With Star Trek Online coming to console this fall, we're adding in a host of new lighting technologies significantly improving the visual quality of the game. Our deferred lighting, light probes, and improvements to our High Dynamic Range system help provide a more realistic lighting. With these new changes coming, every week we will post a before and after shot showcasing an area of the game so that you can see the progress that the team is making in updating the game’s graphics and lighting.

In this scene, the ramp, the storage containers and the wall pillars all emit light now as you’d expect. Specular probes give all of the metallic objects proper reflections.