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Can we haz back plz?

thisslerthissler Member Posts: 2,055 Arc User
edited July 2013 in PvP Gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7L7qfw-_i0

I'm not sure how I found this. It's worth a watch to see some vintage PVP. One KDF takes on 7 Feds. 6 of them are AFK but so what.

Kidding.

Anyway its a five part video. Not mine. SO GO WATCH NOW!

Can that map be reactivated? It's essentially a Kerrat style map in that there are PVE objectives. But it is qued. And it is somewhat cool.
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  • masterkeychnk5masterkeychnk5 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Its funny how simple yet so fun it was back then, old times :(
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  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    i never did get to play that map, i only started pvping after a 6 month hiatus 2 months after launch. i wonder if its still on a hard drive somewhere at cryptic
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  • praxi5praxi5 Member Posts: 1,562 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    RIP Space Assault
  • skurfskurf Member Posts: 1,071 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Why did Cryptic remove it in the first place? Or in a more general sense, why would they remove any game-mode?
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  • webdeathwebdeath Member Posts: 1,570 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I miss that map. Kinda wish it hadn't been removed. I always wonder why it did get removed in the first place. I Don't recall there being any kind of statement about it (then again 3 years is a long time to remember anything in STO :P)
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  • praxi5praxi5 Member Posts: 1,562 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    skurf wrote: »
    Why did Cryptic remove it in the first place? Or in a more general sense, why would they remove any game-mode?


    They removed it because they felt that not enough people were playing it.
  • shailatshailat Member Posts: 478 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    thissler wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7L7qfw-_i0

    I'm not sure how I found this. It's worth a watch to see some vintage PVP. One KDF takes on 7 Feds. 6 of them are AFK but so what.

    Kidding.

    Anyway its a five part video. Not mine. SO GO WATCH NOW!

    Can that map be reactivated? It's essentially a Kerrat style map in that there are PVE objectives. But it is qued. And it is somewhat cool.

    This is the map that got me first playing space and when this map got removed i stopped playing space and started doing ground, I will be in favor of them bringing back this map becaused in my opinion it was a good map, like you said, it has pve and pvp (like karrat) and was fun to fly around in
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  • bobtheyakbobtheyak Member Posts: 374 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    praxi5 wrote: »
    They removed it because they felt that not enough people were playing it.

    That was before they integrated map types into single queues. Guess they just forgot about it afterwards.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Wonder if that question could make it into an Ask Cryptic...
    ...or if somebody might send it in for one of the podcast folks to ask...
    ...maybe ask a dev that's lost and stumbled by...
    ...etc, etc, etc - would be interesting to hear an answer, eh?
  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I miss Space Assault too.

    It was the first PvP I ever did when I first began playing the game. I was thoroughly destroyed during it, and promptly told off by people. It made me quit PvP until I began again (and much more knowledgeable that time) last year.
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  • zarxidejackozarxidejacko Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Loved that map R.I.P. SA :(
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  • thisslerthissler Member Posts: 2,055 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Since that WAS at launch, obviously pvp was very new. Tactics FED side were atrocious. To be clear, sitting still in space was considered a valid way to cap. For those of you that didn't know that, that may come as a surprise. But at the time no one really knew about acc/def. There was a HUGE resistance to playing the game the Devs implemented. This caused much frustration for the players. If you understand this bit, witnessed it, or even better both, you know what happened to this map. And to an extent what almost happened to Cap 'n Splode.

    I think player knowledge has been elevated to the point where this style of map would be very attractive to the faction that it originally punished the hardest. The Feds.

    PUT IT ON TRIBBLE!!! Turn it back on! Put the ball in OUR court to get people to test it out!

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  • jackabatjackabat Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Nobody played it because the horrible queues made it impossible to play. It would only pop with 10 member teams and was at the absolute bottom of like 30 other map options.

    It wasn't the most popular map beforehand, but that queue update absolutely ruined it.
  • crusty8maccrusty8mac Member Posts: 1,381 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I only got to the play the map once, and not even from the start. Thought I had been dreaming it all this time.
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  • thisslerthissler Member Posts: 2,055 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jackabat wrote: »
    Nobody played it because the horrible queues made it impossible to play. It would only pop with 10 member teams and was at the absolute bottom of like 30 other map options.

    It wasn't the most popular map beforehand, but that queue update absolutely ruined it.


    I dunno about that. The video shows one KDF vs 6 Feds. Ques were BORKED so badly back then as you may recall. Not just the "you will be removed in ten seconds" borked. You would get crazy matches like in the vid.

    And yes, the entire UI for ques was awful. Granted.

    Still, people DID play it. It was just awful. All that effort to get into a match and you got punished. At least if you put the time into joining arena your cnh you got to play for a bit. Sorta.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    It was mentioned as a possibility - not as a this is definitely why - that it never came back because it was in Gozer's pile and he was rebuilding it.
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