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I want more Borg content. I hope I'm not alone.
jatszompc
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It would be nice to have a new, great-looking Borg story and Delta Quadrant's territorial and content expansion.
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I found the voice acting to be horrible for those missions as well. Almost at random in some sentences the volume would spike up like the person was shouting but for no reason needed in the dialog. They clearly rushed those missions out ASAP before they were done, the fact that they plan to still be releasing discovery content all the way into May kinda says it all. I dont care if Discovery stuff gets added, but do with with the same care as what was given to the Gamma content at minimum.
Id like to see some real TMP era/Ent era stuff and I dont mean the temporal cold war. Release a set of Ent era/TMP skins for the temporal ships even. Ent era could focus on the Romulan war the creation of the neutral zone and TMP could focus on stuff around The Undiscovered Country the klingon war and the bitterness between the KDF/Feds leading to peace and healing the wounds of war. This could also allow for the Ent-B mission where kirk was lost, and a mission to the planet he died on near the nexus.
Now that Picard is coming back a full on TNG expansion wouldnt be bad either, tons of missions could be made from that era. A series of missions centered around the Ent-D.
There just isn't much out there right now that could make them a threat again unless Cryptic pulls something like they assimilated some unknown thing from unexplored space.
it would be nice to see them actually have some interesting mechanics that give them that feel they had in the shows, as right now they feel off compared to the Borg in the show an boring to fight. I have suggested before bringing back the idea of them regaining the ability to adapt to weapons an shield types they are attacked with, or by via assimilating some new more advanced technology, which if they assimilated some more advanced technology would be quite possible to have happen credibly story wise. Make it that we as players need to use our boff abilities to counter different mechanics they use, like adapting to our shield type thru using specific boff/captain abilities to reduce or reset the adapt stack, or thru the same method using different boff/captain abilities to work around a stacking buff they get against the energy type they are hit with the most/hardest, which would be just a basic concept of what they could do with it an still would be more interesting to fight against in my opinion.
Voyager made a huge misstep with the borg and then just did their best to trample them into the dirt, once they realized the borg were still more popular than the enemies they were trying to pull over, using the borg. Given our current standing, i think the best way to bring in more borg content would be through the Cooperative. Either use the cooperative to fill that borg void, or really, bring the borg back in a much darker, more horror driven.
We've beaten the borg. Janeway beat the borg. Picard beat the borg. Archer did... something, and there were borg there.
But for the Borg, that was business as usual. But what happened when they realized humans were a threat? the queen herself went back in time to stop us. Where the stand now, it would be more interesting to see an erratic borg. A hive without the queen. Like a rabid, dying animal, the borg need to return desperate and frantically searching for something. I would even suggest, making it more of a Halloween event, where the defunct drones are more like a zombie invasion than usual. If they were to do a proper borg content drop, they would need a much smaller scale. Sto makes the same mistakes voyager does. Its tries to go too big each and every time. The better option would be to reel it in and make it more personal. You shouldn't be saving the universe from the Borg. You shouldn't be erradicating the borg once and for all... for the fifteenth time... But your ship has been taken, and some of your main boffs have been assimilated (story only, they just get grayed out and given generic borg voices), and they need to make it a mission on a much smaller playing field. Make it hit harder to home, and make it much darker than the usual STO additions. And i'm not talking that devidian mission on the station...
I would absolutely love to see more borg content, i just honestly don't think that Cryptic has what it takes to make it interesting, at the moment.
RIP KDF and PvP 2014-07-17 Season 9.5 - Death by Dev
The borg is similar to Stargate's replicators. They're too strong so they can not stay long as enemy.
But they are too badass to be gone forever.
By the way, when we are in the future in the Delta Quadrant, the Borg Collective and Coopoartive have no representative by the time pact. So... what happend with them.
It's classified...
The potential for the Borg is there, but without a new view of them on screen, (film or television,) I doubt we'll see them in anything but existing content.
Now if NuTrek IV or Discovery involve the Borg, it'll be all over the game.
Make them assimilate an infinity lockbox, lol.
As for story, I think there are a ton of different ways you can make them a legitimate threat again. We have tons of threatening foes running around with powerful technology for the Borg to assimilate now (Voth, Na'kuhl, Hurq, Vaadwaur, and even Iconians). The borg obtaining any of this technology would make them a dangerous player in the galaxy again.
I hope they will not mess up.
But I want post Janeway story rather.
Right now, they're a joke.. nothing but cannon fodder. Sure, they can drop your shields but you can hull tank them all day so who cares?
I miss the days when I was a newer player and the site of Borg made me tense up and prepare to battle for my life. Now I just see them as punching bags that are easily dispatched in just about anything but HSE.
Just give 'em a scan beam that can dupe the players' abilities.