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Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment have announced that the largest content expansion for Star Trek Online since release will be headed to players on May 21st. Called "Legacy of Romulus", the expansion will enable the Romulan playable faction in the game along with much more.
This will be the largest Star Trek Online expansion since launch and will feature the Romulans as a playable faction for the first time ever. In addition to the new Romulan Republic faction, players will have a chance to take command of mighty Warbird Class starships. Denise Crosby also returns to reprise her role as Empress Sela for die-hard Trekkies
Check out the new expansion teaser site on the Star Trek Online main site.
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Looks very good. Always been a fan of the Romulans, so will be making a new character when the expansion comes out.
The new traits system looks good, as does the improved UI.
Definitely looking forward to this.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Sure hope you can buy the expansion from the c-store. Maybe then all of us lifers who dont play this game can finally have somehting to spend the free points on.
Sorry to burst your buble but its going to be free =P
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=8703331#post8703331
But I'm sure there will be lots of new costumes and ships.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can
be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard
funnily enough, one of the original reasons for me not bothering with STO was because, the Romulans were not in it.. might just have to try it out again
Lets see, the federation gets humans, vulcans, caitians, bolians, etc., the klingon empire gets klingons, gorn, nausicans, orians, etc., and of course both lists include the build an alien feature that lets you make (or try to make) existing species for either side, like romulans for both, orians for the federation, bolians for the kingon empire.
What will the romulan star empire be getting, other than romulans? Those weird guys from the last Star Trek: Nemesis movie?
Since when is Tuesday a direction?
Never liked the romulans (except Sela ofc ) but it's a nice move. I hope they'll get a well-written storyline.
Same with the klingon 1-20 addition. I recently thought about starting an orion, and it'd be even easier to launch at lvl20, but in the light of this change I rather wait till May and level her from scratch, while checking the new klingon stuff as well.
I wonder, do we get a new character slot for the romulan, or have to use an existing one?
Romulans are indeed an empire of 2 races. The Romulus and the Remus (kinda corny names IMO). I hope that the upcoming expansion will stick to this as well...
Now hope for a 2nd expansion where the Dominion will be introduces and the Jem H'dar as playable race (amongst others)
Have to give props to STO, they really are doing another entire faction from 1-50, adding on the Klingon story from 1-20 and ensuring the end-game is being expanded upon for all parties. While overhauling the UI and traits.
Really cannot ask for more from a F2P and I hope that c-store keeps them going well into the future.
I believe the info states you will get to create a Romulan or Reman character. In game, the Hirogen also have an alliance with the Tal'Shiar, but I doubt you'll be able to create a Hirogen.
There is also some question on whether Romulans will include Liberated Borg as well.
I will be back to it, actually I was waiting for this to happen from a long long long long long time, now they added romulans I will gladly jump back in.
Can't wait for it actually, very excited.
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As much as I dislike Cryptic, I have to say at this point I am very surprised that they are offering this free. If they stick to that, it is awesome. Sitting on many thousands of c-store points that I would love to eventually use and not feel like I wasted the money on that lifetime sub.
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Same
Someone said somewhere that the romulans will be a pve faction, not sure if they have any real info though. Most likely pvp will be the same as is there now i.e. a small arena where you fight for no point at all really other than the dilithium from the pvp missions(which u get win or lose) just with one more faction on the list(in this case roms vs feds or roms vs klinks and so on)
This is going to be awesome! I got maxed up chars on both factions and got nothing to do other than collect lock boxes!
With the addition of Romulans I can get him to max level and then have nothing else to do other than collect lock boxes!
I hope they add some other variaties of lock boxes, Since factions cant even attack each other unless you are in an instanced pvp scenario the Romulan faction will make this game even better than before!
If that's the case. Then I will have to wait til I return. They can't miss this oppurtunity to finally doing something with the RVR now. But it seems to be way to focused on PVE for my liking.