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Crystaline Entity: Fun Fleet Action Or Funnest Fleet Action Ever

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I broke my spacebar. It was down to 28%. It's back at 100%. I am having probably 15% more fun than the human body can safely tolerate. Is there a followup to this cluster**** or can I just drop the mission and pretend you guys didn't do this on purpose.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    If you broke your spacebar you win the Darwin Award of the year. No, there's no follow-up, just drop it. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Beliel wrote: »
    If you broke your spacebar you win the Darwin Award of the year. No, there's no follow-up, just drop it. ;)

    I wasn't aware that my spacebar was required for procreation...

    And, thanks, I will now drop the mission.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Yeah I just tried this thing for the first time, and all I can say is :facepalm:

    The first instance had about 15 people who were constantly shooting at the shards and dying, so they left me in there alone with one other guy who was doing figure eights about 30 km away from the entity.

    Next instance. 18 people all zooming around looking for the entity. It isn't there.

    Next instance. I spawn right on top of the thing and start circling it like you guys have told me to do. I target the entity and keep circling and shooting. Meanwhile, there's a constant chain of explosions coming from the spawn point, because the freaking CE and all of its shards are right on top of the spawn. By some miracle, we managed to get it to 40% for a few seconds, but it quickly regenerated to 100%

    Next instance. Same thing. Entity is right on top of the spawn, and everyone is in a constant state of explosion.

    While all this is going on, everyone is raging at each other in chat, shouting orders, yelling about noobs, and I found the entire experience to be as enjoyable as sticking my ********s in a blender.

    *drop mission*
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I couldn't even find the thing. It's no wonder that there is so much confusion about the CE when it's a mind warp just finding it and a team to fight it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I don't know if it changes positions or not, but I found it on the edge of the Sierra Sector. When you get near it, you'll know. It's big and blue and it makes a high pitched humming sound. After you find it, just treat it like any other Enemy Signal Contact.

    And good luck, soldier. You're gonna need it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    no idea, but im dropping it, 5+ hours just trying to kill this thing while everyone and their grandmother are dropping mines.

    shooting the reg crystal fragments and not shooting the large ones so the small one dont spawn and heal it, instead they let all the large ones hit them and spawn a million small healing shards, or they mine the large ones, again making a million small healing shards.

    then you have know it all's sending you tells if you are doing what you are suppose to be doing, saying your wrong, then get all bent out of shape when you basicly tell them were to go :p

    and i have realy enjoyed all the fleet actions ive been in so far, but this fleet action is by far the lamest waste of time.

    its just fun to see it went from super easy mode, to a all day event thats never gonna get completed :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Whitelocke wrote:
    and i have realy enjoyed all the fleet actions ive been in so far, but this fleet action is by far the lamest waste of time.

    Yeah, the fleet actions are my favorite part of the game. I don't really like the ground missions, but even I like the ground fleet actions. They're all great fun.

    This one seems like it could be fun, and I don't mind a challenge, but wasting all that time for nothing is not really my cup of joe.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    When i first ran the "new version" we had gotten it to below 30% several times then it would regenerate to about 60% or so. after about the third time it did that some captain got sick of it so when it was about 35% i see him moving below the thing, picking up speed then suddenly he rams it and explodes, taking the entity with it. everyone else who didnt see it was like "WTF just happened?"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    This one seems like it could be fun, and I don't mind a challenge, but wasting all that time for nothing is not really my cup of joe.

    I just got done with two hours of fighting that SOB, it's not worth the XP, or the loot. I could of been LC 8 if I skipped it. I was more fun in OB, now it's just a pain. I'm going to drop until I I get my sov.

    EDIT* ALSO IT"S NOT FUNNY TO BLOW UP THE CRYSTALS TO CAUSE THE SMALL ONES TO SPAWN*
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    In OB it was pointless and did indeed need change, but I think that someones hand slipped on the difficulty TRIBBLE. Should be weakened some but not as weak as in OB.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    the thing that bugs me about this is that it is really simple. Circle it at around 7.5K-10K distance kiting fragments around while shooting. Now no matter what i think i know others always drop mines and stay stationary at around 7.5K doing nothing but shooting at it and dying to fragments all the time. It only takes a few idiots to do that and you will never kill it.

    Meanwhile zone chat is full of cuss words and people saying 'shoot the fragments' 'no dont shoot the fragments noob' its utter chaos. Zone chat should be called instance chat imo and be only for that instance, because 40 different zones all yelling at each other is pointless and no one can get the message across for these mine droppers to stop it. I have tried whispering / telling them and i just get abuse. I give up on it.

    Never has so much, depended on so few.
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