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.

This week we have an Elachi outpost. Notice how the updated lighting adds a new level of form and depth to both the characters and their eerie environment. The ominous effects give our Elachi outpost a new and unsettling atmosphere.

Stay tuned to next week for even more screenshots!