Star Trek Online: Release Notes: May 21st, 2015

[Enlistednut09]

General:

- Summer Event Buyback Store:
--Added the ability to purchase R&D Packs and Upgrade Tech in bulk, up to 20 at a time.
--Reduced Starship Emote shared cooldowns from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.

- Foundry: Updated the Herald NPC Groups so that all of them are actually Heralds, and not those Bluegill impostors.

- Resolved an issue where occasionally when a Duty Officer project failed, the project would disappear.
-- It will now go into the Completed category to allow the player to acknowledge them as failed.

- Resolved an issue where chests and arms of male Remans were sometimes missing.


Systems:

- Reduced the server performance impact of several types of powers.
-- These changes do not alter how these powers function.

- Manheim Device: Disabled healing interactions with past and future self in order to prevent excessive latency when interacting with certain Starship Traits.
-- This functionality may be restored at some point in the future, but was removed to improve server performance.


Content:

- Episodes “Blood of Ancients” and “Delta Flight” have been moved into the level 60 journal tab The Iconian War.

- "Brotherhood of the Sword":
-- The Syndicate operative for the optional objective now should start with full health when he begins following the players for extraction.
--- This should make cases where players triggered the escort and he immediately dies less common.
--- Players will still need to kill any Heralds that target him in order to keep him alive.
-- The information for this queue in Advanced and Elite now accurately states the crafting reward is Craylon Gas.

- The Federation freighter group in the Xarantine Sector is back.


Known Issues:

- Occasionally, when accepting a new Episode, the sub tasks under the episode name will not initially appear in the mission tracker.

- All ranks/qualities of Ambush Kit Modules above Green have the same effectiveness.

- Many special commodity Duty Officer missions such as Haggle or Shortage assignments are missing in the Alpha Quadrant.

[Agathon55]

I'm glad that the Syndicate operative now starts with full health. That should make getting that optional much easier. Sucks that the queue gives Craylon Gas though - was hoping they'd stick to Plekton.