Star Trek Online’s Season 13: Escalation arrives with war games and a new episode

Just when one war seems to wrap up in Star Trek Online, the devs seem to scrounge up another. Today, Cryptic pushed out Season 13: Escalation for the PC version, with the console update to come at a later date.

The free content update contains a new featured episode (“Mirrors and Smoke”), improved matchmaking, class-specific gear, a rebalance pass, and a lot of ground and space action against the Tzenkethi. Another big addition is STO’s War Games system, which allows players to face off against each other in competitive PvE scenarios. To start off with, there is one space scenario and one ground one for players to enjoy.

Star Trek Online is celebrating the update’s launch with a sweepstakes to hand out a berth on a Star Trek cruise (not to mention 150 STO ships) to a lucky player. While we’re talking about giveaways, why not enter into our own raffle for a Romulan ship on Xbox One?

Check out Season 13’s launch trailer below.