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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
One of my issues with the game is the lack of difficulty. I've been trying to figure out if people find the game difficult at all and if there are times when you may seek the aid of another player. I remember back in the beta when some missions required you to continually spawn to kill off a group of enemies and when ground combat felt tactical and gave you a rush. However, now I play as a science officer and ground combat is just a grind and in space combat I keep fighting the same creeps of either 3 minor cruisers, 1 escort, or 1 battlecruiser - none of which I find at all difficult.

My question is what do you think of the games difficulty, are you satisfied or do wish for more of a rush?

Personally, I feel that we should be able to modify the difficulty of the mission without having to add extra players and for more fun battles such as in Preemptive Strike.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Not only is the game easy but the DP is a joke, its more of a help in most situations.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    the only difficult mission that i've had was because of a bug, the damn swordmasters kept spawning and the quest was stuck in a loop. needless to say i sat there for a good 45 minutes killing wave after wave, but I did have to run back and regen shields! would have sat there for hours farming XP but they only gave 1 pt .. :/
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    The difficulty is okay at Commander. Not super hard, but I am finding I need to use all my Boffs if I want to win many fights. The main problem is lack of manuever with the enemy ships. I can blow through a Romulan battleship in one pass, but can almost die to a Romulan cruiser if I make a mistake.

    Cryptic need to adjust the AI so that it doesn't stupidly fly into a full frontal barrage.

    Only time so far I have felt really challenged was fighting a +13 con Terran Federation Miranda that spawned due to an error.
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