Players of “Star Trek Online” are dealing with down the sport’s first Halloween occasion, which is a battle for lives, souls and probably the universe itself.
The three-week occasion, which launched Oct. 13, permits the massively multiplayer on-line function taking part in recreation’s (MMORPG) captains to beam right down to an historic fortress on Pyris VII to seek out aliens known as the Old Ones, whose plans to review people are interrupted by one other set of aliens, Devidians.
Long-time watchers of “Star Trek” will most likely bear in mind the notorious Old Ones android duplicator from “The Original Series”, used on Captain James T. Kirk; the aliens additionally featured within the episode “Catspaw.” As for the Devidians, these are shapeshifters that feed off human vitality and which have appeared in a number of Trek franchises.
“Participating in this event grants daily progress towards the Grand Prize: The Transmuter Wand Universal Kit Module, and the Old One Vanity Pet,” Arc Games and writer Perfect Entertainment said in a statement. Star Trek Online is free to play and you can get it here.
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“Additionally, the first character on your account that claims this reward will also receive 25,000 Dilithium ore, and 3 Featured Episode Reward Boxes,” the assertion added. After finishing the occasion, you may proceed to gather Dilithium ore. There can also be an choice to “buy out” a few of the work, with the worth relying on how a lot of the episode gamers accomplished earlier than making the acquisition.
Keeping with the Halloween theme, the Transmuter wand can change a goal right into a black cat, which creates a “bad luck aura” that disables shields and most powers of close by allies. It is claimed that the allies could flee on sight after experiencing this terror.
The Vanity Pet, which isn’t helpful for fight, “took an interest in you for helping its people,” Arc Games mentioned, warning that the pet is extra highly effective than seems. “He is observing you as much as you are observing him,” the corporate added.
The newest season of “Star Trek Online” known as “Reflections.” It launched to PC in September and consoles in November, and follows the ending of the longstanding Klingon Civil War.
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