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Pi Canis Freighter Assault: no cloak?
generator88
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Hi everyone,
So the Pi Canis freighter assault is pretty cut & dried for me at this point on my first two KDF chars. Cloak, run out ahead of the transports to the second marker, decloak & attack. Using this approach, I completely avoid the first Starfleet vessel to warp in, and have time enough to get the second reinforcement and 5 freighters for the optional.
However, I now have my first KDF character that is not flying a Klingon (cloaked) ship; he's an Orion in a flight-deck cruiser. Anyone have any advice on how to make the attack when you're not in a cloaked ship? My first impulse is to get an alternate Science officer standing by who is trained in Mask Energy Signature, and simply keep doing what I've been doing. Anyone got any other approaches to share?
Thanks in advance.
Generator
So the Pi Canis freighter assault is pretty cut & dried for me at this point on my first two KDF chars. Cloak, run out ahead of the transports to the second marker, decloak & attack. Using this approach, I completely avoid the first Starfleet vessel to warp in, and have time enough to get the second reinforcement and 5 freighters for the optional.
However, I now have my first KDF character that is not flying a Klingon (cloaked) ship; he's an Orion in a flight-deck cruiser. Anyone have any advice on how to make the attack when you're not in a cloaked ship? My first impulse is to get an alternate Science officer standing by who is trained in Mask Energy Signature, and simply keep doing what I've been doing. Anyone got any other approaches to share?
Thanks in advance.
Generator
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I'm sure your DPS is great, but as Kahless said, "a petaQ with high system mastery is still a petaQ." (Well, he should have said it...!)
I'm sure your DPS is great, but as Kahless said, "a petaQ with high system mastery is still a petaQ." (Well, he should have said it...!)
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Gravity well might come in handy, I never used it though. The Scorpion fighter device from the vault was handy for providing distractions, so were the deployable turret device.
Even so I found it a challenge doing it solo, I think the trick is crowd control, holding the freighters so they don't get too far away while you deal with the escorts and raid the first few freighters before they get to the next marker and another escort jumps in.
and take it from there.
Id be sure to have something to disable/hold the forward ships, if I was a sci, to help keep em in place. grav well, tractor beam, TB repulsers might be a good choice as well, to push em back far enough to deal with the escorting ships first.
Your Javelin deals 125417 (89066) Disruptor Damage(Critical) to Tholian Recluse. > lol
From the spawn-in point, prior to moving, I angle my ship so it's pointing as far upwards as possible, then go full impulse. I keep this upwards trajectory until I'm over 11-15k higher than the Starfleet vessel, then I'll level-off, and come back down at the 2nd Marker. If I go up too high, sometimes I overshoot the Marker, but it's no big deal to turn around and come straight on to the freighters (still plenty of time to get them all).
With some practice, this "going overhead" avoidance technique is just as effective as going straight through with cloak. So much so, that to avoid any possible sightings-while-cloaked, I do this same tactic whether I'm cloaked or not.
Good luck, and happy hunting! :cool:
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
One more thing I never explicitly got: exactly what triggers the arrival of the two Starfleet ships? Is it when the freighters arrive at the first two markers?
Oh, and lordhavelock, if you're full-on cloaked, you can zip right through the freighter convoy, I thread the needle like that all the time. Heck, on my sleepier night's I think I've bumped into the freighters while cloaked, without incident.
-Gen
I'm sure your DPS is great, but as Kahless said, "a petaQ with high system mastery is still a petaQ." (Well, he should have said it...!)
I don't exactly know the triggers. I've never honestly paid that close attention. I'm always too busy keeping track of which freighters are which. Between needing to disable them, raid them, and possibly needing to disable again, if (when) I get interrupted, all the while not killing any one of them too early (I don't know if it's a bug or not, but I've had the mission/optional mission fail if I actually kill a freighter too soon, but not always (which is why I think it might be a bug)). So yeah, never really know when Starfleet is gonna show up.
Perhaps it's from my old PvP days (where players can see through cloak if you get too close). Perhaps it's that cloak sometimes fails (like when a BO opens his mouth to tell me something)... I dunno, I just don't have much trust in cloak in this game. That being said, I literally busted out laughing by your description of bumping into a freighter, and not breaking cloak, while sleep-raiding. LOL
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
Later on,
Gen
I'm sure your DPS is great, but as Kahless said, "a petaQ with high system mastery is still a petaQ." (Well, he should have said it...!)
tlhIngan maH taHjaj!
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
I have also done this with a similar tactic with my engi in her Tor'kaht as I often forget it CAN cloak :P.
Do the freighter assault like I suggest and you can't fail it. The pitifully weak reinforcements are not dangerous enough to kill a player-controlled warship. Your worst worry is accidentally destroying a freighter that you've burned too much with a warp core breach. If you lose one that way, you're okay, if you lose two, you fail the mission.
If one of them repairs and decides to move again just attack it till it stops again. I know its probably not the easiest or most efficient way but thats what I learned on my own and seems to work fine.
you have to look for a trio of ships in sector space, usually 2 freighters and a fed sci shiop of some flavor, fly near them and the option to attack freighters should pop up.