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I've been playing STO and loving it.....until this morning. (who am I kidding, I still love it. :) ) I tried out the PVP section. (made a Klink and all) When I got into a battle, I got my A$$ handed to me on a silver platter with all the trimmings. I tried another 10 - 15 times with the same results, Me dead...blown up, shot, or shanked. Can anyone give me some basic advise on how to improve at PVP. I don't have to win every match, but I at least want last more than a few seconds.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Hornbite wrote: »
    I've been playing STO and loving it.....until this morning. (who am I kidding, I still love it. :) ) I tried out the PVP section. (made a Klink and all) When I got into a battle, I got my A$$ handed to me on a silver platter with all the trimmings. I tried another 10 - 15 times with the same results, Me dead...blown up, shot, or shanked. Can anyone give me some basic advise on how to improve at PVP. I don't have to win every match, but I at least want last more than a few seconds.

    Just practice ^^

    best thing to do for a while is to find someone on your team and act like his wing man, atack everthing he attacks and just try and back him or her up...

    also depends which ship you have picked out ? Cruisers have a very slow turn rate while Escorts are very quick to turn and maneuver but lack hull strength...

    Sci Vessels are in the middle...

    I had great fun in all my Escorts in Beta, and have had great Fun with Klingon Bird of Preys... the BoPs have the best turn rate of all the Ships in STO... and even have a battle cloak after LT Commander i think it starts ?

    so best advice is just try and stick to others on your side untill you get use to how the ship handles and what type of weapons u like best...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Hornbite wrote: »
    I've been playing STO and loving it.....until this morning. (who am I kidding, I still love it. :) ) I tried out the PVP section. (made a Klink and all) When I got into a battle, I got my A$$ handed to me on a silver platter with all the trimmings. I tried another 10 - 15 times with the same results, Me dead...blown up, shot, or shanked. Can anyone give me some basic advise on how to improve at PVP. I don't have to win every match, but I at least want last more than a few seconds.

    I advise you to ensure that your words mean what you think they mean!


    On another note, people are going to need to know what type of ship you have and what your skillpoint/boff layout is, and what basic level range you are in.

    My general advise is... Learn to re-enforce your shields, map the abilities to hotkeys, and pay attention to where you're being hit from.

    When facing escorts be aware that their damage out put his higher and they are manueverable but if you can tear down their shields they don't have much hit points beneath that.

    Cruisers on the other hand, stay in front or behind them, do not try to hit them in the side, their primary strong suit is the massive broadside.

    Science vessels won't do as much damage but they have all kinds of abilities to wear you down and reduce your damage, be prepared for a long fight and plan accordingly.

    Wheneverf possible attempt to lower the enemies shields and alpha strike directly into the hull. Spacing out your cool downs seems to be less effective than just burning them all at once, and fortunately the cool downs aren't too long.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I forgot to mention what I had to work with.

    The ships i'm using is as follows. My Feddie is a Commander (Rank 10) with a heavy cruiser. The cruiser has pretty even stats as far as the shields and weapons.(regenerating shields and 3 phasers banks with 1 Tehtyrean phaser bank....I know it's spelled wrong) I've been experimenting with the bridge officers.

    My Klink is a Lt. (Rank 8) and the ship is a basic run of the mill Bired of Prey.

    Thank you for the advise, I'm gonna try to put it too good use next time I log in. (maybe try some different key bindings.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Thail, the links at the bottom of your page is VERY helpfull. That has been answering alot of questions. Thanks again. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    trick i like to use is to open up with a jam sensors / taycheon beam combo and use beams to drop a facing shield fast while i run in full steam, then hit them with a tractor beam, turn and fire off a rear mounted heavy plasma torp - fights go much better when you can open up with 5,000 dmg directlky to the hull.
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