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Zahl System in "Better With Friends" Undefeatable
admiralwuff
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When patrolling the Zahl system during the mission "Better With Friends", the hospital ships are guarded by two Vaadwaur cruisers. I managed to defeat both of them (after 15 minutes of fighting, I might add). When I went back to rescue the hospital ship, there we three artillary cruisers. After taking 25 minutes to defeat them, I went back & found four of them.
I think they might be continually re-spawning at the hospital ships at a quick rate. I am not 100% sure though.
I think they might be continually re-spawning at the hospital ships at a quick rate. I am not 100% sure though.
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Yes they do respawn, i did the mission with a fleet mate and took nearly and hour to complete. It can be done but is a pain.
Thanks for backing me up :-) . I'm glad I'm not the only one this happens to.
so did I beat it in 45 min in my regent so youre point is ? , it takes far to long for what has to be done even with mk xiv weapons etc
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Why should ANY solo mission take 45 miniutes to finish? That's just pure rubbish.
Just pointing that out.
My gear is all upgraded to Mk XIV, from weapons to consoles. When you have 4 systems to patrol, 1 of them shouldn't take 45 mins to complete.
I'm just glad to see I'm NOT the only one having trouble with this DR content.
One Heavy Artillery ship took me 3 hours, and multiple respawns to beat...one-on-one.
I had to upgrade my ship to T5-U, retrain all of my BOffs, reorganize my power tray, and basically relearn space combat...which took another 2 hours on this same fight...just to narrow it down to just under 45 minutes.
And I still had 2 more systems to "patrol", and a story sub-mission before completing the actual "Story Mission".
It took me over 4 1/2 hours to complete this one mission...including the 3 hours it took me to figure out how to defeat that ONE ship.
Anyone as experienced as a player whom has been in STO since before launch, has learned to easily adapt to the new mechanics that were constantly being changed during the first couple of years, and can beat any STF like it's a walk in the park (i.e. Me), should not have to go through that.
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My character Tsin'xing
I found a work-around, in that if you approach the ship from the opposite side you can get the tow option and activate it before the enemies aggro on you. This worked for the second part where you repair ships as well. On the third part however, you do need to destroy the ships that spawned attacking the vessel you're saving before they will move on.
It does need a rework, there are too many ships to contend with and I did it on normal difficulty.
However I found that it was the next stage that was also buggy... A damaged ship was not interactable.
I did manage to interact with it but I wasn't able to clear the ships around it. they basically killed me in my squishy ship and the damaged ship reset without a way to get it flying again.
here is the a video of Blockade Runner on Elite difficulty. sorry about the voice volume, i'll be re-doing this a little later with better sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ewX3NJ-fE
For the hospital ships, I just "hooked up" to them and pulled them to safety. I just moved fast enough to get outside the artie targeting circle. I had no idea they were killable, or even locatable. I didn't try to find them.