So, I was hoping to see the Borg in STO returned to their former TNG glory, where a single cube was a terrible menace that took an entire fleet of starships to take out. Alas, in STO they are demoted to even worse than the Borg in Voyager. Where the USS Voyager was able to destroy a Sphere or two, in STO T5 captains will actually be able to solo multiple Borg cubes with minor difficulty. A single cube, well thats not even worth the trouble of using all your abilities against....sigh.
Where is the infamous Borg adaptation, the longer the fight lasts the more resilient they become? Where are the assimilation beams that transport a hundred drones aboard my ship to assimilate my crew? Where is this nigh unstoppable menace we have all learned to love so much

Honestly please rework the Borg so they are not this weaksauce enemy noone takes serious. Borg cubes should be epic fights that require at least a group of 4 or 5 players to take down. Borg in ground missions should adapt to your weapons so every subsequent group you face will become much tougher. Overall, give the Borg their character back.
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simple as really
As far as buffing the cubes goes, it seems like there's no real way to do that without forcing drastic changes to most of the existing borg missions, so it would be a little less likely to happen.
Then why would ships 40 years more advanced than TNG-era still be outclassed by the Borg?
You can't compare fighting the Borg ingame to fighting the Borg in the TNG era. This is 40 years later, we have much better tech. :cool:
Errrm the federation may have made advances in tech but the borg have also had 40 years to upgrade and adapt there tech too.
The borg always adapt its what they do.
Did you seriously say that? I finished a ground mission earlier, had to kill 5 packs of borg... after the first one i noticed they had not actuly damaged any of my away team, so i decided to test things out. I told my entire team to stand where they were, unequipped my personal shield, kit and only attacked them using "1". Guess who won that ground mission without dropping below 90% health?
I fight afk in ground missions all the time, i can get laundry done, microwave a smavk, let my dogs out. been doing that from lt com to ra and i dont even hit 1....
just leave it standing out in the open all vulnerable like.
Borg cubes should be juggernaughts, hint hint hint cryptic,. lack of fleet battles at adm lvl..right here
Feeliong of a epic battle right here.
Chance to get good loot for RA's and hence end game content, right here
Make borg fun, exciting and dangerous, right here
Beefing up the borg and tying it to a few allready written functions and you have a end content generator right here. should require at least 10 starships to kill one, and thats if they all coordinate fire like in StarTrek, first contact.
Interesting ideas. But unfortunately I don't think your ideas for the borg will fit well in the cryptic game mechanics/design. At least in terms of combat.
Definitely one of the trickier things for this game ... reflecting the borg properly versus dealing with the way they want their combat to flow.
So the Borg spent 40 years sitting on their asses doing nothing while the Feds were getting 'much better tech' ?
No, but the Borg dide get magical future tech like the Federation did. You know, those Transphasic torpedoes and all?
I'm not saying they should be pushovers, but the Borg at the end of the TV era were already not the threat they were at Wolf 359.
Factory cube <BOSS>
Six times the size of a fusion cube, the Factory cube boasts a deadly array of weapons and its sheer size makes torps appear to do nothing more than scratch the paintwork, The factory cube has the ability to recycle deastroyed targets for making repairs or producing cubes and other borg ships witch can defend it and help it to assimulate entire worlds very rapidly.
The facory cube is not to be underestimated and is considerd an extream threat to even the Undine <speacies 8472>, Extream caution is advised when engauging this monstrosity.
I remmeber RPing this against this ship with loads of other freinds while the mod for starfleet command was down, It made dominion battleships look like shuttle craft lol. <size wise>
Wow, I had no idea. /agreed!!!!
I want th cubes to be epic fights indeed. A sphere should be a challenge for one ship, and a cube should take a fleet to bring down.
Heck, replace the crystalline entity with a cube, and leave it as tough as it is to kill... THAT would be a proper cube fight.