General: 

• Improved Engineer Bridge Officer Abilities: 
  • Emergency Power to Shields 
    • Now also grants Immunity to Shield Drain when your Shields are reduced to 20/35/50% total Capacity 
  • Reverse Shield Polarity 
    • Now also grants Immunity to Shield Drain 
• Improved Pilot Specialization Bridge Officer Abilities: 
  • Energy weapons: Reroute Reserves to Weapons 
    • Haste improved from 20/40/60 to 75/150/225 
    • Engine power drain normalized at 8, was 8/6/4 
      • If Engine Power reaches 0, effect ends, the shared category cooldown is reset, and remaining duration is subtracted from other Energy Weapon Firing Mode recharge times 
  • Clean Getaway 
    • Duration improved from 4/6/8 to 8/10/12 
    • After 3 seconds, each second your ship avoids damage recover 1 second recharge of vridge officer and captain abilities 
  • Deploy Countermeasures 
    • Ability now additionally deploys holo images of your starship which taunt Foes and vanish after being damaged 
    • Number of images scales with ability rank 
    • Chance to Confuse removed 
  • Reinforcements Squadron 
    • Ships Receive Bonus Damage from your Accuracy and Critical Severity   
    • Summoned fighters are immune to core breaches 
  • Form Up 
    • Bonus Damage starts at max value, no longer ramps up over duration 
    • Teleport range now 20 km for all ranks 
  • Subspace Boom 
    • Explosion damage significantly increased 
    • Large debuff to Accuracy added to the explosion 
  • Lock Trajectory 
    • Added a buff to Critical Chance during active effect 
  • Pilot Team 
    • Now grants a modest bonus to Defense during the effect 
    • Now grants Immunity to Placate during the effect 
  • Hold Together 
    • Scaling from high Throttle doubled 
  • Fly Her Apart 
    • Damage buff improved, happens during buildup as well as after 
  • Coolant Ignition 
    • Damage scales with Engine Power 
    • Initial detonation now has a large burst of Damage 
  • Attack Pattern Lambda 
    • Confuse lasts longer, also applies Placate to Foes that are not Players, but has a long Cooldown per target 
    • Now applies to all weapon types 
    • Higher ranks dramatically improve Accuracy and Perception 

For more information, please visit the “Changes to Pilot Bridge Officer Abilities” blog at: https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11536183 

Known Issues: 

• The Pilot Bridge Officer Abilities, Coolant Ignition 2 and Coolant Ignition 3 currently do not display their “At Ignition” damage in their descriptions. 
• The fighters summoned by the Pilot Bridge Officer ability “Reinforcement Squadron” do not currently use all the abilities they are intended to use.