Super Borg?

imthe13thdoctor

I just tried to do a Daily Alert in the Defera sector and we (8 ships, mainly Feds) just got crushed....as in not anywhere near reaching the boss crushed. I witnessed;

1) Borg Spheres accelerate away from Torpedo Spreads more than a dozen times. They were still able to fire torps and beams of their own and maintained those speeds until arrested in a tractor or similar 'slow'....way longer than Evasive Maneuvers lasts.:eek:

2) The groups were using the shield drain like it was free. They'd hit me, I'd rotate freqs and the same guy hit me again 2-3 seconds later.:(

3) I was armed with Mk XII Antiproton Cannons and on Rapid II barely scratched their shields. I also use the Romulan Rep rapid fire plasma torp and fired an Overload II at a 'normal' cube who laughed it off and blew me out of space with one shot at 3/4 shields and full hull.

4) A Cruiser hit EM and the entire group followed him and closed the distance on him while EM was active. They then whipped around as nimbly as the best Escorts in the game and blew right through the 3 of us giving chase.

I did a few Borg based STF's the day before LOR went live and didn't see anything like this then . This was just a good old fashioned mugging. I woke up in the gutter with half my Dilithium gone....the other half was well hidden

cdpbs

imthe13thdoctor wrote: »

I just tried to do a Daily Alert in the Defera sector and we (8 ships, mainly Feds) just got crushed....as in not anywhere near reaching the boss crushed. I witnessed;

1) Borg Spheres accelerate away from Torpedo Spreads more than a dozen times. They were still able to fire torps and beams of their own and maintained those speeds until arrested in a tractor or similar 'slow'....way longer than Evasive Maneuvers lasts.:eek:

2) The groups were using the shield drain like it was free. They'd hit me, I'd rotate freqs and the same guy hit me again 2-3 seconds later.:(

3) I was armed with Mk XII Antiproton Cannons and on Rapid II barely scratched their shields. I also use the Romulan Rep rapid fire plasma torp and fired an Overload II at a 'normal' cube who laughed it off and blew me out of space with one shot at 3/4 shields and full hull.

4) A Cruiser hit EM and the entire group followed him and closed the distance on him while EM was active. They then whipped around as nimbly as the best Escorts in the game and blew right through the 3 of us giving chase.

I did a few Borg based STF's the day before LOR went live and didn't see anything like this then . This was just a good old fashioned mugging. I woke up in the gutter with half my Dilithium gone....the other half was well hidden

Exactly what i observe after the LoR goes Live. Not even my GraviWell III bound the Spheres. My Advanced Orion Slavers raiding ZERO LOOT. My Photonic Displacer-Console does Nothing....aaah so many things...

But i will wait for a Fixing-Orgy

gojored

yeah same experience here, and i believe that there was a mention of the devs looking into it. also there was a lot of chatter that it is the unintended consequence of a change in EPtX power. what ever ya do dont go to the peeps that love the change, even if it caused this, they'll all but bite your head off.

Here's lookin forward to those fixes

scrooge69

same here, pretty OP speed

drachenfeles

ad 1) yes they do, I posted about it twice already, not only spheres do so btw

ad 2) they usually do, see that you are able to resist it and you can basically ignore it

ad 3) noticed no such thing, cubes die like they always did, I mean quick while mano-a-mano with my ship

ad 4) I have no comparison, so no comment