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Nah just the spam bar. There are things where you want to manually time it, like entwined tactical matrix or overpowered and overgunned but I am too lazy to track my buff bar to micro manage that poo poo so I'll settle for good enough.
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Eimi posted:Nah just the spam bar. There are things where you want to manually time it, like entwined tactical matrix or overpowered and overgunned but I am too lazy to track my buff bar to micro manage that poo poo so I'll settle for good enough. Oh yeah, I guess if one of them is on a longer cooldown, it just sort of naturally (mostly) times itself out. Makes sense.
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Yeah, the powers on the spam bar activate from left to right each time you press the button, so it just naturally works out with how the cooldowns overlap.
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This may not be the right place for this question, but I can't think of anywhere else to ask. Are there any other games that have vaguely similar space combat to STO? I like the (theoretically) slower paced combat and managing weapon dps vs firing arcs and ship maneuverability when I'm not just nuking enemies down in one beam overload cycle.
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Dec 27, 2021 21:10
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If you've never played Battlefleet Gothic Armada I recommend it. Has some great spaceship combat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbaDEO8IHs
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Dec 27, 2021 21:16
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FuturePastNow posted:Yeah, the powers on the spam bar activate from left to right each time you press the button, so it just naturally works out with how the cooldowns overlap. Technically it's a lot weirder than that but yeah.
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Dec 27, 2021 21:18
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I got the 10th anniversary pack now and have to say -Everyone was right the Defiant legendary is really good -The legendary galaxy did surprisingly well for me in Advanced patrols, and mixing the Ross and Venture components gave a really nice look -Up until now I had no idea how fast you could get ship XP doing advanced patrols, versus advanced TFOs...just cruising through traits now
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Dec 27, 2021 22:13
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:I got the 10th anniversary pack now and have to say
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Unless they massively mess it up in some way I expect the legendary Galaxy will be outclassed by the Pegasus when it gets released. The main thing I'd be getting the 10th pack for would be the flippy defiant and it's just not worth that much Zen.
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Dec 28, 2021 04:51
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MikeJF posted:Unless they massively mess it up in some way I expect the legendary Galaxy will be outclassed by the Pegasus when it gets released. Good things in the 10th pack: 1) flippy defiant 2) space wizard monster Voyager. 3) MW TOS Enterprise 4) MW Enterprise-E 4) Carrier Disco Enterprise everything else is flavors of meh, but nothing is really bad. Defiant, Voy, TOS Enterprise, and Enterprise-E are legit monsters, though.
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Dec 28, 2021 04:59
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MikeJF posted:Unless they massively mess it up in some way I expect the legendary Galaxy will be outclassed by the Pegasus when it gets released. I have faith that Gearbox will not do that to me, I will 9/11 them if they do.
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Dec 28, 2021 05:04
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The account wide NX console is nice, and I love the NX skin, which since I already fly it, that was a bonus. Though the lobi NX is the far better ship imo. Also underselling the Glenn, the skin of which actually makes the Crossfield not an abomination and is a GREAT sci torp platform.
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Dec 28, 2021 05:21
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MikeJF posted:Unless they massively mess it up in some way I expect the legendary Galaxy will be outclassed by the Pegasus when it gets released. Well don't look at the tiny little Franklin / freedom class because that dinky little rowboat is a better cruiser than nearly anything. I suppose it's technically a "frigate" in game but ehh still got cruiser commands.
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Hah I bought the Franklin when they put it in the Lobi temporarily, I love that little ship design. It's like what they were going for with the NX Class design but just better executed. (And I'm quite fond of the NX.)
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revtoiletduck posted:This may not be the right place for this question, but I can't think of anywhere else to ask. Are there any other games that have vaguely similar space combat to STO? I like the (theoretically) slower paced combat and managing weapon dps vs firing arcs and ship maneuverability when I'm not just nuking enemies down in one beam overload cycle. although they would be outraged at the comparison, eve onlines combat would feel familiar to anyone that has played sto.
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Dec 28, 2021 09:25
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Cyrano4747 posted:Good things in the 10th pack: the Legendary Kelvin Connie is also a better variant than the lockbox one (5/3 Intel on the Legendary vs 4/4 Temporal on the lockbox version)
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Dec 28, 2021 11:48
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The lockbox one is Command if I remember but yeah, still only 4/4.
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Yeah the Konnie and Donnie would probably be appealing but my inner grognard dislikes them on principle. 
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Dec 28, 2021 12:48
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MikeJF posted:Yeah the Konnie and Donnie would probably be appealing but my inner grognard dislikes them on principle. Grab yourself the TOS connie then or the Enterprise E. They're both 4/4 MW cruisers with iirc 4 tac console slots and good boff layouts. They're not hyper-meta but they make great beam boat builds.
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I hope they gear the next campaign season for maximum chaos and annoyance. One of the shuttle TFOs. A Lukari TFO. Make people run dailies on Defera.
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:I hope they gear the next campaign season for maximum chaos and annoyance. One of the shuttle TFOs. A Lukari TFO. Make people run dailies on Defera. 20 days doing the "Days of Doom" TFO. Nothing but misery for everyone. Ooh, just remembered there's a bunch of Undine TFOs that I don't think anyone has run since 2014. Gotta get those in the rotation too!
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Marshal Radisic posted:20 days doing the "Days of Doom" TFO. Nothing but misery for everyone. Last year was the year of Klingon, but this year is Bij
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revtoiletduck posted:This may not be the right place for this question, but I can't think of anywhere else to ask. Are there any other games that have vaguely similar space combat to STO? I like the (theoretically) slower paced combat and managing weapon dps vs firing arcs and ship maneuverability when I'm not just nuking enemies down in one beam overload cycle. BSG Deadlock is real good
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Marshal Radisic posted:20 days doing the "Days of Doom" TFO. Nothing but misery for everyone. 
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g0del posted:20 days of Battle of Procyon V, and due to a bug it only counts runs on elite Man, what was going on with the design for those Temporal TFOs? Are they actually the least-played TFOs in the game? Marshal Radisic fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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They were trying to get clever with their encounter design for a while there but apparently forgot that the game is an imbalanced clunky mess mostly played by mental children on underclocked potatoes.
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Asimo posted:played by mental children on underclocked potatoes. the gently caress did you just call me
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Asimo posted:They were trying to get clever with their encounter design for a while there but apparently forgot that the game is an imbalanced clunky mess mostly played by mental children on underclocked potatoes. Excuse me, some of us have overclocked potatoes thank you very much!
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Marshal Radisic posted:poo poo, that's even worse than Days of Doom. DoD is long and cumbersome but relatively straightforward. Procyon V is long, repeats itself constantly, and every drat enemy ship is locking you down with some sort of science, intel, or temporal power. It's such a miserable experience I forgot it even existed.
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g0del posted:You forgot the worst part - the ships won't stop respawning until you close the gates, which is both slow and interruptible. Unless you've got teammates who are really good at pulling aggro, the TFO will never end. iirc you also needed to have that console that stops the continuous damage from the expanse for it too
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I think I’ve decided I like the look of that Walker light battlecruiser. Not $120 like, but still another good 2410 adaptation .
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I like the base Walker as is and both the Cryptic skins are quite good, especially the Georigou class but lmao at actually getting that skin cause it's from the disco expansion bundle which is insanely overpriced for what it gives you and it doesn't even get you a t6 Walker.
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I just want the legendary Excelsior without having to pay most of a weeks worth of my wages for it.
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MREBoy posted:I just want the legendary Excelsior without having to pay most of a weeks worth of my wages for it. Same. The 10th pack was worth the cost, but there is no way in hell I can ever see myself buying the 11th, no matter how much I love the Excelsior. It's a shame.
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The 11th anniversary pack had 2 problems: Low perception of overall value and (ymmv) poo poo exclusive ships skins. Anyone who liked them don't take that too personally. You do you. However I think they were poo poo and my opinion is worth 9.74 regular opinions because science.
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Yeah ultimately the 10th anniversary bundle was crazy expensive buuut it was probably the best single "value" the game's offered since release. It had canon hero boats from every series to date and they ranged from "good" to "top of the meta". Meanwhile the 11th bundle was nearly the same price but had less than half the ships in it and only the B'rel was really "great" while the extra stuff tossed into it was clearly to bloat the price. I'm sure it made for another data point in their dumb as gently caress assumption that nobody wants klangon ships too.
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Goddamn dumb data points. Like how the Bortas is one of my favourite designs but it has never been given a visual overhaul like the Scimmy and Oddy have and that's almost certainly because nobody bought it and I'm sure because nobody bought it they've just slipped it into 'nobody liked it' whereas nobody liked it because it can't loving turn around. Or like how they didn't bother doing much with the D'D and slipped it in as basically an extra with the Scimmy in the romulan pack because everyone flew the Scimmy and nobody flew the D'D. Yeah that's because the Scimmy was incredibly overpowered and the D'D was actively painful to fly, guys. Lots of people would love to fly the D'D if it was decent. On a different note what winter kit modules are good? Any of the training manuals worth it? MikeJF fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Very Cold in Space, the sci one, is great. It's a huge anomaly that while it doesn't pull like GW it slows massively. The tac and engi ones are great powers...when they are active and suffer from being single target with longish cooldowns in a game that demands aoe. No idea on the ground stuff, though I think endothermic induction zone is great for sci.
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I decided to finally do something with my fleet ship tokens, and bought the Fleet Shepard since my pizza slizer already was going towards beamboat, the T6-X upgrade, and a few new vulnerability locators to go to the new console slots. Things started to die considerably faster; its like upgrading from Tier 5 to 6.
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Eimi posted:Very Cold in Space, the sci one, is great. It's a huge anomaly that while it doesn't pull like GW it slows massively. The tac and engi ones are great powers...when they are active and suffer from being single target with longish cooldowns in a game that demands aoe. The ENG space ones are only going to be interesting if you're running an ENG heavy ship and you're just struggling to fill slots, so more a comment on how mediocre ENG BOFF skills are The TAC one probably won't get slotted unless you're going to run +8 TAC BOFF skills at once.
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