S8........everythings easy

matchstick606

so to start off i never had a problem with the rep system up to S8. I can only speak for myself when saying even before S8 the rep system for me was a very easy grind. rom rep being a little harder due to low payouts in stf's. Now this new rep is over the top easy. link this with the new voth space eSTF and its almost like this game is being geared for kids. Now when cryptic fixed Hive Onslaught it was a great mission, very hard but with a good team you can beat it. i was hoping for something as hard of an stf to come out in S8 but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. i don't know if anyone feels the same way i do right now but it seems that the difficulty of the game has been turn down so low i don't even get a challenge out of this game anymore.

just my 2 cents, not here to start a flame just wanted to give my feedback and see if anyone else feels the same way.

ominoushomicide

must be nice to be able to play it. game crashes for me after loading screen cuz these losers dont know how to patch

dieutoutpuissant

Yep, easy + time consuming. Terrible combo. I don't mind if it's hard (i mean really hard), at least it's satisfying. I don't mind if it's short, because you can be done with it easily and frustration has no time to grow.

Here, it's just tedious and frustrating. I've completed both STFs, it's just an endless wave of easy mobs, the bosses are unimaginative and overly easy (not even dangerous at all), on the ground, my boffs do all the job, i could sit and let them do the kills. Awesome.

I died once and that's only because i couldn't find my way out of the city ship. I've succeeded everywhere on the first attempt. That's not really my idea of fun, and i will certainly not repeat this TRIBBLE every day, that's way too frustrating.

If only the sphere zone was a pvevp one (a race between teams) with challenging NPCs it could have been awesome, but instead it just sucks TRIBBLE.

vegeta50024

Just a little nitpick with the thread guys. The only STFs that exist currently in the game are Infected, The Cure, Khitomer Accords and the The Hive. Everything else is considered to be a fleet action mission on the event queue list.

ladymyajha

vegeta50024 wrote: »

Just a little nitpick with the thread guys. The only STFs that exist currently in the game are Infected, The Cure, Khitomer Accords and the The Hive. Everything else is considered to be a fleet action mission on the event queue list.

Serious question, not trying to be a jerk, but is this an Cryptic definition thing, or is this a bunch of players got together and came up with these definitions?

ursusmorologus

I agree with the OP, I get a kiddie vibe from the all of the sphere stuff, the pastels and run around grabbing powerups, it feels like a kiddie console game.

macronius

ursusmorologus wrote: »

I agree with the OP, I get a kiddie vibe from the all of the sphere stuff, the pastels and run around grabbing powerups, it feels like a kiddie console game.

The dinos with laser on their heads didn't give it away for you? Just wait until you can make Voth toons ... and then all the 7-13 year olds, which seemingly are the target demographic, start playing "dress up dino".

RIP Trekkie / Trekkers

sfc

This is the first reputation - it's supposed to be easy. And why are you complaining if something is EASY?

And you know this game isn't for 13 year olds, otherwise when STO first came out it would be E for everyone, not M for Mature.

macronius

nakedsnake001 wrote: »

This is the first reputation - it's supposed to be easy. And why are you complaining if something is EASY?

And you know this game isn't for 13 year olds, otherwise when STO first came out it would be E for everyone, not M for Mature.

I feel for you if you really believe that the words mature and STO belong in the same sentence together. *pats on the head*

lucho80

Before people start putting the new rep system down, they actually did something good here. The space ones are very time consuming and annoying while the ground ones (specially in a team of 5) are more enjoyable and rewarding which is the reverse of the other reps. Frankly, I like the battlezone for marks grinding.

mvp333

nakedsnake001 wrote: »

This is the first reputation - it's supposed to be easy. And why are you complaining if something is EASY?

And you know this game isn't for 13 year olds, otherwise when STO first came out it would be E for everyone, not M for Mature.

Probably only because of a Klingon blowing himself up, the Orion Slave Girl concept, and people drinking alcohol. Otherwise it would not come anywhere CLOSE to an M rating.

macronius

lucho80 wrote: »

Before people start putting the new rep system down, they actually did something good here. The space ones are very time consuming and annoying while the ground ones (specially in a team of 5) are more enjoyable and rewarding which is the reverse of the other reps. Frankly, I like the battlezone for marks grinding.

Not putting down the rep at all. It is the best part of season 8 ... no joke. But the content is boring as hell and does take too long. They should speed up the action and introduce some timers for the queued missions. Might make for a more interesting "elite" mission.

gilion

I personally love the new missions, I think they are a nice way of challenging players other than the so called "challenge" of Borg STFs random unavoidable uber crit instakills. I disagree that the game is turning into a kids game, but it is being simplified because sadly most of the players dont like to think.... at all. I have already seen about 10 people kill themselves because no matter how many times I told them they kept on firing at the Voths reflective shields.

BTW anyone who doesnt think fighting lazor shooting Dinos is a blast and a barrel of laughs is way too mature for their own good.

lan451

ladymyajha wrote: »

Serious question, not trying to be a jerk, but is this an Cryptic definition thing, or is this a bunch of players got together and came up with these definitions?

STFs are the official Cryptic definition for the missions vegeta listed. Players just mistakenly call all the other missions in the queue as STFs.

matchstick606

gilion wrote: »

I personally love the new missions, I think they are a nice way of challenging players other than the so called "challenge" of Borg STFs random unavoidable uber crit instakills. I disagree that the game is turning into a kids game, but it is being simplified because sadly most of the players dont like to think.... at all. I have already seen about 10 people kill themselves because no matter how many times I told them they kept on firing at the Voths reflective shields.

BTW anyone who doesnt think fighting lazor shooting Dinos is a blast and a barrel of laughs is way too mature for their own good.

what was challenging about the new voth stf? other then getting my fat carrier around it, i didn't see anything that was challenging. As for the voth reflective shields i didn't see much of a challenge with them at all.

hey im all for cryptic making new ways of challenging players without the need for dps but i didn't see any of that in the new one. just another pointless mission that was way to easy for its own good.

freedumb4eva

matchstick606 wrote: »

so to start off i never had a problem with the rep system up to S8. I can only speak for myself when saying even before S8 the rep system for me was a very easy grind. rom rep being a little harder due to low payouts in stf's. Now this new rep is over the top easy. link this with the new voth space eSTF and its almost like this game is being geared for kids. Now when cryptic fixed Hive Onslaught it was a great mission, very hard but with a good team you can beat it. i was hoping for something as hard of an stf to come out in S8 but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. i don't know if anyone feels the same way i do right now but it seems that the difficulty of the game has been turn down so low i don't even get a challenge out of this game anymore.

just my 2 cents, not here to start a flame just wanted to give my feedback and see if anyone else feels the same way.

The new content is way too easy.

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szerontzur

Eh, I've been rather enjoying it. Mind you, I specifically built a tank-ship in preparation for it. However, for the first time in a long time, it feels great to actually run a ship designed to aggro-monger and leave other people free to zip and blow the stuff up. Taking the brunt of the abuse from a Citadel(they may be infrequent, but they actually do have some pretty nasty attacks) or holding out against against multiple escort groups.. a role like that hasn't really been viable in this game for a long, long time.

As for ground, we're in dire need of "instance" chat channels and perhaps a counter to show how many people are in each subsection, but otherwise It's fairly enjoyable(hard to call it a 'grind', really). I'm not sure if some of the minibosses should be quite as soloable as they are, but I have managed to get myself killed a few times from multiple mechs focusing me down. If you're finding it too easy, I'd highly recommend breaking away from the crowd and taking some stuff for/by yourself. Attempting to solo the hold objectives can get quite frantic.



Also, in my opinion, New Romulus rep was the easiest/most rewarding(aside from dilithium)/most enjoyable rep prior to season 8. Not sure why anyone would claim it was the hardest unless they were only trying to advance it via queues. (The Tau Dewa Patrols offer as many marks as an elite STF and provide a cornucopia of enemy variety and scale with the size of your group. You can even fight exotic enemies like nausicaan dreadnoughts with enough people.)

twelveparsecs

The ground Battlezone is awesome. I much prefer ground fighting and this is a damn good way to grind on the ground.

My hunting room walls are about to be covered in Dinosaur heads!! (just need to remember to remove the frickin lasers first...)

:cool:

warpet

if u want it hard it can easy be u do not need them to make it so ...remove shields,use outdated gear i never understood ppl who coamplain it is to easy do u wish whole game to be long queues and fails like into the hive?ppl like u ruined tons of mmos to other players hope u will not ruin this to i like to just queue and play cotent instead of spaming in zone for hours to get team i never understand what is fun in looking for team for hour then u play for hour and half and then u fail