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Any chance STO will be doing BORG factions
stonecold59
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its been almost 10 years since this game was launched i'm surprised there still is no BORG factions or fleets it would be fun flying a Tactical Borg cube as your ship don't you think...let me know what you think
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They said no to Borg Cubes for logistical reasons many, many times. And to be honest, there is already Liberated Borg faction in-game via LTS. They MAY at some point do something with Co-operative Borg but there will not a Collective faction because you will not be control.
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Like leem said... we got Liberated Borg as an option for lifers, and there is the possibility of something with the Cooperative later on down the road, but playable Borg ships are pretty much DOA, and if you really want to experience gameplay as a Borg Drone... all you need to do is get assimilated and take your hands off the keyboard while your character proceeds to attack your teammates.
So the people AFKing in TFOs are role-playing assimilated Borg? It all makes sense now.
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Especially the Assimilated Borg:
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and escort us to your homeworld. We will join your alliance and assist you with tagging Epohhs and protecting fungi from bad Klingons."
But recreating the same thread over and over and over isn't going to change anything. Seriously, is this not an FCT by now?
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And then we'll get all those ginormous, super-bad(rhymes with donkey), warships which we all lust after with all our heart. Yeah, as long as Cryptic starts giving away the Tier 10 Tactical Cube we've always wanted. We'll finally be able to one shot all the content without so much as losing 1 HP. We'll score massive amounts of Dil every day!
We'll finally be able to play all the TFOs on Elite! Just like all the Big Kids do!
There is only one reason someone would want to play as Borg. They mistakenly perceive there is some type of advantage to doing so. They are operating under a pair of incorrect assumptions - the Borg ships they'd be given would function exactly the same as the NPCs, and, Cryptic would allow this.
Playing as the Borg? No thanks, I'll pass. Waste of time. Stupid idea the first time it was entered here. Still just as stupid all these years later. Plenty of player accessible races and factions and half factions in game already. And if the broad variety we have currently isn't enough, then we just might be playing the wrong game.
This is one of those posts that make me miss the post reaction that we 'tested' earlier.
There's plenty of multi-geometry designs that could be used for them to distinguish them from the villain Borg faction, have a bridge that's a combination of bridge lay-out of the faction/species that the Collective were harvested (pre-independence) from and Borg alcoves/interfaces.
I remember when Victory is Life was going to be released that someone asked about Liberated Borg Jem'Hadar, which peaked an interest from the dev (it's been a while, so I forget who was sitting with AmbassadorKael
There's almost definitely Borg content in the pipeline with ST:Picard. But Cryptic literally can't say anything about it, for obvious reasons. And that said, I'd really like to see how Picard handles the Borg before STO expands any Borg-related stuff.
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You do sound a bit pessimistic.
When Discovery was new it did not take them very long to integrate elements of the show into the game. Think we basically got the new uniforms at the same time the pilot aired! Sure ships and especialy episodes with voice actors take a bit longer.
Can you provide any roadmaps? Otherwise I don’t see anything not leading me to believe that Picard stuff will be well available by next spring already. I could even imagine the anniversary.
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So there is indeed no reason not to believe Picard will hit STO the way Discovery did back in 2017.
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Because the majority of Trek fans like Borg and only a vocal minority in STO forums do not I suppose? You know, everybody playing always only ISA and evil DPSer making it to easy too, and all.
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Because people can't use plain and simple logic....
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/ctpaqq/ten_forward_weekly_21082019/
To the folks who don't like this: sorry. But take solace in the fact that the money people spend on Borg faction stuff will fund your content.
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You know Picard is only coming out at the end of January, right? And I'd be shocked if STO would be allowed to drop any major Picard content before the show airs. The most I'd expect to see before next year are uniforms, because we've seen them a couple times.
If Picard stuff isn't on next year's roadmaps, then I'd be worried. But considering that roadmap only goes up until Picard's launch, I'd expect that's intentional so they can announce Picard stuff afterwards.
At the very best, I could think of a voting system come back, where players vote on the next Borg faction's action. But people would lose their damn minds if their choice wasn't the winner, of course. But newsflash, BORG ARE A HIVE MIND. If a true Borg faction ever did come into play, it wouldn't be the OP killer-faction that players are dreaming up.
I'd expect, if a Collective faction does come into play, that we'll have a brief tutorial-length 'Borg experience' mission or two, before we're liberated and get to actually play the character. And I think, if the Borg are going to come into the game, that'd be one of the very few ways it'd make any sense.
Also, money's on it being a mini-faction like the Jem'Hadar. Because, like the Jem'Hadar, a Collective faction would have to take place after a specific point in the story. In this case, during Delta Rising.
There was a interview on a website, I think it was just a couple months ago and I think it was with Al Rivera...he said there will be a another whole year of Discovery content unfortunately.
And of course we'll see more Disco content. Disco's third season is happening, in a new setting.
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