I'm not bothering with this event anymore. Finished it for one toon, when I could see the entity. On my 2nd toon I tried this I couldn't see the entity so ignoring the spam just meant I died. After all my teammates changed for 4 times I left as well. I too like a challenge but obviously that challenge is too much for me, with all the lag and the missing ability to find the entity.
Get me right, I don't want it nerfed, but I want to have fun while I play. And that - at least for me - wasn't fun at all.
I would like to add one:
When I complete the old project, will I be able to start the new 1-shard project or must I complete the new Project with the DOff?
EDIT: Just read only the new project allows the 1 shard project upon completion, so better do this unless you want the pet that badly.
OK, I have a few questions not covered in the announcement.
Is the old reward of the Crystal Shard space pet still available? I have some Romulan characters "born" after the first run, so they never got a chance to get it.
If so, how many shards to complete its project? If it's 14, like last time, it will be impossible to complete both the old project and the new project.
The Duty Officer pictured is a Federation officer. Am I correct in assuming there will be equivalent officers available for Klingons and Romulans?
I don't know who the hell was the one who thought the changes to the CE was FUN? But right now I honestly think that person needs slapped on the side of the head!
Who thinks that MORE SPAM = FUN?
Not only do we have to battle though a literal hundred Terran ships to get to the CE, but we also have to combat against NEWBS who don't know how to do anything and MOOCHERS who just SIT THERE at the SPAWN POINT AND NOT DO ANYTHING! :mad::mad::mad:
I'm not joking, it took me 4 minutes to go from logging in into STO To getting a migrane so powerful that it actually made me dizzy!
It's not a reward for the new project; it was for the old project. We may consider making a new way to obtain the Shard pet in the future.
That's a shame. I never picked up the old project as I always assumed the pet would be available once the event was held again. Please do add some way to get it.
Can we get, if not a timetable for fixing the issue, at least an acknowledgement that impenetrable rift/Mirror Universe ship spam is a bug and not Working As Intended?
These are all with random Pug teams, there is also what appears to be subspace clouds like the black hole console that block any targeting and weapons fire from within them.
I'm not bothering with this event anymore. Finished it for one toon, when I could see the entity. On my 2nd toon I tried this I couldn't see the entity so ignoring the spam just meant I died. After all my teammates changed for 4 times I left as well. I too like a challenge but obviously that challenge is too much for me, with all the lag and the missing ability to find the entity.
Get me right, I don't want it nerfed, but I want to have fun while I play. And that - at least for me - wasn't fun at all.
tl;dr
lolhard, i quit
wuss
i did it on five different toons, one of which was a bop, A fricken BOP, nd i didnt even die on the bop
what the heck is your excuse?
its like people expect everything to be ss azure mission easy
christ
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Ah, no Romulan doff? Would it have been hard to make a Romulan picture or copy one? I don't want humans on my ship.
Give this Romulan a medal. I've spent millions in an effort to replace all the alien scum, but if you want to run certain setups, the job is all but impossible. Including that conversion unit that gives me some blue andorian for 5 green romulans. Oh, the irony.
Edit: I'm running a tight ship, please consider tailored DOFFS... Make a Klingon and Romulan version in the spirit of thematical coherency... it means the world to some of us... I know we probably must represent some weird minority, and should accept this glorious reward as it stands. But you see, I have to delete this DOFF in the end. It's just how we roll. And that makes the event rather... well... generic... It is just hard as it is, right now. It truly is.
i did it on five different toons, one of which was a bop, A fricken BOP, nd i didnt even die on the bop
what the heck is your excuse?
its like people expect everything to be ss azure mission easy
christ
Problems are from the groups not individual loadouts/ships. If your team wants to spam faw and TRIBBLE off the mirror ships and forget to kill the CE as it goes from 20% health to 30% health to 43% health, then the run is indeed hopeless. IF the the team focuses on the CE then doing it in a bop is piece of cake. But if your whole team is awful your lonely bop is not going to take down the CE solo.
I don't know who the hell was the one who thought the changes to the CE was FUN? But right now I honestly think that person needs slapped on the side of the head!
Who thinks that MORE SPAM = FUN?
Not only do we have to battle though a literal hundred Terran ships to get to the CE, but we also have to combat against NEWBS who don't know how to do anything and MOOCHERS who just SIT THERE at the SPAWN POINT AND NOT DO ANYTHING! :mad::mad::mad:
I'm not joking, it took me 4 minutes to go from logging in into STO To getting a migrane so powerful that it actually made me dizzy!
I have to agree with Azurian. I just finished with my toons, and in one instance, there were over ONE HUNDRED MIRROR SHIPS in the map, and no one could approach the CE. We had to kill everything just to get close.
i did it on five different toons, one of which was a bop, A fricken BOP, nd i didnt even die on the bop
what the heck is your excuse?
its like people expect everything to be ss azure mission easy
christ
If it works like intended, it is not hard.
However, if the mirror frigate spam "event" (calling it event until conformation it's a bug) then it is seriously not fun.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
I hate to do it but if I see THIS at the start of the match cya I'm gonna warp cause that is ridiculous, each can apparently at the moment spawn an unlimited amount of ships since the rifts don't close and can't be collapsed.
Something is messed up here. On certain toons I breeze by, on others I go in and get marks a cooldown but no shard, and still others I enter and the place is FULL (in a NORMAL) with mirror vessels that drop my shields and hull in moments (I did NOT aggro them), still other instances have no mirror ships and only distortion. W-T-H!?!?! This is a mess. :rolleyes:
I have to agree with Azurian. I just finished with my toons, and in one instance, there were over ONE HUNDRED MIRROR SHIPS in the map, and no one could approach the CE. We had to kill everything just to get close.
I've been in a couple of those today. I suspect that I was a filler when somebody left a previously spawned instance where people went after the Mirror ships rather than the CE.
First time I ran it (normal difficulty,) I got dropped into a late-phase game, just saw a belt of Terrans, bugged out.
Found this thread, "ignore the Terrans". It's not as hideously unbalanced with that in mind, but I'm still disappointed that Cryptic resorted to Fake Difficulty via ship spam...
I'm sorry but I do not like these changes to the Crystaline Entity. It's like the Development Team purposely was trying to antagonize the players of Star Trek Online by increasing the number of enemies to thwart players and the put massive loads on their graphics cards at the same time that causes them to overheat.
I've done a few normal and elites and frankly one of those normals felt like elite. As many have said adding in the near to over hundred ships that SPAWN faster than one group can kill is a ridiculous addition to the CE event. I'd just as soon not do it but the dilithium is too much of a come on. That said I have had to leave four maps so far because the dps requirement on the guard ships was too high for everyone and I found myself alone against them all because everyone else bugged out before me.
cryptic please either make the spawning slower or only allow a preset amount at a time, something. because the only elite I beat had zero ships spawn because of a bug or something. because the normals I have endured remind me way to much of the Hive with a bunch of newbs.
every since the new ce mission went live I get on for a few seconds and then it says that the server is not responding. Is anybody else experiencing that too?
My opinion about these "changes" (to avoid the obvious "bugs"/"reality check failure"/"trolling",etc...) would be that even the Dominion would think of this being overkill.
My opinion about these "changes" (to avoid the obvious "bugs"/"reality check failure"/"trolling",etc...) would be that even the Dominion would think of this being overkill.
I should have taken a screen shot of my worst one - you literally could not see the entity with all the mirror ships and the phaser beams - more than 100 easily - could have been as high as 200 as people were just sucking them out with all types of spam. My super eng fleet excel tank could only survive for a few seconds with 20+ ships attacking + the entity
My opinion about these "changes" (to avoid the obvious "bugs"/"reality check failure"/"trolling",etc...) would be that even the Dominion would think of this being overkill.
My opinion about these "changes" (to avoid the obvious "bugs"/"reality check failure"/"trolling",etc...) would be that even the Dominion would think of this being overkill.
This needs to be fixed. I've run about 10 toons. It took 3 and a half hours. It shouldn't have; not on normal mode. Not even on Elite should it take that long! I had 2 runs that took me about 3 minutes, those were just fine, but then you come to the ones that are severely frakked up, and they take 30 or more each.
Bug 1: Spawn in point is littered with MU ships that do NOT stop spawning. Just had a run that we bailed after 40 minutes of time wasted. Literally hundreds of ships that we could not get through.
Bug 2. The area is littered with Tyken's Rift and Gravity Wells...I mean 100 of the damn things! O.o
Bug 3: Get close and a blackish, green cloud of I-don't-know-what spawns. This unknown thing covers the CE and most of the map. Nothing is targetable and you can't get out of it.
1 quick and bug-less run out of 10 is really just ridiculous. I hope you fix this...not let the entire event go by like one of the last ones...that was bugged for all 4 days, no fix, and you basically told the playerbase: Tough luck, kiddies.
I like a challenge as much as the next player, but some of what is happening is quite obviously bugged and needs addressing.
Just did it... Quite easy as always. Just stay at less than 1km of the entity all the time, and it wont harm you (you'll be immune to the powerful atack). Yeah shoot it with some aoe too, for the shards, like volleys or warp plasma and such, and that's all.
Dont pay attention to the mobs, they dont do any damage (you all have your emergency power to shield 1, transfer shield strenghts and hazar emitters, right?)
Our special Crystalline Entity event is now live! Before you jump in-game and participate daily to earn special rewards, read more for full details about the event.
Special rewards for completing the event's project include: 50,000 Dilithium Ore, 500 Fleet Marks, 250 Marks of your choice (Fleet, Omega, Romulan or Nukara), and a special Very Rare Duty Officer!
I take back my previous criticisms, and apologize. This is awesome. Thanks, Cryptic. Good job on this one. I'm logging in on all 18 of my characters to bust this out
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Get me right, I don't want it nerfed, but I want to have fun while I play. And that - at least for me - wasn't fun at all.
I would like to add one:
When I complete the old project, will I be able to start the new 1-shard project or must I complete the new Project with the DOff?
EDIT: Just read only the new project allows the 1 shard project upon completion, so better do this unless you want the pet that badly.
Who thinks that MORE SPAM = FUN?
Not only do we have to battle though a literal hundred Terran ships to get to the CE, but we also have to combat against NEWBS who don't know how to do anything and MOOCHERS who just SIT THERE at the SPAWN POINT AND NOT DO ANYTHING! :mad::mad::mad:
I'm not joking, it took me 4 minutes to go from logging in into STO To getting a migrane so powerful that it actually made me dizzy!
That's a shame. I never picked up the old project as I always assumed the pet would be available once the event was held again. Please do add some way to get it.
STO CE Migraine? You should try, SCOTCH! Engineering, of course, what were you thinking?
If you see this ruuun for your life :P
what comes outta the rifts 1
what comes outta the rifts 2
what comes outta the rifts 3
what comes outta the rifts 4
1st run in a Fleet norgh on an engy
These are all with random Pug teams, there is also what appears to be subspace clouds like the black hole console that block any targeting and weapons fire from within them.
tl;dr
lolhard, i quit
wuss
i did it on five different toons, one of which was a bop, A fricken BOP, nd i didnt even die on the bop
what the heck is your excuse?
its like people expect everything to be ss azure mission easy
christ
Fleet Admiral Rylana - Fed Tac - U.S.S Wild Card - Tactical Miracle Worker Cruiser
Lifetime Subscriber since 2012 == 17,200 Accolades = RIP PvP and Vice Squad
Chief of Starfleet Intelligence Service == Praise Cheesus
Give this Romulan a medal. I've spent millions in an effort to replace all the alien scum, but if you want to run certain setups, the job is all but impossible. Including that conversion unit that gives me some blue andorian for 5 green romulans. Oh, the irony.
Edit: I'm running a tight ship, please consider tailored DOFFS... Make a Klingon and Romulan version in the spirit of thematical coherency... it means the world to some of us... I know we probably must represent some weird minority, and should accept this glorious reward as it stands. But you see, I have to delete this DOFF in the end. It's just how we roll. And that makes the event rather... well... generic... It is just hard as it is, right now. It truly is.
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Problems are from the groups not individual loadouts/ships. If your team wants to spam faw and TRIBBLE off the mirror ships and forget to kill the CE as it goes from 20% health to 30% health to 43% health, then the run is indeed hopeless. IF the the team focuses on the CE then doing it in a bop is piece of cake. But if your whole team is awful your lonely bop is not going to take down the CE solo.
I have to agree with Azurian. I just finished with my toons, and in one instance, there were over ONE HUNDRED MIRROR SHIPS in the map, and no one could approach the CE. We had to kill everything just to get close.
If it works like intended, it is not hard.
However, if the mirror frigate spam "event" (calling it event until conformation it's a bug) then it is seriously not fun.
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I've been in a couple of those today. I suspect that I was a filler when somebody left a previously spawned instance where people went after the Mirror ships rather than the CE.
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Found this thread, "ignore the Terrans". It's not as hideously unbalanced with that in mind, but I'm still disappointed that Cryptic resorted to Fake Difficulty via ship spam...
I cannot continue playing the event as it is now.
cryptic please either make the spawning slower or only allow a preset amount at a time, something. because the only elite I beat had zero ships spawn because of a bug or something. because the normals I have endured remind me way to much of the Hive with a bunch of newbs.
This is, uh, false.
I currently have -both- projects slotted on my FED toon, 1 from previous that I did not complete (it as 12/14) and the new one as well.
DELTA PRICE RISING
Here's an idea, let's start a contest we'd call "Show your most ridiculous situation in Crystalline Cataclysm!"
My first entry:
Star Trek's version of Bullet Hell: Phaser Hell.
I should have taken a screen shot of my worst one - you literally could not see the entity with all the mirror ships and the phaser beams - more than 100 easily - could have been as high as 200 as people were just sucking them out with all types of spam. My super eng fleet excel tank could only survive for a few seconds with 20+ ships attacking + the entity
All hands to battle stations brace for impact against 2 million ships....
Bug 1: Spawn in point is littered with MU ships that do NOT stop spawning. Just had a run that we bailed after 40 minutes of time wasted. Literally hundreds of ships that we could not get through.
Bug 2. The area is littered with Tyken's Rift and Gravity Wells...I mean 100 of the damn things! O.o
Bug 3: Get close and a blackish, green cloud of I-don't-know-what spawns. This unknown thing covers the CE and most of the map. Nothing is targetable and you can't get out of it.
1 quick and bug-less run out of 10 is really just ridiculous. I hope you fix this...not let the entire event go by like one of the last ones...that was bugged for all 4 days, no fix, and you basically told the playerbase: Tough luck, kiddies.
I like a challenge as much as the next player, but some of what is happening is quite obviously bugged and needs addressing.
Dont pay attention to the mobs, they dont do any damage (you all have your emergency power to shield 1, transfer shield strenghts and hazar emitters, right?)
I take back my previous criticisms, and apologize. This is awesome. Thanks, Cryptic. Good job on this one. I'm logging in on all 18 of my characters to bust this out