After three years of rumors of more factions being added, the Legacy of Romulus expansion adds Romulans and Remans as playable races, along with iconic ships like the Bird of Prey and the D'deridex Warbird. When the game started, there were only two playable factions: the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
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Especially with "Featured Episodes", small content updates centered around a fairly lengthy and involved mission, the advent of a pretty good branching dialogue tree on top of the combat, and most recently very solid "themed" patch updates, the game has found a fairly solid set of legs and and a strong following after an admittedly rocky start, and is now Cryptic's best-selling, most profitable product. and this isn't necessarily that bad a thing at all. The general consensus is that the game is essentially a mix of World of Warcraft IN SPACE! combined with Star Trek: Starfleet Command. Oh, and you can create a new custom species for your captain. And then you get to customize the hull of your ship, and then you get to customize your bridge with further interior customization and. And then they allow you to apply the same level of customization to your entire bridge crew. You have an absolutely astounding number of ways to customize your captain not only has almost every facial feature from the TV series been included, but Cryptic has included all kinds of inventions of their own. A proprietary engine was created to randomize missions, star systems, and planetary surfaces, in order to provide new and different experiences every time a player engages in a mission or quest.Īnd, of course, being a Cryptic game, Character Customization is suitably bonkers and may in fact eclipse every other thing they've done.
The game combines space travel with on-foot segments and a healthy dose of combat in both. In other words, the 25th century Star Trek universe has become a Crapsack World ( relatively speaking), and it's up to the player(s) to find a way to make it right.