I was lucky enough to be able to buy this behemoth the day of release. To date it is as powerful as you may imagine, helluva good ship for CSV polaron builds. What surprised me was the enormous power of the array. Firing every 2 minutes, I was seeing average hits of 350K and often around 500K with a best of 707K.
What surprised me even more was the massive stealth nerf to this weapon, at least I have not seen any patch notes about it, so if someone has a link I'd be grateful. Now it's little more than a BO3 with a fancy effect, although it is somewhat AoE at least. Averaging about 100K hits now, with a best of 300K over the last week. nothing else has changed on my build so I know it's not me.
Come on Cryptic, if you TRIBBLE up and make a weapon too powerful, the least you can do is admit it and let us know when you're going to apply the nerf hammer!
Cryptic does this to everything.
1.) make ship overpowered so people buy it
2.) 'rebalance' the ship a couple weeks later so its not overpowered
It's really disappointing how they treat their customers that way. That's why 'space barbie' is the real endgame of STO. Enjoy your visual juggernaught-ish look, because that's all you end up with.
I wish they'd nerf the very long cooldown on those 'rebalanced' ship powers. I can see 2mins for a real strong ability; but after they nerf it to near uselessness, at least let us activate it more often!
This is typical Cryptic.. introduce something powerful, make as much money as possible.. nerf item.
This despicable practice is why I won't spend actual money on any of this stuff. Usually the 'balance pass' takes it from massively powerful to completely useless. There is no in between for Cryptic.
Hey Matt, I am curious because I haven’t seen this mentioned by anyone else. Was the nerf you observed consistent over a long period of time? Could it possibly have been a bug or something?
It’s rare for Cryptic to “un-nerf” something but I certainly have no reason to doubt you. I don’t have the ship, so sadly I can’t contribute my own findings. Still, if it’s working correctly now then that is definitely good.
You went out and got the ship, you absolutely deserve to have the full advertised effectiveness.
Well, it's possible that there was a bug that was fixed.. at least it sounds that way.
We don't really know though since we don't seem to get patch notes anymore. Either way, I am glad it's working again, hopefully it won't get 'adjusted' any further.
Cryptic does this to everything.
1.) make ship overpowered so people buy it
2.) 'rebalance' the ship a couple weeks later so its not overpowered
It's really disappointing how they treat their customers that way. That's why 'space barbie' is the real endgame of STO. Enjoy your visual juggernaught-ish look, because that's all you end up with.
I wish they'd nerf the very long cooldown on those 'rebalanced' ship powers. I can see 2mins for a real strong ability; but after they nerf it to near uselessness, at least let us activate it more often!
So you would like to buy more overpowered stuff in gambleboxes? More pay2win? I think you are experienced player, so you can recognize, when they release some overpowered stuff, which will be soon nerfed. F.e. console who can do itself more than 10k dps alone asks for it.
using the ship myself more or less since the release and i didnt saw any difference beside the normal buffs/debuffs running or not or polaron consoles used/not used.
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1.) make ship overpowered so people buy it
2.) 'rebalance' the ship a couple weeks later so its not overpowered
It's really disappointing how they treat their customers that way. That's why 'space barbie' is the real endgame of STO. Enjoy your visual juggernaught-ish look, because that's all you end up with.
I wish they'd nerf the very long cooldown on those 'rebalanced' ship powers. I can see 2mins for a real strong ability; but after they nerf it to near uselessness, at least let us activate it more often!
This despicable practice is why I won't spend actual money on any of this stuff. Usually the 'balance pass' takes it from massively powerful to completely useless. There is no in between for Cryptic.
Yeah, I haven't heard a word about this anywhere else, so I think I have to go along with this.
It’s rare for Cryptic to “un-nerf” something but I certainly have no reason to doubt you. I don’t have the ship, so sadly I can’t contribute my own findings. Still, if it’s working correctly now then that is definitely good.
You went out and got the ship, you absolutely deserve to have the full advertised effectiveness.
We don't really know though since we don't seem to get patch notes anymore. Either way, I am glad it's working again, hopefully it won't get 'adjusted' any further.
Only alteration that springs to mind was the infinity promo coming along due to the apathetic response to the so'na ring sucker.
So you would like to buy more overpowered stuff in gambleboxes? More pay2win? I think you are experienced player, so you can recognize, when they release some overpowered stuff, which will be soon nerfed. F.e. console who can do itself more than 10k dps alone asks for it.
No....I think he is saying he sees this pattern, and he won't buy into it. And he is disappointed to see Cryptic is doing this.
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