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sheldonlcooper
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Surprised no one started this discussion - so I will.
Halloween seasonal event. What do you think? Nightmare or sweet dream?
They put so much effort into this. Sadly for me it was a nightmare. Not sure I can drag myself through 13 more times.
Halloween seasonal event. What do you think? Nightmare or sweet dream?
They put so much effort into this. Sadly for me it was a nightmare. Not sure I can drag myself through 13 more times.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: "We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, it's all ancient history. Then - before you can blink an eye - suddenly it threatens to start all over again."
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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All in all, nice repurpose of the Boreth temple, its definitely Halloweenie, but the prize is just a goof and this COULD have helped some players that are going to fall just short of the 3500 event campaign point mark. That would be the only reason I'd see myself playing this event daily, let alone buy it out, IF it granted 700 progress points (I'm falling about 300 point short of the grand prize, lucky me); but it doesn't, so I won't.
Threatening stance works well. Having a lot of pets or spam stuff out seems to be counter productive. It doesn't do threat any good and obscures things. One of the best groups I ran this with pretty much just walked through the entire thing with a minimum of fuss.
After that last event on ESD that seemed to involve little more than killing ever spawning streams of enemies until a timer ran out this may take some time to adjust to.
A few tips in team chat were really appreciated. Completion time seemed to be around 20 minutes. Didn't notice if there was an advanced version of the event available.
normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
colored text = mod mode
One of the things I had been curious about from the onset is whether or not control effects would work on skeletons. It turns out they do. The ramifications of this is that things like Paradox Bomb can be used to pull skeletons into the light. Likewise, it can be used to drag them out of the light too.
This is exactly the kind of content I like. Ones that force you to use your abilities with finesse rather than take your abilities away. More of this please.
A few small points of criticism: I noticed that there is a voiceover throughout the TFO giving instructions on the mechanics, however the FX on the voice makes it so garbled that it's easy to tune out as background noise.
Many times when lighting a candle, another player would try to light it at the same time. The result would be that the candle would flick on and off again. This led to a moment or two where (comically) we couldn't get the thing lit because when one would light it, the other would keep putting it out again.
Upon finishing a section, the appropriate door to open doesn't always glow making it appear you have to back track rather than move forward in another direction. This happened in the Spider Room.
For me, this is where this can get tedious because despite the GOO telling you what to do, players tend to ignore that.
Like here. Before you encounter your first skeletons, the GOO tells you candles get rid of their invulnerability. :P
Like I mentioned in the post just above yours, the FX on that voice is very overdone. It's easy to tune it out as background noise. Something I think they should consider fixing.
I'd have to agree. Just pugged it twice. A little finesse can go a long way.
The first group was a spectacular flail by those very strong in the belief that just spamming everything must eventually result in a win.
The second group was amazing. No pets, minimal abilities or spam that obscures views. Everybody worked as a team with controlled AoE's and threat to pull critters into the light. Folks did things with care. Outstanding!
That has to be the most rewarding and immersive 20 minutes I've had in game for a long time.
Cat's Tale seems to reward thoughtful gameplay and I find that refreshing.
Yes, combine the spooky voice with a bunch of weapons fire and ability spam and you get something like "You've been phased, you need to Klaatu Verata N...mumble mumble ...." Necktie? Nickel?
I said the words. Well, most of them.
Who's gotten to pay a visit to the ghostly fortune teller? Seems there's a few creepy surprises hiding in this TFO.
It seemed that even though the group struggled with the mechanics, we got there eventually. I appreciated the fact that it wasn't just run and shoot, and the map was definitely atmospheric. Thumbs up for me!
I've got a Ghostbusters costume ready to go with my next run. I also reran Spin The Wheel, so I've got a proton pack ready to go too!
The first time I came to the book shelving part, I had the worst time of it because while I was trying to match the book with the proper shelf the rest of my group was just running around randomly hitting the closest interactable they could find, instantly resetting the entire thing. If people aren't going to read the part of the mission that actually requires them to read, they certainly aren't going to do it in the middle of a boss battle.
Be reasonable.
We need more TFO's like this.
Cirran
Right now, most TFO can be solved by being fast and smashing the spacebar. So of course, unless you're used to more "intellectual" (as in, thinking for more than 2 seconds, not Myst levels) gameplays, many PUG for this TFO are gonna be disasters many times for the first week(s).
For me, it doesn't bother me at all as I love games that reward basic patience, analysis of the surroundings and exploration. And I play when I have time so I can afford watching DPSers getting confused for a while before I tell them what to do.
But what this game should try to do is keep progress "separated" between players. For this TFO, for example, the library part is close enough but it could be better by saying which player is right and which player is wrong (one time I thought I got the book category wrong, but that was because the teammate interacted a wrong one at the same time as me), so whoever is wrong could at least try to stop embarrassing themselves and wasting everyone's time (the tech is here since the dialogue whether you're phase-shifted or not is different, at the same time during the final boss fight).
I like reading the dialogue, it helps and it adds character,
Forget TFOs, we need more missions like this, this TFO actually makes you think about how to complete the objective rather than blasting it, it made me feel like a Starfleet Officer again, Starfleet was more about outsmarting your enemies rather than killing everything insight, if you just want to mindlessly kill stuff go play a Klingon.
BTW I loved watching Skeletons get assimilated what kit module was that?
A couple gripes, though :
The book puzzle section lacks clarity... While I did try to follow the clues, the lack of a clear explanation as to the game mechanics at play here made things a bit tedious, especially with other team members randomly and carelessly clicking stuff.
Reward-wise : a magic wand? Well, why not, but please, devs, can you stop flooding us with Kit Modules, and instead give us items that qualify as "Devices" ? I mean, half of my 130+ slots inventory is filled with Kit Modules that only my Captain can use. Devices, on the contrary can be equipped on Bridge Officers, and they'll regularly make use of it.
This, so much!
Overall, while it was interesting, I'm not entirely convinced I want to grind this for two weeks straight just to get a magic wand that will turn one enemy into a cat briefly. Not nearly enough bang for the credit, IMO.
Because overall, it's a pretty straightforward puzzle:
-it's a library
-the librarian needs your help with book-sorting
-there is a "interact here" light appearing every time the librarian asks about a book
-the categories are visible above the shelves
-the titles of the books flat-out says which category it's from
-from there, it's simple to guess what you're supposed to do
The only thing that is annoying is that it can be hard to see where the book you need to pick up is, especially if there are candles nearby as it's orange-ish yellow lights covering an orange-ish yellow interaction FX.
Done it twice, never ended up in a Library in either one, Today one of teammates ditched so I had to fight Shar'let the spider and her hoards of evil Spiders minions alone, as an arachnophoebe it was not a good time, BTW where is the Library anyways?
That said, as a Fed, I kept getting the library, while I got the other rooms each as a different faction, but I also got the spider room only as a JH, but I had a human teammate.
So I dunno if it's "bad" luck on my side or if there is a specific algorithm on how players are affected to a different part of the castle with the puzzles.
Also, once everyone has finished their own puzzle, you can enter their part of the castle (I did this to try and get all cats that the rest of the team may have missed to spawn. It succeeded, but lighting all candles and finding all cats doesn't give you any accolade)
Like others said it is a foreign tradition and IMO irrelevant to STO. Just because they found a dark TV airing for TOS of a similar episode does not mean to create a 14 day event. Perhaps 1 day might have sufficed. Then again we already have Dinos with freaking lasers shooting from their heads. Just hoping they will have the EASTER bunny event next