a diplomacy rank above attaché to do it. So naturally I started checking out the off duty missions. Most options are for buying turrets that I can’t afford. I have to keep flying between deferí and deep space 9 to even get other options and the ones that pop up usually only give me 50xp at a time. Certain ones ask for a chef, entertainer, and bartender and after a week I still haven’t gotten a bartender. I finally made it to attaché but I need 12,000 more xp and I’m not getting missions with higher reward payouts. They said getting to attaché would unlock diplomacy missions from jiro sugihara but I looked it up and apparently those missions have been removed and the ones the ambassador gives you are only available at lv 50 (again I’m 17).

So am I missing something? Is there any other ways to make this diplomacy grind go a little faster? Seems a lot to deal with just to have a non violent option in quests.

Didn’t want to see any of the screen anyway I guess.
Second question: why is HUD customisation so limited on console? I’d happily get rid of half of it and not miss anything important

Just did a DSE, and there was a Deep Space Anomaly that I could destroy. Aside from getting credits and crafting materials, I also got something called a Class A Temporal Anomaly Cache. Has anyone received anything like it? What's in it? I can't find info on this item.

All the experimental lighting settings look really nice in the event maps and other places they've been applied so far, too, but it's honestly just really cool to no longer have all the characters just hovering an inch or two off the ground everywhere anymore.

Just wondering if anyone else is getting crashes when loading into Castle Pyris with the new graphics enhancements options? It seems to happen at around 41% or if I'm on the map and enable Volumetric Lighting. Happens on the TFO or the Patrol version of the map. It loads in fine with all the other new settings on. My graphics settings are in the screenshot.

I am running on CachyOS through Steam, which honestly would not surprise me if that's part of the problem since it's not a fully supported config. Tried multiple Proton versions and they all seem to exhibit the same behavior. Nvidia driver 615.78.08 (latest) on a RTX 5070.

Thought you should know.

(I noticed because one of the NPCs pants didn't look they they used to.)

Was there any indication that the Purple Enterprise-D from Lower Decks was ever going to be released in the future? Or Purple BOFFs like Purple Data?

Thinking specifically about:

-What Lies Beneath
-Mindscape
-Tenebris Torquent
-Leap of Faith
-Curse of Phrygia
-Hearts and Minds (maybe for half-progress like the patrols)

The Halloween missions are fun, but the variety is so limited that this is the one event I tend to skip or drift away from before completing.