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After upgrading two Fleet T5 ships to T5-U and upgrading all my gear on one vessel to Mk XIV and leveling from 50 to 56, here are my observations.
The new DR scenarios become very predictable. You begin to expect that after you go to a spot or scan an item that several enemy ships will appear and that you'll end up fighting them for the next fifteen to twenty minutes. After the first encounter of this kind, there are two or three more...rinse and repeat...and then the scenario is over and you're awarded your Delta marks. Next!
This can get monotonous. The only positive aspect of this is that the enemy ships hit hard enough to keep you engaged. If you start napping, you will lose. Once you learn the enemy weaponry and what best to do when you face them, it gets very repetitive.
Being honest here. I spent money in order to get my ship's gear up to Mk XIV. If I hadn't, I wonder how I would have survived some of these scenarios. I can't imagine what some players are experiencing who are leveling their weaponry, shields, engines and consoles the hard way. On a Fleet T5-U Tor'khat, my hull is now over 80,000 and my shield facings are over 21,000 with decent resistance ratings, all close to 40%. So I think my ship is decent. And yet some of these ship combat scenarios leave my ship spent. Again...I can't imagine what other folks are experiencing. Maybe I just stink at this game...could be.
The storylines are fun and amusing and it's good to see and hear the characters from Voyager. That's a big plus obviously being a Star Trek fan and a fan of that particular show.
My suggestions would be for the developers to create some scenarios that don't involve any combat at all. If possible make them so that depending on your responses, there are different outcomes. These scenarios would give less experience and reward, but would add to the overall experience of DR.
The new DR scenarios become very predictable. You begin to expect that after you go to a spot or scan an item that several enemy ships will appear and that you'll end up fighting them for the next fifteen to twenty minutes. After the first encounter of this kind, there are two or three more...rinse and repeat...and then the scenario is over and you're awarded your Delta marks. Next!
This can get monotonous. The only positive aspect of this is that the enemy ships hit hard enough to keep you engaged. If you start napping, you will lose. Once you learn the enemy weaponry and what best to do when you face them, it gets very repetitive.
Being honest here. I spent money in order to get my ship's gear up to Mk XIV. If I hadn't, I wonder how I would have survived some of these scenarios. I can't imagine what some players are experiencing who are leveling their weaponry, shields, engines and consoles the hard way. On a Fleet T5-U Tor'khat, my hull is now over 80,000 and my shield facings are over 21,000 with decent resistance ratings, all close to 40%. So I think my ship is decent. And yet some of these ship combat scenarios leave my ship spent. Again...I can't imagine what other folks are experiencing. Maybe I just stink at this game...could be.
The storylines are fun and amusing and it's good to see and hear the characters from Voyager. That's a big plus obviously being a Star Trek fan and a fan of that particular show.
My suggestions would be for the developers to create some scenarios that don't involve any combat at all. If possible make them so that depending on your responses, there are different outcomes. These scenarios would give less experience and reward, but would add to the overall experience of DR.
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The same stuff that was removed earlier this year, random space maps in which you warp in and kill X amount of enemy groups and warp out, because it was subpar and not up to quality standards is now half the so much advertised and praised expansion content.
Way to go Cryptic......way to go....
Why did you think they were removed in the first place?
Steps:
If this is the case, I actually find it rather sad that they had to use what are essentially foundry farming missions that they deemed to be exploitive after the foundry divas threw their tantrums about their content not getting played enough to be ranked in the upper end of the search listings.
I say IF because as of last night I finally broke down took one character and played the first DR mission ?Mindscape?, but thought it was such TRIBBLE I refuse to play through the rest of DR.
A nice change of pace from the 45+ minute destroy all the Vaadwaur ship missions.
Treasure your memories of that mission because you'll never see anything like that again unless you replay it for a ridiculous low amount of xp. Everything later will be the same "go there kill 5 waves of X" type "missions" over and over again.
Not true.. last mission is "go to kill 1000 waves of bad guys"
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A number of the patrol missions are very different. I won't post examples as they are spoilers. But I can think of quite a few that are totally different than kill x amount.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
nah you going to have to because the ones i have played is kill 5 waves of kazon and vaadwaur you sure you not confusion a story mission with a patrol ?
system Lord Baal is dead
yeah ok spoiler alert.!!!
the shuttle race, hide behind the asteroid and ambush, the blockade runner - tow the medical ship. use the holograme to convince allies to fight together. The solar flares borg cube thing.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some from the first set. And I haven't played the last set.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
wow a shuttle mission wow cryptic never done them before
system Lord Baal is dead
Yeah well too bad I tossed out any and all shuttles due to the buggy type problems a person can get just from owning one. But hey, one less stupid mission I have to do!
Saying that, i'm level 56, and about to start the level 56 missions, so I can imagine I will run into a few more patrol missions before I hit 60.
Just out of curiosity - to those who have reached 60 - how many openworld map locations are there in the Delta quadrant?
Playing Foundry mission makes all the grind go away because you take breaks from the Rep, refresh yourself (so to speak) and then get back to it.
Have you tried making a mission in the foundry.
Worst..
UGC...
"Tool"...
EVER....
I made one mission... NEVER again.
That's what I was afraid of. I'll have to start looking at it.
So bad, I had to login to the forum for the very first time to respond to this.
This patrol is AWFUL. Kill three groups of Vaad, then repair three ships (read: kill three smaller groups of Vaad), then tow two med ships (read: kill two more small groups of Vaad). All while the map is spamming infinite AoEs that can potentially wreck your shields / hull at an inopportune time, sometimes two and three at a time. By the end, I was wishing "leave the Talaxians to the Vaadwaur" was an option. Worse than a 5/5.
A 5/5 with an ally and a periodic mass dmg / debuff. More of the same in a slightly different format.
I DID like the asteroid hide & seek, but that whole second to last patrol block just made me utterly sick of shooting at Vaad.