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First off love the game, been playing since launch off and on. Lifer status. I have many different sets fully upgraded across many toons. I figure out a build for whatever toon I'm playing and focus on leveling before jumping into the story, and then I usually play on advanced so that it is more challenging, but still satisfying when clobbering everyone. I think I'm okay at the game - definitely not a PvP player by any stretch but I know my way around the game and the different builds after experimenting for so long. I don't care about one-shotting enemies because it's just not fun when someone rolls in and just starts obliterating everything (wish Elite had a random), although I do have respect for those of you that wield such epic power. I think I enjoy the teamwork aspect of the game nowadays and have fallen in love with heals or off-heals, but going off in a tangent. . .
I said all that to say this: I really do not like the missions where you force me to play some other character or ship because usually that character/ship is substandard to what I went in with. This can lead to headaches and frustration at higher difficulties when I just have two or three skills and a weapon attack. It's just not fun. You even force me to play the mirror version of myself, but I don't have any of my skills. Weird. Why not just put a costume over my toon/ship so I still look like whatever it is you want me to be but I retain my skills and equipment. Or do something with these characters you force us into. Make them better or flashier. Having to play through a long mission as J'Ula makes me hesitant but now with Ascension. . .the level is cool but it's so frustrating having to go through it without my abilities. (If you like it that's totally cool, just dropping in my two cents.)
So that's it. I still love jumping in on randoms when I get on, so more options there would be nice if I had another suggestion. And maybe make respeccing free to experiment with impunity (at least in the end-game?).
Thank you for a great game. And thank you for the fun, RTFO players!
I said all that to say this: I really do not like the missions where you force me to play some other character or ship because usually that character/ship is substandard to what I went in with. This can lead to headaches and frustration at higher difficulties when I just have two or three skills and a weapon attack. It's just not fun. You even force me to play the mirror version of myself, but I don't have any of my skills. Weird. Why not just put a costume over my toon/ship so I still look like whatever it is you want me to be but I retain my skills and equipment. Or do something with these characters you force us into. Make them better or flashier. Having to play through a long mission as J'Ula makes me hesitant but now with Ascension. . .the level is cool but it's so frustrating having to go through it without my abilities. (If you like it that's totally cool, just dropping in my two cents.)
So that's it. I still love jumping in on randoms when I get on, so more options there would be nice if I had another suggestion. And maybe make respeccing free to experiment with impunity (at least in the end-game?).
Thank you for a great game. And thank you for the fun, RTFO players!
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Just terrible design in the first place, not sure who on the dev team keeps pushing these missions but take a hint man, we put a lot of effort and money into our characters and builds and it's not enjoyable when that is stripped away.
That said, I'm happy you and I'm sure many others enjoy those instances. I love the game, and if creature play brings more people in to it, then I'll gladly drop the difficulty and find enjoyment in it!
Actually it was Starfleet Command 1. SFC 2 was centered around the ISC Invasion.
+1 - Well stated.
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I play another game that does the whole play as another character aspect & that is Final Fantasy XIV. However, when they do it, they usually tell you in advance that you will be playing as another character. They also don't water down the difficulty when they do it, but there are points that it might be a little difficult since they tend to throw in stuff that you may not be used to doing. Since the game relies on the trinity Tank, DPS, healer roles, people may find that they have difficulty if they are put into a role that they do not usually have much practice with. For me, my bane is being put into a healer situation.
Peace...
I think I see where they are going with it this time and am curious to see if I am right, so I am willing to wait and see how it plays out before deciding if I like it or not. On the other hand, the sparse power tray is irritating at times already.
First, that damm bloody Colosseum mission, I don't play this game to go trapsing half-way across the map up a hill to get a few bits of trees, then back down the hill and up another one on the other side, it's annoying and I wish every recruitment campaign didn't force you to play this particular mission, it takes ages to complete, it's boring and it's a running simulator, all you do is run here, now run there and now back to here.
Missing uniform pieces: As in ones where logically you would think they would have the uniform options but they don't, for example, Fed off-duty has the shorts from the terrans, but for some reason the off-duty bare-chest options don't include the matching top parts like their uniforms do. There's also the fact that both Catians and Ferasians have a bare-foot/paw option in their off-duty outfits, but unlike the Gorn, this option is missing from their regular uniforms.
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If anything the Inquisitor version of our characters should have the best of our equipment/kits/modules...and even a surprise or two. Hes supposed to be the Terran Empires Inquisitor, the whole Empires, he shouldnt have junk that our prime universe captain wouldnt even give a BoFF