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Shuttle mission Attmosphere assault very unbalanced and unfair

stuart1965stuart1965 Member Posts: 691 Arc User
edited March 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
The shuttle mission attmosphere assault is very unbalanced and unfair.
With the very limited armament a shuttle has,it is seriously under-powered.
Those walkers are virtually impossible to destroy for a long time,and in the end i got fed up with it.
Cryptic,how about making some missions alot easier to do.
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  • wolverine595959wolverine595959 Member Posts: 726
    edited February 2014
    Only died once the first time I did it. I was tac capt so maybe my damage was too much.
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  • tekehdtekehd Member Posts: 2,032 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    stuart1965 wrote: »
    The shuttle mission attmosphere assault is very unbalanced and unfair.
    With the very limited armament a shuttle has,it is seriously under-powered.
    Those walkers are virtually impossible to destroy for a long time,and in the end i got fed up with it.
    Cryptic,how about making some missions alot easier to do.

    There are plenty of really easy missions, there is no shortage of them.
  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    tekehd wrote: »
    There are plenty of really easy missions, there is no shortage of them.

    Indeed. To the OP:
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  • anothervisitoranothervisitor Member Posts: 414 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    The mission itself is not hard to do, but getting the bonus optionals is; unless you got a really strong team, which happens very rarely. I only once played with a team that managed to get 4 of them. They should make those timers a bit more lenient. The same could be said of The Vault shuttle mission.

    The payout for this mission is a joke too. Don't go there if you need to grind. lol
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  • nileight1nileight1 Member Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Use your harpoons and tow cables!
  • anothervisitoranothervisitor Member Posts: 414 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    nileight1 wrote: »
    Use your harpoons and tow cables!

    Copy that, Red Leader! :D
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  • dukeskyloaferdukeskyloafer Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    stuart1965 wrote: »
    The shuttle mission attmosphere assault is very unbalanced and unfair.
    With the very limited armament a shuttle has,it is seriously under-powered.
    Those walkers are virtually impossible to destroy for a long time,and in the end i got fed up with it.
    Cryptic,how about making some missions alot easier to do.

    It's not too hard with the right team and set up. I'm able to tank a walker and destroy it by myself in a delta flyer while the rest of the team works on fighters and other walkers. I don't have the ability to look up the full setup right now, but I believe I was using an antiproton beam-s and a photon torpedo with a reman prototype shield. I don't recall the rest, sorry. For BOffs, I had EPTS and HE.

    I do remember being frustrated until I figured out a good build, so I know where you're coming from.
  • quistraquistra Member Posts: 214 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    This mission made me tear my hair out the first time I did it during the regular chain of Romulan missions.

    Turns out my mistake was not giving any thought to my shuttle. I dropped it and went with my runabout, gave it a full set of gear, came back and curbstomped the mission. Running it with the stock shuttle and its stock gear is asking to fail.

    I'm pretty sure I ended up carrying FAW and a couple of beam arrays and just going death blossom on the waves of fighters, which troubled me much more than the walkers.
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  • marc8219marc8219 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Not enough marks in that event for how long and difficult it is, I haven't done it in a couple months.
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I wish it was more fun and less stressful. Then I'd do it more. And not care about the reward being so light.

    As it is, it's long. Stressful instead of fun. And not a lot of reward for the time investment.

    I keep hoping they'll make a shuttle event that's fun. I love flying my Galileo.
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  • kantazo1kantazo1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    This is an area that is lacking a lot of STO the shuttle combat missions. Another area is ground combat missions.
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  • abystander0abystander0 Member Posts: 649 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    You are probably using a default shuttle, with the default loadout. Try a har'peng torpedo, turret devices, a point defense system maybe. If you are KDF, I highly recommend using the aceton assimilator console. If you have them, you could always try the temporal weapons from the lobi store.

    Try using a craft other than the default shuttle, since the basic shuttles are not terribly fantastic. If you are fed, you could always use the Yellowstone runabout, which is a real good craft.
  • eeh19eeh19 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    for any one that is looking for smallcraft pvp there is an in game channel called [Smallcraft Arena]
  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    snoggymack22 wrote: »

    I keep hoping they'll make a shuttle event that's fun. I love flying my Galileo.

    For once we agree.

    More shuttle stuff would be most welcome.

    I understand we have a shuttle weekend coming up, with small craft versions of NWS and fleet alerts.

    i sincerely hope this is the first move in a bit of a revamp in this regard.

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