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Crystalline Catastrophe Event Live!

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited May 2013 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Our Crystalline Catastrophe event is now live! Jump in-game now and participate daily to earn special rewards. Read more for full details.


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    starmanjstarmanj Member Posts: 714 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    The Crystalline Entity is back! Gosh I hope it is going to be a lot easier to defeat then to other one. I remember spending 2 hours 1 day trying to kill it and a few other times. LOL we never did kill it on the teams I was on.:rolleyes:
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    hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    It lost its healing and instead absorbs power which it releases in a shockwave. Things can still go south pretty hard, but the thing that made fights last forever has been removed at least.
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    psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Patching now. :D
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    purvee1purvee1 Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    It lost its healing and instead absorbs power which it releases in a shockwave. Things can still go south pretty hard, but the thing that made fights last forever has been removed at least.

    Is there a guide to the new version floating around anywhere?
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    psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    purvee1 wrote: »
    Is there a guide to the new version floating around anywhere?

    http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=859041
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    hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    During the community events on the test server, the strategy seemed to be:

    1. Shoot all the things
    2. When the CE is in absorbtion mode shoot all the things except the CE
    3. If somebody continues shooting the CE GTFO before the shockwave
    4. Resume shooting all the things


    There's also a few science powers that remove its damage buff. They kept changing how that works on the test server, so I'm not actually sure how that works now.
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    purvee1purvee1 Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    During the community events on the test server, the strategy seemed to be:

    1. Shoot all the things
    2. When the CE is in absorbtion mode shoot all the things except the CE
    3. If somebody continues shooting the CE GTFO before the shockwave
    4. Resume shooting all the things


    There's also a few science powers that remove its damage buff. They kept changing how that works on the test server, so I'm not actually sure how that works now.

    Sounds simple enough... How can you tell when the CE goes into sucking mode?
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    hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Ohmagerdh patch faster.

    Last time I killed the CE was before they fixed ramming speed and anyone in a tier 4+ cruiser could just oneshot it.
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    hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    If I remember right it gets a progress bar like the siege dreadnoughts in starbase defense. Could be misremembering and it's a boff pop up.

    My sequence is hardly an ideal strategy, but without it's healing the STF PUG standard "shoot the things until there are no more things" will eventually kill it.
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    borticuscrypticborticuscryptic Member Posts: 2,478 Cryptic Developer
    edited April 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    If I remember right it gets a progress bar like the siege dreadnoughts in starbase defense. Could be misremembering and it's a boff pop up.

    It's actually both (mini-contact popup and progress bar) as well as a particle effect (though that's hard to see in all the chaos).

    An astute observer may also notice that it stops launching shards and firing beams during the Absorb phase.
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Does it still get healed by torpedo impacts?
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    marshalericdavidmarshalericdavid Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Just finished it had fun. Died a couple times as did some other on the team.
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    azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Well one thing is for sure, it's very pugable now. But it's so easy now, its like the original CE that there is no challenge at all. Still wish they kept in the previous version and just dumbed its regen so it was doable.


    But what I HATE the most of the new CE if you want the CE accolade, you have to be in an Escort. Which means if you are a Cruiser or Science Ship Captain, tough balony if you ever want to see it.
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    qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    The patch server is dying ! :eek::mad::D
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    pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited April 2013
    azurianstar wrote: »
    But what I HATE the most of the new CE if you want the CE accolade, you have to be in an Escort. Which means if you are a Cruiser or Science Ship Captain, tough balony if you ever want to see it.

    Scoring has changed, so the bolded above is not necessarily true:
    borticuscryptic wrote: »
    Yes. There are still trophies granted for receiving First, Second and Third place each time you run the encounter.

    To head off further questions, here's some insight into how you are scored during the event:

    You will be scored for each of the following, at various amount of tracked "contribution points":
    * Every point of damage dealt to the Crystalline Entity
    * Every point of healing given to anything on the map
    * Any Tholian ship you help destroy
    * Any Large Crystalline Fragment you help destroy
    * Any Small Crystalline Fragment you help destroy

    We attempted to work in additional scoring mechanisms for "Damage Prevented on Self" as well as something for Controls/Debuffs, but were unable to get them in and tested before the event is scheduled to go live.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
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    deianirrahdeianirrah Member Posts: 236 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Thank You, thank You, thank You for that kind of event - as not only the more unusual Scientist skills help against it but it also is neccessary to coordinate the efforts a bit. Just made 2nd place in my Vesta - but I'd of course appreciate it if more than just making damage were to count towards making it to the first ranks.

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    f8explorer#7814 f8explorer
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    edited April 2013
    Anyone else NOT get a crystal shard on your second run through? ... Don't you get one with each time running the mission?
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    altechachanaltechachan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    genhauk wrote: »
    Anyone else NOT get a crystal shard on your second run through? ... Don't you get one with each time running the mission?

    I believe it's only once every 20 hours you get a crystal shard.
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    sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Took me days to complete this before
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    sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    genhauk wrote: »
    Anyone else NOT get a crystal shard on your second run through? ... Don't you get one with each time running the mission?

    Nope, you only get a shard on the first go, then you have to wait until the next day...
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    diogene0diogene0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    The new CE is bugged. I made a report in the appropriate subsection. :)
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    sirsrisirsri Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Scoring has changed, so the bolded above is not necessarily true:



    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=


    Um...

    It still very heavily favours DPS ships. You can do that with a cruiser or sci or escort but it's very strongly weighted to doing dps at the expense of everything else. A decent escort is doing 8-13k dps. There's no way you're getting close to that HPS. Even within the realm of those ship types it still favours DPS heavy builds and ships that support that.

    But that's beside the point.

    There shouldn't be a first second or 3rd place in cooperative PVE. Ever. It is bad design and it needs to go. It completely transforms the experience of cooperation with new group of people into a competitive race against your teammates. Run any of the FA's, and you'll find people positioning themselves to do the maximum dps, even if that leaves other people to disable bases or repair facilities or whatever.

    If you're the guy in the JHAS zipping around are spamming CSV and TS3 you can do the most dps and get the most points, but that won't necessarily help the team that you're shooting at the wrong time or agroing things that shouldn't be agro'd or whatever. But if you're not trying to do that you're missing out on the best loot which is the first and second place rewards.
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    tpalelenatpalelena Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    This is a great fun new event, and it can even be done on more then one character. I was really afraid this would be an hours long fight, but 15 minutes is good.

    Thank you Cryptic, and thanks for the event for it!
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    eklinaareklinaar Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I'm glad to see Cryptic incrementally adding new content like this, but I have to say, this event is far too easy. There's basically no way to lose as long as your team isn't afk. Also, I get a lot of graphical lag and sound effects cut out intermittently. I don't have this problem anywhere else in the game. Other than those problems, I like it. I particularly like how short the event is. It's good to have a mix of content, some that takes a long time and some that takes a short time to complete.
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    johnstewardjohnsteward Member Posts: 1,073 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    is this a joke that we get mk X gear in the CE?

    will this be fixed?

    but i like that there are new events although its a bit too easy

    what i really like is this attack where it hits like everyone simulanously. thats really great, wish more enemys had those attacks
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    psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Cryptic, did you ever consider making Crystalline Catastrophe a new STF with Normal and Elite versions? I think that would be pretty cool.
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    syberghostsyberghost Member Posts: 1,711 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    sirsri wrote: »
    Um...

    It still very heavily favours DPS ships.

    Yep. And when they get the thing in that didn't quite make it for this patch, that will be less true. Have patience. :)
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    brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I don't like the new map/placement compared to the old one with the broken-up planet. Whenever I get behind the CE on this new map the atmosphere effect takes place and my entire screen turns white until I get back to the other side of the CE. Very annoying.
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    tpalelenatpalelena Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I actually like it that its not as hard as the elite STFs (or has twice the amount of people) .

    It allows the less talented people to play without ruining your game. Just takes longer.
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    malkarrismalkarris Member Posts: 797 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Can't wait to try this out. Just asking, is there a channel to form groups for this, like there are for the Elite STFs?
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