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archer6621
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so I never rly post anything if I do it I mostly just post to ask something and that's it but is this game even worth playing anymore lvling sucks now just to get to 60 exp has been nerfd big time and well it seems that tacs have have been big time nerfd I normally can kill a ship with in 2 min but when delta rising came out no now it takes longer tbh I think the cryptic/pwe has taken the fun out of sto.
*and before any1 asks I did spend money on this game only 40$ tho and that was it*
*and before any1 asks I did spend money on this game only 40$ tho and that was it*
ya im a red shirt so what im a master at being cannon fodder so what?:cool:
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Why are you not rejoicing?
In your case i can understand why the game is nomore fun...i mean, before DR the game offered absolutely ZERO challenge. Now a tiny bit more than nothing to succeed.
Before anybody mentioned that upgrading a build comes with a huge price tag, i need to say that it doesn't. atleast not for succeeding in PVE it doesn't.
Tactic, Team play and Boff layout > than excellent gear, period.
Find people you like to play with, people who can maybe teach you something along the way and the game becomes fun again in no time. Refuse to interact with other people in this MMO and the game is boring. Choice is yours alone, STO can be a very entertaining game if you let it.
- Judge Aaron Satie
DR content is too fragmented to enjoy. Play a content mission, then get stuck in purgatory until I amass enough points to unlock the next story mission.
Before the changes to the Queues, I could alway find something fun to do. Now the queues suck because of ramped up HP and mandatory optionals that nobody likes to play. I'm just doing winter event stuff, at the moment.
Not sure what I'll even log in after the holidays.
Hell, I've made over 60 beam arrays this morning trying to get the three mods I want...it's going nowhere fast, but with none available on the Exchange - well, what's a guy to do, right? They're not something that I need - it's just something to dork around with and test. Some would find that insane - a chore - you name it...I'm getting a chuckle out of some of the combinations.
I disagree with you.
My character Tsin'xing
You're doing this too? lol
I think I've made over 150 over the past 4 days...
I rolled a new character to fly escorts (as my main tac captain flies cruisers, and figured I'd use one of my character slots). Levelling from 1-20 has been fun so far. Know what was the most fun? Starbase 24 and Gorn Minefield at Lieutenant Commander level - not only are those queues popping for the most part - you can drop in minutes after the mission has started, feeling like you're arriving to save the day.
Now - the "fun" new additions? Story content is great. But the grind is immense. So, I'm not doing it. When it became apparent I was going to hit a story wall in DR, I finished up the Kobali Prime chain, and went about my business. I got my main up to 60 now, and am ready to tackle the last few story missions, mostly grind free.
The queues are...not fun to pug, so I don't anymore.
Spec points and gear upgrades, I'll get as I get, and can stomach. I'll run a patrol here and there. Really wish I could repeat the alpha quadrant patrols for variety, or even had the genesis missions back to break the monotony. Upgrading my equipment is taking a long time as well. I've spent plenty on this game, and am willing to buy ships or whatever, but not buying dil to upgrade gear, line I won't cross.
So - if you're not having fun - try something new, roll an alt from a faction or profession you haven't tried, level up to 60 from there, run some lower level queues, meet some new people (and quite possibly place high up). Still plenty of stuff to do, and alot of it doesn't cost millions of dilithium.
im up to lv60 on all my characters, ship mastery is coming along fine and captains specialization is working as I expected it to.
I not fussed about crafting stuff but I am doing the daily bonus just to level up my characters, and upgrading gear to mk14 is working out quite well for me.
I really enjoying the winter event and the T6 breen ship was an unexpected bonus.
all in all im happy with the way things are although I know they could be better.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
The real fun will be once I've got four of them and start to upgrade them...I can easily picture all four them ending up with the same mod I don't want for that fourth mod. Wheeeeeeeeee!
As an aside, [CrtD][CrtH][Dmg] appears to be the most common combination that keeps coming up.
I've been doing this too, as I am officially giving up on cannons for my ship.
However, the randomness of this process makes me wish I had the ability to force choke someone.
So far, 1 beam with the mods I want, 4 of a slightly different flavour that sell on the exchange for decent coin. The rest? Trash.
But here's my frequency, so hail me maybe?
I think it has fun elements to it still. Over all it is fun. What in my meager opinion isn't fun are the game joy sucking conditions relating to how PvE's, XP, and Reputation marks are now done.
What I find the most un-enjoyable thing about the game is that no matter how many times you report a bug, NOTHING IS EVER DONE TO FIX IT. That being said, overall, I enjoy playing the game.
I often just enjoy walking about and looking at all the nice little details put into everything from the environment to individual characters. I have to say that I really like the look and design of the Q WW map.
I find the space combat fun as well as some of the ground stuff. I hate the way the ground GUI and player controls are handled though. So many other games have done it so much better that when I play STO ground missions I feel as though I am trying to drive a car while facing backwards with one hand handcuffed to my opposite foot, using a defective mirror that looks forward out a spider cracked windshield.
To say the least, ground controls SUCK. And no matter what you do to avoid enemy fire, there is no cover. None. So you might as well just stand in the open and not worry about anything but putting beams down range. But the maps often look great so I have that.
Second, there are levels on STO that are totally optional, but almost necessary as you go and do other optional content. For example the R&D is totally optional, unless you begin to get into min/maxing or any queue over normal, then it starts to become less and less optional.
But is the game fun... to me? No, not since DR... and probably not for a while before DR actually.
Personally I'm not a person who likes to do the same content over and over and over again hour after hour... day after day. It's just not fun to me. I'm not a min/maxer so couldn't care less if my level XIV beam weapon has the so called "necessary" proc's on it... as dictated by a couple of self-appointed DPS cookie-cutter police, so I'm not going to try and create the same beam weapon over and over again 200 times.. until I get that perfect match.
DR came out, new content, and I was all over it... until I discovered that basically it was spend an hour doing exactly what I hate.... grinding the same missions over and over and over again... until I can get to the next little piece of new content... to go and do what I hate again.
So... to me no it's not fun and why I generally don't play anymore. I can count the number of hours I've logged into STO the past month on two hands with fingers left over.
But that's me. Other people's milage may vary.
Of course the game is not fun anymore. Its horrible actually. Especially the space part and the lvling. Wanna know something "great"? It seems they screwd up again with the exp. Got today a "wonderfull" 200 exp
The game totaly sux right now, all the fun is gone
I noticed that too. And the most rare it seems to be [CrtD]x3. Got 3 or 4 weapons with [Acc]x3, [DMG]x3 and [CrtH]x3 untill I got only one with [CrtD]x3. Very strange.
About the ships, I'm glad they are tougher and won't die easily. They should be like that since I'm going against a ship same size/class to even larger than my own. So I expect them not to become cannon fodder and like meh next. I'm actually having to use Boff skills where I never had to use before. And making a challenge.
As for the ground, even more fun. They don't sit there and shoot or just run to you. Now they actually act like a real person. So it makes it more a challenge.
For once the game isn't just shoot and move to next. It takes some skill.
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Yeah some skill to spam the spacebar till you fingers fall apart... vey much skill indeed.
I take it you have all your stuff used by space bar alone. :rolleyes:
I use all kinds of keystrokes and mouse clicks. For once they are up to the level how I used to play WoW. Where they had far more stuff to use.
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Far better, I believe, to keep my weapons on autofire, and use my BOff abilities by clicking on them (and saving some of them for a preferred moment - if you have BFAW, you're fighting a single ship, and you know that ship sometimes launches fighters or drops mines, you watch for the telltale and then hit your BFAW at that moment).
Lol i play Wow too, and there is no comparisson, there you get so manye powers and builds that you even need macro sequences, here you need a cruiser with aux2bat and with that you can get the job done by spaming spacebar.
Try running an escort solo sometime. Gives even the simplest combat some degree of challenge.