Season 6 Dev Blog #11
By PWE_BranFlakes @ July 10, 2012 at 2:30pm
Tholian Incursion
A Tholian task group has been spotted on a demon-class world, and they are intent on harnessing the naturally-occurring interspatial rifts there for unknown purposes. When they used these rifts to capture a Terran starship, both the Federation and the Klingons responded to block the threat and force the Tholians to retreat to their own space.
The Tholian Incursion is always available to players who have reached Vice Admiral or Lieutenant General Rank, and bonus rewards will be awarded if played during special timeslots found on the daily event calendar. To participate, players will travel to the Neutral Zone and beam down to Nukara Prime where a variety of repeatable missions await them. Different missions are available both above and below ground, but both require players to have an EV suit equipped and activated. As with the Borg Invasion event, missions are divided into Easy, Medium and Hard. A player by themselves should be able to handle an easy mission, Medium missions generally require a companion or two, and Hard missions take a full group of 5.
Once you have your missions, you do not need to return to the base camp to turn them in and get the next set; this can be done from forward camps available as you progress.
As mentioned above, this map requires players to equip and activate an EV suit. Currently, EV suits can be acquired from the episode, “Boldly They Rode” or via the Dilithium store.
We’ll see you in-game and in the Tholian Incursion when it launches with Season 6: Under Siege.
Scott “Goatshark” Shicoff
Lead Content Designer
Star Trek Online
teroknor2012 @ Jul 13th, 2012 11:42AM
I can't wait to play in this event. I wonder how the Tholians will fight...
astroviking @ Jul 12th, 2012 11:24AM
I want MACO fighters for carriers
milanvorius @ Jul 12th, 2012 4:33AM
Does anyone else think it might be a bit silly for the armor not to be incorporated into a space suit, you know since we are flying around in space and visiting unknown planets, helping ships in distress likely to lose a sustainable atmosphere, and fighting aboard enemy ships that might cut life support on the deck we may currently be occupying? I think the EV suit should be an extra slot to fit over armor, or be incorporated into the armor given these expectations of a generally space faring game.
captinjacksparow
Perhaps they could make an EV armor suit.... just an idea :)
elvenaar @ Jul 12th, 2012 2:44AM
Hmm wearing an EV suit means you can't use your ground sets to full power, since you have to switch out your armor for the EV suit and the EV suit doesn't have same protections as an armor would, so I guess we'll be dying a lot more often now.
jimmygib1
unless the tholians use toxic spit weapons like in the fek'hlir missions then he suit would protect us
captainrister @ Jul 11th, 2012 5:03PM
awww man i rely like that suit...
nynik @ Jul 11th, 2012 10:40AM
Hopefully if this is a success they will be encouraged to ungate (?) the Borg Ground Invasion as well.
ebonbeard @ Jul 11th, 2012 3:38AM
Medium missions don't require a team at all. They can be soloed very easily. The only thing that a team does is make The Hive clearing quest and Rescuing Redshirts get done faster.
macdaddy2013
yeah it's easy if you're a Tactical or Engineering Officer. If you're a Science Officer like myself you DO need a team for Medium.
azurianstar @ Jul 10th, 2012 9:45PM
They need to delay it, because it is full of bugs. And I'm not refering to the Tholians, either.
tom61sto
That never stopped them before. At least you can get past most of the bugs by changing map zones.
macdaddy2013
lol nice
foundrelic @ Jul 10th, 2012 8:28PM
I was able to solo everything BUT the hard mission. You just have to play cautiously for the medium missions.
leosg1 @ Jul 10th, 2012 6:41PM
All I got to say Thank You for the hard work.
psycoticvulcan @ Jul 10th, 2012 3:23PM
Sounds awesome. Is there a release date for season 6 yet?
verasgun
Most likely Thursday, as that's when they're doing the C-points-to-Zen conversion, which is apart of the Season Six patch.
jayfresh11
I agree with verasgun, probably thursday
psycoticvulcan
Oh wow, I didn't think it was that soon. Yippie!
neoakiraii
no its not Thursday, that's just for the Z store. they would tell us if it was Thursday not hide it like its a big secret.
psycoticvulcan
They didn't announce Season 5's launch date until the day before.
neoakiraii
yeah they did
judgeslong
If you have played in the last few days you have notice a patch once u log out of the game. Season 6 will be here sooner than you think.
xastirx
it will be day after tomorrow. bases and everything is coming out snce they already did a 3.3 GB pre season patch. and also the tribble weekend thing, which they always do before the thursday of release.
neoakiraii
Told you so
aquitaine985 @ Jul 10th, 2012 3:22PM
I was just thinking the same thing, this told us totally nothing, it's pointless. Release date please.
alastorforthrigh @ Jul 10th, 2012 3:19PM
You keep showing us the TNG EVA suit... but you don't let us have it. Why?
chivalrybean
You get EV suits as part of the rewards for the missions (Better than the standard ones) so maybe you can get it that way.
zerobang @ Jul 10th, 2012 2:53PM
that is an awesome picture... only ruined by that old ugly phaser rifle art asset.... can we PLEASE get some TNG Movie Phaser Rifle Replicas already? and yepp that EVA suit should have been the one we got in the DS9 mission in the first place. PPS: i really think the MACO / OMEGA / KHG Mk XII Sets should have EVA suit functionality -> they have helmets, it would be silly if those weren't able to be used for Zero G combat.
macdaddy2013
correction the elite MACO/ OMEGA/ KHG Mk XII sets have a helmet. the lower class versions don't. I wish the lower class versions had helmets, but they don't.
brigadooom @ Jul 10th, 2012 2:44PM
I'm sure there'll eventually be an expensive way to get them, be it via money or time.
malo4of7 @ Jul 10th, 2012 2:41PM
oh yeah, me to...
zadama @ Jul 10th, 2012 2:33PM
I'd still really like to see that EV suit for players, rather than just the NPCs.
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