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I know the reason of having at least two factions in an MMO, but for this game I am just not seeing it.
I have just spent the last few hours flying around in my Bird of Prey with my Lieutenant Commander lvl 2 in the tiny little Klingon space looking for something to do and this is what I noticed:
- I was the only one, I didnt see a single player controlled ship, not one in I dont know how many hours. And not a peep on the chat box, It seemed like my guy was the only Klingon in the galaxy.
- I couldnt join any PVP battles of any kind, flying up to a planet or whatever didnt work, when I tried to join with the queue I would wait about 10 or more minutes, then get the enter battle window, then get told that I couldnt join because there werent enough players.
- The one time I did get in to a PVP match it was a space arena, and it was me and two other Lt.Cmdr. lvl 2 Klingons vs. six Federation ships one of which was a lvl 6 Lt Cmdr and another one was lvl 8. So 2:1 against with two of theirs being much higher than us, it didnt go so well.
- Being the only Klingon in the Galaxy, trying to do any of the war zone maps resulted in me trying to solo a planet full of borg drones, or a space map full of borg ships with a few Federation ships thrown in. Those also didnt go so well either, but now I see why the good day to die missions exist.
- Whenever I tried to enter combat in the Kahless Expanse the game crashed for some reason
- So that just left exploring the Tong nebula as the only thing to do. And I am sick of that, exploration sucks in this game, and it only gives about 50xp each time I finish doing a three system mission batch.
So what the Hell are Klingons supposed to do in this game?
I say if Cryptic isnt going to make the Klingon faction worth doing then they should just scrap it and spend their time on developing the Federation side. Even the Federation has a pathetic amount of content, so instead of having two ****** undeveloped factions have just one mediocre faction, with a playable amount of end game content.
But from what I have heard instead of trying to fix the Klingons and Federation they are going to introduce a third playable faction. Well I think that is a brilliant idea. Probably the next thing they will do is not bother improving this game at all and just let it die and make another ****** sequel and call it something like Star Trek Champions Online.
I have just spent the last few hours flying around in my Bird of Prey with my Lieutenant Commander lvl 2 in the tiny little Klingon space looking for something to do and this is what I noticed:
- I was the only one, I didnt see a single player controlled ship, not one in I dont know how many hours. And not a peep on the chat box, It seemed like my guy was the only Klingon in the galaxy.
- I couldnt join any PVP battles of any kind, flying up to a planet or whatever didnt work, when I tried to join with the queue I would wait about 10 or more minutes, then get the enter battle window, then get told that I couldnt join because there werent enough players.
- The one time I did get in to a PVP match it was a space arena, and it was me and two other Lt.Cmdr. lvl 2 Klingons vs. six Federation ships one of which was a lvl 6 Lt Cmdr and another one was lvl 8. So 2:1 against with two of theirs being much higher than us, it didnt go so well.
- Being the only Klingon in the Galaxy, trying to do any of the war zone maps resulted in me trying to solo a planet full of borg drones, or a space map full of borg ships with a few Federation ships thrown in. Those also didnt go so well either, but now I see why the good day to die missions exist.
- Whenever I tried to enter combat in the Kahless Expanse the game crashed for some reason
- So that just left exploring the Tong nebula as the only thing to do. And I am sick of that, exploration sucks in this game, and it only gives about 50xp each time I finish doing a three system mission batch.
So what the Hell are Klingons supposed to do in this game?
I say if Cryptic isnt going to make the Klingon faction worth doing then they should just scrap it and spend their time on developing the Federation side. Even the Federation has a pathetic amount of content, so instead of having two ****** undeveloped factions have just one mediocre faction, with a playable amount of end game content.
But from what I have heard instead of trying to fix the Klingons and Federation they are going to introduce a third playable faction. Well I think that is a brilliant idea. Probably the next thing they will do is not bother improving this game at all and just let it die and make another ****** sequel and call it something like Star Trek Champions Online.
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I've been subscribed since launch, but I waited this long to make a Klingon because it took until now for them to give Klingons PvE quests. I've done the two I have the level for, which were quite good, and now I've put my Klingon back on the shelve for a couple weeks until the next batch comes out.
If Klingons get scrapped, I'm out for good. Even with its severely unfinished state, I have far more fun Klingon-side than Fed-side.
Nope - dstahl said a while back that any 3rd faction is on hold until Klingons are up to speed. Might be a while, though... :rolleyes:
Well that is a relief, my faith in Cryptic has slightly gone up.
Uhh... the next couple are out. You will unlock the next two when you hit commander. You'll have to play to do that. There is eight total.
Sorry. Poorly explained on my part. The weekly, faction independent missions start in two weeks. Between those and a little exploration, eventually I'll get to the commander lvl missions. But I don't want to grind just to get to story line missions. Had my fill of that in PotBS.
Nice work Dstahl & team. keep i up
Qapla!
When I created my Klingon character shortly after launch, there was a larger player-base than there is now and a more active PvP community. It wasn't difficult to frequently get into matches and I leveled nearly completely on PvP alone, all the way to Brigadier General.
With the new Season 2 patch, I suspect a lot of people are on their main characters, either finishing leveling to VA1/LG1 or doing their dailies or whatever. When Season 2 launched, a lot of people made new Klingons but it seems, as I suspected, most of them aren't playing them anymore... or very sparsely.
There aren't as many people leveling up and doing a lot of PvP, both Federation and Klingon side... especially the way the queues are now. Besides PvP, there's nothing at all interesting for Klingons to do besides the 8 new story episodes. You can either stick around and bear it; grind out your XP and get into whatever PVP you can, or you can wait for more content. Who knows how long that will take. To be honest, I've heard nothing in the way of new Klingon content save for some new ships -- I suspect the devs are hoping weekly episodes are going to solve the problem without them having to put any effort into fixing issues.
Maybe It's not as glorious as the "good old days", but quite frankly there's nothing I or anyone else can do about that now. What I would advocate is that things are defo on the up (as seen with my own eyes from when I started my Klingon) and that the Faction's flatline has been seen, felt and passed by (as long as Dstahl & co keep at it).
I'll keep my boney ridged fingers crossed
It's good to hear positive comments from new KDF players. I'm just a bit jaded and a touch pessimistic, I suppose. Don't let my statements discourage you from playing and leveling up!
Wanted: real klingon side sci ship, real carrier.
And once we get our T5 refits, I think you will see more and more people playing there Klingons.
As a klingon, if your having a problem finding other Klingons to ride with, Join a Fleet. Simples as that, because the game is all about instances, there are more of us then you think online. In my fleet alone we usually have between 15-20 people on at any time. And considering the biggest group you need is five, it shouldnt be hard to get a group for a mission. Long Live The Empire !!
P.S. Death To The United Federation of Carebears!!
Some friends of mine came back this weekend to try out Season 2 and they were badly disappointed, they will definitly not come back any more. Klingon content is to scarse and boring, while all the Feds get content after content update. Just rename this game Federation Online, that's what it is.
I was in the kahless exspanse on the weekend without trouble, I would say file a bug petition, and try quickly going in with an alt and see if they have the same problem.
I agree that this wasnt the best weekend to have there promotion for returning players. Klingons must be patient, as yes we are a faction..but we are verry small compared to The Federation. So yes, Feds will get what they want before us..deal with it. Klingons are an afterthough, we wernt even suppsoed to be playable until the next exspansion pack. But they decided to give the Klingon fans something to do unil then and released what they had at launch. Best thing to do is play a character on both factions, that way you will allways have something to do.
Yeah but most Feds only do FvF if there arnt enough Klingons to fight.
Perhaps making Cryptic listen is stop paying the subscription.
This is happened so many times to me that I have often asked my BO's if they wouldn't show me to the nearest airlock LOL!