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Infected: The Conduit ~ combat begins prior to normal start
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Have seen combat begin prior to the normal start time several times over the past few weeks while playing Infected Space normal and advanced. This time it seems to be pets that pre-engaged the enemy. Anybody else getting this?
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What I don't know for certain is whether it is the pets or the Borg ships that start the fight. I have seen the pets firing their weapons and the Borg ships moving toward us and firing theirs even as the intro timer is ticking down.
Join Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
At least that was the case until I last cared to use it. No idea whether that's fixed by now.
It does seem to be the most problematic with Carriers in that forward position that launch pets forward, which can end up within weapons range of the enemies. On Advanced and Elite this shouldn't be AS much of a problem due to difficulty scaling, but still it would be a problem... and a potential source for trolling people if it CAN cause the TFO to become stuck. Especially during an event showcasing that TFO.
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I've seen someone using what I think was a Trajector Jump whilst the briefing was happening; it's not just pets launching forward.
It's the starship trait Invasive Maneuvers. It's been broken since day one.. if you activate EPTE and Evasive Maneuvers during the briefing, you launch forward and can move and engage enemies.
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Did I miss the memo, but people are going right first instead of left sometimes?
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That or sometimes split up and attack both sides at once. Events bring in a lot of people who don't do the traditional fleet runs and so they are more chaotic than non-event runs.
Since they - really - revamped those missions, players in PUGs have been doing that, yes.
For some reason everyone just does different things nowadays.
Its Power Creep. We are so powerful compared to that particular TFO that tactics aren't as much of a factor anymore because we can literally bumrush Blitz the thing and win. Tactics might still be a thing in Elite, and are helpful in Advanced, but nowadays Normal is almost literally faceroll win.
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I hope no one gets into trouble for activating powers like these…
Also, most of my runs so far this event, I go right and everyone else goes left, and I still finish the 4 generators and the shield before the left side does… I have a grav-well toon built much like yours, rattler2, but I don’t use it often in pugs because holding down the center doesn’t speed it up as much… Some days I’m just looking to get thru the daily as quick as possible (like on weekdays), unlike weekends where I can take my time…
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Yeah, I get that more people might be able to solo the mission or at least half of it.
But usually the people trying it don't get even close to succeeding. Not least because they usually blow up one generator and then engage the spheres/cube above the transformer...
Except it does break objectives, if the initial group of mobs gets destroyed before the briefing is over the shields on the nanite generators won't drop making them impossible to destroy as you can't target them (and by extension the TFO impossible to complete as one the primary objectives is to destroy the generators).
Which traits are these? I have the, uhh, whatsit called, Enhanced Gravity Well? The one from the Pilot Escorts that makes it last 40 seconds with 40 second timeout? What else are you using?