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Wait til summer? If the game is in a lull from Sept to May, that's 9 months out of the year. That's more than "a lull".
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Dan Stahl decloak vaped the entire metagame. Remember that stint at Zynga?
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+1 But the shroud should actually be a permanent shroud with a flat damage boost like +50%. No decloaking mechanism, and shields always up. Good call on this burning issue Virus, the JHAS is sadly underpowered and weak in today's fantastic metagame!
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To be blunt, I think the people who are here for "Star Trek" and "For the story" are getting about the same treatment that PvPers are.
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What don't you understand that Aux power can boost AMP, can boost Nukara T4 Rep, boosts TB to strip target defense even lower? Aux power is excellent for Vape builds, so nothing you've said so far means anything. Have you never seen a Thissler video? You are still using one-shot clicky consoles, sometimes waiting for Tac…
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You are completely deluding yourself if you think using Proton barrage is any different from Iso, T5 Nukara etc or the Mogai console you couldn't stop talking about for a month or two. It's the same "fail gear" as you call it, and you are one of its biggest proponents. Need to stop drinking your own kool-aid. "P2W owns…
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Raider Flanking: Attacking enemies from their rear arc will grant the attacker a 25% bonus damage boost.* This bonus is significantly reduced (+25% down to +8.3%) when attacking a player's rear arc.) * Affects all Klingon Raiders, with the exception of the Tier 1 BRel Bird-of-Prey. * Improved Ambush Damage: The bonus…
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I felt that way once, and then after I really thought about it. About JHAS and Galors, and Elachi and Voth and Dinosaurs with lasers, Orions/Gorn/Nausicaans in the KDF, Feds killing aliens by the droves and... Yeah, when I think about it this game is losing me because it isn't Star Trek either.
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Good luck with this one, I agree those consoles are problematic but they fall into the category of things many players have been pressing for nerfs on for ages. i.e. itemized control powers, console clickies, set powers like TIF, plethora of "oh TRIBBLE" buttons, etc. Any nerf you request for one segment of the equation…
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I have about as much as you, a little less on weekdays a little more on weekends and I'll be giving SC the best go of it that I can. If it's a second job like EVE, then yes I'll probably end up falling behind.
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I'm in the same boat as you, but until then Autocannons going boom pretty much keep me happy. :P
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;) Hah! Good one. Next time post one of Gali's ping hitting 50,000. His ping is so huge it brings all the mechs to the yard.
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Shaka, when the walls fell.
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A good and positive initiative, I wish you luck with the endeavor. Also, great choice of Ambassador. ;)
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This was a fun one though. What the grumbling about double tap did, was show cryptic that players didn't need to buy their special one shot consoles. Those consoles existed, but not many were using them. So it got nerfed, and we've seen a few extra one-shot powers added to the game since then and these don't even require a…
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No one is dismissing that, it's part of what a ranking system decides when it pairs Team A vs. Team B. It doesn't matter if its a premade/pugmade/fleetmade, it just matters what their current team ranking or 5 man total rank equals vs. the team it will get matched with, and whether or not the team was formed before joining…
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I imagine you're not alone. Thanks for the reply.
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I don't disagree with ranking and matchmaking, but I feel that better balanced powers and less console clickies would also help balance the scales. These are items that people often think are made for casual players to buy their way across the skill gap - but in reality these things often just make coordinated teams seem…
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I know you're a new player, and maybe some of it was hard to keep track of, but it would be interesting to me to hear what you think was the biggest factor in losing that match 15-0. Was it clearly a skill gap, where they were just coordinating so well that you were outplayed? Or was it a case of being outgunned, in terms…
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None of those things are true though. The game is not more available now to new players, it is less available. While it might explain a small change like TT/ST/ET, it is completely contrary to every rep system they have implemented, every undocumented mechanic, every mystery interaction that your dedicated players have to…
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Anyone who thinks that, isn't using SNB correctly. I'm not trying to be rude, this is just the truth.
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And unlike FOMM, sensor scan is an AoE - so if you have good opportunity & target placement, you can probably hit a target that doesn't have ST ready.
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Let me put it another way. Stacked APB 1 alone is enough to melt hulls right now. So if in your system, you had ships running AB3 / 2 and that simply got downgraded to 1, it would still be exceptionally powerful to never be able to reliably clear this without gimping yourself for TT 3. Most people use APO, it's not…
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I think you need to re-evaluate what you've just said, because to be perfectly honest that is not the reality of the current game. I'm not trying to be rude, I know you've come back to the game after a bit of a hiatus. "Perma" APB 3 multi-stacked from 3+ ships is not "annoying", due to the amount of bleedthrough effects we…
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How would you cleanse 5x A2B FAW boats with perma APB 2 or 3? Do you force your damage dealers to sacrifice their actual functionality (dealing damage) to stuff TT 2 & 3 onto their builds? Can you even realistically bring enough TT 2 & 3 to do that?
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It seems a bit complicated, perhaps a percentage based system could do the same without needing to re-work how all of these other buffs/debuffs function? Example, (really just shooting from the hip here): Team Ability 1 = +60% resistance or cleanse vs. effects Team Ability 2 = +80% resistance or cleanse vs. effects Team…
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What game is that and where do I sign up?? :P
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That will be the likely consensus until Cryptic actually decides to invest in PvP and show they are actually interested in a fun & balanced PvP environment. It would force them to re-examine all of their bad design choices & horrendous mud-flation, choices that have eroded both PvE and PvP. Then they would need the…
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Has he ever flown a non-cloaky vapey clicky clicky? To see mini in an actual escort in Arena 5v5? That would get me to take a break from other games and PvP here for one night.
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That really depends on the people. The reality is there are some people who really hate the very concept of PvP, they even consider it morally repugnant (or they just have fragile egos and hide behind blanket statements). Regardless, Cryptic tends to cater to that demographic - possibly on purpose. Their games are always…