Cryptic details Star Trek Online Season Two update

Cryptic has offered the first details on the Season Two update due out for MMORPG Star Trek Online.

Season Two, due out “mid to late July”, will be “bigger content wise” compared with the recently released Season One: Common Grounds update.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com, executive producer Craig Zinkievich outlined what STO players can expect from Season Two.

“We do have Season Two planned for mid to late July right now. That’s going to end up being bigger content wise than the Season One update. There are going to be new episodes to play, a new system where there’s a lot more non-combat content in the game, as well as working on trying to get compelling ship interiors in the game and expand on what we have with the bridges there.

“So, we’re doing all sorts of different things. You have this Season One quick update, we have these rolling enhancements, and then a bigger Season Two update coming in July. The dev team is still hitting on all cylinders and trying to react and add new stuff into the game as fast as possible. So expect a lot of stuff going out over the next six months.”

Talking specifically about the non-combat content, Zinkievich said: “We’re focusing on trying to add a whole lot of that content in and wrap it up into a system we’re tentatively calling the Prime Directive system, where you’ll be able to do these anthropology missions, search out new warp capable species, and a lot more non-combat, diplomatic investigative episodes within the normal arc of the game. We’re really working hard on that stuff.”

Star Trek Online, released in February, is the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game set within the Star Trek Universe.

For more from Zinkievich’s candid interview on all things STO, head here.