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prierin
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I sit here literally trying to comprehend Cryptics newest move with their nerforbitalstrike. We gained xp too quickly sure, whatever, moving on. We wanted a more challenging game, so they brought out npcs with stronger hulls and shields while cutting off drops and xp gain. Um, lolwut?
The ultra-high DPSers complain about the low DPSers ruining their games in the queues, so they are tweaked to allow for a difficulty where players are penalized for the failure of a few. Okay, doesnt totally make sense but whatever.
Now they have decided in their infinite wisdom that the hangar pets need to lose their manhood as well. If, and this is a big IF, they are tying hangar combat pet with level and gear, great. That makes sense. The stronger your ship is the stronger your pets are. Somehow I have the feeling it will not work out to this logic. Not to mention every time Cryptic tries to fix something the entire game breaks down.
Cryptic, please LEAVE WHAT WORKS ALONE and concentrate on the plethora of known and reported issues that are making everyday gameplay nearly impossible for a large number of your players. I am not your girlfriend and no, you cant fingerbang me into playing this game while you chop it off piece by piece until nothings left.
Enough!
The ultra-high DPSers complain about the low DPSers ruining their games in the queues, so they are tweaked to allow for a difficulty where players are penalized for the failure of a few. Okay, doesnt totally make sense but whatever.
Now they have decided in their infinite wisdom that the hangar pets need to lose their manhood as well. If, and this is a big IF, they are tying hangar combat pet with level and gear, great. That makes sense. The stronger your ship is the stronger your pets are. Somehow I have the feeling it will not work out to this logic. Not to mention every time Cryptic tries to fix something the entire game breaks down.
Cryptic, please LEAVE WHAT WORKS ALONE and concentrate on the plethora of known and reported issues that are making everyday gameplay nearly impossible for a large number of your players. I am not your girlfriend and no, you cant fingerbang me into playing this game while you chop it off piece by piece until nothings left.
Enough!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
You will forever be missed and never forgotten.
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My elite bops die left and right due to warp core breaches. They barely make a dent on the Borg on disconnected normal as well and you're telling me my pets need to be nerfed? Go play a non-lock box carrier and then get back to me on how that worked out for you. Have you even played a carrier before?
If that were actually the case then Id have to say the average playerbase needs to step up their game.
I am no ultra-dps machine. I enjoy a good fight. Being mostly a solo player, I depend on my pets to fight with me.
Two. Advanced Romulan Drones thats all I can launch at any one time. Mostly because, well, theyre advanced. Theyre SUPPOSED to do more damage and therefore we are limited on how many we can launch at once. Others fore off six or more.
So dont give me this they do more damage than other players! I dont care. If a damned drone can out perform an intelligent player then I strongly worry about that so-called intelligence.
Yes, that came out more harsh than I intended I am just sick and tired of he does more damage than me, mommy being an excuse for Cryptic to nerf everything.
I think this obviously fits in the "not working as intended" camp.
I press recall but my pets don't respond. Usually after pressing it 4 or 5 times they finally start to move. By then, it's too late. Please don't suggest I'm bad when the pet commands are broken and the AI is completely borked.
As I stated in the other thread, pets are probably being treated as NPC's, which makes sense since they pretty much are. This, however, is not allowed, since it helps the players, and if the pets aren't exploding several times a mission then they are helping. Before DR this wasn't a problem, since most people were done with everything but eSTF's anyways by the time they got carriers, let alone good pets, and the regular NPC's didn't hold a candle to eSTF baddies. But in DR even Normal NPC frigates have more HP than the players, and this is reflected in the NPC's known as player pets.
Once again, Cryptic did not anticipate the effects of a significant change. If they would just make Normal back like it was, and Advanced back to old Elite levels, we would not be having this problem, and a lot of other problems.
Yeah, pet commands are and have been spotty for some time. The AI is flakey on them, which makes this nerf even more problematic when combined with poor AI that needs some serious work.
This quote is patently false. It takes 20s from the time you issue a command until the moment they begin to execute it. So what you are saying is I should presss "Command - Attack/Defend/Intercept" then a split second later hit "Recall" and hope that by some slim chance my pet will manage to get away just before a warp core breach.. HAHAH.. too funny.
Now if it did work as you said.. you know you press recall and within split second all of your pets disengage from the enemy and fly back.. well then yeah.. you'd have a reason to say what you did and act like a smart TRIBBLE.. :rolleyes:
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Campaign: The Battle of Neverwinter - NWS-DOQXFA4ZD
Prologue: A not so simple plan - NW-DCJG75B9D
To answer your question absolutely not. because you did not put forth a logical or fair trade off. If they significantly boosted the AI, the evasion and resilience to AOE abilities, then sure a small trade off on Hull & Shields could be made. If they made them fly in actual attack patterns and strafing runs so as to at least attempt to maximize their firing up time, then perhaps a trade off on DPS could be ok. If they were immune to Warp Core Breaches, then well no. All commands should be instant no matter what any of these other possible trade offs would be.
As for the time it takes for pets to respond to a command.. Before DR the button said on it "After 20 seconds your pet will return to your hangar to regenerate health. Use the Attack, Defend or Intercept mode to undock the pets.
I just checked it again and the duration of time you have to wait for the command to be carried out isn't there anymore. In all seriousness I have barely touched my carriers since DR went live. Just focusing on my main who is in a Fleet Defiant.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Campaign: The Battle of Neverwinter - NWS-DOQXFA4ZD
Prologue: A not so simple plan - NW-DCJG75B9D
Drone ships did 4k+ pre DR. Most players in public queues did 1-3k. Cryptic didn't seem to have a problem with it at the time.
Considering the changes to enemy hp, nerfing the pets may not be the solution.
If they do "fix" the pets to pull the correct data, they really should be looking at buffing the crappier ones though. If they want top pets nerfed, they should nerf the top pets (droneships, mobulais, etc). Not the peregrines and stalkers and other stuff.
NO?
we dont complain
it's jsut if u pug ISA and theres some1 on the team with 2K DPS.. he doenst HEAL any1 and hes not gettign agro... he's just THERE.. well he does not belong in an advanced que
if high DPSers pug they need to be good enoughf to carry those ppl throu the gtame otherwise thou shal not pug and paly with other DPSers
[hate this 300 sec to wait FK this]
I have little confidence pwe/cryptic can pull this off successfully. They've messed up so many other things in this game which they seem to be totally unaware of or unwilling to repair.
That first tiny step can make things worse if it is not followed by the rest. Cryptic's plans have a tendency to go the way of the secondary deflector. Even if they came out and detailed their long term plans these and other changes fit into (which they absolutely should do btw) people would doubt said plans coming to fruition.
We need to see where those baby steps are going, or we'll assume they aren't going anyway except the land of random nerf nerf nerf, and that leads to forum rage.