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WTF, Scimitar now cloaks in Fleet Alert?
jkwrangler2010
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Whose bright idea was it to make the Scimitar cloak during the siege ship level of Fleet Alert? it's bad enough that we have very limited amount of time to destroy the dreadnought type ship and all the other cruisers/destroyers. And the damn thing cloaks for 10 seconds. Stupid, really stupid.
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Sorry, that doesn't work anymore. Scimitars now cloak at random.
Also, you think Fleet Alert is bad? Try doing a SB Defence against Romulans.
That's eight Scimitars. Eight.
As if the random cloaking wasn't bad enough, the Thalaron crossfire is brutal.
It cloaked before the launch of LoR, as did the one that appears in No Win Scenario. The difference now is that it had a trigger before and now it will do it randomly.
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^ This.
The problem isn't that they cloak. The problem is that you can use sensor scan, fire on my mark, on top of having 130 auxiliary and still be unable to see them. Cryptic could've had a good thing going by making stealth debuffs useful in PvE... but nope. Swing and a miss.
I'm not sure whose (truly) bright idea it was, but I love it! It's nice to have a challenging opponent.
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I mean, if my ship is having difficulties then whats going to happen with lesser ships, where the captains/pilots havent had time to build them up to even the liminal level mine is at?? Yes, I DO know of a bug with Donatra that will keep her from cloaking for a dew seconds longer but i dont know if it works on the other scimitars.. As it sits right now, for a lot of these people i'd say these are no win scenarios.. They dont stand a chance ( not even with a T5+ ship ) I dont see it as a challenge, unless your minimally as heavy as my ship. Then its a challenge. Till then, its more like player abuse or something.
im not sure how i feel about this because it is pretty much luck of the draw when you pug.
im not sure its really a challenge as it comes down to how much damage you can kick out rather than any actual skill.
i think perhaps it needs adjusting so it does not cloak as much. when you lose up to half the time from being cloaked (and finding its moved quite a distance from where your team is) then it goes from challange to unfair.
That's how I get around it.
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As always the problem here is an inconsistent build. You shouldn't have any problems tanking Gates/Tac Cubes/Donatra in a Mogai. In fact the Mogai is IMO the best ship in this game to both tank and dish out high damage. You should probably post your current setup, especially your BOff powers, in the PvP forum. People there will gladly help you to sort things out. You can also find keybinds there which make cycling BOff powers and balancing shields a lot easier.
However...
An unbreakable, randomly triggered cloak on a timed mission is not fair nor fun - to beat that scimtar is not impossible, I'll admit (0 aux tbr'o doom helps when buffed as far as possible by tac and console) but in the average pug fleet alert unless you designed your loadout to beat that ship or by a miracle got a full group of high dps escorts with enough holds to pin the scimtar long enough to down a side it is pretty certain a team will fail due to either that one ship or running out of time while mopping up the other ships ignored in order to focus fire on the scimtar
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its very doable to take out the scimitar , there are several abilities that can help in the fight , you just have to coordinate. ( several fire on my marks applied at the very start of the encounter will go a long way to killing it , as will gravity wells , emission seeking torps , plasma/ theta radiation etc etc )
if all else fails , buy some cheap fleet cruiser reinforcements ( or something similar ) from the starbase store for just such an occasion , the extra dps helps
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Pfft... befriend a science officer and someone packing a Jem'Hadar space set to take along. Issues solved. Nice to see something TACs need a friend of another class to help with for a change.
Scimitar cloak is perfect cloak, Ive seen Dona cloak with 5 sensor scans and a anti sweep on her, infront of 5 sci officers all running high to max aux.
Well, that killed me.
I thought Cryptic done a good thing for a minute. Seems the gripe may be more legit. I have to question if It should be a "perfect" cloak.
PS: I mean even in ST: Nemesis they could actually fire a torpedo and phaser spread in open space to try and get a hit on the target to reveal its location and do damage. STO needs something similar.
the irony is pets, mines, torps, all of them will chase the cloaked scimitar, so it dosnt break their locks, just player locks, and player visual. pets are a good way of telling which way its traveling.
The other enemy faction ships don't cloak or disappear. It's hard enough to put out enough damage with your team when everyone has cruisers or just one escort.
Will you adapt, improvise and overcome by using means already in the game to sniff out, locate and defeat the Scimitar?
Or will you take your toys and go home?
Just like Q said to Picard...
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
Cryptic won't give players a perfect cloak. At best the scims will have the same as the B'Rel and T'liss/T'varo which lets you fire torps but still breaks cloak momentarily.
I bet it won't even have that.
The core complaint is not that it cloaks, it's that a team full of science officers using every anti-cloak power in the game can't do anything about it.
Sure fighters and high yield torps will foll them, but the players can't attack and neither can the fighters. So it takes no damage at all for that whole time.
If the fighters know where it is, let them shoot it. It's a cloak not phasing.
I swear they copied and pasted Donatra's behavior codes onto the alert's scimitar.
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that way you dont fail and you can retry right away with no CD.
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1 you can decloak a real player. Maybe if tractor/GW/CPB worked...
2 real players don't automatically win a match just by eating your timer. I'm sure such a mechanic would go over REAL well with the PVP crowd.