Been a subber since game came online. Recently played my VA and found that a simple 'fix the satellite' mission found my Assault Cruiser facing 3 heavy escorts plus fighters. Died repeatedly. Guess the 'make it harder' crowd got their way. Trying to puzzle out all the changes and adds to the game have caused me nothing but confusion. So I had to decide - Frustration and Confusion, making STO more work than fun I have - very reluctantly - to just go F2P.
I appreciate the great effort to upgrade and expand the game but for me it has resulted in simply frustration and confusion. I realize that I am a member of the KISS (Keep it simple stupid) crowd but I simply wanted to relax and enjoy the game. Also understand that elites have little more than contempt for players like myself. (Shrug) thats the way it goes. The game will not change for me so I will just stick to the F2P and see what comes.
I do wish the best for STO despite dropping the sub. I did enjoy the game for most of my time and I do not feel my money was wasted.
Assault Cruiser should be able to handle that, I faced things like that and came out on top with an Intrepid class, so I would think you shouldn't have much of a problem on Normal mode, maybe you just need to try it diffrently.
I joined a level 5 friends party (just me and her) with my VA character, the difficulty of one of the really early missions was so high, it was funny. It took a lot just to take down a Frigate
OP, are you gearing your ship correctly? You shouldn't be dying to that.
Assault cruisers should have mostly, if not all, beam arrays. If you're using front-firing weapons like dual beams, you're going to be nerfing your damage output by over 50% at least.
Um, theres a dropdown menu that allows you to change the difficulty of the missions ingame.
With the exception of the STF's, every mission ingame has a 'normal' mode which should be easy for you to relax and play. Its very likely you were playing on elite (Which is intended to create a challenge) or advanced.
In actuality, the 'make it harder' crowd arent 'elitests'.
I wanted them to fix the difficulty, im a career officer and i quit because they made the game too easy for me when i wanted a challenge to enjoy beating.
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I joined a level 5 friends party (just me and her) with my VA character, the difficulty of one of the really early missions was so high, it was funny. It took a lot just to take down a Frigate
Assault cruisers should have mostly, if not all, beam arrays. If you're using front-firing weapons like dual beams, you're going to be nerfing your damage output by over 50% at least.
Be sure you're using the right gear :cool:
With the exception of the STF's, every mission ingame has a 'normal' mode which should be easy for you to relax and play. Its very likely you were playing on elite (Which is intended to create a challenge) or advanced.
In actuality, the 'make it harder' crowd arent 'elitests'.
I wanted them to fix the difficulty, im a career officer and i quit because they made the game too easy for me when i wanted a challenge to enjoy beating.
use the difficulty slider, problem solved.