Yep, seems like every new 'console' lately is a free get out of jail card for bad players. Too many one button escape consoles. The fluidic phase decoupler was actually perfectly balanced by being countered by tractor beam then they changed it??? Now it's instant escape with no skill required.
Feds get the better console every time. Giving plasmonic leech to feds the day the Romulans were released is the biggest joke in the history of the game (well, maybe FvF was a bigger joke...).
Why the focus on beam overload? Cryptic wants FAW to work differently so you mess with beam overload? They're again trying to 'fix' something that was pretty balanced. They want to change a 'beam' skill they should look at tachyon beam and aceton beam. Those are two absolutely worthless abilities that continue to be neglected while they change things that were perfectly fine.
Who comes up with these priorities? Why did the fleet patrol get this crazy makeover while so many escorts sit obsolete stuck with lt. engineer from before power to engines and aux2damps were good/required. The fleet patrol was fine, it was already the fed's best escort and they felt the need to make it better for what reason?
Does anyone who makes these decisions actually play this game? Who was complaining about FAW vs single targets anyway? Of all the complaints I haven't heard anyone say FAW or BO needed anything in a long time.
Wow to the thing with plasmonic/Aceton, that only happened in the first place because kdf had them "decades" ago, while fed consoles are...cute at best, useless mostly^^
The 'balancing' and 'meta adjustments' won't stop until cats, newborn infants, and dead people are able to one-shot entire PvE zones with a single fell laz0r blast. Why bother to encourage players in the proper use of game mechanics when you can just give everybody a series of I WIN buttons, perfectly balanced against a series of NOT TODAY buttons.
"Game Description: Overload improves your next beam array [sic] attack. Overloading your beam weapon delivers an extremely powerful blast, but drains significant weapon power. "
Cheer up KDF... with all the luck you have in next lock box you will get Grappler, then Transwarp Computer, and as jackpot the Multi-Vector Assault Module!
To make matters worse PVP wont be redone for a very long time
"With PvP being a big piece of end-game content in any successful MMO, it is fair to say that STO has been lacking in this area for a very long time, when will we see the attention that PvP deserves - will there be a major update or season dedicated to PvP in the next calendar year?"
STEPHEN - PvP is something we definitely want to dedicate a season to, but it will be a significant undertaking to get done. Everything from maps, to game types, to leader boards, will all take a long time to pull together, but it is an important feature set that we do want to get to in the future
Yep, seems like every new 'console' lately is a free get out of jail card for bad players. Too many one button escape consoles. The fluidic phase decoupler was actually perfectly balanced by being countered by tractor beam then they changed it??? Now it's instant escape with no skill required.
Not true, you can actually die in the undine console, if you're activating it 'too late'. During your escape period you can't do anything besides flying around. No healing etc. Not sure what your problem is. When some Teams are using strategies like massive drain (hm, what fleet i'm talking about?^^) it's pretty clear that Escape-Buttons become more useful for countering that stuff.
Well, I have five max level characters, got max reputations on several, generally do a few queued events every day when I'm not on vacation, even work on my own dilithium.
Yes and no. Work hours are for work. Part of work is testing your work, and we do that to an extent. However, testing work generally means, just playing whatever mission you're working on. So it is sometimes easy to lose the forest for the trees. However, we also have QA who's job it is to test stuff. So they "play" the game much more than the rest of the devs do, during work hours.
Private accounts so we can ACTUALLY play. If I show my face anywhere on my dev account, I get swamped with tells and inquiries, etc. It's not about being scared, it's about being able to play.
Romulan Battlecloak? That in itself would not be too much of a problem, if it wasn't supplemented by Singularity Jump.
Subspace Integration Circuit? Well, the first version was major pain in the TRIBBLE, but in the current state it's not that bad.
Alpha Deception Field? No one who knows what it does bothers to pick up the "loot". But yeah, it's basically a free get out of the combat console. At least it doesn't force you to pick up the violet buoy.
Fluidic Phace Decoupler? Basically the same as above, but more valuable.
I'm not saying these toys are entirely acceptable, but they could be a lot worse.
God... I'm starting to sound like sophlogimo.
Science for the win. / Czechoslovak Fleet 1st Division
first:
- reputation powercreeep why the game was perfect !!
- romulan cloak ... WTF
- [Console - Universal - Subspace Integration Circuit] WOW
- [Console - Universal - Alpha Deception Field] another one really !!!
- [Console - Universal - Fluidic Phase Decoupler] What, are they lauging at us ???
Second: they give aceton to feds, i was ok with that. BUT they didnt give to klink TDF :mad:
And: that BS Beam Overload :eek:
Why the Devs dont play the game ?? Seriously !!!
You keep whining but you dont have the balls to leave, i thought ive grown you a pair of balls back in the day my puny t'varo ***** your scimitar over and over
To make matters worse PVP wont be redone for a very long time
"With PvP being a big piece of end-game content in any successful MMO, it is fair to say that STO has been lacking in this area for a very long time, when will we see the attention that PvP deserves - will there be a major update or season dedicated to PvP in the next calendar year?"
STEPHEN - PvP is something we definitely want to dedicate a season to, but it will be a significant undertaking to get done. Everything from maps, to game types, to leader boards, will all take a long time to pull together, but it is an important feature set that we do want to get to in the future
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Feds get the better console every time. Giving plasmonic leech to feds the day the Romulans were released is the biggest joke in the history of the game (well, maybe FvF was a bigger joke...).
Why the focus on beam overload? Cryptic wants FAW to work differently so you mess with beam overload? They're again trying to 'fix' something that was pretty balanced. They want to change a 'beam' skill they should look at tachyon beam and aceton beam. Those are two absolutely worthless abilities that continue to be neglected while they change things that were perfectly fine.
Who comes up with these priorities? Why did the fleet patrol get this crazy makeover while so many escorts sit obsolete stuck with lt. engineer from before power to engines and aux2damps were good/required. The fleet patrol was fine, it was already the fed's best escort and they felt the need to make it better for what reason?
Does anyone who makes these decisions actually play this game? Who was complaining about FAW vs single targets anyway? Of all the complaints I haven't heard anyone say FAW or BO needed anything in a long time.
Hell Yes we should have been given TDF already...
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1173031
Do the right thing Cryptic give the KDF access to Tachyon Detection Field
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Console_-_Universal_-_Tachyon_Detection_Field
D,
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Please keep the QQ to a minimum.
>>>PUNISH THE FEDs<<<
>>>Positive Feedback from a PvE HERO<<<
"Game Description: Overload improves your next beam array [sic] attack. Overloading your beam weapon delivers an extremely powerful blast, but drains significant weapon power. "
Not anymore!
You get what I mean.
Lassie!?
*Woof woof!*
What's that Lassie? KDF are crying on the forums again?!
*Arrroooooo...*
I know, it's sad, but that's the nature of things.
As a fed, I can say they can have that toy. Frankly, unless you're flying a KDF snooper build, I'm not sure what all the hoopla is about.
"With PvP being a big piece of end-game content in any successful MMO, it is fair to say that STO has been lacking in this area for a very long time, when will we see the attention that PvP deserves - will there be a major update or season dedicated to PvP in the next calendar year?"
STEPHEN - PvP is something we definitely want to dedicate a season to, but it will be a significant undertaking to get done. Everything from maps, to game types, to leader boards, will all take a long time to pull together, but it is an important feature set that we do want to get to in the future
https://ufplanets.com/content.php?404
"Future", see a very long time in the future
And you have any hope of that? Hell, they can promis a hole PVP revamp for next season and I still not going to belive them!
How many times they lie in our faces with false promis? Forget about it, PVP is dead for them.
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Not true, you can actually die in the undine console, if you're activating it 'too late'. During your escape period you can't do anything besides flying around. No healing etc. Not sure what your problem is. When some Teams are using strategies like massive drain (hm, what fleet i'm talking about?^^) it's pretty clear that Escape-Buttons become more useful for countering that stuff.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1174051
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Romulan Battlecloak? That in itself would not be too much of a problem, if it wasn't supplemented by Singularity Jump.
Subspace Integration Circuit? Well, the first version was major pain in the TRIBBLE, but in the current state it's not that bad.
Alpha Deception Field? No one who knows what it does bothers to pick up the "loot". But yeah, it's basically a free get out of the combat console. At least it doesn't force you to pick up the violet buoy.
Fluidic Phace Decoupler? Basically the same as above, but more valuable.
I'm not saying these toys are entirely acceptable, but they could be a lot worse.
God... I'm starting to sound like sophlogimo.
You keep whining but you dont have the balls to leave, i thought ive grown you a pair of balls back in the day my puny t'varo ***** your scimitar over and over
Its not so easy.. if its not " Star Trek " some Guys dont stay here.. for sure.
*** R.I.P. ***
Really?!
they used to say that right after each season- "next season will be all about pvp" then they eventually stopped saying that as well...
Do you even Science Bro?