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I still think they should have released it in March.

SeedyGeorge, if the update isn't complete how could they release it?

Releasing it in May will certainly make May the month of Trek! (As the new Trek movie releases that month too-)

My guess is that Cryptic will bang out 20 levels worth of missions that work for 1-20 for KDF and Romulan characters, and then like the KDF, the Romulans will have 6-10 unique missions that are only Romulan. (Plus all the featured espiodes)

They should also have ~5 new featured episodes on a new arc, if I am remembering correctly.

I am hoping with all the hype, that they just don't drop some new Romulan/Iconian missions, and no playable Romulans, as I think they are really getting people excited talking about the size of the update....

If that is their plan, they should give us a heads up so the player base doesn't get let down closer to May-

But I'm looking forward to the update-

Because anything with that title begs to be released in March.

@ChrisHerr, The way I see it, don't get your hopes up lol. I assume towards the end of March, beginning of April they'll start announcing things. I highly doubt they'll wait until the end of April to announce stuff.

@SeedyGeorge, lol Fair enough, unfortunately it's easier said than done.

On a more serious note, I would completely lose it if they brought out even a half-assed Romulan faction. Take my money already.

As if Cryptic has the spine or the inclination to fix the KDF. They have demonstrated time and time again they care nothing for the Klingons, its players, or Klingon culture. I wouldn't be surprised if they released a Romulan faction on par with the Federation and left the KDF to rot.

They might as well make a pop-up when a Klingon toon is logged in saying:
"Screw you, nobody loves you, we hate Klingons. Sincerely, the Devs."

I end up doing DOFFs just as much for my KDF as my Fed. I like them both and still haven't played much of the Fed story, so quests aren't important to me. I'm max level only due to DOFFs. I'm starting to enjoy the culture of the KDF a lot.

I hope for option B, but even just adding more missions to the lower KDF levels would knock my socks off.

Maybe it will somehow relate to the movie if it's in May? Don't know how it could considering it's about the Romulans.

A friend of mine who know's more about this stuff than me has said that it's not a Romulan Faction, but just a major content release, and also a major system "update" if you can call it that, for the game in general.

The Content will go off of the Romulan Rep. T5 Mission, and have to do with the looming Iconian threat, and the Reman-Romulan storyline.

And yes, all signs point to the Klinks getting love before the new faction.

I am definitely looking forward to that, being a Klink player myself :)

I'm definitely hoping for some more KDF content since I've been playing on that side a bit more lately. If that included a few more ships that don't cost a crazy amount of fleet marks, I'd be thrilled, but I'm not holding my breath.

Additional Romulan missions that continue the storyline from that episode and the rep missions on New Romulus would be interesting since I've enjoyed that storyline and it seems to have been left hanging.

I really hope what Kirkfollower24 said is true and there's more KDF content before adding a Romulan faction, because I think a large percentage of players (me included) would be fairly disappointed to have another subpar faction like the KDF foisted upon us.

That's my opinion, anyways. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Well the devs have said that they want to fix the KDF before releasing a Romulan faction, so I assume this is still the case.

Frankly though, it's not the devs fault that the KDF doesn't get much love, it's the higher ups. They don't see much profit in creating things for the KDF and therefore the devs aren't allowed to do it. It's sad but true.

I guess I'm different than most folks, but I don't really find the 1-20 game all that interesting, so I'd be very happy if they boosted up the mission play for KDF in the post-20 game. That said, I'm pretty sure you won't be celebrating May by playing a Romulan. Considering the ill-will the handling of the KDF faction has generated, I don't think they'll want to magnify that with another under-served faction.

So, what else could it be? How about if the Tal'Shiar and the Iconians straight up made their move, and the Feds, KDF, New Romulans were thrown on the defensive as the T'S, Tholians, Mirror Universe and whoever else is hanging out at the Space Villian Hiring Hall that day start a big push, backed by the Iconians at key points?

Better start charging your phasers...

I am very curious to see what they come up with for new content. I would guess some more advancement in the New Romulus story arc. Possibly a more complete New Romulus (seeing as how we are currently helping to rebuild/build their world) and possibly playable Romulan and Reman Characters (I assume they would be playable on both KDF and FED not a new Romulan Faction)... But we shall see and I am very much looking forward to getting the next juicy teaser!

It'll hopefully be very interesting. I've been working up my KDF char the last couple of weeks in between Borg runs with my Fed toon. There is far too much of the SAME SAME missions between the two factions there. Still fun, but rather repetitive. Let's hope KDF hits parity and a Romulan faction appears as well.

If you're gonna hope, might as well hope big.

I am sincerely hoping that the Romulans become a playable faction on par with the Klingons. I've wanted to pilot a Romulan Warbird since I got STO and this could be the chance to make it happen.

All I'm saying is the biggest reason I am sticking with STO no matter how much my friends try to lure me to other games is I REALLY want to play as a Romulan, I've been wanting that since I first heard of STO like four years ago. If I'm not playing an actual Romulan Romulan flying a D'Deridex warbird within the next 2 years, I'm going to be REALLY (self censored) off.

I think the March title refers to the Simpsons taking over STO, think about it, we already have a lot of Duh...

Or maybe space dinosaurs!!!

It is interesting the time lag between the March 21 release date on the launcher vs a 'May Update.' I am curious that the space between would be ideal for a new featured series, likely Romulan/Iconian focuses. Remember that they did have Denise Crosby in for work - why wouldn't they have gotten some Sela audio as well.

As much as they have indicated that finishing KDF would be first, given the state of the game, aside from the breadth of content, it seems to me that it would be far easier to create a full faction vs modifying an existing one -- I wouldn't be surprised if we see the emergence of the Romulan faction in the May release.

After all for order of things, the PVP and Crafting revamps were all to be done for the first half of this year, but they appear to be pushed way back. I don't ever assume anything the Devs say is set in stone, particularly order-wise.

The countdown on the launcher is most likely for the announcement of the May update and not an actual release data for an update on March 21.