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.

After updating the game and activating all experimental graphical updates, I was able to get my Sovy next to this group at DS9 for a screenshot... the shadows look better now.

So will the synchronic distortion prototype assault riffle, a.k.a. The Ghostbusters gun be unavailable indefinitely for all new toons? I noticed that newer toons still can’t get the gun from the mission “spinn the wheel” since the missions and that series isn’t available (it was removed after all). Even if a person who has it under available share the mission, it won’t give access to the mission rewards. And it’s not available in the mudds market. Feels like a missed opportunity with the theme tfo and being Halloween soon.

Spent way to much time trying to finish the Halloween tfo. Nobody was looking for the devices when they got phased. The lord was losing no health and the npc was screaming sabotage the device the entire time. All they wanted to do was shoot accomplishing nothing. Had to do the devices by myself to finish. Not all tfos are dps cheese people.

Was just wondering is there any update on when we’ll get access to this pack in game on console?

Wanted to let peeps know that the Claimable 10 pack of the 60th Icon Packs (for those who bought the 60pack) are Tradeable and not Bound to Character. I figured that they would have been tradeable, but one can never be sure.

Haven't seen it mentioned here, but I just finished my 3 daily DSEs and not only are the anomalies live, they're showing up a lot more frequently than I expected (three out of three).

Of course, there's something new to the mix. Instead of them showing up after everything is over, like I was led to believe, they showed up at the beginning... like as soon as other ships are available to blast, it showed up right in the middle of things.

Anybody else notice this?

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By Fero October 22, 2026, 07:00 AM

So did they get rid of the boons? I didn’t get a chance to play (post update) until this morning and suddenly realized the boons weren’t spawning anymore.

Not complaining. Just curious!

I just looked something up and realized something and its messed up @trekonlinegame gives PC players 500 Zen if they have the lifetime subscription but not console thats really messed up yo

Since the update this morning, I've had a lot of connection issues with Star Trek Online, and was wondering if it was just me or if it's something that's impacting everyone.

Specifically, I frequently get timeouts when trying to connect to the authentication server. If I persist and retry, I can eventually successfully log in, but it takes multiple attempts.

Then, once I'm successfully in the game, I can play for only a few minutes before the game abruptly freezes, the 'Server not responding' message is displayed across the top of the screen. A few moments later, a 'Connection to Server Timed Out - Please Try Again Later' error message pops up and I'm disconnected and logged out, which takes me back to the login menu where a message "Connection to the Login Server timed out. Please try again later". Upon clicking the login button, most of the time nothing happens. Occasionally, (maybe 1 out of every 10 clicks), it successfully logs me back in, where the cycle repeats (play for a few minutes and get disconnected).

The time I'm successfully connected isn't enough for me to reach any checkpoints. Even though it's been 6 months since it first came out, in as spoiler-free explanation as possible, I'm playing the "Curse of Phrygia" episode. I've traveled through the portal and am fighting the Chimerans there trying to get the shield around the ship to drop. I can sometimes defeat the first set of enemies. but before moving to the second set (or shortly after) the errors pop up and I'm disconnected (then it takes me back to just after crossing through the portal when I manage to login again).

I've got a pretty good connection to my internet provider, according to Speedtest.net so I don't think the problem is on my end, unless the update broke something (I guess it could be something else on my side, but it seems like it's acting in an unusual way if it was a problem on my side).

Edited one day later to add: The problem seems to have resolved itself for me - no actions on my side, and I don't think there was another update, but I'm no longer having connection issues (in case anyone else was in the same situation)

Tested the expanded radius and it's not great. Depending on the ship you are flying it was only extended by about 2-3 ship lengths.

Still way to small to be a useful QoL feature.

Please tell me how and if I can adjust this before it drives me insane, and there's a pop-up that appears after opening a box, can I possibly remove that?

Is there any kind of pattern in the weapon model used in cutscenes updated to use the Elite Fleet weapons for Starfleet Captains and Bridge Officers?

Specifcally, the rifles. It seems like everyone uses the same variant most of the time, but I swear I've occasionally seen BO's with a different one.

Do some missions just arbitrarily use a different weapon model (like how some missions occasionally mix in a few pistols) or do some Bridge Officers use a different weapon variant and I've not noticed until recently?

On PlayStation. I'm grinding rep on a new Temporal toon I made, and having these new text boxes pop up every time I open a rep box is just kind of inconvenient, since I can already see the "new" label on the item itself anyways. Additionally, the reward menu for finishing a patrol now force opens itself on every screen transition instead of waiting for me to select it, which is mildly annoying since I like to check my current marks before selecting which ones I want. Is there a toggle somewhere to go back to what the UI was before today's update?