Tower Control?

colonelmarik · February 2021

So, I'm still leveling my new Klingon. I've basically been just making my way through the story arcs, so he's now L34, a Captain flying a Tier 6 ship.

I come to the Tower Control mission, and what do I find? Gigantic fleets of Voth ships that INSTANTLY kill him. Between the more or less continuous tachyon beams (meaning NO shields), the constantly invulnerable enemies, and FAW beam attacks that do tens of thousands of damage per hit... there's simply no way to do ANYTHING to them. I can't even get through a single fire cycle before my ship is dead. I launch photon torpedoes and I'm dead before they hit their target. I get that this is supposed to be group content, but the enemies are firing FAW attacks that hit everyone, so even if I were to team with a group, I'd be dead instantly and getting nowhere.

This makes me wonder... what's going on? Did they not make this mission viable to players at all levels? I mean, my main did this mission some time ago, but he was already at maximum level. My new Klingon is L34, and is ENTIRELY incapable of doing the mission.

This can't be working as intended...

tom61sto · February 2021

Yeah, like somtaawkhar mentioned, Dyson Sphere is for level 50+ and doesn't scale. Just ignore anything there until later, I don't think you even need to hit 'Skip', just do the next set of missions instead.

spiritborn · February 2021

Personally what I did was wait under cloak until other higher level players came about then hit just enough mobs to register the mission then leave ASAP.

It's possible to do that at lower level hard but possible you just have to be patient about it and not engage the mobs until their attention is not on you.

foxrockssocks · February 2021

Tower Control is buggy anyway, but as said, you have to wait. Skip the Dyson Sphere stuff entirely until you're 50+ because it doesn't scale you up. The missions like Surface Tension you should be okay to do as they should scale to you, but the open world sphere stuff just skip for now.

dirlettia · February 2021

I did that no problem at all in my Kor BoP. Just find a tower with other players and do a cannon scatter volley to get a hit on each of the enemies and you get the credit when the other players kill them.

foxrockssocks · February 2021

colonelmarik wrote: »

Hrm.
Just did that patrol mission in the Delta Quadrant as part of the mission chain there, the Nular system one where you help the Romulans raid a bunch of Vauwaar ships.

So, the first several groups are fine, but the last battle is idiotic. I seem to remember it being idiotic even on my max level character, as dozens and dozens and dozens of Vaudwaar warp in, and spam those blue artillery things around you continuously until you're dead. Seriously, they just never stop, there's literally no way to survive the nonstop barrage.

Not sure how they thing that's balanced...

Yeah I just did that one myself. It is pretty absurd combining the new wave mechanics with Vaudwaar's AOE barrages. I managed to survive it just fine, but only because I was in a tanky build, and running it on normal.

rattler2 · March 2021

Reverse Shield Polarity may help with survivability as well as those are energy attacks. If I get locked down or can't escape the AoE, I pop RSP and let them feed my shields.

As for Tower Control... I believe its meant that those towers are supposed to be a group effort. So I'd wait to see one or two other players working on a tower or going towards a tower before going in.

rattler2 · March 2021

I try to avoid that patrol like the plague myself.

Tower Control?

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