Star Trek Online Tucks Update 1.3 to Season 2.0
We’ve seen it before. A patch goes out a week later than promised, and suddenly the succeeding updates gets bumped down as well. Star Trek Online wants to avoid the same delay domino so it will be inserting the smaller Update 1.3 to the features-packed Season 2 patch, and sticking to its July release date.
Update 1.3 was originally scheduled to be released later this month. But given the slight delay in releasing the most recent Update 1.2 (it went live early June instead of late May), Cryptic decided to consolidate the next two updates in instead of pushing both back into later dates. Here’s the long-winded explanation from their latest Engineering report:
So what about update 1.3? With Season 2 looming in July, and 1.2 having just shipped this month, we made the decision that the game will better served if we combine 1.3 into Season 2.0 and work to get that full update onto Tribble as soon as possible instead of trying to get 1.3 up later this month, and then Season 2 after that. Getting Season 2 onto Tribble sooner than later will give you more time to check it out and provide valuable feedback and testing of the content before it goes live in July. So that’s the plan. No more 1.3 update. Instead, get 1.3 into 2.0 and get 2.0 to you ASAP. The sooner we do that, the sooner we can ship Season 2.
It’s a solid move to prevent further disappointment in terms of delays. Players have voiced concerns that Update 1.2, despite its prolonged testing period, still left out promised features such as Episode Replay and the Caitians. The hope now is that the combined Update 1.3 and Season 2 update will deliver in its promise of a functioning Federation Diplomatic Corps system, a new level 51 cap, and additional missions for both factions.