Star Trek The Next Generation DLC will be added to Star Trek Bridge Crew later this month, developer Red Storm Entertainment has confirmed.
The DLC, priced at approximately $15 USD and available from 22 May on PS4, will add the U.S.S. Enterprise-D to the game’s available ships. The game will be rebalanced to accomodate the Galaxy-class starship, which will have its Engineering console replaced with a more appropriate Ops station.
Moreover, new in-game avatars will be added, included “Soong-type” androids like Data, TNG-era uniforms (the TV era, not the film era) and new alien races in the Romulans and Borg. Two new Ongoing Missions — Resistance and Patrol — will also be added. Resistance? Yeah, that one has you fighting off the Borg. Wolf 359, anyone?
“The structure of ‘Resistance’ was heavily inspired by classic rogue and roguelike games, which I think do a great job of driving tension, and challenges the player to travel across space to retrieve scattered anti-Borg prototypes to fight off a Borg Cube that’s happily assimilating and slaughtering everything in its path,” Red Storm’s Hunter James wrote.
“Along the way, crews are faced with randomly presented challenges that have to be completed with the knowledge that every second spent brings the Borg Cube ever closer. Warping to another solar system will buy you time, and each prototype successfully collected will provide you with a new tool for fighting the Borg…but each time you face the Cube, it’s adapted to your tactics and becomes ever more powerful. And the Cube gets very mean, very quickly.”
The lucky ducks over at UploadVR got to preview the content — their video is below:
Star Trek TNG DLC heads to Star Trek: Bridge Crew first on PS4 and PlayStation VR on 22 May. It then heads to Windows PC and HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality devices on 21 July. The game no longer requires a VR headset; this DLC equally can be played without.
We reviewed Star Trek: Bridge Crew here.
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