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First impression: Peril over Pahvo
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There is probably an official feedback thread coming soon, but since I played it now and will have to retire soonish, I thought I give my first thoughts in the hope I haven't missed anything major (actually, I do hope I missed something):
As much as I liked Pahvo Dissension, as much am I underwhelmed by PoP. It offers less gameplay than Mirror Invasion but takes longer. Yes, it is easier to do, which may be a saving grace, but basically you just circle around the satellites and shoot at anything that moves, interrupted by a couple of generously timegated interacts. Also, while the last part offers the bonus of additional marks for kills, there seems to be nothing to shorten the queue. And it doesn't have a mini arc, so you don't even get a proper boss fight in the end, it's just "mirror forces appear, timer runs out, mirror forces disappear".
If I haven't overlooked a major plot twist or mechanic, I'll predict a lot of AFKing on this one, but I still have the hope that I did overlook something.
As much as I liked Pahvo Dissension, as much am I underwhelmed by PoP. It offers less gameplay than Mirror Invasion but takes longer. Yes, it is easier to do, which may be a saving grace, but basically you just circle around the satellites and shoot at anything that moves, interrupted by a couple of generously timegated interacts. Also, while the last part offers the bonus of additional marks for kills, there seems to be nothing to shorten the queue. And it doesn't have a mini arc, so you don't even get a proper boss fight in the end, it's just "mirror forces appear, timer runs out, mirror forces disappear".
If I haven't overlooked a major plot twist or mechanic, I'll predict a lot of AFKing on this one, but I still have the hope that I did overlook something.
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On this I totally agree......but the hopeful part of me senses something BIG on the horizon.
^ that
Uninspired.
Thinking of ideas from lots of games for, dunno how long now.
It's not too complex, I can blow up lots of things and make big explosions, my torp boat loves it.
BUT....
You get ZERO points from me for being lazy-TRIBBLE Devs and just copy-pasting Dranuur Gauntlet almost entirely onto a new "featured" mission. Honestly, there's even less effort put into this than just swapping the NPC tables over to Terran and putting a few different art assets in.
Geeezz, it's pretty low effort even by your own standards guys. You can do way better than this.
Anyone want to give me a Temporal Heavy Dreadnought pack? I'll be your friend
The development team should be ashamed of themselves.
Of course it would be better if we could shorten the time, but at least itsi not boring...
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Yet another "Mr. Ice Cream is on the Way" TFO/STF/Parkandcollectpayment to render older content obsolete. After all, why do Lukari TFOs, when you can just EssTeeDee them, whilst offering all the marks choices? Provisions? Cryptic put in automatic provision generation w/ the fleet colony holding. The elite widget? 100 marks, or roll the hourly rep box project dice to get that. It'll stick around.
I see it becoming popular for three weeks to Steelmax for easy payouts. It's what I would do, if I wanted to chomp on the bait for something that has no value to me.
- Was it a 1st April prank put out too early? Sadly not!
- Wouldn’t no-event at all be a bit better than such an event? How about YES!!
- What in the world gave cryptic the idea that dranuur gauntlet would be the best map for the blueprint? C’mon it’s like the worst map in game and now we have TWO!!!
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I guess that after the event there will be no more choice of all marks lik with other events.
Other than that ... It's just 'Dranuur Gauntlet' with a different skin.
Overall I don't mind the stf it has moments that are a let down, such as how the last stf you could actually speedup the stf via the performance of the group/player. Though the idea of the upgrading of the sats based on your career is interesting in concept, it would have been more interesting if the upgrades matter abit more. The enemies are not too strong, nor too weak for a stf that would have groups of players of varying power an skill/gear playing it. If the stf had different difficulties than it would be better to balance the difficulty abit more, or even just have it that the strength of the waves gets buffed between the last two time-gates based on how well you do in the first set of waves might be interesting.
It is better that Dranuur, though.
If they want to "pattern" a TFO after something that already existed, then give us a five-member version of Mine Trap.
The bright side is that I hate the Disco Klingons so thoroughly that exploding them to bits is fun, if rather banal.
I did it the first time yesterday, I totally agree with you.
I am very surprised by the developers this time. They just copy/paste Dranuur, changed few things and put the mission online. Sorry but this is a sloppy work, something that would never pass a quality control, unless they are trying to check what was wrong in Draanur.
On the positive side there are a couple of things, the mission is more doable than Draanur, the Klingon ships are "softer" and less than in Draanur. The waiting time is still too long.
its just another copy pease mechanics TFO
no love put in
just boring
the enemys are so weak I dont even need any buffs besides fire at will
pro tip: adding more HP to enemys wouldnt increase the fun either
Yep that one is somewhat cool. That’s why I thought 800 zen for the acc wide outfit + 1 ultimate upgrader is a bargain in light of this total fail of a map.
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