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msduck
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Hello
let me just start his off by saying I am not a big complainer; The only complaints I have made have been about technical issues.
second, I have been with this game a fairly long time, most of the five years, I bought the box when it came out, I was a subscriber, I have spent probably hundreds of dollars on this game over the years on this game, so I feel I have a right to make my point heard.
this event, while the story itself is well scripted, the game play part is so unbearably stupid that I quit in pain half way through.
electrified walls? Ok, maybe I can see that.
by why does a hospital have a maze?? and why can't I climb over it, or jump on top, or climb above with my zipline??
and moving floors? seriously?? that can only be disabled by blasting points on walls??
(uh, must think hard. I will just calmly walk after the electrified area. that's it.)
this game content had a zero % fun, to the point where I won't do it, free ship or not; and if more content like this is coming, I will simply quit, because I don't play games to give myself migraines.
Sincerely,
Duck
let me just start his off by saying I am not a big complainer; The only complaints I have made have been about technical issues.
second, I have been with this game a fairly long time, most of the five years, I bought the box when it came out, I was a subscriber, I have spent probably hundreds of dollars on this game over the years on this game, so I feel I have a right to make my point heard.
this event, while the story itself is well scripted, the game play part is so unbearably stupid that I quit in pain half way through.
electrified walls? Ok, maybe I can see that.
by why does a hospital have a maze?? and why can't I climb over it, or jump on top, or climb above with my zipline??
and moving floors? seriously?? that can only be disabled by blasting points on walls??
(uh, must think hard. I will just calmly walk after the electrified area. that's it.)
this game content had a zero % fun, to the point where I won't do it, free ship or not; and if more content like this is coming, I will simply quit, because I don't play games to give myself migraines.
Sincerely,
Duck
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I believe his point is that the "challenges" are stupid, not that there shouldn't be challenges. I have to agree with Duck on the maze part and moving floor, lol.
Cryptic could have been a little more creative.
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Lol, look closely at the floor. Step in the wrong place and it retracts quickly.
All that was missing were gold coins and mushrooms
Also - if you die 4x, you get respawned on a ledge you can easily get down from. Someone told me that. Yeah. yeah. Someone told me...
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Also, they say in the dialog that the maze room was an old server farm from the Vaudwaar and Ketan activated it to stop us from stopping him, etc. At least go to hear some interesting conversations while navigating it.
Intellectual challenge is not the kind of challenge you can take, eh?
With that in mind, here's some music for those parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRoRt155mA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tifv7qh_hmY
"No matter where you go...there you are."
Plus you had options on difficulty. Wish the game had more missions like this with the difficulty options and less brainless kill, kill, kill. (Yeah it's an MMO based on Star Trek....they actually used a lot of diplomacy in the series and movies. It wasn't always about killing everything in sight!)
Kudos to the devs for this one!!
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I've been in the game a little over two years now and frankly, it truly have become a grindfest. Every time I beam to my ship, ALL my stations are gone. Every. Single. Time. It's getting old. They need to fix what's broken, INCREASE the dil cap and stop the bugs that are never addressed. They need to bury all the lockboxes and create, and often.
Ok I get your complaint, but I have NOT ( a long with others) Been able to log in the game since the patch update for the anniversary. I can get to the Cryptic Loading Screen then it Crashes to my desktop. Did the "repair arc" and anything that I could think of to get back in game. NOTHING and No Word from Cryptic about this. Yes I wrote a ticket to them, got their "automated" response"
"It's easy to cling to principles when you're standing on a vessel with its bulkheads intact, manned by a crew that's not starving."
No, the OP would have preferred it if it was more like the mazes in swtor, if you are going to do a maze- the jump to get the datacron side things can get downright entertaining; you can see it, but then you have to figure out how to get it, and it's pretty darn challenging at times.
all the 'puzzles' in this were dumbed down versions of ones I have seen before, elsewhere, done better.
(in some cases, a looong time before)
the zapping floor, for example.
the best version I saw had three possible solutions:
you could time the thing, and run it, by the pattern
you could, if you had the right skills, shoot out the transformers at the end of the room
or, if you were smart enough, you could crouch down, look under, and see the wiring.. take it out.
it wasn't just 'walk slowly in a straight line'
I'll admit, I may be asking too much.. I am an old dnd player...but other MMOs do a better job of making these sorts of things FUN, not annoying.
It's the same problem as the POVE ques... just making the enemy harder, with a random time limit, does not make it more challenging- it only encourages higher dps grinding.
I threw out an idea a few months ago, that the advanced ques instead of having random time limits , should have random mob spawns...
that would require people to think, and yes, play, not just spam the space bar
imagine if during a borg advanced the queen said 'resistance is futile' and a random ( I mean random ) mob of borg showed up? And we didn't know when or where?
yes, people would get killed.
but think of the bragging rights from taking down one of the vger borg, when it spawned in the middle of a borg space stf...
Not everyone nor the majority is in your situation.
If you dont have time, can always purchase the 1000 from the lobi. Instant gratification button.
Fortunately for me, i can spend a few mins everyday for the omega daily mission.
Or if you have leftovers from last years anniv tokens.
If you dont have the time nor refuse to get lobi or didnt plan since last year, dont expect the game to adjust to you.
You get 400 from running Dust to Dust and 40 for each daily run of the Omega Stabilisation. 440 on the first day leaves only 560 to get. At 40 per day that is 14 runs. Today is the 4th. If you ran it today and every day you'd have 8 days to spare (or you can take a day off every now and then and still have enough time). Alts can also get it for only 40 once you have it on one toon so a Daily or Dust to Dust run for them and you're golden.
As for wiggle room, they have had numerous server outages and had to sort out dailies not completing for people so you may get lucky...
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Well, well, did someone get up on the wrong side of bed this morning? Or do you just have a daily quota of being gratuitously snotty to people?
If I could get the ship set without ever playing this mission again... I would, and like some, I may go in long enough just to get the only Command Boff currently available in game. :cool:
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From what I understand, the Omega particles are designed to allow multiple players to interact with the same particle at the same time, and this is where both problems originate from. The game's programing logic relative to this is struggling to distinguish which player started which game and when (hence the games aborting out prematurely) and also which player achieved which score (explaining the inaccurate particle rewards). Would you please call over to Blizzard or any other reputable game design company and ask to borrow some real programmers to fix this logic issue before the event is over? And next time, could you please start the design process far enough in advance to actually test flow logic problems, not just syntax errors? These types of designs should also be load tested on a test server that carries a similar population to the server that they will be pushed to live and commercially. Tribble does NOT have a population comparable to Holodeck, so it should have been obvious that despite the identity logic being adequate on tribble, it might not (and probably would not) be adequate on a much heavier population server. The level of programmer and developer incompetence within your office never ceases to amaze me (and I was a commercial software developer in my youth, so I have room to talk). I challenge your company to prove my comments about your competency wrong, but I doubt your team will do that.
Now the complaint about the minigame stopping, that's annoying, to be sure.
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