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iceeaglex
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Would being able to bring 1 or 2 boffs to ground elite stfs make them playable again? Make them more popular?
As it is now, 99% of people play space stf because they have pimped out their ships and its fairly easy.
But with the battlezone showing how fun it can be to bring your boffs with you, this could bring back ground maps.
As it is now, 99% of people play space stf because they have pimped out their ships and its fairly easy.
But with the battlezone showing how fun it can be to bring your boffs with you, this could bring back ground maps.
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Yes completely agree here,but if and when cryptic allow this,remains to be seen.
It would be a miracle if this was brought in.
Elite Ground are still easily playable now. You don't need to bring boffs with you.
That being said, Battlezone was a great move and I think Defera should be revamped to support a similar style of play.
They badly need some AI adjustments before any more content with boffs get added. Even something as simple as "don't stand in the mortar fire circle and die" and "use hypos only when injured". Until that happens, I just can't support more boff content.
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However, would it be balanced?
Until a missile-using enemy shows up, then one salvo puts them down because they flat out refuse to get out of the purple circles of death.
They are, and always have been, nothing but a force multiplier. They need to be more intelligent about their surroundings and be less like Gradius options with ADD.
Although I'd love to see Defera revamp, in terms of making it actual battlezone, with similar concept to what we have in Dyson. Would encourage people cooperating, rather than running through the zone like bunch of wussies & stealing from other players...
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Considering that KAGE can be pretty much one man the entire way until you reach the room and you only need two people that know what they are doing to get the room done. Same with CGE where the 2nd/3rd is just to micro manage the generators while IGE is pretty much the only one where you need a competent group of players due to time limit on optional if you are going for it and trigger lines.
Other than that ground STFs you can pretty much 1 man everything with the right build. Hell you don't even need to fully spec into ground for it just the minimum amount and know where to go and its easy. A lot of people just hate ground because they don't know what they are doing and that's the primary reason why people fail ground STFs.
I know we should not be using pick up groups but that is hard to do fairly often and it would be nice to be able to do these in even poor pick up groups and bringing a couple BOFFs with me would help a lot with that.
Yeah, that's what I was suggesting.
I'm pretty sure that in certain places on Defera you can use your Boffs. I've seen people call in named Boffs (i.e. Not "Security Escort III") in the Power Plant interior.
The rework would be awesome tho.. I love to kick the Borg shins', but it gets highly discouraging when people just run through the zone and/or steal from others...
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They cannot act flexibly, whereas a human can.
In fact, in the boss fights in IGE and CGE they would be a libility if you tried to use them. With the AI the way it is, they would just drag you down. They would get assimilated half the time, and the other half they would just end up getting hosed, requiring you to take the time to resuscitate them.
As platewearingbird mentioned, they are merely a force multiplier.
Ground ESTFs are a easy already, all you need is a a halfway decent team.
If you need to do a ground ESTF, form a team in one of the channels made for it, EliteSTF, or whatever the public one is (I forget). You can ask your fleet members for help. Pugging ground is a mixed bag.
They are NOT hard. The only thing that make them difficult is the stupidity of other players.
Learning the strategies and getting halfway decent gear will get your further than giving the borg more things to shoot at.
Everyone does space because it is so stupidly easy you could let your cat play. People have so much fire power now that space is facerolled. There is absolutely no challenge in space ESTFs, even in pugs.