New Subscriber Bonuses:

• Lifetime Subscription
  • Talaxian Playable Species
    • Talaxians are now available as a new playable species for Federation and Klingon factions.
    • Talaxians are available for players with lifetime accounts.
    • This is retroactive to anyone that has purchased a lifetime subscription
• Additional 800 Day Veteran reward
  • One Ship Upgrade Token per Account
    • The Upgrade Token rewardpack will be mailed in game to the first character that logs in on the account.
    • That character will receive a rewadpack which can be traded to any character on the same account.
    • Once the Upgrade Token is unpacked, it will be bound to that character and cannot be traded.
    • This will also unlock for Lifetime subscribers.
    • This is retroactive to all 800 day veterans and lifetime subscribers.

 

General:

• Resolved a number of issues that occasionally would cause a costume change related crash.
• Resolved a crash that would occasionally occur when pressing Accept after completing a Skill Respec through the Skill Respec trainer contacts.
• Resolved a graphics related crash that would occur on video cards with Shader Model 2.
• Resolved a crash that could occur on startup with Direct X9 settings.
• Bound items can no longer be stacked with unbound items.
  • When split, bound items will always create bound stacks.
• The ability to respec Captain Specialization Points when using a Skill Point Respec is no longer available.
  • Captain Specialization points were not intended to work when using a Skill Point Respec token.
• Resolved an issue which was causing players to be able to use their weapons and numerous Kit and Captain Powers in the Jenolan Sphere.
• Foundry: Resolved an issue that caused invisible FX for the Mirror Universe Portal.
• Added an icon to the Jem’Hadar Lobi Costume pack.
• Resolved an issue where clouds of fog would sometimes appear incorrectly.

 

Content:

• “Alliances”
  • Resolved an issue which was causing teamed players to spawn outside of the walls when beaming in to Voyager.
  • When successfully making an ally out of the Turei, Tuvok will express the correct reaction.
    • Previously, Tuvok’s text would refer to this as a failure instead of a success.
  • Text now better matches the VO throughout this episode.
• “Dragon’s Deceit”
  • Additional VO has been added to this episode.
  • Resolved an issue where the Neural Parasite would sometimes run underneath players during its reveal cutscene.
  • Tuvok’s headshot has been removed when interacting with the crate which gives the player the grapple gun.
  • Text now better matches the VO throughout this episode.
• “Mindscape”
  • Resolved an issue where Voyager could sometimes get lost in the fluidic space battle.
  • Lowered the spawn rate of enemy bioships in the fluidic space battle.
  • Added bulletproofing to make this less susceptible to breaking in the Astrometrics area.
  • Added thicker fog while in the Undine Ship interior.
  • Text now better matches the VO throughout this episode.
• “The Son” – Kobali Adventure Zone
  • The Replay mission reward will now award additional Mk 11 Kobali Rifles.
    • This will allow players to equip their Bridge Officers with this unique Delta Quadrant weapon.
• “Reunion”
  • Resolved an issue where players in teams would see multiple versions of the same contact.
  • Contact VO no longer overlaps.
  • Text now better matches the VO throughout this episode.
• “Revolution”
  • A jammer is no longer floating in the air during the ground portion of the episode.
    • The jammer will now be attached to the nearby surface.
  • Text now better matches the VO throughout this episode.
• “Revelations”
  • Additional VO has been added to this episode.
  • Text now better matches the VO throughout this episode.
• “Takedown”
  • Additional VO has been added to this episode.
  • Resolved an issue where the player could be blocked from completing the mission if Gaul was defeated in the hallway attached to the arena.
  • Added sound effects to the drop pods in the arena.
  • Text now better matches the VO throughout this episode.
•  “Enemy Action”
  • Transwarping from the ground for this mission no longer plays the space Transwarp animation.
    • It now plays the correct ground Transwarp animation.
• “Night of the Comet”
  • After completing the Scotty drink puzzle, players can talk to the Drozana past bartender to buy “Nerve Tonics to go”.
    • These tonics are limited to once per play through of the episode.
    • The tonics are now bound to the character upon buying them.
• “The Other Side”
  • The portal to the Mirror Universe in Arawath is no longer invisible.
• “Cold Comfort”
  • The laser drill now has firing FX.
• Additional VO has been added to the following Delta Quadrant contacts:
  • Burgess
  • Galera
  • Mena
  • Q’Nel
• Delta Quadrant Patrol Systems:
  • Resolved an issue where all Delta Quadrant Patrol missions were always rewarding a Mk XII Phaser Beam Array.
    • It will now always grant a different Mk XII Space Weapon, of any weapon and energy type.
  • Resolved an issue causing excess bloom in the Zahl System.
  • The Wyanti System now has an image and information when interacting with it in Sector Space.
• The “Welcome to the Delta Quadrant” video will now play when a player warps out of the Jenolan Sphere for the first time.
  • This will also play for the players who might have missed this video initially.
    • With Delta Rising’s launch, if a player immediately Transwarped to “Mindscape” after completing “Escalation”, the video would not play and would never be played.
  • A console has also been added to Delta Quadrant Command to rewatch this video.
• Updated the look of the door choices for the Iconian Space Gate in the Tau Dewa Sector to make it clearer where the options take the player.
• PvE Queues:
  • The PvE queue “Azure Nebula Rescue” is now available.
  • The PvE queue “Undine Infiltration” is now available.
  • “The Battle of Korfez”
    • The Vaadwaur missile now has the correct art.
    • Captain Harry Kim’s dialogue no longer overlaps.
    • Removed text which states “The Battle of Korfez” has an Advanced mode.
      • This queue only has an Elite mode.
  • There are no longer two Mission Briefing objectives for the Advanced version of “Storming the Spire.”
  • Resolved an issue causing the Starbase in the Fleet Starbase queue to not scale correctly to the difficulty level of the queue.
• Federation players cannot leave Starfleet Academy until completing the skip version of the tutorial.
  • Previously, players could get stuck if they left Starfleet Academy prior to finishing the skip tutorial process.
  • If a player is stuck in the following zones, there is now an interact option with these points to allow access back to Starfleet Academy:
    • ESD
    • Sol System
    • Sirius Sector
• Federation players can no longer join the Borg Red Alert without completing the full or skipped version of the tutorial.
  • When this occurred, players could get stuck in the Alert since there was no option to leave the Alert.
• Missions which have a random assortment of rewards for completion will now have a wider range of reward varieties.

• Backgrounds for NPC contact windows in Delta Quadrant content now show the correct image.
• Vaadwaur Tanks have brand new death animation.
• Commander Hugor no longer spawns in random groups of Klingon NPCs.
• Episodes which no longer exist will now automatically be dropped from the player’s In Progress list.
• Turned the rotating events back on for New Romulus.
  • These were accidently shut off.
• Hirogen lips now move when speaking in cutscenes.
• Resolved an issue that was causing level 60 players to not be able to access PvP Warzone Sector doors in the Qo’Nos and Donatu Sectors.
• Added music to the Devore Sector.
• Resolved an issue causing the nebula to flicker in the Klingon space tutorial map.

 

Systems:

• Corrected a problem in expertise rewards after level 50.
  • Previous to Delta Rising, Skill Points earned at level 50 were rolled-over to Expertise and with the raise of the level cap, this rollover was intended to be removed.
    • This was outlined in an earlier blog http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/6009103-raising-the-level-cap.
  • The removal of the rollover Expertise failed to go out with the launch of Delta Rising.
  • Additional Expertise added to PvE Queues and missions to compensate succeeded in going out with the launch of Delta Rising.
  • The result was players have been earning unexpected amounts of Expertise since the launch of Delta Rising.
    • This has been corrected and Expertise is now rewarding at the expected rate.
• Resolved an issue where obtaining level 1 in any R&D School would unlock the school associated trait which is intended to unlock at level 15.
  • The traits will be automatically removed from the trait list as well as any which are equipped.
  • Traits earned by reaching level 15 in a R&D School will not be removed.
  • The list of traits this is applied to are:
    • “Beam Barrage” – Beams School
    • “Deft Cannoneer” – Cannon School
    • “Give Your All” – Engineering School
    • “Inelastic Collisions” – Shields School
    • “Kinetic Precision” – Projectiles School
    • “Particle Manipulator” – Science School
    • “Penetrating Rounds” – Ground Weapons School

• Powers:
  • Kinetic Magnet:
    • Fragile damage threshold increased from 10,000 / 15,000 / 20,000 to 20,000 / 30,000 / 40,000.
    • Excluded the following items from being affected by “Kinetic Magnet”:
      • Aceton Assimilators for Gorn, Voth and Player
      • All Cluster Torpedoes
      • All Tailpipe Torpedoes
      • B’Ger Plasma Torpedo
      • Destabilized Plasma Torpedo
      • Gorn Repair Platforms
      • Hirogen Feign Death “Loot” Container
      • Intel EMP Probes
      • Malon and Voth Depth Charge targets
      • Projected Singularity
      • T5 Counter-Command Shield Generator
      • Undine Plasma Torpedo
      • VATA Console torpedoes, and KDF equivalent Mines
    • Resolved an issue where some Mines and Torpedoes were not correctly affected by Kinetic Magnet.
  • Feign Disintegration will no longer permanently alter AI behavior when used.
    • Bridge Officers that have the stealth triggered will only act differently for as long as the Stealth lasts.
  • Both ranks of Quick Draw have been reworked to be a passive effect.
    • Previously it was triggered by ability activation.
    • This resolves an issue that was causing abilities already in cooldown to gain a cooldown benefit when additional abilities were activated.
    • The cooldown reduction is now always a fixed percentage, but that value has been raised to 10% at Rank 1 and 20% at Rank 2.
    • This cooldown reduction now affects all non-weapon abilities, by design.
      • Previously it was accidently affecting only a few non-Kit abilities.
    • The descriptions for these abilities have been updated to reflect the new functionality.
  • Ionic Turbulence:
    • Chance to trigger “Out Of Control” changed from 20% / 35% / 50% to 20% / 30% / 40%.
    • Lockout/Immunity period from affected by “Out of Control” increased from 6 seconds to 10 seconds.
    • Strength of repel during “Out of Control” reduced by 20%.
    • Fixed a tooltip error that indicated the Hold from “Out of Control” lasts 3 seconds, when it actually only lasts 2 seconds.
      • This is a text change only.
  • Added a distance limit statement to the tooltips on versions of Subspace Beacon.
  • Added a description of the Fuse Timer mechanic to all versions of Transport Warhead.
  • Resolved a display text issue on Psionic Feedback, Shield Pulse, and Electrostatic Field Kit Modules.
    • These items indicated they were “Operations Modules” instead of correctly listing them as “Mechanic Modules”.
• Omni-Directional Antiproton Beam Array from the Mission Reward for “Sphere of Influence”:
  • Renamed to “Ancient Omni-Directional Beam Array” to reduce confusion between this and the similarly-named Crafted Beam Arrays.
  • This mission reward no longer shares a Equip Limit Category with the Crafted Beam Arrays, allowing both to be placed on any ship simultaneously.
  • Damage from this weapon has been increased by a small amount.
    • It still deals less damage than the Crafted Beams, but the difference is smaller, and this beam can benefit from a set bonus.

• Vaadwaur Space NPCs:
  • Assault and Interdictor Cruisers no longer get stuck in a “run away” AI loop when players are close to them.
  • Constriction Anchors now reduce a target’s Engine Power to zero if allowed to keep that target anchored for less than 30 seconds.
  • Constriction Anchors will no longer push their owners when launched.
  • All Vaadwaur Mines now hit for less and spread out further when launched.
  • All Vaadwaur Assault Vessels, Assault Cruisers, and Artillery Vessels now have a chance to spawn without a Tricobalt Launcher.
  • Resolved an issue which caused player attacks to register on the wrong side of the Vaadwaur Battleships and Dreadnaughts.
    • This is a visual change only.
• Delta Alliance Reputation System:
  • The proc chance for the Thoron Torpedo purchased in the Reputation store has been increased to 10% from 2.5%.
  • Updated the display name and proc chance for the Thoron Infused Quantum Mines.
  • The images for the hourly and daily projects now match the images for the rest of this reputation system.
• Upgrade System:
  • Added upgrade functionality to the Borg assimilated console.
  • Addressed an issue that caused the Counter-Command Multi-Energy Relay to become worse when upgraded.
  • Tactical Vulnerability Exploiter Consoles can now be upgraded using Projectile Tech Upgrades.
  • Resolved an issue when upgrading the Jem’Hadar Polaron Beam Pistol to Mk XII would result in it becoming Blue in quality, instead of remaining Purple.
    • This item was previously obtained from the Lobi Upgrade Pack.
• Resolved an issue which was blocking being able to add items like Photon Torpedoes to certain Fleet Projects.
  • An example would be the project “Practice Tactical Exercises”.
• Hierarchy Bridge Officers:
  • Resolved an issue which was blocking Klingon Captains from training their Hierarchy Bridge Officer in Science Abilities.
  • Hierarchy Bridge Officers are no longer editable.
  • The Hierarchy is correctly titled Bridge Officer instead of Duty Officer.
  • Hierarchy Bridge Officers now generate a name when received.
• Resolved an issue that was preventing Romulan Captains allied with the KDF from training Bridge Officers.
• Resolved an issue that was causing Federation Aligned Romulans to sometimes receive KDF aligned Duty Officers from the R&D Assistance assignment.

 

Ships:

• D’Kyr Vulcan Science Vessel:
  • The D’kyr’s Support Craft now heals the player, friends, or the target of your foe depending on who the player has targeted.
  • The shuttle has increased maneuverability.
  • If defeated, the shuttle will turn off correctly instead of just sitting in the same spot.
  • Tooltip text has been updated to reflect these changes.
• All Dyson Destroyers now have standard faction appropriate hull materials.
  • This is free and automatically unlocked for all Dyson Destroyers.
• All 9 Faction specific Tier 6 ships have a new free material available.
  • There will be a new Type 7 material for the following Federation Ships:
    • Dauntless Experimental Class Science Vessel
    • Eclipse Intel Cruiser
    • Guardian Cruiser
    • Phantom Intel Escort
    • Scryer Intel Science Vessel
  • There will be a new Type 4 material for the following Klingon Ships:
    • MatHa Raptor
    • Qib Intel Battlecruiser
  • There will be a new Type 4 material for the following Romulan Ships:
    • Aelahl Light Warbird Battlecruiser
    • Faeht Intel Warbird
• Starship Traits:
  • Resolved an issue preventing “Overwhelming Force” from applying to a number of Dual Beam Bank and Beam Array items.
  • Resolved an issue where the Accuracy bonus of the Starship Trait Advanced Fire Solutions on the Qib Battlecruiser was not being accurately applied.
• Starship Mastery:
  •  “Quick Deployment” now correctly reduces the recharge time and XP gain of hangar pets.
  • Resolved an issue that caused the Xindi Narcine Carrier T5-U from displaying the correct Starship Mastery passive abilities.
    • The ship was getting the correct abilities, but the UI showed incorrect ones.
    • This is a text change only.
• Resolved an issue which was causing the material options to change when altering the windows on the Dauntless.
• Resolved an issue that caused the Hazari Destroyer and Benthan Assault Cruiser to default to the U.S.S. prefix in their ship name.
  • By default they will now no longer have a prefix.
• Resolved an issue where Intrepids could not use alternate window options.
• Faction specific window options have been added to the Faeht Intel Warbird.

 

Character:

• TOS Federation Dress Badges no longer can be worn by Klingon aligned characters.
  • This was only meant for Federation players.
• The Romulan Temple Fleet Action contact now has the correct Odyssey Standard uniform.
• Resolved an issue causing a harsh rim of light around many types of hair.
  • Examples of this would be Vulcan, Romulan, Human, and Klingon hair.
• Gorn now have access to Intel glasses.
• Intel boot colors are no longer linked to other costume parts.
• Ranks and badges no longer clip with the Intel jackets for males and females.
• Improved the fit of the Odyssey uniforms for all characters.
  • It no longer stretches oddly in the underarm area.
• The Odyssey shoes and boots are now sized more anatomically and proportionally.
• Resolved issues with visible seams on Caitian and Klingon males while wearing swimsuits.
• Female Long Hair is now an option for Romulan females.
• Resolved clipping issues with Xindi hairstyles.
• General improvements made to the shape, fit, and clipping on most female lower body parts and base anatomy.
  • Smoothed out angular lines in the calves and knees.

 

UI:

• Added brand new Sector Map backgrounds to all Sector Maps.
• Added custom icons for important locations on all Sector Maps.
• Adjusted the minimum, maximum, and default zoom of the Galaxy Map.
• Resolved an issue which was sometimes causing the start button to gray out for the 20 hour research project for each crafting school in the R&D system.
• There are now filters in the PvE queue list for queues which reward Delta Marks and Ancient Power Cells.
• The color palette of the Specialization progress bar now matches with the character’s faction.
  • Blue for Federation
  • Green for Romulan
  • Orange for Klingon
• The FX seen when leveling up a Starship Mastery now matches with the character’s faction.
  • Blue for Federation
  • Green for Romulan
  • Orange for Klingon

 

Known Issues:

• The Federation, Klingon, and Romulan tutorials award the incorrect type of kits upon completion of the tutorial.
• The Federation Type 3 Phaser rifle cannot be upgraded.
• KDF aligned Romulans will see duplicate powers when training Bridge Officers.
  • One set of the powers are invalid.
• The Bio-Neural Gel Pack in the Delta Alliance Reputation system does not apply the correct amount of Subsystem Power Boost.
• Some ships are not able to play the “Rock and Roll” animation when this Captain Specialization power has been unlocked.
• The Multiple Choice Mark Packages, such as the one listed as a reward for the Mirror Invasion Event, do not list Delta Marks as a choice.
  • This is only missing text as Delta Marks are a choice once the pack is opened.
• The Mirror Invasion event Ad incorrectly states the event is limited to level 50 characters and lists a special Duty Officer as a reward.
  • This event is for level 50 – 60 Captains.
  • The special reward is the Zefram Cochrane Shotgun.