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THE FALL OF THE OLD ONES!
baddmoonrizin
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The Halloween Event returns next week on all platforms! Enjoy two Patrols to go along with the returning Halloween TFO!
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11527833
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11527833
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My initial thoughts are that the Witches patrol worked quite nicely, but I feel the Skeletons might not have been reduced enough. Perhaps a few more days running it will change my mind...
As mentioned above, some variation on the enemies would be a welcome addition - vampires, werewolves, zombies, robot-zombies (again).
Whilst it's nice to have Hearts & Minds available again, there was a missed opportunity to have it count as part of the event too - even if just for 1 point of progress. There's been plenty of episodes of Trek that have wonderfully creepy premises and "Hearts and Minds" brings the episode "Impulse" to mind.
Are the Old Ones the only Hallowe'en entry in the Trek canon? Certainly not - insane Vulcans, macroscopic viruses, protomorphic viruses, malfunctioning maintenance holograms, homicidal xenophobic Cardassians, Devidians, etc.
A couple of the missions that have been removed from the game could even be added back as Hallowe'en-themed missions to add to the list of things we can play.
Finally, could the Squire of Gothos perhaps be convinced to bring some haunted shenanigans to STO...?
On the one hand, I like it. It is well designed. I also could feel useful on my melee toon again, simply standing near the candles and meleeing everything while using one of those very old kit modules for self-healing. I managed to do almost the entire mission solo - only to find out that the part with the skull and the Hags isn't soloable.
On the other hand, I didn't like it - because you need other players who also have to make themselves useful. I played the mission solo today because too many people were just shooting stuff without paying attention the other day. So I figured I might as well go alone, since those other players weren't really making themselves useful.
As noted, that wasn't possible, so I joined a team thereafter. This time, players were paying more attention than they were yesterday. Unfortunately, they were also luring skeletons away by aggroing them with player-duplication abilities and then through shooting all sorts of nicely coloured beams and creating volcanoes, probably hoping that something would be damaged eventually.
That was the case, but it also took five players longer to get past that phase than it took me on my own.
In conclusion:
These missions are enjoyable in that success requires more than the mindless 'press spacebar' that allows players to complete most of the other content. Missions like Cat's Tale bring back the best part of what ground content used to be about: positioning yourself in the right way to succeed, being in the right spot at the right time and actually paying attention to what needs to be done.
These missions are, however, less enjoyable because they also remind me that the rest of (the ground part of) the game has been less engaging and 'challenging', resulting in very few people apparently still being able to do anything besides spamming powers and pressing spacebar.
I am, as a result, not sure whether we need more of this type of content, or less.
Could we get a buff for the console though? It's very underwhelming. Maybe buff the damage based on EPG or CtrlX.