EV Suit Slot Added to characters

Jestersmith · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 2:08 PM

Captains, the day has come. Engineers, working closely with all members of the Khitomer Alliance, have discovered a way to make miniaturized Environmental Suits, that automatically grow and surround their owners when they are entering a hostile environment that requires additional life support. This new miniaturization system has already been applied to EV suits equipped across Alliance Members and their allies, so Captains and their crews should have nothing to do in order to activate this new technology. Except for choosing which EV Suit they’d like to use, that is.

All Captains and Bridge Officers within Star Trek Online now have a new slot in their inventory, specifically designed for equipping and Environmental Suit. This slot can only equip EV Suits, and is now the only place EV suits can be equipped. If your character was wearing an EV Suit as their main armor, it has been automatically unequipped and placed in your inventory. Simply place the suit in the new slot to have access to it. You’ll be able to switch between your standard armor and the EV suit at any time, choosing which stats, passives, set bonuses, and other effects you use. You will not be able to benefit from armor and EV Suit stats at the same time.

Your EV Suit of choice will automatically equip when you enter a hostile environment. When that occurs, you’ll begin using the stats of the Environmental Suit, and not the stats of your equipped armor. If you do not have an EV Suit equipped, then a default one will activate. However, this default suit has no stats at all, so you will likely wish to equip a suit in the new slot. While you’re in a hazardous area, you will be unable to manually deactivate the EV suit. While you’re in the EV Suit in any environment, you’ll have a new ability that allows you to manually activate and deactivate the lights on your suit.

Mission Objectives throughout the game that pertained to your EV Suit have been updated, so go take this new feature for a spin through some of your favorite content! We hope you enjoy this new feature, Captains, and we’ll see you in the Final Frontier.

Bridger · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 2:23 PM

It's about time!

trekchu · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 2:37 PM

About bloody time. That's been annoying me since day one of playing STO. Last time I wanted a QOL feature that much, it turned into the change character button.

Chi · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 2:48 PM

Just saw the tweet, definiate move in the right direction.

Sul-Matuul · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 3:13 PM

Yay for more free inventory space! This free up a fair bit of space taken up by all those suits.

Miles · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 4:50 PM

Originally Posted by Sul-Matuul

Yay for more free inventory space! This free up a fair bit of space taken up by all those suits.

At least 5.

Scarlett · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 4:59 PM

Originally Posted by Bridger

It's about time!

Correction: Finally.

darthnovawave · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 5:08 PM

It was good to see...until I realized how much effort will be needed to redo armor setups across all my alts and their boffs. Also now need to sink a bunch more dilithium since I was often using the disco ev suit and now I need to upgrade something else to keep using space barbie.

trekchu · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 7:00 PM

You don't. The way I see it, you can still use the EV suits as armour just by not equipping anything in the normal slot/switching around as desired.

Taku · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 7:24 PM

Originally Posted by Scarlett

Correction: Finally.

Are you CHEATING on me? 😭

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But what if I want to remove the EV suit on Nukara?

Scarlett · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 8:53 PM

Originally Posted by Taku

Are you CHEATING on me? 😭

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But what if I want to remove the EV suit on Nukara?

Aww, we're all equal here

And the man says, "too bad"

Jestersmith · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 8:56 PM

Post updated Tweet Added

Taku · Posted Tue 02 Nov, 2021 8:59 PM

Originally Posted by Scarlett

And the man says, "too bad"

The Man sucks.

Stryker · Posted Wed 03 Nov, 2021 7:35 PM

Wow, great move, been waiting years for this... xD

Bridger · Posted Wed 03 Nov, 2021 8:16 PM

Originally Posted by Stryker

Wow, great move, been waiting years for this... xD

I think the first mission you needded them was "Boldly They Rode" from 2012

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