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so how long are they? What are the mission rewards? any reason to play it more than once?
Is the new Que a space one or ground? Or one for each so folks can choose?
Guessing you need to choose one of the 5 new patrols for the event... so how long are they and do they have any time gates built into the patrol? Do they have a cool down or can you do em again and again.
Is the new Que a space one or ground? Or one for each so folks can choose?
Guessing you need to choose one of the 5 new patrols for the event... so how long are they and do they have any time gates built into the patrol? Do they have a cool down or can you do em again and again.
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The two patrols I tried are pretty much in line with existing patrol missions near New Romulus and the Delta Quadrant. Two patrols and the queue add up to maybe 40 minutes of playing in a ship that's not exactly great.
As for the new episode, the rewards are listed in the mission log. I probably wouldn't bother running it more than once per toon.
I did the Madran mission on hard - took 4 minutes. Very straightforward.
I did the ruins of doom on hard - took 5 min. there's some radiation or explosion thing going on that I was ignoring and takes you down to like 40% I guess it's the spores or something. Avoiding this will make it easier.
probably I will do them on normal in maybe 3.5 minutes.
All in all I commend the team. The time is fair for me. I can do my endeavors, a little admiraly and my 60 points in 30-35 minutes, which is what I can spare.
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Please stop with these kind of replies. If you don't know the answer to someone's question, that's fine. But replying just to tell them to go find out themselves is rude and not helpful at all.
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Join Date: Sep 2008
I would but you know... work and stuff. /shrug
some prior knowledge and planning... you know cause... knowing is half the battle!
You only get 15 marks of choice and no daily bonus, but 15 is better than the 0 from the old system, and jumping right into the patrol system then back to where you started is also much better.
I'm happy with the new patrol system.
That's hargh'peng radiation. Stamets tells you that at the beginning.
reward at max level is a very rare personal shield, no one would ever use if they have any other rep shields. also can NOT be salvaged. Looks like you can vendor trash it. Other reward you can choose is a BO... Elachi. Not Like I would ever use it. you got one the 1st time forced down your throat, on replays you can choose to get another one... yeah. should of made it a Duty Officer instead. Have X number of em and make it all random which you get would of been better.
new task force is basically the same mission almost... everyone picks up a bug and each map you need to clear more probes... final mission is at the base and I didnt know what the heck was going on either... something about consoles but it's not clearly marked... way too many visual particles going off, basically kill and have someone click consoles. /shrug also no elite version or you can only get discovery marks but no elite mark. maybe after event they will roll out elite version. /shrug sort of dampens my interest in playing it.
If you replay it and blast through the dialogue.. it's a very short mission that gets you 45 of your 60 daily points. It's shorter to replay then the TFO, you don't have to rely on others.. and it gives more daily points..
but sure.. no real point.
Did the new TFO and I have to argee that the last stage is pretty chaotic and kinda frustrating. Like if the mission requires that you interact with a console you shouldn't be interrupted by random AOE TRIBBLE.
Also reports have come in that this last stage tends to bug out with unkillable npcs at the "defeat the remaining elachi" portion, so there's that. So generally I'd avoid it till it's fixed and the get event progress through patrols.
did this on alt accounts for the uni endeavor... final boss battle is tricky. you need to do the consoles but random aoe can interrupt ya. but there are 3? ground bosses. 2 of them get a bubble that makes em immune to all damage. so you need to switch to the correct one and burn down and switch when needed. problem is they all look alike and are stack on top of each other in a very cramped space. hard to target with mouse. tab target is better but still hard to tell who has bubble immune buff.
another point is that doing this in a group is hit or miss... some just shoot elachi and dont care waiting on timer to run down or they all group at 1 probe and wont multi task the probes... actually failed the optional on the probes.
It's the first day so many people are still learning what they are supposed to do.
That's no guarantee they'll ever learn of course.
one can hope... but you figure it out when doing the mission ep.
psa on probes: if your bug is eating away at the corruption and you die... do NOT release or res. your bug is still eating. if you release you and your bug ports away and it needs to be redone.
Unfortunately, unless you get damage type Endeavors, this content is not going to synergize well with Endeavors.
l don't know.
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So Ninth Rule, Rescue and Search and Ruins of Doom each have the invisible timer on the final battle.
Sentinels does not.
Haven't tried Within the Briars yet.
Mission is about 17-18 minutes long if you skip all the dialog and cutscenes.
TFO is ok, but my first try at it I was dropped into one that had the bugged end so had to quit and join another. Won't be doing this again until they fix it.
The 4 patrols I did so far were all a bit boring (time is around 8 minutes as promised). Nothing special in either a good or bad way. While invisible timers on infinite spawns annoy for the current task at hand (do the event) they could prove useful later on if one is on the quest for masteries.
In any case my daily stands for the next 18 days. 1 x the new PvE + 2 patrols and call it even after around 25 minutes.
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Half of it was just sitting bored waiting for red alert to end for the 20th + time. Far too many pointless popups and I would be seconds away on the radiation only for it to fail suddenly get pulled back into red alert for yet another long wait.
Rescue the Search was also poor although nowhere near as frustrating and Briars. The last half of it is pretty decent but it let down by the first half with again to many pointless popups and click menus with waiting for Red Alert to end before you can talk to anyone.
So far the 2 new patrols I tried have completely failed to capture the nice short story and fun flow of the Argala patrol. That one I can play 100+ times and not get bored while the above 2 patrols experience was that bad I logged out the game being put off playing.
I'm curious, what makes you think anybody cares?
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When the devs said they are looking at Argala and are basing the new patrols off Argala that’s is what I was expecting. For me at least the devs seem to have missed the point on what was good about Argala and have not translated the good parts over to the new patrols. (based on the patrols I have played as I have not done them all yet)
Another mission I love is Stranded in Space for similar reasons as it flows really well. While the new patrols at least the ones I tried are just consent pausing and consent waiting for Red Alert to end which breaks the flow. Within the Briars needs seriously looking at as its practically broken at least with the builds I fly in game. Having to wait for Red Alert to end 20+ times is not short or fun. If the rest are like Briars I am not touching patrols even for the event. Waiting for Red Alert to end made Brairs take longer than the new TFO.