STO's Season One: Update Two soft lands today

by Justin Olivetti on Jun 3rd 2010 5:00PM

Star Trek Online players are in for a treat today as Cryptic's next content patch hits the servers. Titled in such a way that we think they're going to count to 10 eventually, Season One: Update Two (Mark Three, Variant Four, Version Five) comes bundled with a number of new features and quality of life improvements for all to enjoy.

The premiere features of this patch are the new Accolade and Squad Support systems. Accolades are your basic MMO achievements with a Star Trek veneer, although if you collect enough of them, you can earn real benefits for your character (such as passive resistances) in addition to titles. All we can say is that if there isn't an accolade for the number of "Picard Maneuvers" you've done, then Cryptic needs to get on that and make it so.

Squad Support is a new version of Cryptic's famous Sidekick system from City of Heroes. It paves the way for friends of varying levels to group together for missions and fleet actions by temporarily raising or lowering the rank of the group to match the squad leader's.

Season One: Update Two contains several other additions, so head over to STO's site and check them out!

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Reader Comments (2)

i just let my STO sub run out last week, and while there is some fun to be had in this game, i think they need a bit more time to polish this title. accolades and sidekicks aren't even going to dent the vast amount of negative comments about this game.

Okay. I may not be playing STO as much as I used to, but I've got to say this...

The Sidekick/Exemplar system from City of Heroes was one of my favorite game mechanics in an MMO and I wish I could have it in more MMOs that I play (namely, all of them). I'm happy to see that Cryptic is putting this into STO and I hope they'll bring it to Champions Online as well.