Star Trek Online may be a free-to-play title, but it is getting a whole ton of love and today Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment have announced that Fleets has made its way to both Xbox One and PS4.
The first refit for Star Trek Online brings classic Star Trek gameplay options from PC to the two consoles for the first time. This includes Fleet Holdings, the Admiralty System, Duty Officers and the Research and Development System.
Fleets includes all of the following:
- Fleet Holdings – Fleet members can work together to build a full-scale Starbase, Romulan Embassy, Dilithium Mine, Dyson Sphere Spire as fleet member-only social areas. Building these facilities also grants access to various bonuses, high-end gear and daily missions.
- Admiralty System – Players who have reached the rank of Admiral can send their inactive starships on missions to bring back rewards.
- Two New Reputations – Task Force Omega and Iconian Resistance include a variety of new queues to play and new end-game gear to earn for your captain and starships.
- Duty Officers – Captains can delegate tasks and away missions to their standard crew members for rewards, while they continue to travel through the final frontier.
- Research and Development – This system allows players to craft standard and unique items through a variety of schools, while also providing exciting crafting tier progression bonuses.
After launching on console at the start of September, Star Trek now has over 1.1 million captains, pretty much backing up the way we feel about the game. In fact, our review cast it in a very favourable light back then and the new Fleets update can only push it onwards and upwards.
As free-to-play massively multiplayer online games go, Star Trek Online more than delivers the goods. Whether you’ve wanted to become Captain of a Federation starship, become a Klingon Warrior and champion the Empire through the far reaches of the galaxy, or rebuild the Romulan legacy as the commander of a Romulan Republic Warbird, then your chance is now.
