r/sto Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 16h ago

PC Patch Notes for 09/01/25 PC

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11573304
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u/roninwolf1981 The traitor, the pariah; the lowest of the low... 10h ago

Was also not expecting to see that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY CHARACTERS's traits have been completely blanked out after this patch.

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u/n8pu 8h ago

Thanks for the heads up, now I understand why my toons were struggling.

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u/Ezron @colonel_ez 14h ago

Gonna be lots of circling and being in awe of the pods later for us all then

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u/FuturePastNow Bigger Vengeance Theory 13h ago

And lots of new ships named U.S.S. *****

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u/GalacticGaming96220 Content Creator 13h ago

At least it's not the U.S.S. InvalidEntityName

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u/yapperling 10h ago

That ship is a Starfleet legend, ensign. And you will treat it with the respect it is due.

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u/HuntmasterReinholt 6h ago

Keep circling.

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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 16h ago edited 8h ago

General:

  • We have a little surprise for all of you PC Captains: A Earth Spacedock Update!

Known Issues:

  • Currently the profanity filter is flagging many more words then intended as including profanity. This only applies to renaming a ship, existing ships will not have their names accidentally flagged.

Unknown Issues

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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 16h ago

Was not expecting the ESD revamp until the Anniversary update, tbh. Even with it being shown off on Mike's stream the other day.

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u/Luxsul 15h ago

Probably added bc of Nicks final week so he can see his work before leaving.

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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 12h ago

You know, that's actually fair.

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u/khamseen_air 12h ago

Wait, Nick's leaving!? How did I miss that news? That makes me so sad, he's amazing and I absolutely love his work and his passion for what he does.

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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 12h ago

It was announced on Mike's stream on Monday, where Nick was showing off the new ESD model.

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u/BentusFr 12h ago

He announced it on Linkedin last weekend, then made the news 'public' at the end of Kael's stream the next day.

u/hivix 46m ago

And as a parting gift he left us another gamebreaking bug. Thank you, Nick.

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u/Devilment666 He's just zis guy, you know? 7h ago

We apologize for the inconvenience

How very Douglas Adams of them.

u/hivix 47m ago

This is not an "inconvenience". It means hours of going through all ships and fixing them for every player.

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u/WoodyManic 10h ago

Logging in borks all traits. We need a fix ASAP.

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u/deadpoolvgz 8h ago

How so? I'm at work for 6 more hours

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u/WoodyManic 8h ago

If you log in at all it unslots every trait for every ship and toon on your account

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u/uno_01 Executed for Incompetence 8h ago

we have a little surprise for you today!

oh boy!

ESD has been updated

thanks i love it

also all your traits and loadouts are hyperfractal gigafucked

thanks i hate it

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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 8h ago

Fair assessment.

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u/Hungalok Console peasant 13h ago

Does this mean loading into Sol System will go from 1 minute to 5 minutes?

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u/Fallen_Liberator Ghost Admiral 10h ago

Only for the first few times, I believe

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u/BentusFr 13h ago

That's one fat patch.

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u/defchris casual 12h ago

You better leave the bottle...

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u/BentusFr 12h ago edited 11h ago

IIRC when it first hit Tribble it was around 5 Gb.

because there's a little bit more than the Sol remaster

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u/CharlieDmouse 10h ago

Jeezus, better fire up my dual 56k shotgun modems. 😁

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u/Tahlreth_Vel_K-Hal 10h ago

U.S.S. Duchess isn't allowed. Last I checked 

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u/Apprehensive_Golf925 13h ago

Very clever, fill the lull in gameplay between Christmas and the anni with the brand new ESD model nobody was expecting until the anni. Nice move, that should get some bums on seats this weekend :)

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u/Drsamquantum 12h ago

Or they added the new ESD because Nick is leaving this week.

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u/Apprehensive_Golf925 10h ago

Could be, but this isn't the first time DECA have done something clever. The Typhoon giveaway was another good one that got a lot of older players coming back to play. Everytime DECA do something clever and someone points it out, there'll be another someone along soon enough to suggest it might be an accident, or incidental, or anything that doesn't acknowledge that DECA might actually know what they're doing with this game. I guess time will tell :)

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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 9h ago

I don't mean to dismiss your point but is it accurate to attribute these things to DECA, when as far as I understand it Cryptic are still the ones "in charge".

There has been no formal acknowledgment that the transfer from Cryptic to DECA is complete yet. There are no DECA logos anywhere while Cryptic's remain. All text I've seen in game and on the website refer to Cryptic as the copyright holders, etc.

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u/Apprehensive_Golf925 6h ago

Yeah, and we've been told there are "legal issues" with the transfer, and until those are resolved we're unlikely to get more of an explanation that that. But yes, DECA are pretty much running things now, and the new team are at the end of their training year.

Introducing the new space dock before the anni was clever, although breaking the game in the process was certainly an oopsie they're wishing hadn't happened.

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u/Prestigious_Carpet28 6h ago

The profanity filter balked at “snake” and “rat” a couple days ago. I was naming that character’s ships after the Chinese Zodiac 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/willtrekkie91 4h ago

Yeah, the problem with snake first came up during a past summer event. When you do the emote snake it gets censored in the chatbox. I am glad that they are working on fixing the anomalies of the profanity filter.

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u/STORSJ1963 3h ago

Just like Craptic to totally fuck up a major release.
JFC! Do they even bother to do any testing prior to release?!?!

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u/Annemarie30 11h ago

TBH, I hate that they went to the Picard ESD. Picard screwed STO as being even soft canon. why the hell are they honoring that POS series?

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u/Vulcorian Engineer and Cruiser Parity! 11h ago edited 10h ago

Something is either canon, or it isn't. There is no "soft canon". "Picard" didn't screw over STO, in fact it honoured it buy using several of its ship designs in the show. That's an honour no other Trek video game can claim.