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Yea that is how I would describe several recent ecnounters I have had with ground combat. The final straw? I was tooling around in Delta Volcanis doing some diplo missions. Beamed down to scan some artifacts and ran into some Strekklan. Ok when I engaged them I went from full shields and health to dead in less then 3 seconds. 3 seconds. I didn't have enough time to flee, move, fire a weapon, activate a shield or hypo...nothing that is how fast they killed me. Mind you it was on my VA1. I have rare blue personal shields with over 400 shield strength. Challenging is one thing.....thiis is ridiculous. Sad thing is it wasn't even elite it was advanced.
I actually like the ground game because some of the planets are way cool but I am getting to the point where I am starting to avoid any ground game based combat (at least with certain species....those known to use dual pistols). Is there any hope of this being corrected? Ever?
I actually like the ground game because some of the planets are way cool but I am getting to the point where I am starting to avoid any ground game based combat (at least with certain species....those known to use dual pistols). Is there any hope of this being corrected? Ever?
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This bug goes back to when they added the difficulty level options to the game as I recall. As far as when it will be fixed, maybe a developer will pop in and say it's somewhere on to the fix list at least.
Yeah I know I haven't had that bad in a while. I was preppping for battle moved into range and died before I could even fire my weapon.......funny but frustrating as well.
I know its a bug but its really gotten old....
Enemies with Little to Practically No Health; A decent Dodge Chance, a inclination to find cover. They would deal significant damage, so they can pose a threat. 1 or 2 hits kills them.
Bosses and Boss Groups would be mostly the same as they are currently.
Or something like that...
Even the medic wouldn't have helped...it was just so crazy fast. The damage was insanely high.
Considering all the other bugs that made it in under the radar, I seriously doubt many people (Cryptic included) ran many tests with ground combat on high difficulties.
With how long this bug has been in the game and how difficult it's been to get Cryptic to acknowledge there's a problem... don't expect this to get fixed anytime until Season 3. Which is apparently the patch they're going to do bug fixes for. :rolleyes:
If anything that just tells everyone how sorry of a state the game is in... a whole season devoted to bug fixes. Sheesh...
This is one reason I don't player an at a higher difficult level. Even at Normal Difficulty those bugged Bosses will blow away more of the shield 80-90% with their big damage attacks. The AOE attack from a Boss and a couple or Lieutenants is more than enough at Advanced to blow your away. The Boss's attack will know your shield down and take a bit or health. The rest of the AoEs will finished the job. Submit /bugs and put the name of the NPCs in the bug report so they can be neutered.
What's killing you are the dual-wielding pistol guys. For some reason, each of their shots will slam for ~40 to 400ish points per hit, I believe their ranged damage formula is set with too large a variable. You will only meet these uber-guys on the random star cluster missions (Difficulty: Advanced or Elite). Anyways, obviously with those kinds of hits the current player-character gear sets will not be able to deal with it.
If it's any consolation, you can still deal with them if you're persistant and don't mind getting knocked out a few times, also if you're an Engineer it's a lot easier going.
Once you spot them, set up an ambush a ways back. Set up motars and turrets if you can, then lock you team off to the side and behind the turret cluster if you have them. Send a seeker or support drone in on the Strekklan Ensign or LT. first. Aside from sending out the drone, you should not fire at this time, if fact you should be running back behind your team; if you get hit or pegged out you should be in range for your medic to heal you. It might seem cowardly, but here's the thing, your team can't pause the game for target selection and if you're knocked out your battle-field awareness is very limited and of great importance here. Quick target selection is also important to survivial here. The seeker drone will eat that first fatal barrage. Your team will intiate fire by this point, pause the game and get your team to focus its fire on the nearest dual-wielding punk. Once they fire you can add your fire, or if a team member gets knocked out (and they will), revive them. Stun weapons are a boon but remember you still need team members with real killing power here.
The issue with these guys is with their crazy damage output, however their health points is fairly normal. If you're on your toes, the battle will be over in seconds, and at least one of your team will still be conscious.
There is one thing to note though, on a rare occasion a super-overlord dual-wield pistol Captain/Dahar Master may spawn near the end of the mission. These guys take a lot of work to take out, and they will kill any team mate they set their sights on. There was one Dahar Master with a ceremonial Bat'Leth that cause me to retreat from the mission after five or seven bloody attempts. The Dahar Master was hitting me for 800 to 1200 points, the combat log showed he gave one of my officers a 1600~ point lunge; there's nothing in my bag of tricks to deal with that kind of damage, retreat was the only course and if I could have I'd take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure....
Finally, Borg and Undine are easy to deal with mainly because the Borg walk and both the Borg/Undine are predictable in their tactics. If you control your team's fighting space with the Borg and expect the proto-Borg beam-in when you withdraw too much then cut down Borg becomes very fun past time!
The mobs with the unreasonably lethal dps rates that I've encountered and from the tales of a few of the other players I've conversed on this, seem to agree that this can be insolated to the dual-wielding pistol guys. Yet, since I don't know about the dual-wielding mobs' damage formulas and how great their point-blank bonuses are, I can't really say for certain and you could be correct that some of the mobs are simply level inappropriate.
Just for the sake of conversation, I've had these lethal encounters at Rear Admiral LH/UH and at Vice Admiral levels.