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the1tigglet
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could we please do something about when you have full shields and full health and absolutely no debuffs but suddenly a single borg torpedo can instakill you and you're not even in an elite?
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Well, honestly, they claimed in a patch note a month or two back that they had fixed this by removing the ability of borg to crit. But that really didn't fix anything.
And I think they can still crit.
Based on an ISE I ran earlier today, they absolutely can still crit.
It's only fair. ;-)
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The funny thing is OUR tricobalts were just nerfed. The Borg would still be armed with the OP-uber-badass tricobalts we used to have.
And thiers would still be invisible.
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I've even had the bloody things change direction and head for me when their intended ship gets taken out. I'm sure they just love me and want to give me a hug. Plasma bolts, space's loneliest projectile.
Does the Vesta's kinetic reflection console work on the invisible torpedoes?
LOL.
On a side note, not just the invisi-torps and plasma bolts, but the freaking Torpedo spread we get from Donatra in KASE is just retardedly powerful.
If I see it coming, I can hit emergency to shields AND brace for impact... and I still die - at full hp and shields.
*knowledge suddenly dawns on me* Heavy plasmas are STO's creepers! They just want to give you a big hug, but too bad for them they explode...
Actually not necessarily true, just hitting brace for impact alone will prevent most one shot torp spreads from Donatra, and along with Emerg to Shlds you should be fine.
In regards to the OP weapons the Borg use (reffering to ELITE STFs only), the reason for the OP weapons, sometimes one shot kills, and invisible one shot kill damage (which is either a huge delayed damage or a bug) is because te devs implemented changes to the Elite STFs to make them harder b'cuz apparently many people were complaining that Elites were too easy. That's your reason for the OP weapons. Regardless Elite STFs are still easy
Cryptic said the scaling death timer was to punish bad gameplay like zerging. Hey a$$hats what does 1 shotting us repeatedly cause? "We want players to play smarter" uh ya i have EPTS3, TSS3, RSF3, ASIF3, and 2 Neutronium consoles all going at once and get 1 shotted.
Wither the borg crit or not is moot when you get nailed for 68k dmg, which no one can survive. Hell my wells has 24k shield per facing and gets 1 shotted full health and shields with tac team going.
Most of the time i get 1 shotted i dont get injury to my ship, almost like the game knows its total BS and is like you dont deserve that. Im fine with dying, blowing up etc, its a game im used to it. But hey atleast give me a chance? Its like god suddenly smitting someone. "See that guy, ya that guy, *Pow* dead!".
Gates, invis torps, denotra's torp spread, etc are all way to powerful dmg wise. Cut the dmg in 1/2 and just make them use it more often like our trics. Sustained dmg is harder to deal with then insta pops there isnt any dealing with that.
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So what did Cryptic stealth-change on us in todays patch?
That tac cube at the end was crazy pissed.
Borg should have a much higher hull repair rate.
That was their whole gimmick on the show "look at our ship magically fix itself, run in terror puny life forms".
Species 8472 was able to kick their butts because they could blow ships to high heaven in one pass. Long term combat with the Borg is supposed to be painful.
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God did not need your starship. :P
But apparently he does need either a Borg Cube or Gate.
This is my new favorite post. :P
My beef with the Borg, is that the borg are supposed to wear you down bit by bit as they slowly gain footholds, turning your resources into theirs, your troops into theirs, your allies into theirs, until you become theirs. And with all the roots, holds, and disables this game has to offer.....
They get instakills.
God has been around for along time. Can you imagine how many Hummel Figurines he has? He has got to store them somewhere.
You're welcome.
Yes, the Borg need more Assimilate Abilities. I know the Queen can. She assimilated my ship once and made it fly around attacking my teammates. I have only seen it happen the one time, though.
As soon as you are targeted then omega pattern, evasive and brace for impact should be in your fingertips in order to avoid those shots.
Lastly, as far as I know, this was introduced as some players (whose names shall not be written but you can search for their names) were "complaining" (or bragging) that elite stfs are way too easy.
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So all our cannon/beam shots fill the limit, the borg weapons then fire and the projectile isnt shown as the limit was hit. We then get a invis HYT up our TRIBBLE that we cant shoot, not even with FAW, thus we cant avoide.
Because of how the game renders this happens, the devs tried to fix it by increasing the priority of the borg projectiles but since our weapons always have highest prority it didnt help.
After all if we didnt see our weapons fire people would complain. And if they increase the limit they increase the server stress a lot. To solve the problem its best to cut their dmg down but let them fire more often and use more abilities so they remain hard/harder to kill while being a threat to us. Would also make the 1 shots far far less common and even with the occasional invisa torp it wouldnt be so bad because 90% of your deaths would be from constant sustained dmg/abilties.
Really? I've never seen that happen.
Borgs need something else than instakill to be dangerous. Something a skilled player can avoid, instead of randomly use brace for impact, and hope.