Star Trek Online winter event intercedes in Gingerbread/Snowman conflict
Star Trek Online is putting out its holiday event later today, a "Winter Invasion" that has starfleet captains protect a colony of gingerbread people from vicious snowmen.
The holiday season is a special time for MMOs, in which the developers really get to bank on the "living world" aspect and make the surroundings more festive. Apparently the spirit of the season sticks around well into the future, as Star Trek Online is once again rolling out its winter event starting today.
Starting today at 10am PST, you'll be able to visit Q on Qo'nos, Earth Spacedock, or New Romulus Command. He'll transport you to Q's Winter Wonderland, a special area in which starfleet captains will have to protect Q's colony of gingerbread people from an army of snowmen. The 'Winter Invasion' event is cross-faction, PvE-based, and available for all players at level 10 or higher. Beating down the snowmen will grant you holiday commodities, which can also be found around the winter map.
The winter events will bring back previous activities too, like The Fast and the Flurrious and The Fastest Game on Ice races. The festivities will last until January 16, 2014. You can check the official site for more details.
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Star Trek Online is putting out its holiday event later today, a "Winter Invasion" that has starfleet captains protect a colony of gingerbread people from vicious snowmen.-
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They're surprisingly giving it a lot of support still. It even has player-created missions and stuff now. Good stuff... too bad about that ground combat :/
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I remember early in the game there was a bug where I was my ship on the ground. That made it entertaining.
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Yeah the problem was that there were A LOT of ground missions.
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It is but it mostly makes me wish they would make another Starfleet Command or Stafleet Battles based game instead since that is where it is mostly copied from it seems.
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The starship portions are pretty fun, imo. The ground stuff blows chunks, though.
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They've done quite a lot to it. Sadly, there are still some bugs that have been there for years but the new content has been good.
Here's what the next content patch (early next year) should include: http://sto.gamepedia.com/Upcoming_content#Season_9_.28early_2014.29-
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the 'you appear as your ship when you beam down' bug was the best bug :(
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You can also get a new raider if you do the "Greatest Race on Ice" mission 25 times during this event. This is what you get http://sto.perfectworld.com/blog/?p=1054921
The Chel Grett cruiser from last year is also available if you missed that.
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