Star Trek Online Klingons PvP-Only at Launch, 'Spock'

Star Trek Online's Klingon faction content will be almost exclusively PvP-based when the PC MMORPG launches on February 2, Cryptic has revealed--unlike their Federation foes. Klingons "must advance through PvP, as they will not have access to ro

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Star Trek Online's Klingon faction content will be almost exclusively PvP-based when the PC MMORPG launches on February 2, Cryptic has revealed--unlike their Federation foes.

Klingons "must advance through PvP, as they will not have access to robust player-vs.-environment content at launch," a press release states while reassuring that "PvP... is something we designed from the ground up to be a viable advancement path."

"We are trying to get some PvE in (there's already a tad bit). And, if the players demand it, we'll add more content (like episodes)," said chief creative officer Jack Emmert in a forum post. "I want us to be agile as a company and respond to what the customers want."

Players are unable to create Klingon characters off the bat, instead they must first "unlock the first sector block of Federation content, about five hours into the game" to receive a Klingon of rank roughly equivalent to the Federation character who unlocked the option.

Star Trek Online boasts a variety of PvP modes, with duel 'Challenges,' team vs. team 'Arenas,' objective-based 'Scenarios' and open PvP 'War Zones.' New and more advanced ships will become available to Klingons as they rank up.

In unrelated recent news, Cryptic Studios also announced that Zachary Quinto--Spock in the latest Star Trek movie--will voice an Emergency Medical Hologram serving as the MMO's tutorial. Have a gander at the EMH and Quinto in action in this new trailer.

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    December 17, 2009 2:58 PM

    This is secret code for "our game isn't finished, at all."

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      December 17, 2009 3:08 PM

      Replace "secret code" with obvious and I agree.

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        December 17, 2009 3:13 PM

        that was my first thought as well. this is good news for me though, i was almost tempted to play an MMO for a while there... *shudder* id have come to my senses before the free month was out, im sure, but by then im still out $50 that i could have put towards something worth playing...

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      December 17, 2009 3:09 PM

      Secret code would be a release

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