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dakoolaideman
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Hey all,
Not sure if I am seeing things but before the patch when we did the 10% rule with the Nanite generators once all were down everyone turned to the transformer, normal right?
Well this is where I think things have changed a bit, once the transformer is down you have to deal with the Nanite Spheres and Normal Spheres, but it seems to me that they now move alot more and at full impluse and circle the gateway.
Has anyone else seen a change in behavior in this STF or others?
Not sure if I am seeing things but before the patch when we did the 10% rule with the Nanite generators once all were down everyone turned to the transformer, normal right?
Well this is where I think things have changed a bit, once the transformer is down you have to deal with the Nanite Spheres and Normal Spheres, but it seems to me that they now move alot more and at full impluse and circle the gateway.
Has anyone else seen a change in behavior in this STF or others?
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Ive also played one elite hive onslaught match today and found it hard to get back to the two ships, why? Upon re-spawning, "We are under attack" - by space it seems :rolleyes: followed by the BOOOOM! (thank you lance lol)
Didnt help that some people left the game early too and i got fed up with the remaining guys dying too often :rolleyes:
They are not just too fast but their all stats is changed. They have more HP,they hit harder,the Nanite Spheres almost instantly starting to heal the Transformers with ridiculous healing capacity. One Nanite Sphere can heal the all fleet firepower.
This STF changed to an overpowered TRIBBLE.
Red alert now takes less time to disengage, so it's just a matter of doing a small full impulse burst to go after them. But it's a good idea not to pursue if that means moving out of range from your group.
Had it happen last night, and it took me forever to wiggle into it enough to start getting hits so it would move a different way and dislodge itself.
The devs ought to look into the pathing for them, so they dont double back to the gateway.
Youll notice the right side nanite spheres got "smart" and will hide with the tac cube. Going in to kill them means engaging the tac, and for most players thats a suicide run solo (both the tac and the gateway in attack range, topped off with a few spheres... yeah thats instant death by plasma).
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Of course, if somebody goes off to fight the spheres before the transformer drops, in they zoom.
Dealing with zooming spheres was a total pain at first, but I switched to a beam array, +threat cruiser build and now I do a fairly decent job at rouding them up. There are still some stragglers, but I can get a bunch of them to focus on me and draw them away from the gate.
I'm starting to get so used to it, I don't care if they change it back. I've done ISE so many times the added franticness is actually kinda fun.
Edit: What I would change, is I would hard code the spheres not to go into zoom mode until the transformer dropped. Far too easy at the moment to grief by just dropping a generator and turning to drop a couple shots on the spheres, ensuring a ruined optional. If the spheres would not zoom until we actually had a solid chance to take out the transformer, I'd find the difficulty set about perfect. Then again, I play a a higher level then average... hard to say if the general population can adapt.
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focus fire on a single target, 5-6 spheres shooting at you and you know your in trouble
Pretty much, but it does make escorts chase after them, which is a welcome playstyle change to 'sit there, CSV/RF away, win' than usual.
I haven't had the issue where the Nanite Sphere's move faster when they're under Red Alert though.
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this wouldnt do much. I mean most cc builds already did that. I had no problem with that on my CC Vesta, while pretty much soloing them spheres, as everyone was fighting the two other spheres that spawned up top on the transformer
imo the borg are fun now. they move alot, keeps you on your toes. only problems are that they clip themselves into the gate (the fact that they go near the gate luring you into oneshot range is good imo), and basically any casual CC ability is useless against them (meaning grav well full aux, no skill into gravimetric skill, and this makes the use of CSV unnecessary).
still, atleast now ISE is a bit more interesting, and maybe even harder
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
look at the bright side. now you can have 100/100 on weaps and aux on the vesta
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
still not much dps. shame I cant test on ISE with the aux dhcs, to compare to my previous data on the sam round, as I tested my vesta on that STF the most.
still managed 9k dps in my first KASE with aux dhcs, so now they are actually useful
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
Except high aux is needed for all the sci abilit...eh, who am I kidding, apparently there are no more sci abilities:rolleyes:. Bugs me that sci always seems to be the first one nerfed by any changes that are made.
And I'm looking forward to your Aux DHC Vesta build.
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well high aux is now only for healing, even grav well is useless now, making the Vesta kinda pointless in STFs (dunno what effect this EPTx change had on No Win tho).
I dont wanna turn this another one of my vesta topics, so I will only say, that I will wait with testing the aux dhc vesta, until the devs do something about the EPTE, or there is some evidence, that they intend to keep it that way, so I know which way to start looking for making that ship as useful as it was before (I will post some ideas to one of my topics some day, I think)
either way, nerf or no nerf to EPTE, I am happy, ISE just got a bit freshened up, making a years worth of data collected there, kinda irrelevant. I mean now, builds have to be very specific. if you want to be effective at cloaking, skill into cloaking, if you want CC, skill into that. I like the idea, as it will generate some vareity, but as it didnt work like that until now, I do not think it is going to end up being good (especially since high dps escorts, are still as effective, if not more effective as before)
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
Such horrible changes, please nerv EPtE or give us anything that'll reliably hinder the Borg from using it. As it is, not even GW can hold them and they seem immune to about everything else. Please stop that madness, devs.
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