Cryptic studios recently released a video detailing the new difficulty slider & character injury features in Star Trek Online. If you haven't played the game in a while or are unfamiliar with the new features, Cryptic has added three levels of difficulty to combat within the game. The different settings also will scale the quality & frequency of combat rewards.

A new interesting feature to the difficulty system is the possibility of sustaining an injury that will in turn reduce your characters performance. Injuries can only occur on the highest level of difficulty in combat and require a visit to a medical facility for repair.

"Prior to launch, we really balanced the difficulty to fun. Now that we're post launch, we realize that there's a large amount of casual players who really enjoy the current default difficulty of the game, but we don't want to ignore our experienced players who are really looking for more of a challenge" Said Jeff Stahl, Star Trek Online Producer

check out the video below.