Jeremy Randall

Lead Designer : Star Trek Online : Cryptic Studios

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

Hey folks. Just wanna point out that I don't use this site any more, in light of some recent Real World shenanigans that I'd rather not tacitly endorse.

So find me on Bsky if you wanna keep in touch!
@borticuscryptic.bsky.social

[Star Trek Online @trekonlinegame]

📜 Here are today's #StarTrekOnline Patch Notes:

👉 https://t.co/zNrFbKoaFL

[Star Trek Online @trekonlinegame]

An ion storm is interfering with the holographic processors on our website, so we decided to share the images of our upcoming Event Ship Garrett Command Alliance Dreadnought Cruiser here! We will provide you with more details as soon as this storm has passed!

[Adria Alvarado @adrialvaradoart]

✨ new STO Lore Blog is out! ✨ I’ve been painting the illustrations for our Lore Blogs, and I’m excited to share the latest one with you!

check it out here: https://t.co/1UzbDMDx2Y 🚀

hope you guys enjoy it! 🖖

#StarTrekOnline

[Star Trek Online @trekonlinegame]

“Extraordinary measures must be taken in the face of extraordinary threats.” On PC, claim your Section 31 Heavy Phaser Rifle and more for free this weekend!

👉 https://t.co/DVBp04325N

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

This was *supposed* to be Once Per Character. We're investigating what went wrong, and if we can fix that for live.

[Joe and STO @CardGameNut]

New giveaway for @trekonlinegame players on PC! (I'm assuming Console will get it with an update closer to mid-February).

According to @maramakessto, this is a one-time claim, so choose the character for it wisely!

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

Thanks for the confirmation! Been too busy to get online and check for myself today.

[Joe and STO @CardGameNut]

Event Campaign VII progress *is* now counting, and has been retroactively added if you did the current Event while it was miscounting as Event Campaign VI.

Thanks, @trekonlinegame and @BorticusCryptic !

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

Some overly aggressive removal of those backups was the culprit behind this particular bug. Which will be fixed in the build that is currently scheduled for next Tuesday.

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

In today's "Weird Stuff that Happens in Game Dev" ....

We figured out why Ba'ku Doffs, and Baked Tribble, were causing errors on live. And it's silly. But you might notice that they both share the letters "BAK" which also happens to be what are internal "backup" files are named.

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

Answering this one that I've seen folks asking:

There will be a Ship Bundle that releases shortly after the Anniversary. We haven't announced it yet because it is not dropping the same date as the Anniversary Episode / Event. But we WILL announce it. With style!

[Star Trek Online @trekonlinegame]

We're happy to announce that our 15th Anniversary Update, Star Trek Online: Unveiled, featuring Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh, will go live on PC on February 11!

👉 https://t.co/T5g4gZqMlE

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

@CardGameNut Soon(tm)

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

4) Fixed internally. Hang on to your Fleet Modules for a future patch.

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

Bugs we know about from today's release:
1) German localization issues
2) No Win Scenario not giving EC7 progress
3) Kazon Raider from the giveaway was tradeable (we turned this off, server-side)
4) Claiming the VOY giveaway doesn't give a Discount to the Fleet LRSS variant.

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

3) Fixed internally. For now, we were able to make it "illegal" to trade this ship's reward pack. Unfortunately, this also impacts existing versions that came from other sources. A future patch should clean all of this up.

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

@wgunder1 @CardGameNut Can you PM me your Character@Account info? We may need to grab a copy of your character container to debug this.

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

The root cause: A new QOL feature was added to loadouts on Neverwinter, which had unintentional side effects on STO.

It's pure coincidence that this released at the same time as the ESD revamp. That update also included a core code branch update, which included this NW code.

[Joe and STO @CardGameNut]

@BorticusCryptic If I may ask…what ended up causing the issue? Changing ESD and the Earth asset(s) theoretically shouldn’t have changed anything with the Loadouts system. Maybe something that was still in testing but went live by mistake in an unfinished state?

[Jeremy Randall @BorticusCryptic]

😆

[Wansu @Shado_Wansu]

@BorticusCryptic So… a Wizard did it?

[Star Trek Online Wiki @trekonlinewiki]

Captains, we'd like to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for getting us past our goal - only 15 days into the year as well!

It's a privilege to help maintain STO Wiki, with the support of Captains like you. 🖖
#StarTrekOnline