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marokkrell
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I just wanted to start off by saying I love PvP and I'm addicted to it. I don't like to PvE anymore even though I know I have to grrr. Here is part of why I like PvP. I like the intensity that it provides especially when its a close match or I'm in a dog fight with another escort. I also like when I PUG in a random generated team, actually working as a group to over come the enemy. That's just a few things I like about PvP.
Im still fairly new to this game. I know when I PUG, I will probably die a lot. Especially when I see names like, Nova Core, TSI, Show me Your Critz, Sad Panda. Heck when I queue Feds vs Klingon's I know I'm asking for a lot of defeats on my part. I still do it anyway, even though it can be frustrating, but I remind my self its just a game and I'm here to have fun and learn.
I don't post very much at all, because I don't have much to contribute since I am new. I do read the PvP posts everyday, trying to get info to learn lol. Anyway, one thing I have noticed is no posts on what makes PvP so great to you and some war stories
. So if you want this is an opportunity for maybe some new PvP'ers to see why you all keep playing PvP despite the issues at hand.
I will start off with a war story. I was in a dog fight a another escort and I was loosing. Nothing I could do to shake this fighter off my tail. I had about 20% hull strength left. Everything was on cool down I was moments away from destruction. When out of no where a greenish beam hits my ship and my hull started healing. This cruiser fly's between me and the escort that was on my tail. Which let me get away and heal my self. Once I got out of combat zone, I cloaked and came back looking for that escort. When I found the escort, I followed it and waited till it's EMPTS was down I decloacked and fired everything I had. Next thing I knew I was flying past the ship watching it explode. I was happy, I did my first successful Alpha strike without TRIBBLE it up . Well the remaining of the game that ship spent its time hunting me down and destroying me, but I still kept fighting. Afterwards that person sent me a PM and said good fighting. I also thanked that cruiser for saving my butt.
I know it may not be much of a war story, but it was my first alpha strike and using something I learn'ed from you all like paying attention to buff and timing my attacks.
Im still fairly new to this game. I know when I PUG, I will probably die a lot. Especially when I see names like, Nova Core, TSI, Show me Your Critz, Sad Panda. Heck when I queue Feds vs Klingon's I know I'm asking for a lot of defeats on my part. I still do it anyway, even though it can be frustrating, but I remind my self its just a game and I'm here to have fun and learn.
I don't post very much at all, because I don't have much to contribute since I am new. I do read the PvP posts everyday, trying to get info to learn lol. Anyway, one thing I have noticed is no posts on what makes PvP so great to you and some war stories
. So if you want this is an opportunity for maybe some new PvP'ers to see why you all keep playing PvP despite the issues at hand.I will start off with a war story
. I was in a dog fight a another escort and I was loosing. Nothing I could do to shake this fighter off my tail. I had about 20% hull strength left. Everything was on cool down I was moments away from destruction. When out of no where a greenish beam hits my ship and my hull started healing. This cruiser fly's between me and the escort that was on my tail. Which let me get away and heal my self. Once I got out of combat zone, I cloaked and came back looking for that escort. When I found the escort, I followed it and waited till it's EMPTS was down I decloacked and fired everything I had. Next thing I knew I was flying past the ship watching it explode. I was happy, I did my first successful Alpha strike without TRIBBLE it up . Well the remaining of the game that ship spent its time hunting me down and destroying me, but I still kept fighting. Afterwards that person sent me a PM and said good fighting. I also thanked that cruiser for saving my butt.I know it may not be much of a war story, but it was my first alpha strike and using something I learn'ed from you all like paying attention to buff and timing my attacks.
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
~Napoleon Bonaparte
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Your war story reminded me of that epic scene in First Contact when The Enterprise swoops in to save The Defiant
http://youtu.be/g8pQm3h2opc?t=1m57s
Anyway, welcome!
Not sure i can agree with you there, Running the same STF 300-400 times is also pretty fun!;)
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This is wonderful to hear! Hope you have a fanastic time, and to see you on the playing field someday.
So many of my best ones have faded with time to become nothing more than a pleasant faded memory, like a friendly ghost the feeling lingers, but the imagery just doesn't come. It makes me smile fondly, and then I feel wistful, wishing those teeth and flying by the claws sensations would return.
As far as what keeps me here, anchored in STO. It's you guys (the pvp community). Be it my fellow grizzled veteran buddies, who are quick to share a joke, or banter in chat, or the new guys that come onto the forums, eager to learn "the trade". And still under that, the underlying core of the unique game mechanics that STO has which I still find enjoyable, despite the repeated kicks to the face cryptic seems hell bent on giving us.
If I had to pick my favorite war story that I can still remember, it had to be the first or second time I wound up facing down Kedric in a match. (now I really feel old thinking back on it) We wound up split off from our team mates, in a spiraling death dance that lasted the better part of forty five minutes. I'm not sure how he and I wound up so far from our group, and I'm still not sure why neither of our teams asked us where the hell we were. But there were so many near kills between us, that had even one thing changed the duel would have been over. We some how wound up back with our groups (I think they figured out where we were) and the fighting resumed.
But that duel was the longest fight I had ever had against another tac, in two escorts. And honestly is where I started retraining my flying so my hands wouldn't simply cramp up and cause my death.
I remember my first holy hell games, when I was PvP green....
I remember one game over 2 years ago now when Ayatani was still a klingon and his crew was working over a pug... and me in my fantastic PvE Star Cruiser... and me evasive firing shoot across the map and hit a ton of heals on a poor escort and saved him. (for 30 seconds at least) lol
I also remember one of my early matches when my really cool DSSV dive bombed 20k down on Z into a Capping Klink in a cap and hold and Shockwaved him right through the little base.
Really great thing about PvP...
PvP moments I remember... 100s
PvE moments I remember... hmmm 2 or 3 when a fleet mate cracked a good joke on Vent.
For me, it's always good fun running in to help a badly mauled teammate. Like seeing one being double-teamed or something, down to less than 10% hull. Then you and someone else come rushing in and raise their hull back to 75% and shields being in good shape.
You can hear the screams of anger from the deprived kill over the fabulous internetz.
R u lookin at me??:eek:
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it gets kind of dull though if you are always 5 steps ahead of your opponent, or they are basically just helplessly reacting without having half the understanding needed to compete. thats why i try to be helpful, to raise more people above that level.
its most fun when i can tell my opponent has a full battle strategy of his own, and its a match to see who has the most skill, and who makes the least mistakes
or who gets drowned by pets, or doesn't have an ability fired off even though it had been clicked several times, or who gets a phaser proc, or who has the bug.
For me the best stories are never about the ROFLstomp. The closer the match the more satisfying the outcome.
In my recollections there are two that stand out the most.
The first was about a year and a half ago in a private duel with a fleet friend that was so close we literally blew each other up at the same time in one heat of the match. First and only time that has happened for me. Good friend and a good time.
The second was about five months ago when the Panda Cubs ran into a group of Sad Pandas. Thank all that be that we had a couple Sad Pandas in our team. The Sad Pandas were rolling us when, I think it was Naz or 4monkeys, came on vent, (only listening to the match mind you), and told us n00bs in escorts to hold off on captain skills and and pressure the escorts. When the opposition cruisers were on cool down from healing their escorts we were to pop our captain skills as alphas and nail those cruisers. It resulted in a close match that we barely won. I had no idea of how deep the meta game in STO went or how truly crucial timing was before that match, let alone how much of a game changer proper target calling truly is. Was a great educational experience even if it only gave a sense of the depth of the meta game. The level of satisfaction and disbelief was for lack of a better word amazing.
Edited to add: Other great times were teasing MT and RickyBobby in PUG matches even if they ROFL stomped me. Another fun occasion was trying to even get past Era's shields while under intense focus fire. Oh yeah I too blow up A LOT when I get all PUGnacious. Oh yeah and despite how freaking boring it was, StarDagger also stands out.
So much this, and for the record scoring a kill because i use a broken power is not part of those moments.
a history of sto pvp: 2010 - 2011
a history of sto pvp: 2012 - 2013
Now I wish they did PvP where you win Fleet marks instead of energy credits. I would rather queue up for PvP then PvE. Oh well maybe one of these years
~Napoleon Bonaparte
how i got into pvp:
stardagger trolls brand new federation defiant captain Damian in Kerrat.
being the young pve hero Damian was at the time....he reached out to the opvp community.
Damian receives much needed lessons on how to kills the bad guys from awesome people!
Damian stalks, and kills stardagger several times a day, for a month... letting his Defiant linger in the burning rubble of what used to be a b'rel, and revels in the zone chat that his actions incite.
shortly after, Damian gets to coin his first forum sig.....
have fun, kill bad guys.
true story.
For you maybe.
He's BOORING! You hear me StarDagger? I might actually like you. I might actually enjoy talking to you. You are actually on my friends list. But waiting three to four minutes between alpha strikes is BORING!
Still he has his own special grasp of the meta-game. I'll give him that much.
Edited to add: And yes you did blow my team mate up and me. Still you longer than you should have though. Considering how bad I stink in the healer role.