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Insects. As far as I can tell the insects come in groups of 3, so on the edge of the swarm you're only getting ticks from one entity, but the center its all 3. You can also manage to position yourself to take flanking damage, and can remove your armor and keep it off if you can handle the damage output. However unlike on…
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So ugly. And why are all those cutouts there? Its a lot of wasted space for no known reason. The ship could be a lot smaller, or have a lot more internal area if they got rid of that wasted space. So what are they for? Obviously that isn't Cryptic's fault, they are working with what they were given. If they made it have…
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Am I the only one that goes to New Romulus for ground healing endeavors?
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You're missing all the other buffs and debuffs that factor into 100k crits, some of which are undoubtedly from your teammates and thus hard to ever control for.
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Oh I missed this comment. It really depends. Most -maintenance ships are pretty useless. However, real good combos come from multiple ships that have -25% maintenance per class when that ship is the same class. For example, the Buran and Qoj both are engineering ships with -25% maintenance per engineering ships. You put…
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I think a lot of this comes down to builds in my experience. I had a fairly standard cannon wielding escort build for my Akira back in the day and never really liked the ship much. Then I changed it to a more canon-esque beams and multiple torps build which should definitely have less DPS output, yet its still a lot more…
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Some of them are really useful like the VSS Tanius, and if you have it the Maquis raider. Anything that boosts its high stat only is almost never useful I find, but the rest, especially stuff like the old T5s and the MW cruisers are really very good. The T5 Scimitars that buff sci or eng find a lot of use, the tac one not…
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This is the sort of thing modders would do for free in other games. Some of this stuff could just be outsourced to the community, as I'm sure a lot of people are willing to do for free data entry projects of tables and spreadsheets to make the game better.
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I would say that there are two problems here. One Cryptic is based in California with notoriously high cost of living issues and taxes. How much would they save by moving to Texas or another pro business state? Two, the manpower issue is time and again evidence that there is not any reinvestment into the company. So either…
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Yeah I think this would be another case of Cryptic not doing or deleting stuff because of "standards." They don't want to put in generic animations because it would look poor. Now lets ignore the many animations they kept from Champions Online that often look exaggerated and weird in STO, and lets ignore the fact that most…
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The Scimitar can with one of the T5 consoles. Intel ships can run intel teams that effectively gives you a cloak that doesn't disable shields or weapons, but this works most reliably at longer ranges.
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I haven't yet unlocked the ship so I'd have no idea whether it is a ship specific issue. I do use the DM torp on a ship or two and never had issues with it, though. The only thing I can think of is that you're using some other power that is loading up a different torpedo firing mode. Transport warhead might do it (how you…
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The information isn't what credit is given for, its the work it takes to transform it from video to a text summary like this. Cryptic doesn't do this, expecting us to watch hour+ streams instead of reading maybe 5-10 minutes of bullet points.
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I don't think that is why people were tired of it. I'd still agree more one off missions are necessary, though. Not everything has to be a Nemesis plot, Cryptic.
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Generally true, but there are a number of enemies in the game that snare with a proc or have active effects like tractor beams, intel powers, or like the H'urq are too fast to reliably engage with cannons. Most players don't know how to deal with them and it ends up something of a trap in that regard. And even if you do,…
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I have no idea who is being referred to vaguely here, none at all. I do know I have routinely gotten into arguments with a certain poster and no one likes it. And if you wonder why I haven't seriously engaged with said poster in a while, it is purely to see what happens. The ability to ignore said poster is there, and it…
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There are enough UI issues with admiralty that theres no reason not to do multiple solutions. Its not text bar search OR stacking single use cards. They should be doing both and more.
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Its the scaling of abilities for sure. If you happen to build a heavy drain boat with 400+ drain, you'll notice a huge improvement in your shield survivability versus the various NPC shield drains versus that same boat with no focus on drain. The scaling issue is also why FBP is so OP on the Queen and requires a separate…
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Yeah I remain unimpressed. FAW has such a heavy acc penalty now that I am wary of using even the level 3 version. But sure if you're shooting at immobile gates and transformers I guess it would inflate your numbers in unrealistic ways that just doesn't translate to the rest of the game.
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There is zero chance I will ever buy one of these. None. I have maybe 20 characters now, all of which do get played, so there is no point to me even trying to prioritize which characters get such things. This upgrade isn't needed to perform well, nor will it add significant performance improvements (especially not for the…
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I agree, its ridiculous, but science does have plenty of mundane abiltiies too, the medical tricorders, tachyon harmonics, and so on. Most of the space magic is actually the newer stuff not their original "sane" abilities. Cryptic couldn't quite figure out how to make science fit sensibly for whatever reason, as they added…
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I don't disagree that T5UX can be quite viable, and never claimed they weren't, but it is in the same way a used 2008 Toyota can be quite viable. That's totally fine. But you shouldn't be paying the same $15K for that Toyota when it was priced as a new car in 2008 either. T5U ships actually lack capabilities that T6 have…
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I can't say I understand that either. A full MW spec is obvious, however the trait has never impressed me. Its useless if you use torpedo spread normally because FAW 1 is easily a huge nerf to DPS for the huge acc penalty. And, if you have a ship that isn't using a torpedo skill, why are you equipping a torpedo? It seems…
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Neat. No thanks.
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The word used is depreciation. Arguing against decay is a textbook definition of strawman argument. The fact is T5s are not the same value as they were prior to T6 ships. That value has sunk even lower since then due to all the free T6s that have been offered over the years, even the bundle deals that include various T5s,…
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There are a lot of abilities to choose from. If you don't like them for any particular reason, you don't need to use them.
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You get it in the 25th century when you talk to the temporal agent outside Quinn's office. Phillip Cray I think? Just follow the missions as you get them and you will get it.
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Yep, I am a fool, it seems. That is fine, I can spend $$ elsewhere.
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As much as I see your point, I'd be really surprised if a ship like this isn't cstore. It is a current year (for STO time) standard Federation design, and looks like a very good ship to see all over the place actually representing the game and time period. I was also surprised about the stupid Inquiry, of course.
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You don't have to fight a single Vaudwaar to finish that mission. Just beam down talk to the general and move on.