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And the Oscar for the Most Fun Grind goes to Tides of Ice!
doubleohnine
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I really really REALLY love that mission. Never gets old. Sure its not as fun grinding the first 5 just throwing snowballs, but once you get a snow gun of some type, OH HELL YEAH!
And I cant believe Im saying this, but the snow borg need a BUFF. Now that most of us have snowguns, when 3/4 of the instance is well equipped, the borg snow queen goes down WAY too easy. The second she popped up, I got two icicle shots into her from my Impaler gun and she was dropped. Her fight should feel longer IMO.
Id like to see regular snow borg get a 50% hitpoint buff, borg bosses get hitpoints doubled, and the borg queen buff her hitpoints X5.
I like how the side runs have two spawn points for the snowmen, so when the first wall falls, they can spawn in front of you and in back of you. Then its just hilarious fun chaos trying to run them down so they dont get past. The line must be drawn HERE, NO FURTHER!
When we all have good guns, and turrets and launchers, we're too good for the barrage.
Maybe its perfectly balanced for half the instance or a little less to beat it, but Im seeing 3/4 or more of the instance at the event and we're MOWING them down and fighting for kills lol.
Has anyone had a gingerbread man yelling BLUE LOZENGE RUN in your dreams yet?
Edit: I change my mind about the buffs on page 2
And I cant believe Im saying this, but the snow borg need a BUFF. Now that most of us have snowguns, when 3/4 of the instance is well equipped, the borg snow queen goes down WAY too easy. The second she popped up, I got two icicle shots into her from my Impaler gun and she was dropped. Her fight should feel longer IMO.
Id like to see regular snow borg get a 50% hitpoint buff, borg bosses get hitpoints doubled, and the borg queen buff her hitpoints X5.
I like how the side runs have two spawn points for the snowmen, so when the first wall falls, they can spawn in front of you and in back of you. Then its just hilarious fun chaos trying to run them down so they dont get past. The line must be drawn HERE, NO FURTHER!
When we all have good guns, and turrets and launchers, we're too good for the barrage.
Maybe its perfectly balanced for half the instance or a little less to beat it, but Im seeing 3/4 or more of the instance at the event and we're MOWING them down and fighting for kills lol.
Has anyone had a gingerbread man yelling BLUE LOZENGE RUN in your dreams yet?
Edit: I change my mind about the buffs on page 2
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No, for me it's Jeri Ryan shouting obscenities.
Long story, but it involves a Trek convention, a burlap sack, a life-sized Chakotay cutout and 3 jars of Frosted Mini-Wheats in the back of a Cadillac El Dorado. Good times.
oh and why does the line on the far right almost always fail first. anyone else note that?
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I used The Impaler once, barely got any rewards. Swapped to the Snowblower and just hosed down waves, continued to get 2-3 per wave.
yes the queen doesn't have enough hp once everyone has a gun, but I am assuming they tuned it for when people are just using snowballs because she would be impossible to kill if everyone was just using snowballs I think.
I guess the zone would have to be full in order for he to die to all snowball throwers.
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I'm betting kills not damage. I hit em fine but snowblowers always get the kills and I'm too lazy to buy a new gun. plus I like the one I got.
that not it, I see it fall before that most of the time. I keep a close eye on that so I can run to help if needed.
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Was just in one with maybe 2 gun-armed men per lane at the start. We were quickly overwhelmed, and one of us would get frozen and then they just started bum rushing the ice walls. Reinforcements didnt show up in time. Before we knew it our backs were against the tunnel! It was an ice bath down there! Frickin Omaha Beach with frosty borg men all up in our grills! I heard some crying for their mothers. That was even more fun than being among a full instance of captains to fight along side.
The regular snowmen and mid tier bosses need NO buffs. Forget I said that. At the end, there was maybe 10 of us fighting the queen. The fight lasted longer, but she still goes down faster than the snow Baron in gingerbread land.
Maybe Cryptic figured after all the fighting, go easy on us with the queen. But hey, instead of the 5X Hitpoint boost I proposed, a 3X queen boost would be just fine for a well armed dozen man team.
SO.MUCH.FUN.
Capt. Will Conquest of the U.S.S. Crusader
Tides of Ice is MADE OF ICE.
Really classic.
I agree with the hp boost on the snow queen. GIve more reward,s but more hps. Sometimes i get there and theyve killed her already.
I love how the snowmen combine to become something different. Love it.
Thanks dev. That part of Winter wonderland. Perfect.
now can i have a plush borg toy or pet? Pretty please. I shall call him Bob of Borg.
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I think their ship designs are fugly, their combat centric game focus ridiculous as long as they're determined to avoid fixing PvP or heating up the War storyline, I think the lengths they go to shoehorn monetization and grind into the game are frankly insulting, and their PR and Dev-Doublespeak disrespectful of their players intelligence.
That being said.. Tides of Ice is content done correctly.
Imagine a PvE zone where you (as a Fed) are facing a horde of unshielded Klingon Bekk (enlisted) as they try to get through your lines of defense and take a Federation facility.
You could have virtually the same mechanics and gameplay in a PvE Daily that people would actually play and that makes sense for the storyline of STO.
One that can be tweaked to be for any faction. Klingon Warriors defending a facility against the Feds, Romulan Republic troops defending a facility against the Tal-Shiar..
Or, imagine a large (20 vs 20) PvP Queue with two lanes and shields disabled, forcefields and turrets, attack and counterattack..
Almost called it.
I think Tides could stand to run more often, but otherwise I like it.
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Would probably be fun. But I think what makes ToI so much fun is that once you earn yourself a gun, we're all fairly balanced fighting side by side. I saw some saying the snow blower is the way to go, but I feel pretty strong with my Impaler, and Im always getting2 trinkets or so after every wave.
Im always proposing a holosuite planet or resort run by Ferengi for this game. The same concept could work well with an old west theme. Give players a balanced variety of guns, and defend a fort from waves of bad guys. Its the equal player balanced gear that makes it so fun. I dont feel like Im getting seriously outgunned by my fellow player like I do in regular PvE sometimes.
Ive not tried it yet, but is there a heal for the snowman freeze? I see my health going down right before I get frozen. Would be cool if you could equip hot chocolate consumables, and pop those off to stay warm and healthy and not freeze so fast in the heat of a snow borg battle.
Capt. Will Conquest of the U.S.S. Crusader
Yeah, the race really needs to go next year, and use that real estate for something else fun. Tides of Ice just earned itself a PERMANENT spot in Winter wonderland, and I hope its a ride they never take down.
Like I said in another post of mine, march of the assimilated wooden soldiers would be fun for 2015. Maybe run it like a contested zone. Imagine 4 big cabins (1 each for 4 close proximity medium sized control zones) (with roofs you could get up on and fire from, and interiors big enough for an indoor battle if the bad guys breach the doors) up in the hills, surrounded by tall hills and tall dark pine trees on all four sides. One thin lonely winding path leading up to the cabins, and a transporter pad option from the promenade that teleports you into the chimneys of each of the four cabins so you come in like Santa Claus. The players must hold the 4 control zones, as assimilated wooden soldiers and boogie men come out of the trees in waves attacking all four cabin locations at once in waves the players have to fight off. Fight from the warm cozy interiors, the cabin rooftops, or go up to the tree line and take them on face to face and take the fight to the forest. THIS would be fun, and a great compliment to Tides of Ice instead of the lame unfair ice race.
Also, redo the center lake area, where theres a icy obstacle path that runs along the outer edges of the lake, to be an ice skaters jump park to have more fun with the ice boots. Just jumping the center downed tree isnt as much fun. Give us more stuff in that area to get a running start at to jump. Throw in some more spontaneous NBA Jam style goofy jumps as we jump over stuff on the path.
Capt. Will Conquest of the U.S.S. Crusader