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What Did you Think: Binary Circuit
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As with Survivor, we're going to make new threads for new content, so you guys can give us your feedback!
What did you think of the War Games Queue: Binary Circuit?
What did you think of the War Games Queue: Binary Circuit?
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http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10052253
Why are you not rejoicing?
Sending the Borg Drone to attack the other team has two problems:
1) Afterwards, all my slotted kit modules are removed from my hot bar. Annoying and makes me think I won't do it again.
2) If the other team is progressing slower, you summon a very slow borg drone far away from any enemy forces.
The invisible floor puzzle needs a lot of team work, but I figure once people have gotten the hang of things, it will go faster. Just like all the other puzzles.
Easy. But then everything is.
The competitive aspect is a total waste, though. It would work exactly the same with just one team.
- you can spawn kill the opposing team (not going to say how)
- You can covershield block the path
- you can drop covershields to prevent your teamates ducking into the alcoves to dodge the electric orbs
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Some nodes have the option "attack the enemy". Choosing that option turns YOU into a Borg and teleports you into the opposing team. It's limited duration, but OMG it is so fun. As to the mission itself, pretty cool. I would love to see more MONSTER play, because it's PVP with attitude and immersion. Let an entire team be Borg or Breen or whatever for limited periods of time, just like you have it now with the Borg Drone. Need to fix the modules kits being removed from your tray when you return to your normal self.
I quite enjoyed it, but I think (and this goes for all PvE's really) the game needs to do a much better job of telling the players what to do. Get better the more people play through - but there are a ton of people in the queues I've been in that have no idea whats going on (me included to be fair).
I think it was Undine Assault that did this best - the mission briefing was a video narrated by Tim Russ I believe that explained what to do nicely. Make it unskippable the first time and that would help a lot I think.
As for this queue, I (personal opinion I know) despise mazes in video games - so this is my least favourite of the 2 new queues. That being said, the invisi-floor puzzle was neat, and the rest of the map bar the maze was pretty decent. But, for me personally, this'll get much less playtime than the space map
Seriously, try it once. There is a good chance you will not notice at all that there was PvP involved here.
The only way that anything in this queue could be considered hard is if you don't have working eyes or very basic problem-solving skills. If you can figure out how to find this website, you should be able to figure out these puzzles.
There is an optional monster play part of this queue that, while fun, is actually more counterproductive than anything. It removes one of your players from helping with your team's progress, is completely ineffective if the other team is either significantly ahead of or behind yours in progress, it currently removes all kit modules from the tray of the player that does it, and it's really easy to ignore for the other team. Aside from that, this is no more PvP than playing pinball, or Duck Hunt or whatever in 2=player mode. It's even no more PvP than trying to get 1st place in a CC queue.
Oh, and for players in general:
The pathways. Someone has to stay behind at each console lighting the path for others as often as possible, and at least 3 of you need to go to the 2nd console, where again, one needs to light the path as often as possible while at least 2 more go to the 3rd console, where at least one needs to stay and hit that console as often as possible while at least 1 goes on to the end. If you're on the paths, keep going and ignore the NPCs shooting from the sides. Oh, and don't get too rammy and fall off the edges. The paths are pretty forgiving, but don't push your luck.
The maze, well, this has a bit of random difficulty that's beyond your control. A bad layout is just a giant time waster for everyone on that team. Good luck on not getting one of those. They do seem to be rare.
The tube. Please pay attention here. No matter which team you are on, the pattern will always be ( facing it from the door where you came in) Blue on the left side, yellow on the right side. There are even short bars at the both static end pieces that show you this, but some people keep spinning an aligned piece out of alignment because they don't look. This is truly a simple puzzle, just kill the Medic Drones before they reset your pieces.
And it's far from diabolical, just bring 4 players, one stays at each console revealing the path for another to pass until the last player reaches the winning console.
Or if the whole team fails to comprehend a simple "puzzle", get a screenshot-taking app and check the paths by yourself.
There may also be a few abilities allowing to show the path with their FX.
I nearly did the screenshot thing, but how longwinded is that? And like I say...it's fine when you or someone are completely across the bridge to make it permanent, but when you're trying to get there, it's a nightmare!
There is at least one that I saw When I was following somebody that left a veneer on the path for a short time. Sadly, I have no idea what it was.
I guess it's the same for me, though when my teammates are standing by a console and shooting NPCs, but not illuminating the path, I do kind of wish that I had an Ether Medallion.
Hast thou not felt ashamed of thy words and deeds
Hast thou not lacked vigor
Hast thou exerted all possible efforts
Hast thou not become slothful