Fly to 9km, engage. Placate and confuse.
Launch Photon Fleet 2.
Attack the cube. It hits me with .. something. My shields are draining. In 8 seconds they go from full to none. This thing has a 30 second timer. After it gets to 10, they hit me with another one. Use Science team 3, us RSP. No diff. No shields. So heavy plasma Torp one hits my shieldless ship. 14K damage. I am at half hull. Evasive to 10Km. turn to try again. Placate and confuse again. Its targeting the photonic fleet. But wait. All the weapons are still hitting me. Still pelting the no shield I win button at me too.
Engineering team 2. Its the best you can do as a Science officer. Buys some time but I still have no shields and here comes another torp. Break target, hit the torp (its closest) Nope, retarget on the cube. Break, same, break, same. Click the torp. Blow it up. Now I have green beam of Borg on me, sucked to the cube. Heavy torp, you are dead.
Its normal mode so all I need to do is play the die, die, die, die do it again game. Because thats fun.
What's your point Cryptic? Why did you even make this game?
Borg are far, far too easy. They really are. A single cube should be a fleet action in itself. It should also be much more rare. Like the Scimitar in the Romulan DSEs.
Borg are far, far too easy. They really are. A single cube should be a fleet action in itself.
So why is it in my anomoly instance that I took as a solo mission on normal?
All anomoly instances run the same.
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
Battleship
In the case of Borg, its 3 probes or a sphere x 5 and a cube.
After beating the 5 squads (two relogs for weapons that stopped working)
I am supposed to go 'fleet up' to beat the final squad? Stop talking out of your TRIBBLE.
Its called a 'Borg Shield neutalizer'.
So Science officers can add borg based B'tran to the Aid the planet group. Jump back out, wait for one from the short list we can do.
Can I make a suggestion cryptic?
Consider flash based games in the future. Like Evony or farmville something. It seems to be more your speed.
Had you actually said that this was happening in an exploration, someone may have known that.
However, it's still kind of dumb. A friend and I just ran a Borg exploration. It went like this.
1) 3 Probes, Sphere
2) 3 Probes, Sphere
3) 6 Probes
4) 6 Probes
5) 2 Cubes
We each took a cube, and they were dead in about 8 seconds.
An Assault Cruiser and a Fleet Escort.
In effect, we both solo'd the cubes.
They aren't hard to solo. They really aren't. Like I said, I really wish they'd re-work Borg so that Cubes were the once-in-a-while Dreadnought that took 15 ships 15 minutes to kill, and Spheres were the Battleships.
Had you actually said that this was happening in an exploration, someone may have known that.
However, it's still kind of dumb. A friend and I just ran a Borg exploration. It went like this.
1) 3 Probes, Sphere
2) 3 Probes, Sphere
3) 6 Probes
4) 6 Probes
5) 2 Cubes
We each took a cube, and they were dead in about 8 seconds.
An Assault Cruiser and a Fleet Escort.
In effect, we both solo'd the cubes.
They aren't hard to solo. They really aren't. Like I said, I really wish they'd re-work Borg so that Cubes were the once-in-a-while Dreadnought that took 15 ships 15 minutes to kill, and Spheres were the Battleships.
Try it on a science officer. Nothing dies in 8 seconds. You dont have the DPS. You are supposed to crowd control your opponent.
Actually TRIBBLE it. Mods can delete the post. I dont care any more.
And sorry for raging on you, Ramp4ge. You arent the problem. You are right. A Zantil BS I can waste in 15 seconds or so with a Photonic fleet II in tow. This whole affair with the cube was in addition to the weaps bug. It took me 3 hrs to do the B'Tran daily because I had to log out 15 times, force suicide twice to get my bugged weaps back. As is always the case, I am fighting bugs as much as anything else in this game and it gets nerve grating.
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Don't solo-it?
If anything, Borg Cubes need to be the "Dreadnought" of Borg DSEs, with Spheres as the battleships, Diamonds as cruisers and then the probes.
A Borg Cube should literally take 10-15 ships 10-15 minutes to kill..
In a fleet escort, I can kill it in a single pass and take minimal damage, if any damage at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah7IDalT-YY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEh2N8sV7cE
Borg are far, far too easy. They really are. A single cube should be a fleet action in itself. It should also be much more rare. Like the Scimitar in the Romulan DSEs.
So why is it in my anomoly instance that I took as a solo mission on normal?
All anomoly instances run the same.
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
3 scouts or a cruiser
Battleship
In the case of Borg, its 3 probes or a sphere x 5 and a cube.
After beating the 5 squads (two relogs for weapons that stopped working)
I am supposed to go 'fleet up' to beat the final squad? Stop talking out of your TRIBBLE.
So Science officers can add borg based B'tran to the Aid the planet group. Jump back out, wait for one from the short list we can do.
Can I make a suggestion cryptic?
Consider flash based games in the future. Like Evony or farmville something. It seems to be more your speed.
Had you actually said that this was happening in an exploration, someone may have known that.
However, it's still kind of dumb. A friend and I just ran a Borg exploration. It went like this.
1) 3 Probes, Sphere
2) 3 Probes, Sphere
3) 6 Probes
4) 6 Probes
5) 2 Cubes
We each took a cube, and they were dead in about 8 seconds.
An Assault Cruiser and a Fleet Escort.
In effect, we both solo'd the cubes.
They aren't hard to solo. They really aren't. Like I said, I really wish they'd re-work Borg so that Cubes were the once-in-a-while Dreadnought that took 15 ships 15 minutes to kill, and Spheres were the Battleships.
Try it on a science officer. Nothing dies in 8 seconds. You dont have the DPS. You are supposed to crowd control your opponent.
Actually TRIBBLE it. Mods can delete the post. I dont care any more.
And sorry for raging on you, Ramp4ge. You arent the problem. You are right. A Zantil BS I can waste in 15 seconds or so with a Photonic fleet II in tow. This whole affair with the cube was in addition to the weaps bug. It took me 3 hrs to do the B'Tran daily because I had to log out 15 times, force suicide twice to get my bugged weaps back. As is always the case, I am fighting bugs as much as anything else in this game and it gets nerve grating.