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What's your most memorable battle(s)?
mez83
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I was curious about what battle people remember and why. I have a couple that come to mind, but my favorite happened years ago, before the introduction of T6 ships. I was flying the T5 Defiant in one of the Romulan patrol missions. I remember it because at one point my hull integrity said 0%, but I somehow managed to complete the patrol without being killed.
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Long ago: Leveling in a BoP taking on tough space bosses, doing strikes and barely surviving.
Ground: Arena of Sompek unlimited with a competent Pug team, surviving many rounds to unlock titles.
Fleet Admiral Ventaxa Proxmire, U.S.S. Shaka Walls Fell
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Foundry series: Bob From Accounting & For the Sake of the Empire
When my first character took their shiny new Nova out for a spin in some klingon Deep Space Encounters. I was already tinkering with feedback pulse and epg stuff and I actually had someone send me a message that they had never seen someone use a science ship like that before. I was just happy that I could blow up birds of prey with their own cannon-fire; the compliment was a nice boost of encouragement to keep experimenting though.
Otherwise, I think most of my other fond memories are of cruising around in a DHC Bortasqu in the pre-Legacy of Romulus days(back before giant scimitars were everywhere). People were actually drawn to following a big 'flagship' around and instinctively escorted it like an actual fleet. Plus, it was fun going toe-toe with borg bosses on elite - taking their hate and dishing back in equal measure like you'd expect from a proper capital spaceship. I have several memories of soloing Red Alerts/B-gers in the deader hours of the night with it too.
There are plenty of stories about experiences with helping/teaching friends/strangers over the years(seeing their jaws hit the floor the first time they did a borg red alert, etc.), but I suspect those were more impactful for them than I/their stories to tell.
I suppose more recently, I've been enjoying running around in my Durgath and face-tanking the final wave of To Hell with Honor. Early on in the event when I was first tinkering with the build and nobody really knew how it worked yet, we got to the final boss spawn and none of us thought to focus on the boss that was constantly causing more enemies to appear. More and more adds kept spawning in and my ship eventually got overwhelmed by the ridiculous amount of stun-locks peppering the hull. As soon as my ship went up, I saw 3 other people instantly *pop**pop**pop* like balloons and I had tears of laughter in my eyes by the time we finished the fight.
And the Krenim Science vessel remains one of my favorites. It's a little slow on the turn rate for a Science Ship, but the Intel BOFF seats make it death on the half shell once you get the nose pointed where she needs to go. And of course it looks very good, in a 1930's Buck Rogers retro-cool sort of way.
I took a lot of concentration, to finish the objective and assist the other player when things were bad, it was good to play with someone that does not bail, no matter how bad things are, and well, i'm constant on my belief that "You don't bail missions.... no matter what!"
It was fun and exausting, but worth it!
thx. this story reminds me a similar old stf, when i begun to play at sto and we were also saved by a player.
My recent memorable battle was Edren IV advanced, after 2 minutes we were only 3 players; I have forgotten how many times I had been killed, same thing for the 2 other players; but after a long, long, long time, we have succeeded to finish the tfo. that was epic.
The Tholian red alert also used to be pretty dangerous in the free level 40 T5 escort. Explosionarity ensued often.
But it's not that version I'm talking about anyway. In 2012 (according to the patch notes I unearthed - time flies), a buffed-up Hulk-like mutant version of this ship found its way into the regular enemy spawns. Pretty soon people doing the old Romulan Front missions complained on the forums about Romulan warbirds being unkillable. So I replayed a mission to see what was what.
Sure enough, I found myself facing an improbably tough warbird. I destroyed it, but it took me at least 20 minutes. Aside from having seemingly very high damage resistance, it had RSP and Feedback Pulse so if you zerged into it, you'd either die or just replenish it's shields for it, which would then take a bit of work to wear back down. Plus it had the tractor beam + triple Heavy Plasma trick that they all use now. It may have been the first ship to use it. You had to poke it a bit to make it drop it's Feedback Pulse, then get away from it, then drop your damage buffs as FBP wore off (alpha strike was everything back then because you generated a lot less in the way of damage and crits than now) go back in and hammer it, and break off again as soon as it dropped RSP.
Basically, it was genuinely interesting enemy that you had to adapt to and fly tactically to beat and didn't rely on obnoxiousness like disabling your BOff abilities or arbitrarily hitting you through your shields for 120k damage (Borg STFs immediately after they were split into space and ground say "hi") to be difficult.
I'd like to see it make a return, but 8 years of power creep would presumably result in it just melting as soon as you sneeze at it.
Also many years ago, I was PvPing on a Commander level character (back when people did this) when a Klingon player flew his ship so close to me (3m underneath my ship or so) that I could detect him through his cloak. We were both heading in to help on opposite sides of the same fight between two other players. After a few seconds of wondering did he realise, I buffed up, nosed down and killed him. That was fun.
Don't really remember the details but we both had fun.
Anyways, this guy drops a Grav Well which proceeds to pull every single Mo'Kai ship on the board towards it. Just as they reach the Grav Well, he launches a torp spread which kills every single NPC in the Grav Well. During the part of the TFO where you have to rescue escape pods, this guy is moving all the NPCs away from the objective zones so the rest of us manage to rescue every single pod. During the last part, he comes up in the chat window with, "Hey Gang! Let's not have any AFK Penalties, alright? I'll gather 'em up and Y'all shoot 'em. Deal?"
Neglected to get his character's name. Shame on me. But to know there are people like this who play this game is good.
It was a simple, early mission but so freaking Klingon and fun
1. Some guy was spouting off about his AP torps being OP, so we did a 1v1 and I showed him that the Neutronic was better by repeatedly one-shot killing him.
2. Another 1v1, I got blown away by my fleet leader. Back when the Eternal was new, he showed me how effective EPG builds were and it really opened my eyes about the possibilities and about strategies that I never considered.
3. Definitely the old days when the Dyson Ground Battlezone was new. It was the most Un-Trek thing ever but it was amazing. Running around with people, shooting dinosaurs and getting tons of rewards fast. It was heaven.
Doing advanced Votex in a t1 connie or NX and some elite stuff in the same ships (even got PM's from team mates, when it ended, telling me how impressed they were seeing me do these in bare bones ships and doing well in them
First time doing "cutting the cord".
*rewinds time to before Legacy of Romulas*
Having to actually fight the borg, and other enemies, in a more tactical manner than "pewpew die".
I dunno, It was called Escorts Online back then for a reason. AP DHC Defiants and, eventually, the "Bug"/JHAS were the top of the meta chain because they could just park-n-pew their way through borg.
I remember I used to have showdowns with some fleetmates of mine to see who could chew through Khitomer Elite's sides faster between their AP Defiants and my Torpedo/Mine Patrol Escort. The DHC boat was more consistent(especially against spheres and their infernal shield-regen), but a few decent crits on the kinetic boat would rip through those borg cubes(and structures) in a hurry.
And yes as many have pointed out it was escorts on line and now its cruiser / Carriers online which I am fine with as well.
But yeah, those days were great. To struggle, to fight, to die, to hate and then to ultimately love those one sided battles was the best STO had to offer. I don't believe i ever died until I faced the borg and I will honestly say I was afraid to be in their sights. I would always try hover in the background until the dps would force me to be a tank and then it would become a struggle that I would ultimately lose.
It left such an indelible mark on my character and actions in this game that I built head canon around it and modeled my toon and boffs after it with their back stories.
It was most certainly a golden age of battle for me back then. Far better then anything we have now. Closest thing would probably to hell with honor in terms of fire power and pew pew but no where near it in fear factor and dread.
Maybe someday we will get an antagonist that strong again.
I just queued and prayed for a good group back then. The only time I look to do a prebuilt was with Cure Ground, but being able to post "Can tank Armek" on my tac and sci chars made that a pretty quick thing.
So had to approach things from a bit more tactical stand point, and hope other knew what to do. Now, you don't even have to know what to do. All you really have to do is show up. I mean, as it is, if people downloaded a bot to play the game for them, it would be no different from 90% of all the mobile games out there that autoplay it for you.
But this does make me nostalgic for the old borg invisi-torp bug. Just, you're dead from nothing you know of, until you check what happened.
Though, I do have to say, life got in the way not long after LoR dropped. So, I missed a great deal of things until I managed to come back at Delta Recruit. I can say, that using he T5 patrol escort you can get at level 40 all the way up until I got the vorgon xyfius heavy escort, made some things a bit itchy.