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Infected The Conduit Elite STF ?
starmanj
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What is Up with Infected The Conduit Elite STF lately Spheres racing all around the map going in and out of the main Conduit. Also really getting hard to Target them. This started happening since last few Patches. LOL seems the invisible beam I back as well. Anyone else notice this?
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"You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon, taH pagh, taH be"
Borg adapt, learn to CC.
Kirk's Protege.
I don't believe I said that I actually have a problem with them.
"You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon, taH pagh, taH be"
You know, it would really be cool if the Borg AI was at the level it actually could adapt.
I find it more fun to pop the gens right away, grav well the spheres, then pew pew them before they can reach the transformer. Sometimes I will even pug it to see if I can kill all the spheres before the rest of the team gets the transformer down
It's not until the transformer blows that they start shooting back and spamming EptE, so if you can take them out before then, things go much quicker.
LMAO. This!
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Yeah, the spheres have ADD and go zooming off to nowhere. Really annoying. You can miss the bonus timer just due to having to run them down.
Dude, I toss GW3 on them and they act like it ain't there.
Great, now we are going to have to deal with chatty borg as well. Thanks a lot!
However, it's not recommend if the group lack of sciv or dps. If so, better stick to the old way.
Or....
Its a new Borg tactic - Divide and Conquer. Make everyone go skimming off after spheres and the ones that seem to get lodged in the gate are in-fact lures to draw unsuspecting captains in for the gate to then spread its special "love"
Also, they are more frustrating, not more efficient.
Finally, running away from players is not something I expect from a cyborg race that ignore fear.
EPtE serve no purpose except frustrating the player, and probably avoid the AOE that were used in ISE. It doesn't make ISE more difficult, in fact, it's easier. It's just more frustrating. Instead, they could have add EPtW, or S. More DPS or more tank, that would have been more interesting.
Or maybe some AOE, like GW3.
About CC, my fully buffed GW3 (130aux power) can't stop them when they use EPtE.
When the spheres start running away double-quick time....I want the background music to change to the Benny Hill chase music! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9w2KPT7B0
:P
It is a shame it is happening more often than not these days....
A lot of NPCs are using EPtE2, among them the Borg spheres.
Because Grav Well is the only CC ability ingame...
You can still take a tractor beam and snare 1 sphere, while 10 of them keep running. Very efficient.
Grav well works exceptionally well against targets not using a movement buff. Expecting it to be the end all of AoE CC in every possible situation is ludicrous. There are more than sufficient options available to chase down and tackle high mobility targets.
The number of people pining for NPCs to not just be bags of HP throwing out one-shots, yet who immediately turn around and complain when said NPCs gain some form of in-combat ability other than more HP or bigger hits will never cease to amaze me.
Yep, I haven't found that hard with a good team either, typically clear it and get the optional ...... typically we take out the inital cube/spheres, then go for the left cube, then simultaneously take out all 4 gens then the trans (can be done easily before the nanite spheres get there), then mop up the spheres, move to the right one (repeat above), mop up most of the spheres, and then stay well ahead of the tac cube, take the gate out and finally concentrate on the cube...... of course you get the occasional fool who goes straight for the a gen. while everyone else is hitting the cube.
Welcome to the STO forums, where you can have threads simultaneously complaining that estf's are too easy AND that things have been added which make it hard to get the optional.
Um... the point is that giving the borg super speed makes them look stupid in the game. How can you not see that this isn't just people whining about it being "hard" but that the spheres just look dumb zooming around, plus their tendency to get glitched is an actual problem.
The complaint isn't about difficulty, it's about a poor choice in AI abilities...
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In fact I~ most of the STF's could do with a bit of am umph, so why not put in daft silly music, at least I laughed when I thought of chasing the Borg Raptors or the Spheres, whilst listening to Benny hill Chase Music !!!!
Now, if you can elaborate on how it makes the STF more difficult, please do so, I'm really curious. I find the STF even easier, as the sustained firepower of a sphere team was much greater than a single sphere running away from the others.
I also think OS torps are stupid. In fact, they both belong in something devs should avoid : frustrating fights. There are no skills involved in chasing a sphere. It's not even difficult, anyone can solo a sphere. And even with my Vo'quv I can catch it, sooner or later.
As I said, EPtW or EPtS would have been a better choice to increase stf difficulty.