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The Battle of Korfez

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Galactic News Network [PC]
The Vaadwaur are attempting to take control of the Korfez system and its resources. You’re team has been assembled to fight the battles that can’t be lost. Captain Kim will be coordinating you actions with those of the fleet that will be engaging the rest of the Vaadwaur forces throughout the system!

Read more about it in our latest blog!

~LaughingTrendy
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Elite only eh? Interesting choice. We'll see how that works out.
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  • empireofsteveempireofsteve Member Posts: 665 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Tsk tsk. Broken for mobile.
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  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    The hint to really, really play the upgrade tango does not appear often enough in those blogs ! It should also be bold, glow and hit people over the head. We can't have anyone not getting it ! :D
  • commodoreobviouscommodoreobvious Member Posts: 114 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    In fairness, they have said that the Elite Queues all warrant the toppest level gear you can get. It's just going to suck if you hop into a Pug with people who weren't paying attention to that and get wiped.
  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Randomised pool of objectives! Thank you for this , I've been asking for a more dynamic objective for some time now, hopefully it will make it more fun to replay these missions
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  • monjii11monjii11 Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    My only real issue with this is if the queue is Elite-only, how exactly are the players involved supposed to memorize what the objectives are?
    Because that's the REAL strategy behind STFs, memorize what you're supposed to be doing so that you don't insta-fail.
    Answer: trial and error, which means repeating the mission over and over without a clue, while other players yell at you for not having said clue.
  • canis36canis36 Member Posts: 737 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Notice how they specifically called out captains who park their ships and shoot in the blog? That's going to be interesting. I can already forsee a lot of people crying about it, but I think it's good. ships are supposed to be mobile, not park and shoot turrets.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    communication..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43xQ4dTAxY

    in STO?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHvsy7FWKn8

    Here's in idea, make it so at least one chat window with a team setting that works correctly can not be minimized.
    canis36 wrote: »
    Notice how they specifically called out captains who park their ships and shoot in the blog? That's going to be interesting. I can already forsee a lot of people crying about it, but I think it's good. ships are supposed to be mobile, not park and shoot turrets.

    Ohh dear DHC escort captains are not going to like this, not going to like it at all.
  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    monjii11 wrote: »
    My only real issue with this is if the queue is Elite-only, how exactly are the players involved supposed to memorize what the objectives are?
    Because that's the REAL strategy behind STFs, memorize what you're supposed to be doing so that you don't insta-fail.
    Answer: trial and error, which means repeating the mission over and over without a clue, while other players yell at you for not having said clue.

    They hope that said yelling will motivate you to upgrade all your gear to epic (best with dilithium and tech accelerators you pay with Zen) and buy the newest T6 ships to compensate for your lack of strategic knowledge.:D
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    monjii11 wrote: »
    My only real issue with this is if the queue is Elite-only, how exactly are the players involved supposed to memorize what the objectives are?
    Because that's the REAL strategy behind STFs, memorize what you're supposed to be doing so that you don't insta-fail.
    Answer: trial and error, which means repeating the mission over and over without a clue, while other players yell at you for not having said clue.

    Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's called youtube, or Twitch or whatever is popular at the time, at some point there will probably be a play-through there, just like most every elite/queued event in most every popular game ends up there. just have to keep an eye out.
  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    canis36 wrote: »
    Notice how they specifically called out captains who park their ships and shoot in the blog? That's going to be interesting. I can already forsee a lot of people crying about it, but I think it's good. ships are supposed to be mobile, not park and shoot turrets.

    these spaceships also are suppose to have full 360 degree movement... but for me to go "up" or "down" I need to do some crazy spirals... should maybe fix their engine or use new engine.

    shields should also have top and bottom facing.

    and they can also stop how beams of directed energy (not to mention snow balls) can make turns as it follows and track a ship (person). when attacks stop auto tracking for 100% hits... maybe folks would fly and avoid shots. right now movement only raises your defense/resist rates.

    adding real physics to space battles would be nice.
  • spencerb96spencerb96 Member Posts: 247 Media Corps
    edited September 2014
    Awesome, this looks and sounds quite fun. With DR, we're getting tons of endgame content, can't wait!
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  • jarodroto123jarodroto123 Member Posts: 1,337 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    erickhawkke wrote: »
    Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's called youtube, or Twitch or whatever is popular at the time, at some point there will probably be a play-through there, just like most every elite/queued event in most every popular game ends up there. just have to keep an eye out.

    that will be hard with variable goals
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    monjii11 wrote: »
    My only real issue with this is if the queue is Elite-only, how exactly are the players involved supposed to memorize what the objectives are?
    Because that's the REAL strategy behind STFs, memorize what you're supposed to be doing so that you don't insta-fail.
    Answer: trial and error, which means repeating the mission over and over without a clue, while other players yell at you for not having said clue.

    Elite players are so elite here that they automatically know what to do without even doing the mission :)
  • captainmal3captainmal3 Member Posts: 436 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Elite only. Right. Because that makes total sense. Could be fun, probably never going to play it. Oh well, hopefully there will be other queues that I can just run for fun and with a good chance of actually completing it. Shame you guys actually listened to all those 'the game is too easy' whiners and decided the solution was to make pugging practically impossible, but it's too late now.
  • saedeithsaedeith Member Posts: 628 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    The river of tears will drown us all.
  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    jarodroto123 wrote: »
    that will be hard with variable goals

    I suspect thats the point

    One of the reasons STF's are currently so easy is they run on rails, no on the spot tactical thinking required , this is stupidly easy to acomplish
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  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    erickhawkke wrote: »
    Ohh dear DHC escort captains are not going to like this, not going to like it at all.
    Or DHC Avenger captains. Or DHC Raiders capts. Or DHC Scimitards...

    Oh yes. It's gonna be chaos! :D
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  • nrobbiecnrobbiec Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Hopefully there'll be missions involving the Vaadwaur. Would be nice to get a dev blog soon with a bit of information on upcoming missions and story content instead pf STFs.
  • saedeithsaedeith Member Posts: 628 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    Or DHC Avenger captains. Or DHC Raiders capts. Or DHC Scimitards...

    Oh yes. It's gonna be chaos! :D


    What about the Miranda?
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    saedeith wrote: »
    What about the Miranda?
    Those captains are pros. :P
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,481 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    qjunior wrote: »
    The hint to really, really play the upgrade tango does not appear often enough in those blogs ! It should also be bold, glow and hit people over the head. We can't have anyone not getting it ! :D

    You forgot neon.
    commodoreobvious wrote: »
    In fairness, they have said that the Elite Queues all warrant the toppest level gear you can get. It's just going to suck if you hop into a Pug with people who weren't paying attention to that and get wiped.

    Like the current elite (soon to be advanced) warrants top level gear? The current elite can be done in white Mk X and if a player has semi decent gear (blue/purple Mk XI or XII then i have no doubt the new elite mission will be somewhere in the doable and easy range.
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  • gerwalk0769gerwalk0769 Member Posts: 1,095 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Hi Trendy-

    I noticed an extra "s" in the blog.

    "The subsequent two phases are chosen from a pool of challenges that will force the Captains s to communicate strategy and tactics quickly and adapt to new situations. "
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    The Vaadwaur are tough and resilient, but not as annoying as the Voth. On elite, the artillery barrage will deal heavy damage regardless if you are moving or sitting still due to the size of the AoE. If you're standing still you'll probably die. If you're moving, your shield flankings will get nuked. You'll need to pop a speed boost or defensive abilities as soon as you see the artillery targeting markers spam on the screen.
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  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    nrobbiec wrote: »
    Hopefully there'll be missions involving the Vaadwaur. Would be nice to get a dev blog soon with a bit of information on upcoming missions and story content instead pf STFs.

    The devs never put mission information in blogs except on occasions to tell us about a featured Episode. They'd rather us experience the missions rather than have it spoiled.

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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    Or DHC Avenger captains. Or DHC Raiders capts. Or DHC Scimitards...

    Oh yes. It's gonna be chaos! :D

    I thought those people weren't Elite enough and so not welcome? If you aren't fawing you're doing it wrong, etc?

    Though on the other hand if the mission rewards CC and surgical strikes, then I'll be happily wrong.
  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    captainmal3 wrote: »
    Elite only. Right. Because that makes total sense. Could be fun, probably never going to play it. Oh well, hopefully there will be other queues that I can just run for fun and with a good chance of actually completing it. Shame you guys actually listened to all those 'the game is too easy' whiners and decided the solution was to make pugging practically impossible, but it's too late now.

    Solo content announced so far:
    11 missions on tribble

    Normal/advanced content announced so far:
    Bug hunt
    Borg disconnected
    Kobali zone

    Elite only content so far:
    Battle of korfez
  • ccarmichael07ccarmichael07 Member Posts: 755 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Oh yay, story content locked behind the "Elite" wall of the upgrade system, which requires using the P2W crafting system, and the P2W upgrade system and the P2W T6 ships or the P2W T5U Upgrades to ships.

    Hopefully Cryptic still intends to have some worthwhile story for the rest of us, while the Top 2% of players are enjoying this new content. :rolleyes:

    I'm fairly certain this strategy has NEVER backfired on any MMOs ever. /endsarcasm

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  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    I thought those people weren't Elite enough and so not welcome? If you aren't fawing you're doing it wrong, etc?
    No, because this is about what Cryptic wants, and it doesn't want elite A2B FAWspam either. Hell, if they had their way, we'd probably all be flying with upgrades of our ship's standard default weapons.
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