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grendelthewise
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I was just wondering if my fellow players have developed their own fighting maneuvers in battle. If you have can you please share and tell us how you came up with it and how it has worked for you.
My maneuver is using Gravity Well on a group of ships and then using tractor beam repulsors to move them away causing damage. Then after that I will use Forced Challenge to bring a ship back to me.
My maneuver is using Gravity Well on a group of ships and then using tractor beam repulsors to move them away causing damage. Then after that I will use Forced Challenge to bring a ship back to me.
Fleet Admiral of the U.S.S. ATTILA KHAN-CDA (NX-921911).
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1. Aim my ship at the bad guys.
2. Open Fire
3. Repeat until the map is clear.
If I try to sum it up a bit my chain of ability activation or “pattern of attack” as the OP put it is motivated by two things I aim for:
1) Get the game played as comfortable as possible: Sometimes I play for hours, sometimes when I’m tiered. The less I have to think about the basics the more I can think about the important… not to mention the more my mind is free for fun.
2) We get more and more abilities in STO, that’s for sure. If it all ends in a 25 second ISA run there is not much time to think, not much time to decide at which moment of a fight you should do what. If you have more powers to engage than seconds available to do so in a run you have a problem and are lucky enough if you just get them activated all in time.
Best course of action for me was to listen to experienced players like Felisean or Hellspawny and set up a key bind file which allows me to think in advance and in more general, abstract if you will, how an attack should roll out.
At the moment all my builds (no matter if cannons, beams, torpedos or exotics - no matter if DPS, tanking or support) have three forms of "attack chains" whose elements make sense to put together. Each of them are in one line and get activated one by one in a fight.
1) Basic attacks (line 5 in the pic): stuff like EPtX, AP, Firing modes, Teams, CD management like aux2bat, batteries, launch of pets -> those attacks are always active and are engaged the moment they become available
2) Powerful situational attacks (line 6 in pic): general buff captain powers, miracle worker boff powers, clicky consoles with long CD times -> those abilities get engaged on demand when you face a target rich environment
3) Hyper target attacks (line 7 in the pic): Focused Frenzy, Fire on my Mark, Relocate Mines -> stuff which is usually saved for a single event on a map like boss fights and which is best coordinated with your team.
The picture shows the attacks of my kinetic torpedo/mine build as an example. I gave it to a buddy who set up the recently released veteran ship in a similar fashion. I choose this one because it is the only one I have handy. The others like rather similar, just with other powers.
Activation of the lines in STO works from right to left. Thanks to the system I can interchange stuff at any time before a fight and then use it without thinking in the actual fight. Downside of the system is that in the heat of the battel I can’t really decide which power of a line gets activated so it could easily happen that I "overkill" stuff. That’s too bad but the main benefit prevails:
I have controls so simple that my teddy bear can handle daily business in PvE and I have a realistic chance to concentrate on the actual flying in engaging scenarios like fast/teamed/high DPS ISA/HSE matches as well.
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In a fast-attack boat like a Bajoran raider, I'll dive in at half-speed, cannon blazing, pull up at the last moment while accelerating, and leave a little present behind from the aft-mounted minelayer.
In a heavier cruiser, like the Yorktown-class pictured below, I'll head into the middle of the crowd of enemies with BFAW on. (Except against those guys in Delta Quad with their artillery barrage. That's... not a good tactic against them.)
And in my newest acquisition, the Sommerville-class USS Panther Modern, I like to head toward the enemy with phasers ablaze, then as I pass by hit them with the mycelial burst. Eats their shields like boiling water on a snowman.
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All the while wishing the PC version had ability autofire like consoles, to save my poor keyboard.
Maybe you can explain this to me, because I never understood it..
Lets say you mapped your entire offensive load out to space.. and then you mashed it to fire everything..
It would put everything on a 15 second global (minimum) while your powers cycle.. so why would anyone hit spacebar over and over again?
I just never understood why people say they 'mash space bar over and over again' when there is litterally no reason to do that. At most, once every 5-6 seconds if you had things coming off cooldown at different times.. but over and over? why?
Oh, only the fireworks. Something I always use manually.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Fireworks
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2. Once every 5-6 seconds would still be "over and over again."
3. Looking at rows of buttons to see when they come off cooldowns is boring anyway. I didn't used to have them even visible, until they enabled making the second tray horizontal.
I have quite a bit in my bind tray and it's not that often. But I get it now.. I thought you meant you just hit Space constantly without stopping. Hitting a bind every 5 or 6 seconds sounds about right, I was just picturing you mashing the bar over and over nonstop which was apparently inaccurate.
Thanks for the clarification.
Ahh a Neuromancer fan I see, you sir, have taste.
We come in peace, SHOOT TO KILL!
2) Light off fireworks device
3) Realize I'm still cloaked
4) Repeat steps 1/2 while decloaking
5) Realize I never slotted weapons
6) Explode
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2. Launch great lumps of explodium at enemy while zipping through their formation.
3. Come about 180 degrees.
4. Repeat as needed.
Makes sense to me.
OK, back to the OPs question.
Attack Pattern Shea:
Head straight into the target at 1/2 or better speed.
At approx 1km from the target trigger the Chains of Fire, immediately hit the Soliton wave generator.
Trigger lock trajectory, spin 180 degrees, bringing my forward DHCs onto the target which is being drug behind me by the chains, and getting battered by the Soliton wave. Then activate all abilities which boost cannons, and torpedos. About the time m lock trajectory wears off the target (and usually a couple others) are hulks twisting in the solar winds.
We come in peace, SHOOT TO KILL!
I've worn a shiny spot on the plastic where my thumb hits it.
Nice, but no web mines? With the teleport mines captain skill they're fun to use again
Never used keybinds or anything else like that. I activate things manually.
Yeah, not very organized but I manage to kill things before I die, most of the time.
"Initiate Maneuver Last Act of Freakin' Defiance"
AKA FIRE EVERYTHING!
Otherwise... basic combat maneuvers unless I'm on my TOS Sci, in which case...
EAT GRAVITY WELL 3 SUCKA! MUA HAHAHAHAHA
It doesn't quite work like you think. You can't activate more than one ability at a time no matter how many you have mapped to the same key. Every time you hit space it triggers the next power in line. There's also a delay between activations of about half a second so you can't just hit the button as fast as possible and trigger 20 powers in 2 seconds. So you have to pace the presses. It's a bit mindless but it means you can concentrate on pointing your ship the right way while your crew takes care of mundane blasting tasks.
But I respawn
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Sea of green: Flamberd with Chronoplasma dual heavy cannons and the romulan hyper plasma torpedo. Get a few enemies in front of you then uncloak & pop your buffs, Gravity Well and Cannon Scatter Volley. Once enemies are grouped together a bit pop torpedo spread. 2 torpedos for each target and enemies are grouped close together so they take splash damage from other targets too. With a projectile weapons officer and the withering barrage trait I can launch silly amoults of plasma at anything in my forward arc.
The Shakespere Manoeuvre: Kor loaded with all torpedos. Stays cloaked forever. Pop Torpedo Spread, Kemocite and Gravity Well then open fire. Use Tachyon Beam to strip shields. Keep running Emergency power to engines and Aux to Structural for defense. Once your attack run is over run away and wait for cooldowns then go again.
The sit there and shoot manoeuvre: Not really a strategy but I have a turret build APU Cruiser that's much more effective than I ever thought it would be. I made sure every offensive ability was effective at 360 degrees. I just point whichever shield is highest at the enemy and shoot until it dies.
Age of sail tactics STO style
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I actually like that maneuver. Very nice
I might try some of those maneuvers. Very nice
There are no doubt better DPS strategies, but it's a fun combo.
Yes, I understand that, but I don't bind more then 5 or 6 abilities to any one key so I don't have the need to press something 20 times to get through the chain. I keep my binds shorter for the exact reason you said, so by the time I fire the entire bind, I don't have any of those abilities off cooldown yet and no reason to 'mash' that bind over and over.
I was simply misunderstanding exactly what the poster I was responding to was saying about 'mashing space,' which he clarified for me.
I like this method.. with the current method of queues that are impossible to fail, I might just start running this instead. Seems WAY more fun then what I'm currently doing.