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Star Trek Online's Crystalline Entity strikes back
The Crystalline Entity encounter in Star Trek Online is back, as Cryptic has refurbished the event to make it better than ever before. Starting on April 11th, players will be able to tackle the Entity in 10-person encounters while completing a brand-new project for the game. Systems Designer Jeremy Randall explains that the team wasn't happy with the original Crystalline Entity encounter and thus brought it back to the drawing board to make it more engaging. The reworked event now has new features and allows players of all types to participate. The Tholians are now involved as well, although their role is somewhat of a mystery. As part of the reintroduction of the event, Cryptic is running a three-week promotion where players can earn crystal shards for defeating the entity. One shard can be earned per day, and it takes 14 shards to complete the project. The reward for doing so is 50,000 dilithium Ore, 1,000 fleet marks, and a unique crystal shard space non-combat pet.
Captain's Log: Fleet actions, the Crystalline Entity and you
Ahoy, ensigns and admirals! Welcome back to Captain's Log, our weekly dose of Star Trek Online news, tips and unfounded personal opinions straight from the final frontier. After Friday's look at the ups and downs of Season One, today's Captain's Log assumes its regular Thursday stardate. At least until his masters at Massively make good on their threat to reassign your humble captain to Q-tip quality control. On Ferenginar. This week, let's take a look at Fleet Actions. Some are a rewarding change of pace from the often solitary grind of patrol and exploration. And some -- well, okay, just one -- is the bane of Starfleet's existence. We'll get to that in a minute.
One Shots: This one is for Omicron Theta
While we love to show off what players are doing in their favorite games, it's also nice from time to time to give you a look at what various members of the Massively staff are playing as well. Today's excellent One Shots comes to us from Kyle Horner, who has been spending time in Star Trek Online, as he really digs all things Star Trek! He writes in to explain the scene for those of us who may not have encountered this being as yet: "This would be the Crystalline Entity in Star Trek Online, which is something of a major pain to take down. It's completely possible for a group of players to actually never beat this Fleet Action, making it the sort of thing you take experienced guild members into." From big to small MMOs, we love to see them all! Of course, it takes readers like you to send in their screenshots to keep One Shots going. If you'd like to contribute, it's really easy to do. Just take a great screenshot in your favorite MMO, making sure it's at least 1024px wide and has no visible UI, and email it in to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com. Be sure to include your name, the name of the game, and your story -- guild and server or other details are welcome too. Yours could be one of the next pictures featured! %Gallery-85937%
Captain's Log: Pros and cons of Season One
Hailing frequencies open. Testing. Is this thing on? Yes, Lieutenant, I'm pushing the-- ah! Greetings and salutations, fellow Starfleet officers! And a hearty nuqneH to all you Klingons out there. Welcome back to Captain's Log, the weekly Star Trek Online column here at Massively. After a few weeks of tuning down in Engineering, Captain's Log is back, shinier than ever, with a new captain at the helm. Now let's set sail before the admirals at Massively reassign me to replicator cleanup duty. You've never seen a mess until you've seen someone order haggis and Ferengi snail juice. Federation and Klingon captains all over the galaxy have reason to rejoice. Thursday saw the release of Season One: Common Ground, one of the first really huge content patches for Star Trek Online. The patch introduces a bevy of features, including new fleet actions, a new task-force mission and more stuff for Klingons to do.
