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Was Save the Earth deigned to be that bad or . . .
guyhumual
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just a result of gross incompetence? I tend to think it was designed to be bad, like the designers sat around a white board with "Offensively Bad" written at the top and underlined with a bunch of word cloud ideas sprouting from it, like "tedious", "dissuade new players", "give players reasons to hate casuals", and "make players feel hopeless and weak". Taped to the board would be a print out of the elements of bad video game design with many sections checked off as they were added to the mission. I'd like to imagine at the bottom of the board was the phrase "Let's make Cybermind seem reasonable!" circled with several exclamation points at the end.
In other news I have to run Save the Earth a bunch of times during the Halloween event, like 14 times, twice on 6 toons and once on 2 toons, and even when I luck out and get on a good team giving me a smooth and easy run, I find myself thankful to the team but still hating the mission. I sometimes feel this mission was made with the expressed purpose to stop players from asking for new content.
In other news I have to run Save the Earth a bunch of times during the Halloween event, like 14 times, twice on 6 toons and once on 2 toons, and even when I luck out and get on a good team giving me a smooth and easy run, I find myself thankful to the team but still hating the mission. I sometimes feel this mission was made with the expressed purpose to stop players from asking for new content.
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People said this Alert was made to sabotage everyone who farms Questionite via Vigilante and now I absolutely believe it because it completely killed it for me
Cybermind's fight design is a masterpiece compared to STO, It brings good enviroment puzzle elements with the Colour phases
ASSAULTING YOUR PLAYERS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF MOBS WHILE FIGHTING IS NEITHER FUN NOR GOOD GAME DESIGN 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Weirdly, I've been having good runs lately, and the part that's been most annoying is something changed with the nemeses one or two STE rounds back, because they've seemed much harder to pull away from their spawn point. Even if they're mostly melee, they'll stubbornly just stand there, it feels kind of random when they finally do go after their target.
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There's definitely a bug - there's a very noticeable difference between normal spawn rates and turbo spawn rates. I've seen all the adds from a spawn killed in both scenarios, its really quite different. Feel free to intentionally provoke the difference one run and observe for yourself.
Of course, a team of good players never experiences this, because they don't retreat to hide in the doorway.
And yes, everyone leaving and re-entering as a group should solve it, but groups that are well organized enough to do that are probably well enough organized that they won't have to.
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The one time i was in only recently, we were all dead and in the entrance again and enemies still came at us from the main room, despite after all in the spawn killed and all players were there, it was just an endless wave, way to many and way to many tough enemies for this amount.
On this again also, same people who probably wanted more challange with Therakiles Temple with its Elite mode now, not like we had the difficult slider setting for this already, probably same that changed the Lemurian and Monster Island Invasions into needing a queed team. And let us not forget those were priorities for Nemesis instead of fixing the old Nem Missions with AI still getting stuck and stopping progress as well randomly.
Let us not forget also the same people that thought to give Mr Gemini no Minion cap as well that can swarm you if things go bad, those at least not as bad due normal enemies and not tough level. I think someone played way to many horde shooters with enemy spawn behavior in an MMO of all things where AoE's often limited to max 5 targets. This is the main issue i see, you can't fight all at once often like this due the target limit.
Do you have proof of this? otherwise, I would like to see it soon as possible, since your words don't carry much weight, Just So you know.
I have a feeling I done alert more time then you have, and so I always seen it triggered by someone dragging NPC through the door, there FOR there is a Door Bug, it is triggered when the NPC\MOB go pass or near the door, Do you check your fact before you say anything completely stupid and onesided? or you like making yourself look like a fool?
Spawn Rate is around 30 seconds, and you saying NPC that instants spawn and WITH AGGRO, Something you don't see in every part of the game is not a bug to you? WOW, It's almost like You Want the devs to be lazy or something... LMAO
this is Alert that Discriminate builds BTW [Nothing new], going in with AOE would Be a Cakewalk while going in With a Single Attack could be hell depending if that single attack is powerful enough to down a 20k HP mook under 2 seconds or less... Only a few people will NOT have this problem.
It might be polite to give them a leashing distance that's smaller than the instance.
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This is Semi-False, Depending on what you mean about that, I have seen cases where the NPC\MOB would repeatedly go after a single member of a party ignoring everyone else unless attacked, all because it wouldn't reset its aggro. This is not a Bug to you? Next, you going to tell Kiga-T doesn't get bugged.
This is false, the group close to the door gets aggro 1st, following by the group way in the back near the teleport in back aggro in when you get closer to them, It's not all at once. frankly, as you said , and I have seen a case where the NPC would act as typical NPC's like targeting the healer 1st because the healer doing help, even though I'm the guy running with defender glove playing Off-tank, it is 4 set of them and they don't share. Even if we go and say they share a 100 points of the aggro of me for the other Group of NPC's, then that means I should Target number 1, not target that is most closer to them. Ever NPC Would be targeting me since I would be the one to carry the most Aggro in the team. If this were the case, then a Tank would be truly ideal, I know Very well This DOES NOT WORK! I have seen OFF-Tanks losing Adds after Adds AFTER ADDS, to the point there either targeting me or a healer And this is when there are Acting normal BTW, the Non-Bugged BTW to make it clear, This usually, leads me to just kill all the adds Group in an order, Regardless if a tank is present or not, YOU CANT TANK 30 FREAKING ADDS At least not those Kind of adds, without something going wrong...
The way you saying this is the way you tell someone how to fix a bug on their own without Developer Tools. KEEP in mind that aggro has a range larger than anything within this game that I know of And they using a door to be a tool to reset the adds? to give out a WoW-est Experience? And phase one is not the only part it gets bugs at, Yes, That's right! it gets bug-outs in phase 2 Also, and sadly I didn't feel like Restarting so I Kamikaze shadow strike Each of the Shield so we can move on to fight the boss, losing all my Stars, And THAT WASN'T fun BTW, considering how many time I have done it all without dying as much, all because someone didn't fix a bug that is 2 years+ running, And that hasn't been fixed of now...
NO! No, not only that would have been Polite but would be the Right thing instead of what they have done, Like Who Asked for this?!
Let Word out an image of how the Adds reset in STE, they don't Drop your Icon and walk back to where they were staying, No! they teleport back to where we're almost instant anime style like and resume again and again like a raving rabid dog, This only found in Save The Earth Alert. and nowhere else, So please Explain Again how is this normal? Please! I would really like to know...
And how many people Think This is not a Bug? IM STILL Shocked that someone thinks this isn't a bug. Oh My Gosh!
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I was told that the folks who worked on this game either went to work on STO - NWO or just some other games, it be fair for them to spread there talents, but this game really needs A Lot of Work.
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So what happens is the best players in the game who are all used to working together try some content on PTS and blow through it, and then everybody else tries it and then we find out where the trouble points are.
I think the solution is during testing, for the final test run they designate one of the play testers as the troll, and the troll's goal is to deliberately try to mess up the run.