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Delta Rising isn't what I expected it to be. I was expecting a lot more story
archer01
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So far I am level 54 and I do not dislike the expansion but it isn't what I expected it to be. I was expecting a lot more story. From the trailers and discussions with the devs, I was thinking the expansion was going to give us lots of episodes with lots of cool stories in the Delta Quadrant. The few episodes I have done so far were quite good, not so much the patrols though. It disappoints me to know that I only have 8 or so episodes left to play before I complete the story arc. I had been somewhat disappointed with recent seasons because they had very little story. I was thinking they must be saving all their story for Delta Rising, but I guess...not so much. Given that I have only completed episodes up until the first level 54 episode, my opinion may change.
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It also doens't help that the Mission itself rewards a pitiful amoutn of SP and basically no usable items, at least the patrols don't.
We will see how much the patch really does to the HP sponges, the percantage reduction is by far not enough, but we don't know how much the scaling is changing the final HP yet. I have Zero interest in doing any of the patrols ever again, even the Story parts will be horrible for leveling characters in the gear you might have picked up along the way.
I'm still waiting on a dozen different kdf things... I doubt I'm ever going to get em.
pvp revamp I doubt is coming too much work for too little reward. and their probably never going to get around to adding secondary deflectors to older ships too many people freak out if the show any sign of not making alot of new ships.
I disagree on the story part though LoR was great but with all the complains about not enough trek stuff I rather like the new patrols... you want be a starfleet captain his is alot of what they do... with a little more pew pew but people freak out if there is not alot of pew pew. and their lowing those high hp levels a bit so back to the 30 second fights... shame though it was kinda nice with fights actually take as long as the did in the show... when it wasn't annoying.
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yes for the next year. I think the number they gave was 9 to 13 months on delta stuff but don't quote me on that.
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I'd welcome more story too. I'd like to see New Talax turn into something like New Romulus, with an adventure zone and aiding the Talaxians set up. (I'm only at level 57 currently and was hoping this was also included)
Sure more is coming ... can't wait till one FE every week ... wait, that's not a thing anymore ? :P
I also think that this would be a wonderful opportunity to add a completely diplomatic type mission to the scene. We could have a Utopia on New Talax, it could be full of battle free mission. (OK maybe one or two wouldn't harm)
So in a way, this is half the expansion in terms of story.
The claim that it's their best expansion yet makes me wish they'd give us the office copy not the half empty grindathon that was released last week. As much as I may dislike branding someone as a liar if there's not sufficient content to gain 10 levels without umpteen hours of grinding then to have a system in game that requires an effective level of 110 is kind of mind bogglingly false.
How much time do they think a lot of us have to dedicate to the game if they want us to grind that out before the next "best" expansion comes out thats just an empty sector. Or are they assuming that since voyager took 7 years to travel as far as they did in the delta quadrant that was a good number to aim for!
I can see why they released the gear upgrading beforehand since if you want to level at a decent pace you need something more than purple 12's to prevent elites patrols in delta becoming a mindless drudge. For some reason the minimal rewards from missions are mostly 12's so there's no incentive to swap those in.
Other odd thing about the patrols, they could have taken a page from season 1 of voyager and had us fly into nebulas instead of slugging it out against the inevitable 5 waves of tedium.
Shortly before the patch with the intro of the upgrade system and the crafting system that grind immediately became 20/80 (20%play and 80% grind). now i was still able to swallow this because there was once again an end game coming, yes the dill hole got bigger but once my grinding to get back to the top of the hill was over i could let my everyday game play fill that hole after i hit lvl60.
But now i find out that you are taking the lvl60 dillithium away.... and why. not because it wasnt a great idea, not because it wouldn't lvl the game play for all players at end game..... because someone found a way to exploit it......
Well that's were im gonna say Stop.... Hold up...... One Moment Please...... instead of punishing the loyal players who still "actually want to play" and who are trying desperately to find a way to still enjoy this game, why are you not punishing the people who are exploiting your system. ban them, kick them, steal all of there worldly goods.......
But please stop punishing your player base! Those of us who are desperately trying to find a reason to keep playing.
That "rumor" was DStahls (or "Cryptic ~2012") original idea to level up to 60 (because ... well ... Fleet Admiral), about 2-3 years ago ... which obviously didn't happen, instead we got "Delta Grinding" ...
Minescape: 4 out of 5 stars
All that Glitters: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Capture the Flag: 4 out of 5 stars
The Dragon's Deceit 4.5 out of 5 stars
Alliances: 4.5 out of 5 stars
The patrols would have been fun if they didn't have so much lag at times you really can't even fly the ship where you want it. I don't know it that was how they envision it because of the Delta Marks you need for the Rep System. At that rate going to take many days of playing to get to 100K.
* 3 after Alliances I haven't got up to yet so I can't comment on those.
I too was expecting more out of this Delta Rising they had a such a huge Marketing over it but not living up to it. I guess the scope was to be a full scale but but in the end they had to cut corners so let's add more patrol missions and let's make it very hard to win.
Time will only tell!
And that stupid, stupid, stupid race.
I am not Tom Paris, nor am I Jonathan Archer. I am a science officer. I have absolutely ZERO interest in personally flying in a shuttle race.
Don't do the shuttle it will really mess-up your skill trays if you add an additional shuttle in Delta Rising. They really need to fix that issue with loading, saving, locking tray layouts..
Borg Disconnection PVE - 4.5 out of 5 stars
Bug Hunt PVE - this only I did under my KDF Tac General Officer which walked away with 419 score just using a simple hand pistol. LOL
Time will only tell!
I doubt the patch is going to fix enough because the HP scaling is out of this world. Last night I watched my wife do "A Step Between Stars" 3 time to get the Dyson set and since she was level 55-56 (and the ship is horrible) the space combat parts took ages to complete.
It's pretty funny when your ship is using mostly whites and greens and even the Borg spheres have 150+k hull on normal difficulty.
Yeah.
Winter is coming... :P
Sarah Knightly - Co-leader; Frontier Explorers - U.S.S. Witchblade
Rias Gremory - Leader; Frontier Marauders - I.K.S. B'ullwinkle
Yes, they said that it would be story light on initial release, with more to come.
With the way the released story has been...while pretty good, has been somewhat disjointed with several twists and indications of branching into other stuff. Part of that could be the grind time one has between episodes where you lose part of the storyline.
But, from what I have played; it's almost like the initial release is a framework for a lot more content.
Sarah Knightly - Co-leader; Frontier Explorers - U.S.S. Witchblade
Rias Gremory - Leader; Frontier Marauders - I.K.S. B'ullwinkle
I wish they'd followed a certain beer slogan when working on the content for DR...tastes great, less filling, but it is what it is at this point. Maybe the actor costs were too high for the extra content.
Your level 54 and already here to complain about content. Just lol! Its a huge expansion with exploration just how Cryptic promised us!
Where did they say that, out of curiosity?