r/sto • • 2d ago

Megathread Monday Megathread - your weekly "dumb question" thread

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Post all the questions you may have about anything STO-related. PC? Console? Everyone's welcome to post their questions here.

Last thread can be found here.

Stay safe out there and happy flying!


r/sto • • 12h ago

News Patch Notes for 2026/10/28

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New Bundle!

  • Mudd's Gamma Front Choice Pack is now available on PC! 3 options can be selected per Choice Pack and you can purchase the pack as many times as you wish. All items are non-tradable. Selected ships will become claimable under the Ships tab in Mudd's Store and will no longer appear as options once claimed. Non-ship rewards offer 3 of each item and remain available for selection with every purchase. It includes: 
    • Jem'Hadar Heavy Strike Wing Escort
    • Hur'q Ravager Strike Wing Escort
    • Cardassian Keldon Cruiser
    • 50x Master Keys
    • 9x T6 Ship Upgrade Tokens
    • 10 x Ultimate tech Upgrade
    • 6x Elite Captain Training Token
    • 2x Pack T6 Ship Coupon
    • Cross Faction Flying Unlock
  • Find all details in our blog post: https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11583650

General 

  • Universal Kit Module - Fear Itself: Removed an unintended restriction that was blocking it from being equipped along Universal Kit Module - Rapid Lithic Formation. 
  • Restored the pickup distance for auto-loot to its previous values on Console.  
    • This has the effect of greatly increasing the ground auto-loot distance for PC and significantly increasing the space auto-loot distance for PC. 
  • (PC Only) Rediscovered Temporal Disruptor space weapons are now account-bound instead of character-bound. Players already in possession of character-bound versions of these items will find their binding rules reset to account-bound with this update. 
  • (Console Only) Fixed an issue where a "Purchase Key" interface appeared when opening certain reward packs.
  • (Console Only) Fixed an issue where the Close button indicator may appear partially out of screen when opening Research & Development Pack. 
  • (Console Only) Fixed an issue where the notification font was too large. 
  • (Console Only) Fixed Duty Officer Pack rewards opening the PC duty officer window. 

r/sto • • 6h ago

Cross-platform What alternative names do people have for abilities and traits?

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For me it seems to especially be in space. I can only think of two of my own right now, though I'm sure there are more.

Grabbity Hell for Gravity Well (Saw this one years ago and have always had it pop into my head ever since)

Neurotic Eddie for Neutronic Eddies (This is how my weird brain misread it the first time, and now it is also stuck in my head)

So what are some of yours?


r/sto • • 1h ago

Console The Next Giveaway

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Hey,

Just a heads up the next part of the halloween giveaways is now live on console, its the antares miranda skin and its account unlocked, it's active from today through the 29th, and then the final giveaway on the 30th is the centaur refit skin which should be account wide too


r/sto • • 7h ago

PC Dilex Digest - October 28

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Hello Captains!

Enjoying our extended maintenance today?

Not much has changed in the last week, so this is going to be a spartan post. Let's jump straight to the graph.

Queue and Periodic Throughput, June 1 - September 6

My most recently accepted offer was made September 6. Let's compare August 31 - September 6 to August 24 - August 30. I'm pretty sure these are the two weeks (ish) prior to the Frontier Day event start.

Week Over Week:

Metric Value Change
Average Queue 12,018,937 +0.42%
Average Periodic Throughput 10,154 Z/hr -6.27%
Average Wait Time 49.33 Days +3.3 Days

Current lowest periodic throughput for the year is 9645, and we're getting really close to that again.

If you're using these forecasts to gauge when your order is coming in, I recommend counting on the late end of the fulfillment window if not slightly later.

Short Term Forecast:

Offer Time Fulfillment Window
9/7/26 17:04 10/27/26 18:34 10/28/26 19:24
9/8/26 18:28 10/28/26 18:39 10/30/26 14:41
9/9/26 16:46 10/29/26 16:39 11/1/26 04:24
9/10/26 17:35 10/30/26 11:03 11/2/26 12:21
9/11/26 17:36 10/31/26 05:53 11/3/26 20:00
9/12/26 16:30 10/31/26 18:32 11/4/26 21:19
9/13/26 17:17 11/1/26 03:52 11/5/26 18:58

Long Term Forecast:

Offer Time Fulfillment Window
9/20/26 17:49 11/6/26 06:22 11/13/26 19:36
9/27/26 17:19 11/15/26 13:24 11/24/26 13:09
10/27/26 17:01 12/15/26 05:49 12/22/26 17:08

Today will be my 150th consecutive daily order placed, and I am two complete orders away from having 100 return. Neat. That's all I got! 🖖 💥


r/sto • • 6h ago

Is this type of 'costume' available for players? The dancing NPC

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r/sto • • 19h ago

PogChamp Tower in Dyson Sphere

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119 Upvotes

Been seeing this for years, figured I would share the cursed connection in my head.


r/sto • • 28m ago

XB [BUG] Unkillable Deep Space Anomalies after update today on Xbox

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Has anyone else had this problem?

The DSA drops down to 1% health almost immediately, but then will not die no matter what I do, I'm flying around it doing plenty of damage and it just sits there until the DSE ends, and then vanishes with no rewards. I am absolutely certain that DPS is not the issue here, I dunno what is going on.

This doesn't happen every time, but it has happened several times already today. It doesn't appear to be a desync or invulnerability issue, it *only* happens on the anomalies, none of the other enemies, and the damage markers are still showing up. Any help or suggestions are appreciated, LLAP!


r/sto • • 1d ago

Ground TFOs almost unplayable

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Don't mistunderstand the purpose of This post, I am not slighting any players for using cool area of effect shit, which is always hard earned and fun, but holy hell, the visuals are breaking my eyes and brain.

I was playing the autumn event (which honestly, drives me f**kin potty at the best of times) but I literally cannot see what Im trying to aim at most of the time!!

I just really wish there was an option to turn off or even down other players visual effects in TFOs

The video was tonight, and the neurospicy brain in my head visibility recoiled like someone had "turned on the big light"!


r/sto • • 17h ago

Halloween Meetup Event

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Hosted by: u/ODSTGeneral / r/Stocostumes

Hello again folks, I am back again with one final reminder of the upcoming Movie Monster themed meetup for Halloween. All are welcome, but themed characters are suggested. The plan is to socialize, run TFOs, and spooky campaign missions!

📅 Event Dates

  • October 30th (Time: 7:00 PM CST/12:00 AM UTC)
  • October 31st (Halloween) (Time: 2:00 PM CST/7:00 PM UTC)

Meeting location

  • Nimbus III - City Gates

Again the theme is movie monsters. That could be Dracula, Frankenstein('s monster), or The Mummy. To newer creatures like the Babadook or the creature from Jeepers Creepers.


r/sto • • 23h ago

The reapers have arrived

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Sovereign now helps section 31, after reprogramming


r/sto • • 19h ago

My tribute to Stargate Universe

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USS Stargate ready for sp


r/sto • • 1d ago

Bug Report Augmented Gorn Bridge Officer Uniform Colour (Federation)

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The Augmented Gorn Bridge Officers claimed on Starfleet characters have access to Starfleet uniforms, but do not have access to the usual colour palettes to match. They seem to still have the Klingon one, even on Starfleet uniforms.

Loading presaved uniforms on them matches as best as possible, but the colours are just different enough to be noticeable, especially on engineering.


r/sto • • 6h ago

PC Back after 3 years, looking for build guide for tactical officer DPS.

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I still have my first character but started fresh with a new one and trying to re-learn how to play. Mainly interested in story mode and Task Force stuff.


r/sto • • 1d ago

For Walter

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571 Upvotes

r/sto • • 1d ago

Discussion New Player Question: how do the vets feel about STOs monetization?

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For some context, I've played a lot of f2p games, plenty of MMOs, and I'm a lifelong TCG player, so basically I'm no stranger to a somewhat dubious monetization scheme. However looking at the Zen store is EYE-WATERING! $40 for a sword?? Ship bundles for MULTIPLE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS??? Shit I've only been playing for about a month and I've already put in almost $100 between, starter bundles, Fed Klingon unlock, a captain race change token, a Lexington, and some pack keys.

I know the vets know how to get around most of this stuff between the exchange and ship tokens( i didn't know you could get those from anything but a pack until yesterday), but how do the long time players of this game feel about the prices this game tries to get people to pay, and is there anyway for the prices to simply be less off putting?

EDIT: wow this took off, sorry I made this post on lunch and looked down to 20+ replies, can't get to them all in detail. Repeated points I've seen generalized

"The player economy is actually super helpful once you know it"

"Devs gotta eat"

"Wait for sales"

I do live by the mentality that I should support the people that make what I consume, so I didn't mind spending the money in the moment, but thinking back on it the price tags were ridiculous. You can pull out examples like star citizen, but this one the highest cost monetization models I've ever seen on the face of it, not knowing about the player economy. While I respect the position from long time players I do gotta ask, what is a new player, who didn't google anything, supposed to do, Genuinely?


r/sto • • 1d ago

Discussion Player Housing

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New player, as previously discussed.

  • Do you ever think STO would do some kind of player housing?

Obviously I am not talking the entire ship interior, but I think being able to completely customize my Captains Stateroom would be cool, making it truly feel like my space.

Edit for Clarification
By housing I mean Captains Quarters and better interiors, more realistic dimensions, etc.


r/sto • • 23h ago

Bio T-rex endeavor broken ?

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I killed that thing multiple times and never got the endeavour. is it broken ?


r/sto • • 20h ago

Discussion Maintenance on October 28 from 6-12 AM Pacific

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Does this mean 6pm to 12am midnight Pacific? Is maintenance usually this long?


r/sto • • 1d ago

My ball (s) are on fire

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86 Upvotes

Help


r/sto • • 1d ago

Discussion I have a uniform request for the devs

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I want to request a uniform plaease:

It's the strange new worlds version of the wrath of khan Monster maroon uniforms. it's a different take on that uniform that I honestly like.

As the jackets thinner and less wooly looking, its trousers are tight fitting instead of tucked (looks like the 2259 trousers), and it has that department texturing down the sleeves that snw has, Also, it looks like it wears the same boots too (2259 ones).

Oh, and please forgive the pics it's the best full body ones I could find 😂😂

Thank you


r/sto • • 2d ago

PC Walters Tribute - PC

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To those of you that answered my call for tribute and came out to Starfleet Academy #1 on PC.
Much love, y'all amazing! :)

Clear Skies Walter! LLAP


r/sto • • 1d ago

PS I only found out about Walter's passing a couple of hours ago. Vigils had dissipated, so:

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I had Eugenia take her old dress reds from the long ago out of mothballs (SFA class of 2268, a classmate of Chekov, as all of our TOS characters are, of course), and lit a torch. Three people joined me for a few minutes. A much smaller tribute, to be sure, but it felt good to do it.


r/sto • • 1d ago

Maverick too fast?

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So, I'll preface with I'm sorry if I'm drawing attention to something someone finds super fun - but does anyone else find the Maverick WAAAAYYYY too fast? At 40 base engine power, 75 boosted with gear - I'm running 276.1 Dynamic Frontier space set, Elite fleet sustained protomatter warp core. 276.1 at full throttle, 757 evasive maneuvers, 578 full impulse. I can't keep guns on anything. Similar tests in the pilot scout ship and raisers give me 120ish full throttle, 200is full impulse.


r/sto • • 2d ago

News Walter Keonig has died.

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Walter Koenig, Our Pavel Chekov, the tactical officer of the USS Enterprise has grown his wings to Heaven. George Takai confirmed it.

UPDATED: https://www.polygon.com/walter-koenig-star-trek-dies/